What do you make of EZEKIEL 37 now ,is it fulfilled in Jesus?
Did Jesus resurrect those bones now?
So far no one has been resurrected from the dead except for Jesus.
David is still Sleeping as well as all the folks dead from the beginning of time...
"Yet now Christ has been roused from among the dead, the firstfruit of those who are reposing." (I Cor. 15:20).
Jesus plainly said, not only had David not ascended into the heavens, but that
"NO MAN has ascended up to heaven, but he that came down from heaven."(John 3:13).
"...till you return [Hebrew, shub] unto the ground; for out of it were you taken: for dust you are, and unto dust shall you return" (Gen. 3:17-19).
"Remember I pray you that as clay you did make me, and unto dust you will cause me to return" (Job 10:9)
"You cause man to return unto dust..." (Psa. 90:3).
"His spirit [the Hebrew word here is ruach, spirit, not neshamah, breath] goes forth, he returns to his earth; in that very day his thoughts perish" (Psa. 146:3-4).
"...you gather in their spirit [Hebrew ruach, spirit] they expire [Hebrew gava, breathe out, gasp, expire], and return to their dust" (Psa. 104:29).
"For that which befalls the sons of men befalls beasts; ... as the one dies, so dies the other; yea, they have all one spirit; and man has no preeminence above the beasts [in death]: for all is vanity. All go unto one place; all are of the dust, and all return to dust again" (Ecc. 3:18-21).
The "resurrection" is yet future (I Thes. 4:16:18).
"By faith Abraham ... sojourns in the land of promise ... he waited for the city having foundations, whose Architect is God ... In faith DIED ALL THESE [Abraham included], being not requited with the promises ... for He [God] makes ready for them a city" (Heb. 11:8,9,10,13,16).
By the way, after Christ’s resurrection, we read that King David as well was also still dead.
"...David, that he is both dead and buried, and his sepulcher is with us unto this day..." "For David is NOT ascended into the heavens..." (Acts 2:29 & 34).
"Behold, I show you a mystery; We shall not all sleep ... the dead shall be raised..." ( I Cor. 15:51-52).
"...the coming of the Lord shall not prevent them which are asleep" (I Thes. 4:14).
"...My daughter is even now dead ... the maid is not dead, but sleepeth." (Mat. 9:18 & 24).
"For David, after he had served his own generation by the will of God, fell on sleep and was laid unto his fathers, and saw corruption." (Acts 13:36).
So Ebw concerning EZEKIEL 37 and that was the subject of the post mainly,I don't quite see how David is now in the spirit world ruling on anyone,it seems that this is a future fulfillment.
At the resurrection...
> Ro 11:1 ¶ I say then, Hath God cast away his
> people? God forbid. For I also am an
> Israelite, of the seed of Abraham, of the
> tribe of Benjamin.
> Paul is using himself as an example, and
> speaking to a predominantly gentile church
> he is saying essentially: "God has not
> cast away the Jews because, like me, they
> can be saved through Jesus". 2 God
> hath not cast away his people which he
> foreknew. Wot ye not what the scripture
> saith of Elias? how he maketh intercession
> to God against Israel, saying,
> 3 Lord, they have killed thy prophets, and
> digged down thine altars; and I am left
> alone, and they seek my life.
> 4 But what saith the answer of God unto him?
> I have reserved to myself seven thousand
> men, who have not bowed the knee to the
> image of Baal.
> 5 Even so then at this present time also
> there is a remnant according to the election
> of grace.
> Notice the comparison. In Elisha's case
> all of Israel except seven thousand men had
> turned aside. Now put this into context in
> Romans 11. The question was whether God had
> abandoned the Jews and Paul says that it is
> like in the case of Elisha where there was a
> remnant that had not become idol
> worshippers. Notice that Paul makes it clear
> that the "remnant" is according to
> the election of "GRACE". The very
> definition of the word "grace"
> means that it is an undeserved gift. Grace
> and truth came by Jesus Christ. And without
> Him there is no Grace to be had. The
> election of Grace is only for believers. No
> one else. 6 And if by grace, then is it no
> more of works: otherwise grace is no more
> grace. But if it be of works, then is it no
> more grace: otherwise work is no more work.
> 7 What then? Israel hath not obtained that
> which he seeketh for; but the election hath
> obtained it, and the rest were blinded.
> Israel did NOT obtain what it was looking
> for (the kingdom of God) but the election
> (the saved Jews) have obtained it. And the
> REST were blinded.
> God did not blind the remnant. He blinded
> the REST. Those who rejected the gospel. 8
> (According as it is written, God hath given
> them the spirit of slumber, eyes that they
> should not see, and ears that they should
> not hear;) unto this day.
> 9 And David saith, Let their table be made a
> snare, and a trap, and a stumblingblock, and
> a recompence unto them:
> 10 Let their eyes be darkened, that they may
> not see, and bow down their back alway.
> That's not a friendly little blindness, it
> is a curse.
> But it's not really even God who blinds
> them. They have blinded themselves by
> rejecting the light.
> Joh 1:9 That (Jesus) was the true Light,
> which lighteth every man that cometh into
> the world.
> Joh 3:19 And this is the condemnation, that
> light (Jesus) is come into the world, and
> men loved darkness rather than light,
> because their deeds were evil.
> Jn 9:39 ¶ And Jesus said, For judgment I am
> come into this world, that they which see
> not might see; and that they which see might
> be made blind.
> 40 And some of the Pharisees which were with
> him heard these words, and said unto him,
> Are we blind also? Joh 9:41 Jesus said unto
> them, If ye were blind, ye should have no
> sin: but now ye say, We see; therefore your
> sin remaineth.
> Mt 15:12 Then came his disciples, and said
> unto him, Knowest thou that the Pharisees
> were offended, after they heard this saying?
> 13 But he answered and said, Every plant,
> which my heavenly Father hath not planted,
> shall be rooted up. 14 Let them alone: they
> be blind leaders of the blind. And if the
> blind lead the blind, both shall fall into
> the ditch.
> Mt 23:16 Woe unto you, ye blind guides,
> (Pharisees)... 17 Ye fools and blind:
> (Pharisees)... 19 Ye fools and blind:
> (Pharisees)... 24 Ye blind
> guides,(Pharisees)...
> 26 Thou blind Pharisee,... 33 Ye serpents,
> ye generation of vipers, how can ye escape
> the damnation of hell?
> 34 ¶ Wherefore, behold, I send unto you
> prophets, and wise men, and scribes: and
> some of them ye shall kill and crucify; and
> some of them shall ye scourge in your
> synagogues, and persecute them from city to
> city:
> 35 That upon you may come all the righteous
> blood shed upon the earth, from the blood of
> righteous Abel unto the blood of Zacharias
> son of Barachias, whom ye slew between the
> temple and the altar.
> Doesn't it sound like Jesus is condemning
> the Pharisees to hell here??
> But not the remnant according to the
> election of GRACE (those who accept the
> gospel)
> 11 I say then, Have they stumbled that
> they should fall? God forbid: but rather
> through their fall salvation is come unto
> the Gentiles, for to provoke them to
> jealousy.
> 12 Now if the fall of them be the riches of
> the world, and the diminishing of them the
> riches of the Gentiles; how much more their
> fulness?
> 13 For I speak to you Gentiles, inasmuch as
> I am the apostle of the Gentiles, I magnify
> mine office:
> 14 If by any means I may provoke to
> emulation them which are my flesh, and might
> save some of them.
> Now did he say all of them???? No he said
> "some of them". 15 For if the
> casting away of them be the reconciling of
> the world, what shall the receiving of them
> be, but life from the dead?
> 16 For if the firstfruit be holy, the lump
> is also holy: and if the root be holy, so
> are the branches.
> 17 And if some of the branches be broken
> off, and thou, being a wild olive tree, wert
> graffed in among them, and with them
> partakest of the root and fatness of the
> olive tree;
> 18 Boast not against the branches. But if
> thou boast, thou bearest not the root, but
> the root thee.
> 19 Thou wilt say then, The branches were
> broken off, that I might be graffed in.
> 20 Well; because of unbelief they were
> broken off, and thou standest by faith. Be
> not highminded, but fear:
> 21 For if God spared not the natural
> branches, take heed lest he also spare not
> thee.
> 22 Behold therefore the goodness and
> severity of God: on them which fell,
> severity; but toward thee, goodness, if thou
> continue in his goodness: otherwise thou
> also shalt be cut off.
> Just as unbelieving Jews were cut off.
> Gentiles can be cut off too if they fall
> into unbelief. 23 And they also (Jews), if
> they abide not still in unbelief, shall be
> graffed in: for God is able to graff them in
> again.
> "If they abide not still in
> unbelief" means "if they start
> believing". That's the only way for
> anybody, of any nationality. 24 For if thou
> wert cut out of the olive tree which is wild
> by nature, and wert graffed contrary to
> nature into a good olive tree: how much more
> shall these, which be the natural branches,
> be graffed into their own olive tree?
> (if they believe) 25 For I would not,
> brethren, that ye should be ignorant of this
> mystery, lest ye should be wise in your own
> conceits; that blindness in part is happened
> to Israel, until the fulness of the Gentiles
> be come in.
> "Come in where?? into Israel.
> The word Israel never in all history meant
> "the Jews". It referred first to
> all 13 tribes (yes there were 13) then later
> it referred to the Northern Kingdom, the ten
> tribes that were carried away by the
> Assyrians and never came back.
> But in New Testament times it was always
> used as an inclusive word to refer to both
> the Jews and the missing Israelites wherever
> they might be. With the coming of Christ,
> Israel took on a new meaning, it is the body
> of all of God's elect. The election of
> grace. The true chosen people, whatever
> their origin.
> When Paul says that "blindness in part
> is happened to Israel" it is not
> referring to the Jews as a nation. Their
> nation was called Judea and they were called
> Jews.
> "Israel" means the entire body of
> God's elect, and Paul says that a part of
> Israel (specifically the Jewish part) is
> blind. Just as the gentile nations had been
> blind beforehand. But God had his elect
> among the Gentiles and also among the Jews.
> All of the elect are Israel. But some of
> them, like Paul himself, are blinded by
> their own misunderstanding. Jesus came so
> that the blind might see. But he also came
> so that those who thought they could see
> (without Him) might be blinded. 26 And so
> all Israel shall be saved: as it is written,
> There shall come out of Sion the Deliverer,
> and shall turn away ungodliness from Jacob:
> Put verse 26 in context with verse 25. The
> last thing that Paul mentioned was that the
> gentiles would be "coming in".
> (into the kingdom, into Israel). So when it
> say "that all Israel might be
> saved" it is referring to both Jews and
> gentiles. All Israel means "all of the
> election of Grace" and that includes a
> drawn out "eclesia" of gentiles
> and a remnant of Jews. The majority of
> gentiles are not saved. The majority of Jews
> are not saved. 27 For this is my covenant
> unto them, when I shall take away their
> sins.
> 28 As concerning the gospel, they are
> enemies for your sakes: but as touching the
> election, they are beloved for the fathers'
> sakes.
> 29 For the gifts and calling of God are
> without repentance.
> 30 For as ye in times past have not believed
> God, yet have now obtained mercy through
> their unbelief:
> 31 Even so have these also now not believed,
> that through your mercy they also may obtain
> mercy.
> 32 For God hath concluded them all in
> unbelief, that he might have mercy upon all.
> Paul is saying: "Before you gentiles
> did not believe in God, but the Jews
> believed, so the gospel was revealed to you
> in a state of unbelief.
> Now you gentiles believe in Christ but the
> Jews don't, so now the gospel is coming to
> the Jews in a state of unbelief. That way
> the gospel reaches everyone in a state of
> unbelief and so everyone must be saved by
> grace and mercy.
> So there is no promise that all Jews are
> going to be saved. In fact it says the
> opposite. A REMNANT of Jews will be saved by
> grace through faith when they believe and
> are ingrafted into Christ's body, the
> church.
