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, whose name (Yehezq’el) signifies “strong is God” or “whom God makes strong” [newadvent] was written during the first half of the six century BC[Encarta], by himself for the people of God’s Kingdom of Israel. Chapter 37 was written sometime between ....

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.... This was a symbol of three things: 1. Of the resurrection of souls, from the death of sin, to the life of righteousness; 2. The resurrection of the church from an afflicted state, to liberty and peace; 3. The resurrection of the body at the great day, especially the bodies of the believers to life eternal. [Wesley] As Ezekial prophesied to the dead and dry bones, he heard a rattling of bones in their motion. A shaking, trembling or commotion among the bones, enough to manifest a divine presence, working among them. They came nearer and nearer, till each bone met the bone to which it to be joined. Of all the bones of all the numerous slain, n ....