Title: You Will Get Resilience
Content Title: You will attain revitalization
Bible: Ezekiel 47:1-12
The event of the text is one of the most characteristic parts of this book, along with the 'dry bone' vision in Chapter 37. The situation has changed so rapidly that the water from the temple is pictorially depicted here as it fills the perimeter of the temple. This river is the 'water of life', that is, the river that revitalizes everything around us. What Ezekiel was trying to teach here is God's work of redemption. Therefore, the regenerating river can be called God or the Holy Spirit, and its transforming power means the Redeemer's saving power.
First: It comes from the temple.
“He brought me to the gate of the temple, and the front of the temple was facing east, and water came out from under the threshold and flowed to the east, and then to the husband of the altar on the right hand side of the temple” (verse 1). you will find It can be seen that similar scenes are recorded in Zechariah 14:8 and Joel 3:18. The former is described as flowing from 'Jerusalem' and the latter from 'the Temple of the Lord'. The temple and Jerusalem both symbolize the place of God's presence. Therefore, in the end, the text speaks of the fact that salvation and blessings come from God.
Second: create thriving.
“Wherever this river goes, all living creatures will live, and there will be very many fish; and the water will flow in, and the sea will be refreshed, and everything will live wherever it goes” (verse 9). You can see the 'water of life' breathe life into wherever you go. The Dead Sea acquires plasticity. So many fish families are rare. The trees along the river also produce abundant leaves and fruits. It has the power to revive and change the lives of the saints by the word of God. Just as a tree planted by a stream adapts to the times and produces fruit, saved saints must be transformed into useful beings and bearing fruit.
Third: It bears fruit.
“A variety of fruit trees will grow on the left and right sides of the river, and their leaves will not wither, and their fruit will not wither; they will bear new fruit every month, and their water will come out of the sanctuary, and their fruit will be for food, and their leaves will be for medicine. Verse) He says that the basin where the plasticity of the river has the most direct impact is the right and left sides of the river. Trees planted here absorb the water of life abundantly and bear fruit with full vitality. (Psalm 1:3) “He is like a tree planted by streams of water, which yields its fruit in its season, and its leaf does not wither, and all its deeds prosper.” This is the life of those who entrust their lives entirely to God and obey his will. means.