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"They will be one in My hand"

Text: Ezekiel 37:19

AN EXPLANATION GIVEN

The people who listened to Ezekiel would be intrigued as they saw what the prophet did. How could two sticks be joined together? What did this sign mean?

“And when the children of your people speak to you, saying,
‘Will you not show us what you mean by these?’—
say to them, ‘Thus says the Lord God:
‘Surely I will take the stick of Joseph,
which is in the hand of Ephraim,
and the tribes of Israel, his companions;
and I will join them with it, with the stick of Judah,
and make them one stick, and they will be one in My hand.”
And the sticks on which you write will be in your hand before their eyes.”
Ezekiel 37:18-20

1. The inquiry of the people.

a) They watched what Ezekiel did.

b) What he did was an impossibility.

i) Two separate sticks cannot be joined together and be one long stick.

ii) This was a sign from God.

iii) But what did that mean?

iv) They wanted Ezekiel to explain this sign.

2. The explanation from God.

a) God explained what He was going to do.

b) What the sticks represent:

i) The kingdom of Israel (Joseph/ Ephraim).

ii) The kingdom of Judah.

c) They would be miraculously joined together by God.

d) God would bring about a healing of the two nations.

e) This would seem an impossible feat but not for the Lord!

i) The two sticks will be one in God’s hand.

ii) The people will see with their eyes the stick that God had joined together.

iii) Israel would be one kingdom again in God’s plan that was revealed.