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"I will multiply"

Text: Ezekiel 36:10

THE GROWTH OF THE NATION

One of the most important features of growth has to do with the land and its population. Without people populating the land, the nation would slowly perish.

“I will multiply men upon you,
all the house of Israel, all of it;
and the cities shall be inhabited and the ruins rebuilt.
I will multiply upon you man and beast;
and they shall increase and bear young;
I will make you inhabited as in former times,
and do better for you than at your beginnings.
Then you shall know that I am the Lord.
Yes, I will cause men to walk on you, My people Israel;
they shall take possession of you,
and you shall be their inheritance;
no more shall you bereave them of children.”
Ezekiel 36:10-12

1. Multiplying men.

a) This was a solemn promise to the house of Israel.

b) The land was depopulated when the Babylonians conquered Israel.

c) Cities became uninhabited.

d) Many cities were ruined.

e) But with the multiplying of men the cities would be rebuilt.

2. Man and beast will be increased.

a) Both men and beasts must also be increased.

b) Both are needed to do much work to rebuild the land.

c) In the past Israel had not fared well.

d) God was promising Israel that the future would be different.

e) Israel would have a great future blessed by the Lord and thus realise that it was God who had done this.

3. God addressed the land.

a) The land was personified.

b) Once, ten spies described Canaan as a land that devours its inhabitants (Numbers 13:32).

c) The land had indeed bereaved many people.

d) But all that would change.

e) Men would now walk on the land.

f) They will possess the land and master it.

g) The land would be their inheritance.

h) This was a solemn word of promise to Israel.