
Author
Dr. Roberto Miranda
Summary: In Ezekiel 37, the prophet sees a valley full of dry bones, representing the spiritual death and decay of the church and society. Only the direct intervention of the Holy Spirit can bring revival, and we must prophesy and declare it by faith. We must ask the Holy Spirit to send rain and anointing to all nations, including New England, the United States, Europe, the Middle East, and Asia. Only the Spirit of the Lord can bring life to the dry bones, and we must prophesy as we have been commanded. The end times prophecy is being fulfilled for both Israel and the church, and we must believe in the power of God to bring revival.
The speaker believes that God is bringing a revival for both the nation of Israel and the church. However, the church needs to experience its own revival first before Israel can fully enter into what God has for them. The speaker references the prophecy in Joel about God pouring out his spirit on all flesh and asks for a transformation in the lives of those present, comparing them to dry bones. The speaker calls for prophetic prayer to ask for the Spirit of God to blow on every area of their lives that needs revival and to raise up an army of warriors for God.
I am going to take a couple of minutes to leave you an image, I am going to leave only one image and the Lord will develop the rest in your hearts. I would have wanted to preach the sermon to them but God knows. Chapter 37 Ezekiel, I am going to impregnate you in the name of the Lord with this word, OK? Receive it in the name of Jesus. What God wants to do in the end times, because this is a prophecy for the end times and I believe we are in the end times.
The famous valley of dry bones, 37, Ezekiel says: “…the hand of the Lord came upon me and took me in the spirit of the Lord and placed me in the middle of a valley that it was full of bones…” like New England is, full of bones, like many parts of the modern western world are, full of bones, like the evangelical church is in many places, full of bones and there's death and there's just skulls and the remains of death.
“.....It was full of bones and he made me pass close to them all around....” so that the prophet could see them well and verify that what was there was death, “......and behold, there were very many of them on the face of the field and indeed, very dry.....”
These were not bones that had been there a few days ago , that you could still see the remains of the bodies that they had held, these were bones that had been for a long, long time catching sun, rain and were completely bare.
It reminds me of the words of the old testament when it says that the walls of Jericho were closed, well closed and there was no way that the people of God could penetrate that city of Jericho, that's how these bones were, dry completely.
When one looks brothers, the current scenario of the church, in many parts of the world and especially in the industrialized world and certainly in this region that we live in, we can say that they are certainly dry in a great way, not It would seem that life can come out of many of the New England churches, dead doctrine, pastors who have received a doctrine of death, a heretical doctrine, a doctrine of demons, and they are transmitting that cursed water to their congregations.
And people dying because they are not receiving the word of God, an intellectual church, a demoralized church, an incredulous church, a church that does not believe that Jesus is Lord, that Jesus was born of a virgin, that Jesus rose from the dead, that Jesus is the only one who heals and saves and is the only mediator between God and men, a church that does not believe in miracles, a church that does not believe in the second coming of the Lord, a church that does not believe in the resurrection of the dead, a church that does not believe that God works miracles today.
There are many churches in New England and in the western world, all over Europe and all over North America, in Australia and in New Zealand that don't believe in electric light as they say out there... very dry.
“.....And he said to me: son of man, will these bones live?....”
When I look at the reality of New England I say to myself: Lord Can anything good come out of New England at this time? For 200 years New England has been steeped in heresy completely.
And truly, brothers, I tell you that things have gotten to the point that this is not going to be a matter of new programs, of preachers coming out of nowhere to do evangelistic campaigns, this is not going to to come from something merely natural, this is not going to come from programs, from preaching, from praise meetings, it is not possible, just as it was not possible for life to come from bones that were dry in a great way.
I assure you that God has allowed things to reach such a deep point of spiritual decay in the world, especially in the Western world, that revival cannot possibly come through any initiative merely human. Listen well, we have gotten ourselves into such a big mess that only the direct intervention of the Holy Spirit on this earth can bring a change as God needs it in this time, only a miracle, we are stuck in the hole and we cannot get out of the hole we will be able to leave unless God does something sovereignly, that we cry out to the Lord and that he sends fire and sends rain that makes the desert grow new vegetation and flowers. The only way, brothers, no one can resurrect a desert after it has died, except for the rain that falls.
And they were very dry and the Lord says: “…My God, rhetorically he asks him, do you think these bones will be able to live?…” And I said to him: “…Lord Jehovah, your you know…” A very wise answer from the prophet: only you know, Lord.
The truth is that right now, when one looks at the death that exists... there are no roots, not even that it can be reborn, the only thing that remains is death in this region. We have offended the Lord, we have alienated the Holy Spirit, we have become extremely corrupted as Jeremiah says in his prayer and only God knows if life will be able to arise again.
And he said to me then: “….prophesy over these bones and say to them: dry bones hear the word of the Lord, thus said the Lord, the Lord to these bones. Behold, I make spirit enter you and you will live, glory to the Lord…”
The only way that the church is going to revive, the only way that this corrupt society and distanced from God is going to find again the course that God has for her is if the word of God goes out and is prophesied to the nations.
I believe that God has to raise a special anointing at this time, and when I am preaching this afternoon and when I preached last Sunday, I have been doing it in the name of the Lord as if I were prophesying a word, not only to you who are here, but to those who are near and to those who are far away, in the name of Jesus. I am saying to those bones: get up, we are saying to the bones: receive spirit again, receive the spirit of the Lord.
We have to prophesy brothers, the Lord says in Isaiah 54 to the barren woman, He tells her “…sing, raise your voices, raise songs, you who are barren and have never had children, because more will be the children of the barren than the one that has given birth before…” we have to proclaim what God wants to do brothers.
I'm here as Peter, stepping out in faith and proclaiming revival, revival is coming, and we're declaring in the name of Jesus to those dry bones.
Brothers, raise up your right hand right now, let's all raise up our right hand and say this: dry bones, say, say again, dry bones, hear the word of the Lord, thus says the Lord Jehovah, to these bones, behold, I make spirit enter you and you will live, glory to the Lord, we believe this brothers.
We are saying this in the name of Jesus, to the churches of New England, we are saying this to this dead crowd, it is in the name of Jesus here us saying dry bones, receive word, receive spirit of the Lord, we send the spirit of Jehovah to all regions, to all the peoples of this region in the name of Jesus, we visualize the Holy Spirit making a powerful move that the Lord makes the spirit enter. Brothers, the only way you can take dry bones and make them live is if the spirit of the Lord enters them.
When Adam was created, he was created from earth and was molded and received everything that a human body has, he received bones, tendons, skin, tissues, internal organs, brain, everything was… God put everything but what? It was just sitting there, it was completely motionless, there was no life in it, and what did God do? It says that God blew from his own breath, blew on that clay doll and that clay doll got up, came to life and became a man and was able to move and think.
And it was made in the image and likeness of God. Why? Because he had the breath of God, he had the essence of God, he had the spirit of God, he had the creativity of God, he had the ability to perceive as God perceives because God gave him of his own genetics so to speak, spiritual, he infused it into him. to the man and then the man was able to get up. In the meantime, it was simply potential because unless there is no spirit in the churches, all we have is a program, preaching, physical plant, sound systems, seminary degrees, spiritual and pastoral personnel who do different things, we come to church, we sing, we play, we give money, we do a number of things but all of that, brothers, is dry bones, all of that is simply this device that is here.
He says: “…and I will put sinews on you and I will make flesh come up on you and cover you with skin and I will put spirit in you and you will live and know that I am Jehovah…” then the prophet Ezekiel did what he was told. said the Lord and then he says: "...I prophesied as I was commanded..."
I believe that God is calling his church... prophesy him, brothers, the only thing we can do at this time is prophesy. I believe that we have to change our strategy, we have to be declaring by faith what the Lord wants done, we have to be sowing that seed by faith in the name of Jesus, we have to pray, we have to cry out, we have to prophesy, we have to declare even if there is only a little seed of faith, we have to say: Lord, we see what is going to happen here in New England. That is what I have been doing for months and months, I am simply saying the revival is coming, the rain of the Lord is coming, God's blessing is already at the doors, what God wants is already being fulfilled, whatever there is it is dry bones, there are legislatures that legislate against the will of God, there is a society that is becoming more perverted every day, there is a church that is becoming more and more sleepy but we are prophesying as we have been commanded.
“.....And there was a noise as I prophesied and behold a tremor and the bones came together, each bone with its bone and I looked and behold sinews on them, and the flesh came up and the skin covered over them but there was no spirit in them, and he said to me: prophesy the spirit, prophesy son of man and say to the spirit, thus says the Lord GOD, spirit come from the four winds, and blow on these dead and they will live and I prophesied as he had commanded me and spirit entered them and they lived and stood on their feet, an exceedingly great army, glory to the Lord...”
Wouldn't you like to see to a church stand up brothers? Wouldn't you like to see in those little New England villages, in Itswitch, in Plymouth, in Concord, in Lexington, in the city of Boston, in those New England villages, in Vermont, in Maine, Connecticut, in Rhode Island, see churches that are now dead stand up brothers, receive the infusion of the spirit of the Lord. Wouldn't you like to see pastors who have been trained in demonic doctrines reject and spit out that filth that you have been given and embrace the truth of God, and give up and repent of it and tell your churches we have to start over like Saul, who had to throw away all your self-righteous baggage and learn like a baby again that it was the true will of God when the Messiah came in.
And we have to ask the spirit, Holy Spirit blow from the four winds, blow from the north and from the south, from the east and from the west and send your rain on New England, send rain on the United States, send your rain on Europe, send your rain on wherever now… on the middle east, that region that is right now goaded by the devil to kill each other, closed, closed well. That region is indeed closed against the Gospel. And we ask, Lord, send your rain to the East, send your rain to the Middle East, send your rain to China, send your rain to North Korea, which is currently under a terrible and bloody dictatorship, send your rain to Singapore, to Malaysia, over Vietnam, over Cambodia, over the entire Pacific Ocean and all those little islands that are there, send your rain Lord, send the wind of the spirit, send anointing in the name of Jesus.
We prophesy, we prophesy those nations that they stand up, to those dry bones we say: army of God, arise and let a great army arise, extremely great, so that there may be….
Now, this in the prophetic place referred to Israel, but evidently from what follows in the chapter toward the end it speaks of David, his servant David, who is a figure of Jesus Christ who is to come... this is for the end times. God has a purpose for Israel but right now the church also needs that latter rain.
These prophecies are being fulfilled for all the Israel of God, both Israel, the nation of Israel, but also for the church that needs revival. This church needs to rise up so that there can be a very powerful revival.
Then he said to me: “…son of man, all these bones are the house of Israel, behold, they say our bones have dried up, our hope has perished, we are completely destroyed, therefore prophesy and tell them so The Lord has said, behold, I open your grave my people and I will dare to come up from your graves and I will bring you to the land of Israel…”
God is… part of the revival that is going to be in this time it is a revival for the church but it is also a revival for Israel. Israel is going to know the Lord, Israel is going to know, but I believe that the church of Jesus Christ first has to close a chapter that it still has open. The Bible says that when the fullness of the Gentiles has been fulfilled, then Israel will re-enter God's economy and will know the Lord and will ask for the Messiah to come.
But there is something that this corrupt church, this decrepit church still needs to experience, it needs its own revival, it needs its own visitation so that the people of Israel can then enter into what God has for them.
Last Sunday we talked about Joel's prophecy, "...I will visit the earth and pour out my spirit on all flesh...", it is a great visitation that God wants and we want to be part of that process that God is lifting
Let's stand up brother, we are going to ask the Lord to fulfill his promise and that those valleys of dry bones can once again experience a revival, that we can see again the glory of God. Our desire is that León de Judá is like a valley of dry bones, I am sure that although God has made great blessings here, we still have a long way to go.
That image of dry bones is a metaphor for what God wants to do in your life and mine, when the Holy Spirit enters your life and takes complete possession of your life and the blessing that God has for your life to become real then you are going to rise up, you are going to be part of an army.
God is not raising a small group of an embroidery or food club or whatever, no, it is an army, God needs warriors and warriors, God is raising an army, so let us ask the Lord to stand us up
I am going to ask Samuel to come here and finish with this prayer this afternoon, brothers, and pray here for the Lord to do something transforming in our lives.
God has brought these brothers this morning to worship him as we have done and I was clear that this was part of what God had for us, there is no doubt in my heart, because it is that God is doing something wonderful so we are going to believe that… as we raise the presence of the spirit and worship the Lord and declare the reality of the Holy Spirit, the spirit begins to move, it begins to do wonderful things, so in the name of Jesus let's go to pray as a church and we are going to prophesy that those dry bones are going to live in the name of Jesus.
Brothers, why don't you raise your hands...? and perhaps tonight you have raised your hands to adore the Lord, and perhaps in another part of this service you have raised your hand to, even to receive from the Lord but right now you raise your hands in a posture prophetic, all as the people of God, that army that the Lord has called, I raise my hands with you, the Lord has given you that prophetic authority.
And now in the name of Jesus with that word that the pastor has left us, let us prophesy to the spirit of the north, south, east and west, let us prophesy that the spirit of God will blow over our lives now in the name of Jesus, blow God's spirit on our drought, blow on our drought, blow on our mortality, blow Lord on every corner of our life, all the inert, dry bones Lord and the skeletons that we have hidden Father, what do you want bring them back, revive them, Lord we are your army but we need Lord that you blow on us at this moment…
Spirit of God, our friend, our Lord, our master, our general, our king, spirit of God blow on us now in the name of Jesus, blow life…
Blow life, blow life Lord on every area of our life that has been inert, blow on gifts Lord that we have not used, blow on dreams that we have even forgotten. Father send your spirit at this moment, Father now send in the name of Jesus as a prophet that the Lord has made you, with that authority, that the spirit of God blow on the bones around you. Maybe your home needs the Lord to blow on it now in the name of Jesus, Father we give you our homes, we give you our children, we give you our loved ones, Father we give you Lord the valleys of dry bones around us and we declare Lord that you will blow on them, Father. Father and you will restore life and energy and dreams Lord, even those things we don't even bother to pray for, blow on them, blow on our community, blow around us, raise the dead holy Lord, blow God's spirit…Blow spirit of God, in the name of Jesus, in the name of Jesus, glory to God.