"Dry Bones"
Does God slay the people who become dry bones?
Bones of Kings
officials? Judah
Priests, Prophets
People of Jerusalem
= removed from these
graves
*EXPOSED to sun, moon, stars
"Which they have loved + served + followed
+ consulted + worshipped"
"They will not be gathered up or buried
but will be like
dung lying on the
ground"
Ezekiel 5?
"Whenever I banish them, all the survivors of this evil
nation will prefer
death to life in Job 3:22
When people fall down do they not
get up" Rm 14:13,
- STUMBLING
- OBSTACLE
- TRAP Pr24:16
What have I done?
"I will lay the dead bodies of the
Israelites in front
of their idols, and I
will scatter your
bones around your
alters."
JER 8:1-2 The Valley
of Slaughter
"Topheth" or
"Valley of Ben
Hinnom" Jer 19:6
"will bury until there
is no more room"
Jer 8 (cont.) Ps12:1-3
"Pursues course"
"They dress the wound of my people
as though it weren't
serious"
"'Peace, peace', they
say when there is
no peace."
Jeremiah 8
that the LORD
will slaughter
the people through
the Babylonians
without dignity
Jer 5-8 gives
clues to Ezekiel
+ Dry Bones
Punishment and
Disobedience
Visual of People
with large beast
in large cage with
collars + chain feeding
each day food is
prayer beast is God
but actually god-
beast (God) informs
Thought on idols:
Why is it such
a big deal?
I know it is...
but why?
JER 6 :
"A horrible and
shocking thing
has happened
in the land:
The prophets
prophesy lies,
the priests rule
by their own
authority, and my
people love it this
way. But what
will you do in the
end?"
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