Yes! Another PCP episode! This time, god takes Zeke out to a field of dry bones and asks him if he knows 'Dem Dry Bones,' which I always thought was a blues song, but it turns out is the 'Toe bone's connected to the foot bone' song. Zeke does not, so god teaches it to him in the creepiest possible way, animating the skeletons, then covering them with flesh, not because he's trying to steal the Golden Fleece but to prove that he's really serious about restoring the Israelites to their birthright. As zombies! No, seriously, he really says Behold, O my people, I will open your graves, and cause you to come up out of your graves, and bring you into the land of Israel / And ye shall know that I am the LORD, when I have opened your graves, O my people, and brought you up out of your graves,
/ And shall put my spirit in you, and ye shall live, and I shall place you in your own land: then shall ye know that I the LORD have spoken it, and performed it, saith the LORD. (v. 12-14)
For his next trick, god tells Zeke to pick up two sticks. Then he fuses them, because the reanimated skeletons weren't impressive enough, and says they're the tribes of Israel. These fused sticks will somehow cause them to also stop sinning. Also, David will be king. Maybe he means the house of David, as Evangelicals claim, meaning Jesus, but it pretty clearly says dear old Dave himself.
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You deny the very one that gave you the breath to speak and hands to write these foolish blabberings. Jesus loves you and died for you and you will soon see the mistake you made in blaspheming the one who gave you life. I pray mercy and grace for your soul my friend! Truth is: Jesus is Lord!
ReplyDeleteLooks like someone has focused too much of his New Testament reading time on Paul's message and not enough on Jesus'.
ReplyDeleteThanks, I can't find much information on the zombie army online for some reason. What happened to them all after this? Did they survive? Did they breed with living Jews? Are we all part Zombie?
ReplyDeleteI am also curious what different traditions say about the 'Dry Bones' army. The opening of Chapter 37 "The hand of the LORD was upon me, and carried me out in the spirit of the LORD" strongly suggests Ezekiel is recording a vision or a dream he had, not claiming to have actually witnessed these events. The way God tells Ezekiel 'these bones are the whole house of Israel' is reminiscent of Joseph's prophetic dreams. So while there's not a clear point where Ezekiel ends this vision (is it Ezekiel 38 when God tells him to prophecy against another nation, or is it Ezekiel 40 when he records another vision, this time even more overtly a dream ("the hand of the LORD was upon me, and brought me thither (...) In the visions of God brought he me into the land of Israel").
ReplyDeleteLiteralists famously do not like parables not actually happening (in some cases arguing each and every story Jesus told was also actually a real event in history), but I've also never seen them claim that Joseph's dreams meant that seven cows must have eaten seven cows. So given the context and the absolute language ("all the house of Israel") I think most literalists would admit the Dry Bones were a vision and not 'real'.