Read Ezekiel 35 and 36 at Bible Gateway.
The Hebrew paragraph divisions:
Eze 35:1-10 {s} Prophecy against Mount Seir: desolation, because they shed the blood of Israel in their calamity
Eze 35:11-13 {s} I will judge you because of your hatred, anger, envy against Israel/ blasphemy against YHVH
Eze 35:14-15 {p} The earth will rejoice in Edom’s desolation because they rejoiced in Israel’s calamity
Eze 36:1-12 {s} Prophecy to the mountains of Israel: blessing + fruitfulness when the house of Israel returns
Eze 36:13-15 {p} You shall not bereave your nation anymore, nor bear the reproach of the nations anymore
Eze 36:16-21 {p} The house of Israel defiled their land, so they were cast out, but YHVH watches over His holy name
Eze 36:22-32 {s} For the sake of My holy name I will restore you/ new heart + My Spirit, to walk in My statutes
Eze 36:33-36 {s} They shall make the desolate land like the garden of Eden for YHVH has done according to His word
Eze 36:37-38 {p} YHVH shall increase Israel men like flocks in the ruined cities
Eze 34 through 36 chiastic structure:
1a) Eze 34:1-31 chiastic structure {s+p+p} Indictment against, restoration of shepherds and sheep/ Israel is YHVH’s flock;
1b) Eze 35:1-15 {s+s+p} Mt. Seir: cities laid waste, land desolate because they were against Israel in her calamity;
1c) Eze 36:1-15 {s+p} Mountains of Israel: your ruined cities will be rebuilt, your desolate places will bear fruit;
1d) Eze 36:16-17a, When the house of Israel dwelt in their own land, they defiled it by their own ways +deeds;
1e) Eze 36:17b-20, Israel’s uncleanness/ My fury poured out/ scattered among the nations/ their reproach;
1) Eze 36:17b, The way of the house of Israel was as the uncleanness of a woman in her customary impurity;
2) Eze 36:18, I poured out My fury/ your idolatry defiled the land;
3) Eze 36:19, I scattered you among the nations + dispersed you throughout the countries/ judged you by your ways;
4) Eze 36:20, Israel profaned YHVH’s holy name, when the nations reproached them;
1f) Eze 36:21a, But I had concern for My holy name;
1g) Eze 36:21b {p} Which the house of Israel had profaned among the nations wherever they went;
central axis) Eze 36:22a, “Therefore say to the house of Israel, ‘Thus says the Lord God: “I do not do this for your sake, O house of Israel, but for My holy name’s sake;”’”
2g) Eze 36:22b, Which you have profaned among the nations wherever you went;
2f) Eze 36:23, I will sanctify My great name among the nations, when I am hallowed in you before their eyes;
2e) Eze 36:24-30, Israel regathered from the nations/ cleanness/ My Spirit poured out/ no more reproach;
3) Eze 36:24, I will gather you out of the nations where you were scattered + bring you to your own land;
1) Eze 36:25-26, With clean water I will cleanse you from your filthiness + idols/ new heart + spirit;
2) Eze 36:27, I will pour out My Spirit/ you shall walk in My statutes + judgments;
3) Eze 36:28a, Then you shall dwell in the land that I gave to your fathers;
2) Eze 36:28b, You shall be My people, and I will be your God;
1) Eze 36:29a, I will deliver you from all your uncleannesses;
4) Eze 36:29-30, Israel’s future blessing + abundance/ never again bear reproach among the nations;
2d) Eze 36:31-32 {s} You will remember your evil ways + deeds and be ashamed, O house of Israel;
2c) Eze 36:33-35, Israel ruined cities rebuilt + desolate land tilled like the garden of Eden;
1a) Eze 36:33, When I cleanse you of iniquities, you will dwell in the cities, and the ruins shall be rebuilt;
1b) Eze 36:34a, The desolate land shall be tilled;
central axis) Eze 36:34b, Instead of lying desolate in the sight of all who pass by;
2b) Eze 36:35a, The nations shall say, ‘This land that was desolate has become like the garden of Eden;’
2a) Eze 36:35b, ‘The wasted, desolate, and ruined cities are now fortified and inhabited;’
2b) Eze 36:36 {s} The nations shall know that YHVH rebuilt her ruins + planted what was desolate;
2a) Eze 36:37-38 {p} I will increase the men of Israel like a flock, then they shall know that I am YHVH.
Please do not miss the message of the E pairs! YHVH had poured out His fury on Israel because of her uncleanness, and her impurity. But He will not do it that way a second time. Instead, He will wash her uncleanness with clean water, and purify her impurity, by giving her a new heart and a new spirit. He will pour out His Spirit upon her, not His fury, and she will not be scattered to the nations but regathered to her land. She will walk in His statutes – by which His name is sanctified among the nations – and the land will increase in blessing and fruitfulness. This new birth (new heart) and the baptism of the Spirit, is speaking of the re-NEW-ed covenant!
If you are a Spirit-filled believer, you have been grafted in to the root of Israel, and keeping His statutes to walk in them, is what the word of God prophesies for you – in the day that Israel is being regathered to her land, which is in this day, for our generation. Do not reject His commandments, which the Spirit of YHVH is speaking to the churches!
If you are a Torah- observant believer, the outpouring of His Spirit is what the word of God prophesies for you – in the day that Israel is being regathered to her land, which is in this day, for our generation. It is by the outpouring of His Spirit, that we are empowered to walk in His commandments. Do not reject His Spirit, which the Spirit of YHVH is speaking to the churches!
ClaudeA says
Doing some searching for anyone who is aware of and interested in the actual restoration of the verdant agronomy that is still viable in the Negev, your website and this entry came up.
The way I was called to this restoration in 1994 is fascinating as in the years before I was led to know the ways to restore all man-caused deserts to their abundance. In the Negev, more searching uncovered the fact that this region still has massive moisture in the stratosphere above and all it needs to pour the rains is the forests on the tops of the hills that the Israelites tore down in their practice of the pagan fertility sacrifices. They also over harvested the crops, as they were told not to do, which left the land barren when drouth years from lack of transpiration from the forests lessened the precipitation, just as they were told at Mt. Sinai would happen should they wander off into the idol worship of the former inhabitants.
Now, with some clear evidences this restoration is very possible, I’m opening searches for like minds.
So far I find nobody with this practical knowledge of the simple restoration process.
christine says
This is so very interesting, Claude, thank you for sharing this!