One of the most powerful images in all of the Bible comes from the Old Testament prophet, Ezekiel Ch. 37.

“The hand of the Lord was upon me, and he brought me out in the spirit of the Lord and set me down in the middle of the valley; it was full of bones. And he led me around among them, and look, there were very many on the surface of the valley, and they were very dry. And he said to me, “Son of man, can these bones live?”

What is this valley full of dry and bleached bones? Four chapters earlier, Ezekiel records the fall of Jerusalem, which signifies what must have seemed like the final destruction of the nation of Judah, the last of Ezekiel’s people who lived in the land that they understood God had promised to them.

The valley of dry bones, then, represented a real event and real ca

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