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The Lord Is There: A River from the Temple and a Sea Brought Back to Life | Ezekiel 47–48
Episode Overview
Today we finish Ezekiel with chapters 47 and 48. The vision ends with water. A river flows out from under the threshold of the temple, and Ezekiel's guide leads him into it in stages—measuring a thousand cubits and wading in ankle deep, another thousand and it is knee deep, another and it is at the waist, and then a river deep enough to swim in and impossible to cross. The current does not thin out as it travels. It deepens.
Where it goes, life follows. It runs down into the Arabah and into the Dead Sea—the saltiest, most lifeless water in the region—and the water becomes…
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