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(Habakkuk 2:2)

The vision, the mandate, the new thing breaking through, is not entirely new. Hints, fragments, and pieces appear throughout the Bible. Ezekiel focuses upon it in chapters 36 and 37 of his book. While this visionary mandate centers on God’s plans for the Jewish people, it has everything to do with the future of the Church and the world. Ezekiel summarizes the vision in chapter 37:21–28:

Thus says the Lord GOD: Behold, I will take the people of Israel from the nations among which they have gone, and will gather them from all sides, and bring them to their own land; and I will make them one nation in the land, upon the mountains of Israel; and one king will be king over them all; and they will be no longer two nations, and no longer divided into two kingdoms. They will not defile themselves any more with their idols and their detestable things, or with any of their transgressions; but I will save them from all the backslidings in which they have sinned, and will cleanse them; and they will be my people, and I will be their God.

My servant David will be king over them; and they will all have one shepherd. They will follow my ordinances and be careful to observe my statutes. They will dwell in the land where your fathers dwelt that I gave to my servant Jacob; they and their children and their children’s children will dwell there for ever; and David my servant will be their prince for ever. I will make a covenant of peace with them; it will be an everlasting covenant with them; and I will bless them and multiply them, and will set my sanctuary in the midst of them for evermore. My dwelling place will be with them; and I will be their God, and they will be my people. Then the nations will know that I the LORD sanctify Israel, when my sanctuary is in the midst of them for evermore.

Ezekiel identifies seven aspects of God’s ultimate purposes for Israel and the nations: