• “You Will Come to Life”
    Pure Worship of Jehovah—Restored At Last!

    • a The bones that Ezekiel saw in vision belonged, not to people who had died from natural causes, but to “people who were killed.” (Ezek. 37:9) “The whole house of Israel” was, indeed, killed symbolically when the inhabitants of the ten-tribe kingdom of Israel and those of the two-tribe kingdom of Judah were successively conquered, taken captive, and deported by the Assyrians and the Babylonians.

  • “You Will Come to Life”
    Pure Worship of Jehovah—Restored At Last!

    • Just as the ancient nation of natural Israel was “killed” and remained symbolically dead for a considerable time, so “the Israel of God,” the anointed Christian congregation, was killed symbolically and experienced deathlike captivity for a long time. (Gal. 6:16)

      Ezekiel looking at a valley that is covered with dry bones.

      The “very dry” bones Ezekiel saw in vision depicted a long period of deathlike captivity for Jehovah’s anointed (See paragraphs 8, 9)