Ages of Creation

Contents

Acknowledgement

The Masterpiece

Prologue

Introduction

Part One The Pre-Adamic Age

Chapter One The Divine Trinity

Chapter Two God’s Preliminary Judgement

Part Two The Adamic Age

Unit One Earth’s Restoration And Garden Of Eden

Chapter One The First Restoration

Chapter Two The Second Judgement

Unit Two Judgement And Religion Era

Chapter One Righteousness Through Faith In Deeds

Chapter Two The Mosaic Covenant

Chapter Three A Living Sacrifice

Part Three Christianic Age Of Reconciliation And Reinstatement

Chapter One Jesus Christ Revealed

Chapter Two God’s Creation Concepts

Chapter Three Christ’s Twofold Mission

Chapter Four The Old And New Wineskins

Chapter Five The Concept Of A Kingdom

Chapter Six The Kingdom Keys

Chapter Seven Jesus Is The Art Of War

Chapter Eight Humanity’s Ultimate Sacrifice

Chapter Nine The Second Restoration

Chapter Ten Ability Demands Calling And Provision

Chapter Eleven The End Times

Part Four The End Of Age

Chapter One Death Is Finally Defeated

Summary

ACKNOWLEDGEMENT

T his book is an ultimate product of everyone who had contributed towards the growth, development and success in every facet of my life with their time, energy and resources and above all else their unceasing prayer and supplications towards God our Heavenly Father for my wellbeing. Without the holistic effort and contribution of all those kindhearted individuals, this masterpiece wouldn’t have eventuated. I won’t be so thankful enough to God our all-loving Father for placing you on my path for His divine mission to be accomplished through me here on earth. Every bit of my success is yours to share with.

First and foremost to my tender, loving and caring mum, Late Mrs. Marietta Nenewe Rali, for been my true role model and hero from my childhood. You have been both our Mum and Dad since Dad departed from us. Your deep passion and zest in educating us about God has deeply entrenched the unfailing and immutable spiritual seed within the innermost fiber of my soul. Those timeless wisdom insights have been a beacon unto my path, for without them, I won’t be where I am today. I am so blessed to have you and will always be thanking and praising God for such an awesome mother He has lavishly benedict us with. I love you mum!

Secondly, to my lineage, tribesman, colleague, school mates, and those who have supported in words and in deed during my schooling years in Port Moresby, PNG. It is always the heart of giving that really matters the most. To name a few; Mr. & Mrs. Pere, Mr. & Mrs. Kema, Michael Kande and family, Richard Nashon & Family, Mr. Dominic Runduali, Mr. Tony Kondo, Mr. Colman Pius and Mr. Nicky Yandowai. Thank you for never giving up on me. It was with your involvement through the thick and thin that enabled me to achieve this exploits and more forthcoming still.

My special thanks to fellow brother and Lead Pastor of Contact Point Worship Centre, Christchurch, New Zealand, Mr. Steven Pona. Your life is and will always be a classic testimony of what discipleship embodies to today’s generation and the ones to come. I am richly blessed to have you as a fellow brother in body and in Spirit. Keep those midnight oil sparking for the glory of Christ to outshine wickedness. To God be the glory, power and kingdom that knows no end.

Finally to the Yomo’s for your irreplaceable time, effort and resources during the final review and editing stages of my manuscript. I strongly believe that God do always place people on a strategic location equipped with the capacity for His great Will to be accomplished here on earth and without any shadow of doubt, yous are one of those few, divinely mandated for God’s glory. Nevertheless, I wish to applaud and credit all my nephews and nieces for teaching me the virtues of faith, humility, Love, confidence, patience, tolerance, obedience, self-control and perseverance over and over during those precious moments invested with them. It was a time well spent! Until we repent and become like children we won’t enter the Kingdom of God.

THE MASTERPIECE

T he title says it all. All the interpretation of the Word was directed by the author Himself, the ‘Holy Spirit’ given to humanity as a free gift from God through Christ Jesus. The Holy Spirit allowed me to utilise God’s creational concepts in the Bible to extrapolate and interpret the Bible. This fulfilled the remarks of Jesus Christ to His followers:

¹³ When the Spirit of truth comes, He will guide you into all truth. He will not speak on His own but will tell you what He has heard. He will tell you about the future. ¹⁴ He will bring me glory by telling you whatever He receives from Me. ¹⁵ All that belongs to the Father is Mine; this is why I said, ‘The Spirit will tell you whatever He receives from Me.’

(John 16:13-15, NLT)

Nothing ever printed within the pages is from personal visions, dreams, or suppositions. Every written word and statement is purely scriptural to avoid disagreement at all costs. It all started with my passion and hunger for the knowledge of God. God spoke to His people through Prophet Jeremiah saying, ‘If you look for Me wholeheartedly, I shall be found by you, says the Lord’ (Jeremiah 29:14). God is Spirit and so credits whosoever draws nigh to Him in truth and in spirit in the closet. It’s kind of a two-way street as the law of action—reaction instituted by God that states: ‘For every action there is an opposite and equivalent reaction.’ The Bible utilises this application in the language of a garden concept, stating, ‘We shall reap what we sow in respect of quantity and quality.’ God is the sole author and founder of the universe with its governing constitution—the Universal Law. Therefore, in the same respect, we only reap according to the quality and quantity of time, resource, and energy we sow in the Word of God.

God is knowledge infinite Himself (1 John 1: 5). Therefore, Knowledge (God) created knowledge (creation) by Knowledge (Jesus) through Knowledge (Holy Spirit). The seen and the unseen is a manifestation of God’s divine knowledge. Every object, concept, shape, quantity, colour, and setting that God used in the Bible conceals God’s divine knowledge and so is deeply symbolic. Only God Himself has the capability to mine out the gold nuggets in the fields of the Bible if we consent Him to. As in the old adage, ‘The Bible is the most read yet least understood book of all times.’ This is true with self-interpretation and not God-interpretation. God using of the tree and the circle concept and gold as His standard of measurement, is very figurative. The Holy Spirit through me allowed the Bible to interpret itself via the concept of extracting gold together with the tree and the circle concept.

The Bible contains files of two natures: the prophetic writings and the testimonials. A prophecy denotes forthcoming events, while a testimonial is an account of events that took place in the past and will most likely repeat itself now and in the future. These two pieces of writings parallels the tree and the circle concept. For instance, a seed has a prophetic message for a tree, leaves, furniture, house, fruits, and forest. The cause behind God creating a circle-earth was to signify recurrence. So the circle depicts a testimonial just as King Solomon quotes in Ecclesiastes:

⁹ History merely repeats itself. It has all been done before. Nothing under the sun is truly new. ¹⁰ Sometimes people say, ‘Here is something new!’ But actually it is old; nothing is ever truly new. ¹¹ We don’t remember what happened in the past, and in future generations, no one will remember what we are doing now’.

(Eccles. 1: 9-11, NLT)

As an exploration geologist by profession, the approach, technique, and strategy employed in discovering, quantifying, and mining out gold nuggets has helped a lot in unearthing the kingdom treasure within the sixty-six books and epistles of the Bible. God intentionally authored the Bible parallel to a jigsaw puzzle. The Bible contains undetailed and scattered prophecies, testimonies and concepts and is highly metaphorical. Some concepts are concealed as testimonies and so demands meticulous attention to uncover. God purposefully did this so that those who search wholeheartedly shall disclose it. Just as furniture evolves from trees so does gold from a strategic process of investigation. God likes hiding big things in small things to mock the wisdom of this world. Jesus once said:

³¹ The Kingdom of Heaven is like a mustard seed planted in a field. ³² It is the smallest of all seeds, but it becomes the largest of garden plants; it grows into a tree, and birds come and make nests in its branches.

(Matt. 13: 31-32, NKJV)

In the mining game, x-amounts of holes are drilled from the exploration to the development stage prior to mining. These holes are then extrapolated down depth with respect to grade similarities. Extrapolation then fosters evaluation and quantifying of the shape and size of the actual ore body. The ore is a mixture of gold with other impurities extremely amalgamated together in a microscopic scale. It is so tiny that it can be scarcely distinguished with naked eye. Since the gold is blended with impurities, the ore has to be processed through a heated furnace to rid it of impurities and essentially crystallise out the pure gold. This exact concept was applied to produce the gold bar that is sitting in your hand or on your digital screen right now. The Bible exactly offers a virgin environment rich with gold deposits scattered all over the sixty-six books and epistles and intensely intermingled with other impurities. So that demands a detailed and systematic technique embraced with a right attitude to discover and mine out the hidden kingdom treasure.

All in all, this piece of writing is an ultimate product of processing the Bible under the guidance of the Holy Spirit utilising the mining, tree, and circle concepts in unveiling the kingdom treasure deposit. All these concepts originated from the Creator Himself—God Almighty. So sit back, relax, and enjoy your delicacy!

PROLOGUE

T ime, experience and years of study have taught me that everything seen and unseen happens for a cause. Nothing happens without a reason. God is the only source and cause of all things seen and unseen. God is so infinite in knowledge and wisdom that everything He did and programmed was not without cause. You are now going through this book dictate by a reason. In just a few words, could you please hand your reason?

It’s good that you know the goal for your journey so that you don’t get distracted. This will not only keep you focused and on track but have you entertained on this cruise with me. The purpose of this book is to help mankind understand the implication of religion and discover their position in Christ Jesus. When the first Adam sinned, his relationship with God was replaced with a religion. Religion was valid until the time of Christ. Religion is the single greatest power of influence on mankind. Almost all wars find their roots in religion than in anything else. Religion is so influential and governing because all other systems like education, politics, and entrepreneurship are by-products of religion itself. Until we alter the roots, the products will not change.

I am going to take you through an exciting Bible journey which I would like to call a ‘Root Investigation’. The Bible, like some scholars have prior mentioned, is the manual for humanity, having dos and don’ts primarily to safeguard our integrity and well-being. The Bible retains the mind and heart of God constrained to the relationship between God and man. In it we find the creation story, life encounters and experiences with God, the Mosaic Law, life of Jesus Christ, the final judgement and the end of age.

Here are some facts about the Bible. The Bible is comprised of sixty-six books and epistles written over a period of approximately 1,500 years by over forty authors from all walks of life, with different kinds of personalities, and in dissimilar situations. It was written in three different languages on three different continents, and it covers hundreds of controversial subjects. Yet, it fits together perfectly into one cohesive story with an appropriate beginning, a logical ending, a central character, and a consistent theme. For it was inspired by one God through His Holy Spirit. What also sets the Bible apart from other books is:

- Bible is an encyclopaedia of its own. It has the answers to its own questions.

- It contains the very oldest records of billions of years dated back to the initial creation of heaven and earth.

- It is a living piece of literature, whose author is always present in it. So comes alive whenever it is read.

- The Bible is not only in and out of season but it also foretells about the forthcoming times and seasons.

- The instructions and doctrines in the Bible are absolutely trustworthy been inspired by God through his Spirit.

- And the Bible contains the Word of God that created the heavens and the earth.

This book is all about how each individual concept, revelation, and testimony is connected to one and other. As an author from a geological background, here is the allegory of what this book is about: I have been doing several drill holes all over the sixty-six books and epistles of the Bible for the past three years from the exploration to the discovery stage. After extrapolation of all these drill holes, I then evaluated and acknowledged the hidden ore body and so utilized all the mining techniques and technology available to mine out the ore body and essentially filter out the gold nuggets from the ore. According to Christ’s remarks, ‘The Kingdom of God is like a man working out in a field who happens to find a treasure, so gladly goes back and sells all his possessions, and with the money he gains, he goes back and purchases that piece of land’ (Matt. 13: 44). I was once exploring out in the sixty-six fields of the Bible and happened to discover that treasure and would now like to share it with you. That treasure is called the ‘Kingdom of God’. In other words, it is the true knowledge of God constrained to the divine and intimate relationship that Christ bridged between God and humanity.

God’s use of a tree as a restriction for food was deeply symbolic. I credit God for all the revelation truth through His Holy Spirit in fabricating this masterpiece together. Man sinned by the tree, and so through and by the tree shall man be called righteous, having the righteousness of Christ. Possessing the knowledge of good and evil is not sin but the act of disobedience was. When the first Adam sinned, death was activated. Take the knowledge of evil as a seed and death as an ultimate destination of the seed. When we look a seed with our eyes, all we get is a seed, but what our mind perceives is a casing, enveloping a tree with a stem, branches, leaves, flowers, and fruits. When man first sinned, the good and evil seed was sowed into the soils of human mind. Through time the seed sprouted with the help of the devil fostering evil thoughts, negative thoughts, infirmities, poverty and feebleness which all led to the destination of death.

The Mosaic Law was given not to put an end to the seed but to educate humanity about good and evil. Jesus came to fulfil the scriptures of the Old Testament and do what the Mosaic Law lacked. Christ became the ultimate sacrifice to purge us from sin and exterminate the death condemnation that came upon humanity when the first Adam sinned. In doing so, Christ clothed humanity with His new life and sowed a new seed of righteousness in us. So that with Christ as the soil and gardener, shall we grow and develop into that tree that produces the fruits of the Holy Spirit. Jesus made available the opportunity for us to become once again the restricted tree of life.

¹⁶ For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son, that whoever believes in Him should not perish but have everlasting life. ¹⁷ For God did not send His Son into the world to condemn the world, but that the world through Him might be saved.

(John 3: 16-17, NKJV)

Judgement was already upon humanity long before Christ came into this world. Jesus was born and raised under the pre-existing judgement and so was condemned by that judgement in order to write it off once and for all. Therefore, those who believe in Christ and are deeply rooted in Him are no more under that Adamic judgement but are covered with God’s grace through Christ Jesus. So now there is no condemnation for those who belong to Christ Jesus (Romans 8:1). The old Adamic age with its death condemnation has been completely abolished on the cross of grace and replaced with the new Christianic Age predestined for eternity in the bosom of God the Father.

INTRODUCTION

B efore all things, there was one God. It was through and by God that everything were made, both seen and unseen. ¹ In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. ² The same was in the beginning with God. ³ All things were made by him; and without him was not anything made that was made (John 1: 1-3, KJV). God through His Word (Jesus) by His Spirit created all things according to His liking and purpose. There is no specific time record when the creation of heaven and earth was initiated. According to scientific predictions, the earth was instigated about billions of years ago. After Lucifer (now satan) sinned, God’s first ever wrath of judgement swoop upon him and a third of the angels, resulting in a catastrophic devastation of the first earth created in Genesis 1: 1.

The creation saga from Genesis 1: 2 and onwards is the record of the creation of the twenty-four hours’ day and the seven calendar days. There is more than 6,000 years’ time space between Genesis 1: 1 and 2. After that certain time lapse, God then began restoring the devastated earth, starting from Genesis 1: 2 and onwards. However, satan and the fallen angels were all in custody within that ball of water, which, according to science, is perceived to be a frozen ball, for there was no heat source (sun). After complete restoration of the first earth and its inhabitants, God then fashioned one of His new inventions called mankind, on the sixth day, and rested from all His work on the seventh day. Satan and the fallen angels, however, pre-existed within the created atmosphere which most scholars nowadays refer to them as the ‘Pre-Adamites’. They however, witnessed the dialogue between the first Adam and God. So satan was knowledgeable with the guidelines and restriction which God sealed with the first Adam.

When the first Adam succumbed to the devil’s cunning deception, God’s second wrath of judgement came upon mankind, resulting in death. The same judgement that came upon satan, one-third of angels and the initial beautiful earth recurred on the new restored earth called mankind. The devil began to reign with his evil slogan: to steal, kill, and destroy (John 10: 10). After a while, God saw the extent of human wickedness on the earth, and He realised that everything they thought or imagined was consistently and totally evil. And so God decided to put an end to everything, but Noah found favour in the eyes of the Lord (Gen. 6). Thus, through Noah, God spared the human race and the living creatures from extinction.

Succeeding the flood, man than began to procreate and populate the earth’s surface. Through the descendant of Seth (Noah’s son) came Abraham, who found favour with God through his heroic faith in God. Abraham’s courageous faith prompted God to establish an everlasting covenant with him to populate the ends of the earth with Abraham’s offspring. In obedience to God’s voice, Abraham left his household and walked with God till his death, so did his son Isaac and grandson Jacob. From Jacob came the twelve tribes of Israel, who then through Joseph went to reside in Egypt during the seven years of famine and henceforth.

After God rescued the Israelites out from the oppressive captivity in Egypt, He gave them the Law on Mount Sinai through Moses to keep an account of sins. God gave the law through Moses to show man what good is from evil. The law itself couldn’t redeem humanity from God’s second judgement. Therefore, in the fullness of time, God sent forth His only Son filled with the Holy Spirit of God to carry out the second restorative exercise on the dead earth called mankind. Through Christ’s ministry, punishment, death, and resurrection, He completely decimated the Adamic Age with its death condemnation and replaced it with His own age called the Christianic Age. In general, life on earth was devastated twice and restored twice but within the ruins of the aftermath. The first restoration is captured in Genesis 1 and 2 and the second restoration took place 2000 years ago and is on-going still as souls are been saved in Christ Jesus. Jesus abolished religion with all its guidelines and rituals and restored the broken relationship between God and mankind in a much peculiar version than the first Adamic Age.

This book is however segmented into four ages as according to the Bible: the Pre-Adamic Age, the Adamic Age, the Christianic Age, and the End of old Age and Restoration of the New Age.

PART ONE

The

Pre-adamic

Age

In the beginning God created the Heavens

and the Earth.

(Gen. 1: 1)

CHAPTER ONE

The Divine Trinity

In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth.

(Gen. 1: 1, NLT)

B efore all things came into existence, there was God and God alone. There was no one before or besides God (Isa. 44: 6). And out from this one God emanated the heavens and the earth with all their inhabitants (Acts 17: 28). The book of Genesis clearly speaks of creations procession into existence through God’s spoken Word. This very Word of God is incarnate (Heb. 4: 12). It was this living Word of God, spoken through the power of the Spirit of God that brought forth resurrection in Genesis 1.

¹ In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. ² The same was in the beginning with God. ³ All things were made by him; and without him was not anything made that was made.

(John 1: 1-3, KJV)

God is so infinite that there was, there is, and there will be nothing outside of Him. It was, it is, and it will be God and God alone never ending. Our God is so immeasurable that our fixed mind cannot comprehend the mysteries about our infinite God. I once had a mental picture of God as an old grandfather with grey beard floating somewhere in an outer open space. But this wasn’t true at all, because it limits God to space and time, which God isn’t. God created space and time and the eternities within Himself. It was within God Himself that He spread out the heavens and founded the earth and not outside of Him, for there is absolutely nothing outside of Him. This is the limit fixed upon the carnal mind. It is so vast and sophisticated to even presume. The Bible itself qualifies of this that; ‘In Him we move and live and exist’ (Acts 17: 28, NLT). Following is God revealing His divine attribute to humanity through Prophet Isaiah:

This is what the Lord says:

‘Heaven is My throne,

and the Earth is my footstool.

Could you build Me a temple as good as that?

Could you build Me such a resting place?

My hands have made both heaven and earth;

they and everything in them are Mine.

I, the Lord, have spoken!’

(Isa. 66: 1, 2, NLT)

Ever since God created the world, His invisible qualities, both His eternal power and His divine nature, have been clearly seen; they are perceived in the things that God has made (Rom. 1: 20, TEV). Every element and matter speaks volumes about the vastness, splendour and awesomeness of our God Almighty, the Creator of the heavens and the earth. God is in the midst of the vast universe and at the core of the smallest atom of every creation. God is everywhere as the Bible refers to him as Omnipresent, for He created time and space and is not constrained by it. Time and space find their dwelling and rightful position in God Almighty!

GOD’S WORD AND SPIRIT

The earth was formless and empty, and darkness covered the deep waters. And the Spirit of God was hovering over the surface of the waters. Then God said, ‘Let there be light’, and there was light.

(Gen. 1: 2, 3, NLT)

In the beginning, God spoke His Word through the power of His Spirit to bring back creation to life. This gives us a clue that the name God is actually plural. We further substantiate this with Genesis 1: 26, which reads, ‘Then God said, Let us now make human beings in our image, to be like us’ (Gen. 1: 26, NLT). Even after the book of Genesis was inscribed by Moses, no one really understood the constituent of the name God. All man in the Old knew was God and God’s Spirit. It was not until the ministry of Jesus Christ that mankind began to acknowledge and embrace the mysteries of the Holy Trinity, that Jesus Christ was the only Son of God the Father, who through the Spirit of God performed every exploit during His mission here on earth. The Spirit of God is the medium through which God manifests His knowledge, authority, and power. When the Pharisees heard that Jesus healed a man with a demon, they said, ‘He drives out demons only because their ruler Beelzebul gives Him power to do so.’ But Jesus replied, ‘It is God’s Spirit that gave Me the power to drive out demons’ (Matt. 12). They all, however, coexist and work together in a solid harmony. God worked through Jesus with the power of His Holy Spirit to manifest Himself to us.

In the beginning the Word already existed; the Word was with God, and the Word was God . . . Through Him God made all things; not one thing in all creation was made without Him. The Word was the source of life and this life brought light to people.

(John 1: 1, 3, 4)

It was through Jesus that God created all things seen and unseen by the infinite power of His Spirit. The divine trinity always cooperates and work together as one. The Father does not do things on His own, nor do His Son and His Spirit alike. They cohabit and collaborate as a team. Christ is the visible image of the invisible God (Col. 1: 15). Jesus said, ‘I came not to do My own will but the will of the One who sent Me. If you have seen me then you have seen the Father, for the Father and I are one’ (John 14). Therefore, God the Father Himself is the team leader. He just mission forth His Son with His Spirit to get the job done. The Word and the Spirit, however, work within the confines of the blueprint that God drafts out. Nothing done was ever done without the will of God.

GOD’S DIVINE ATTRIBUTES

¹⁷ When Abram was ninety-nine years old, the Lord appeared to Abram and said to him, ‘I am Almighty God; walk before Me and be blameless.’

(Gen. 17: 1, NKJV)

The certain most appropriate of God’s incommunicable attributes are the ‘omni’ attributes—omnipotence, omniscience, omnipresence, and omnibenevolence. These attributes are mentioned throughout the scriptures in the Bible. God’s divine traits have been misunderstood by humans throughout the ages past. Tragically, the gross population of the Christians and the non-Christians today has misconceptions about God’s true divine traits still. Humans have always perceived God through their limited intelligence, and still today we portray God with regards to His own creation and not as who He really is. God is outside of His created order so His bigger than all things combined. Our mind is limited to comprehend the mysteries of God’s divinity. God is more than what has been taught in the schools, churches, screens, books, and literatures. All human science, philosophy and theology put together cannot fully quantify and explain the dynamics of God. God is infinite!

God appeared to Abraham when all the natural capabilities of procreation were buried. Genesis 17 reads: ‘When Abraham was ninety-nine years old, the Lord appeared to him and said, "I am El-Shaddai—meaning ‘God Almighty’. Serve me faithfully and live a blameless life. I will make a covenant with you, by which, I will guarantee to give you countless descendants"’ (Gen. 17: 1, 2, NLT). After God pronounced the terms and conditions of the covenant, the scripture then goes on to say, ‘Abraham bowed down to the ground, but he laughed to himself in disbelief. "How could I become a father at the age of 100?" he thought. "And how can Sarah have a baby when she is ninety years old?" So Abraham said to God, "May Ishmael (Son of bondwoman) live under your blessings! But God replied, No—Sarah, your wife will give birth to a son for you. You will name him Isaac, and I will confirm my covenant with him and his descendants an everlasting covenant"’ (Gen. 17: 17-19, NLT).

Our God Almighty intentionally did this to Abraham to showcase His omniscience, omnipotence, omnipresence, and omnibenevolence over the science of the human body. ‘Behold, I am the Lord, the God of all flesh. Is there anything too hard for Me?’ (Jer. 32: 27). He authored and initiated medical science and so has the omnipotence to bypass all biological processes you name it. Man around Abraham’s era had a very shallow awareness of who God really was. Sadly, countless today still are no better than Abraham’s knowledge retention about who God truly is. We are a generation like no other in the history of mankind to be exposed to all truths about God, yet we are blind to it. Our thoughts are wired to the limits of the physical creation. God is far above our thoughts and can do anything which we can’t think of. God can turn a stone into a living soul at an instant (Luke 3: 8). There is absolutely nothing that God cannot do. Prophet Ezekiel’s testimony is a good one to behold:

¹The LORD took hold of me, and I was carried away by the Spirit of the LORD to a valley filled with bones. ² He led me all around among the bones that covered the valley floor. They were scattered everywhere across the ground and were completely dried out. ³ Then he asked me, ‘Son of man, can these bones become living people again?’ ‘O Sovereign LORD,’ I replied, ‘you alone know the answer to that.’⁴ Then he said to me, ‘Speak a prophetic message to these bones and say, Dry bones, listen to the word of the LORD! ⁵ This is what the Sovereign LORD says: Look! I am going to put breath into you and make you live again! ⁶ I will put flesh and muscles on you and cover you with skin. I will put breath into you, and you will come to life. Then you will know that I am the LORD.’ ⁷ So I spoke this message, just as he told me. Suddenly as I spoke, there was a rattling noise all across the valley. The bones of each body came together and attached themselves as complete skeletons. ⁸ Then as I watched, muscles and flesh formed over the bones. Then skin formed to cover their bodies, but they still had no breath in them. ⁹ Then he said to me, ‘Speak a prophetic message to the winds, son of man. Speak a prophetic message and say, This is what the Sovereign LORD says: Come, O breath, from the four winds! Breathe into these dead bodies so they may live again.’ ¹⁰ So I spoke the message as he commanded me, and breath came into their bodies. They all came to life and stood up on their feet—a great army.

(Ezek. 37: 1-10, NLT)

All the Glory, Power, and Might Are His, God Everlasting! We now will take a