Prophecy of Ezekiel's Valley of Dry Bones
On August 21, 1973, the Israelis published a series of three stamps with the symbolic pictures of the ministries of three prophets: Isaiah, Jeremiah, and Ezekiel. These stamps are to remind the Israelis of the condition of their nation, and the assurance that their prophecies are being fulfilled today.
During the ministry of Isaiah, the Israeli nation had divided into two divisions: the northern Kingdom of Israel, in which ten tribes were members: Reuben, Simeon, Zebulun, Issachar, Dan, Gad, Asher, Naphtali, Ephraim, and Manasseh; the Southern Kingdom of Judah, in which two tribes were members: Judah and Benjamin. Because of the division of the nation of Israel as a result of many sins, Isaiah prophesied that they would have to be purged by a great tribulation and then brought into one kingdom, in which the Messiah would be their King.
About sixty years later, the nation of Israel was taken captive by the Babylonian Empire, and the prophet Jeremiah came upon the scene, calling for repentance. During the ministry of Jeremiah, the attitude of the people was that God had cast away the Israelis. Jeremiah 33:23-24 “23 Moreover the word of the LORD came to
Jeremiah, saying,
24 Considerest thou not what this people have
spoken, saying, The two families which the LORD hath chosen, he hath even cast them off? thus they have despised my people, that they should be no
more a nation before them.”
