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ODAY we read about Ezekiel wading
into an unusual river. In the book of the Revelation of Jesus Christ to John
the Apostle, it is recorded that in the New Jerusalem there will be a river of
life that will flow forth from the throne of God, which will run along the
golden boulevard that we might call heaven's Main Street (Revelation 22:1-2).
John's description of the postmillennial New Jerusalem is not the same as
Ezekiel's description of the holy land during the millennium, but there are a
few parallels, namely this river that is described in Ezekiel 47.
Of all the measurements and descriptions that we
have read so far, I can't imagine that any one of them could have been as
unexpected as this spring of living water that will be flowing, as from an
artesian well, right out of the temple itself. And, rather than the spring
dwindling away by sinking into the ground... being soaked up by plant life or
sand, thereby ceasing to exist at some point, it is obvious by reading
Ezekiel's record (of his little escapade into this river), that the quantity of water steadily
increased the further on Ezekiel traveled away from the
spring itself. Within a mile or so from the temple, Ezekiel's wading pool had
deepened into a sizable estuary. Yet, this river will be different than every
other river that has ever flowed. The Nile, the Amazon, the Jordan, the
Mississippi, the Euphrates, the Yangtze – in every case the waters eventually
blend with a larger body of water and take on the characteristic of that larger
body. This river will be filled with super water though. As it empties into the
Dead Sea, the Dead Sea will be healed. The Dead Sea will become a living sea.
Men will fish for every sort of fish right there (Ezekiel 47:10).
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