Show 54

Greetings, fellow believers. Here we go with one of my favorite passages of Scripture: the Valley of Dry Bones, Ezekiel chapter 37. It is a parable of God making things look desperate and hopeless for the scattered tribes of the house of Israel. Why is God doing that? In order to emphasize that the following miracle of the revival of the House of Israel will be His work and not than of man.

God makes things harder before making them easier.

These two shows were recorded at the home of Joy and Ed Smelzer of in Elizabethon, Tennessee, the parents of Heidi Colpo, my co-author in The Lie of Every Man's Battle.

In show 54, I once again make the lives of Preterists miserable, proving beyond a shadow of a doubt that God is not finished with Israel. For this chapter of Ezekiel is all about God bringing Israel back from her metaphoric state of death—her literal state of stupor.

Show 55

Still in Elizabethon, Tennessee, and thanks again to my gracious hosts Ed and Joy Smelzer, the parents of my dear friend Heidi Colpo.

Concerning Ezekiel chapter 37 and the Valley of Dry Bones, it's not enough that we have bones here. No, they have to be dry. As I said in the previous show, God makes things harder before making them easier; witness Jesus putting applying mud to the eyes of the man born blind before telling him to wash in the Pool of Siloam so that he might see again.

Important lesson from this show: God does not protect you from your own imagination. If we go into the future in our minds, picturing a series of disasters that probably will not even happen, we bring an unnecessary stress on ourselves. Our Lord said, "Sufficient unto the day is the evil thereof" (Matthew 6:34). We run afoul of this great exhortation at our own peril.

Considering the medical trials I am enduring today, this was the 2013 Zender preaching to the 2026 Zender. I was in tears as I listened to myself telling myself to rely on God's track record of love and care. God puts us in dire straits, only to deliver us better for the experience. I really needed to hear this, and I think you do too. And I listened with rapt attention, awe, and again, tears. No one needed to hear this more than me.

Besides perhaps you, perhaps—because we are all suffering.

I will explain in more detail on tomorrow's MZTV broadcast what is happening. Until then, grace and peace to you, and love from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ. God is with us all, and never leaves us alone in these trials.

I am thanking all of your for your continued support of this work, and its worker.

Because of grace, from the Floridan peninsula,

Martin