Ezekiels Vision of the River From the Temple Healing the Dead Sea

Ezekiel 47:1-12 records one of the most beautiful prophetic visions in the Bible. The prophet sees water issuing from beneath the threshold of the new temple, gradually deepening — ankle-deep, knee-deep, waist-deep, then a river too deep to cross — as it flows east to the Dead Sea. When the river enters the salt sea, "the waters shall be healed... it shall come to pass, that the fishers shall stand upon it from En-gedi even unto En-eglaim; they shall be a place to spread forth nets" (Ezek 47:9-10). On its banks grow trees whose fruit is meat and whose leaves are medicine — a vision picked up centuries later in Revelation 22.

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