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Ezekiel 47 · Grade 5

Leaves for Healing

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Ezekiel 47 opens with one of the Bible's most beautiful pictures. Ezekiel says water trickled from under the temple threshold, flowing east. Every thousand cubits it grew deeper, from ankles to knees to waist, until it became a river that could not be crossed. Unlike natural rivers, it grew without tributaries; its source was God's presence.

The river flowed down into the Dead Sea, a lake so salty almost nothing lives in it. There the waters would be healed, and everything will live wherever the river comes. Fishermen would spread nets from En Gedi to En Eglaim. Only the marshes would stay salty, providing salt. The picture is of God's presence bringing life to the most lifeless places.

Trees on both banks would bear fruit every month, and their leaves would be for healing. The chapter closes by dividing the land among the twelve tribes and granting foreigners an inheritance as if native-born, a striking welcome to outsiders. In the New Testament, Revelation 22:1-2 describes a river of the water of life flowing from God's throne, with the tree of life whose leaves are for the healing of the nations.

Show What You Know

  1. What was unusual about how the river grew?

  2. Why is the Dead Sea significant in this vision?

  3. How were foreigners treated in the land division?

  4. Which New Testament passage echoes this river?

Crossword

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Across

  1. The ____ came down from underneath

Down

  1. A ____ that could not be walked through
  2. Again he ____ one thousand
  3. But its swamps and marshes will not be ____

Think About It

  1. God's river healed even the most lifeless sea. Where do you see a need for healing in your world?

  2. Foreigners were welcomed as full members. How can you welcome people who feel like outsiders?

Memory Verse

By the river banks, on both sides, will grow every tree for food, whose leaf won’t wither, neither will its fruit fail. It will produce new fruit every month, because its waters issue out of the sanctuary. Its fruit will be for food, and its leaf for healing.”

Ezekiel 47:12 (WEB)

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Prayer

Dear God, thank You for the river of life. Help me . Amen.

Take It Home

For families: talk about these together.

  • How could your life bring comfort to people who are hurting?
  • How does God's promise of a new creation give you hope today?
  • What is one way you could live out this chapter this week?

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