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Bible Book: Ezekiel
Bible Book Code: 2603700301
Scene no: 2 of 5

Bible Reference & Cartoon Description

Ezekiel 37:3-7 (NLT)
3 Then he asked me, “Son of man, can these bones become living people again?” “O Sovereign Lord,” I replied, “you alone know the answer to that.”
4 Then he said to me, “Speak a prophetic message to these bones and say, ‘Dry bones, listen to the word of the Lord! 5 This is what the Sovereign Lord says: Look! I am going to put breath into you and make you live again!
6 I will put flesh and muscles on you and cover you with skin. I will put breath into you, and you will come to life. Then you will know that I am the Lord.’”
7 So I spoke this message, just as he told me. Suddenly as I spoke, there was a rattling noise all across the valley. The bones of each body came together and attached themselves as complete skeletons.

DRAWING NOTES:

TIME OF DAY:
Unspecified in the Bible narrative.

LIGHTING NOTES:
The sun (unseen & high in the sky on the right) illuminates this scene, casting shadows below & to the left of the figure & objects.

CHARACTERS PRESENT:
The prophet Ezekiel.

RESEARCH/ADDITIONAL NOTES:
The Lord asked Ezekiel “…can these bones become living people again?” Clearly the prophet wasn’t sure that they could, because he answered “O Sovereign Lord, you alone know the answer to that.” In essence this vision was God drawing Ezekiel’s attention to the deplorable condition of the Israelites, who, by now, had sinned so much against God, that He had sent a distant, fierce, warrior foreign nation (namely the Babylonians) to kill and relocate them, in exile, to Babylon.

Fortunately for the Israelites, God’s anger (at the people’s sin) doesn’t last very long. And even in the midst of that righteous anger, God has a plan to save his people. The valley of dry bones vision alludes to that plan, in that the dry bones come baxck to life again, just as the Israelites (after 70 years in exile) were brought back to their country by the gracious hand of God.

In my picture the dry, lifeless bones in the valley are moving and coming together to form whole skeletons. This is the beginning of the process by which God re-invigorates His people, back to life once more. I researched pictures of human skeletons on the internet to help me draw the bones of the human bones accurately.

As in the previous picture, I used images I found on the internet of the Makhtesh Ramon, a long & thin geological “crater” found in the Negev desert of southern Israel, to illustrate the background hills in this scene.

The two Vulpes cana (aka Blandford’s fox) from the previous scene can be seen running away behind the figure of Ezekiel. See previous scene for detailed description of the foxes.

Here’s the scene without the figure, bones or foxes.

Background of Ezekiel 37 – Valley of bones – Scene 02 – Skeletons

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Background of Ezekiel 37 – Valley of bones – Scene 02 – Skeletons

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Bible Doctrine Notes
37:1-14 GOD, Power (1.14J)
God has sovereign power over a dead nation. No realm, even death, is beyond His power and control. Despite what human beings might think, say or judge to the contrary, God can save His people no matter what. All of God’s axtions seek to introduce Himself to all people as Lord and Saviour.

37:1-14 HUMANITY, Life (2.43A)
This prophetic story occurred as the nation Israel was “dead”, in exile. God used the graphic symbol of a valley of dry bones to illustrate just how dead the Israelites really were. And yet, as the story unfolds, God shows that once dry, lifeless bones can live. In verse 14 God promised the prophet Ezekiel that He would make the nation of Israel live again. Jesus has shown us that dead believers will rise to eternal life again after physical death.