Hosea 3:4-5a

"For the children of Israel shall abide many days without a king, and without a prince, and without a sacrifice, and without an image, and without an ephod, and without teraphim:" In other words, they had nothing of their religion, as much as I hate to use the word. All right, then the key word in verse 5 is—"Afterward..." All right, but we're not going to look at the "afterward" yet, until we go back and finish some of those verses with regard to all those 1900 and some years that Israel was scattered into the nations of the world.

All right, come back where you were with the dry bones in Ezekiel 37 verse 11. Here's where we have the interpretation of this vision.

Ezekiel 37:11

"Then he (the LORD) said unto me, (the prophet) Son of man, these bones are the whole house of Israel: (Now that tells you right up front that ten tribes are not lost. All Twelve Tribes are still involved even at this point in time.) behold, they say, Our bones are dried, and our hope is lost: we are cut off for our parts." In other words, that was when they were out amongst the Gentile world--verse 12.

Ezekiel 37:12a

"Therefore, prophesy and say unto them, (these scattered Jews) Thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, O my people, I will open your graves,..." Now, the best way I can explain that in recent history was when the Soviet Union collapsed, and one of the first results of that collapse was permission for the Jews to immigrate out and down to Israel or wherever.

It was a providential thing. As soon as the Jews had the opportunity,