The Knee Bone Connected...

I love types.

I was reading Ezekiel this morning and read over one of my favorite chapters in the prophets: Ezekiel 37. One thing that particularly struck me in this reading is how the miracle of the dry bones is a glorious Old Testament type, and really shows the beauty of how Incarnation and Resurrection are connected.

When Ezekiel speaks the prophesies of the Lord to the bones, they come together, bone to bone, and are wrapped in sinews and flesh. Then Ezekiel speaks a prophesy to the wind, and it fills the bodies with breath and life. Ezekiel 37 : 13 -- "Then you shall know that I am the Lord, when I have opened your graves, O my people, and brought you up from your graves."

The miracle is incarnation -- literally. It is the "en-flesh-ment" of dead dry bones. And the incarnation is simultaneously, or subsequently, perhaps, resurrection -- the dead are raised from the grave.

The Incarnation of Christ is a glorious fulfillment of this type. Even as the dry bones were wrapped in flesh and given new life, the act of Christ's incarnation in human flesh makes us incarnate in spirit. Through His incarnation, binding God and Man, the dry bones of our sinful and corruptable humanity are wrapped in sinless and eternal flesh. And thus His incarnation (and death, buriel and resurrection), enables our eternal resurrection.