This startling statement is so reflective of Ezekiel 37 that I can scarcely understand how we are missing the gigantic issue of the Jewish restoration in our own time. Thus, Sharon's statement, so indicative of the miraculous spiritual redemption of the Jews in the end-times, would be lost on the UMC, which, in its profound narcissism, thinks that unconditional Biblical promises to the Jews are somehow meant for Christian Gentiles. In fact, a leading UM evangelical argued with me that the Jews of Israel are some of the most secular people in the world. No, not if Ezekiel 37 refers to the Church. Then Israel's restoration to the land and spiritual rebirth have no meaning and one is blind.
Reality is a vapor.
The God who can predict the future can do anything He wants, and I can rest in Him because of it. Sadly, millions of people have been taught about a weak god who is limited by evolution and an inability to communicate to man. The liberal UMC has convinced the laity that God didn't predict, through the prophet Isaiah, that in the future He would raise up Cyrus the Persian, and that he would be the instrument through which the Jews would travel back to Jerusalem. No, the liberal has taught that it only appears as if this prediction was made, but in fact it was made centuries later, long after Cyrus was dead. That is no powerful God, but rather a lying god.