After coming under the operation of God’s spirit, Ezekiel found himself in the midst of a valley plain filled with dry human bones.

Ezek. 37:1

Rev. 11:7-12.

In the modern outworking of this prophetic picture the remnant of Christian spiritual Israelites were killed, as far as their work of prophesying and witnessing publicly and freely was concerned. This came at the climax of the international persecution against them in the last year of World War I. They came into a spiritual condition just like that of the dry bones seen by Ezekiel in the valley plain, in Babylon. (Gen. 11:2-9)

The historic fulfillment of Ezekiel’s vision of the valley plain full of dry bones was as prophetic as the vision itself. This future fulfillment is pointed to in the book of Revelation, written more than seven centuries after Ezekiel’s vision. There the reviving of spiritual Israel is depicted as follows:

“When they have finished their witnessing, the wild beast that ascends out of the abyss will make war with them and conquer them and kill them.