Living Water Shall Flow

We arrived at En Gedi one what must have been elementary school day field trip. Little boys and girls running everywhere. We watched one little guy in front of us as we were waiting in line for our iced coffee. He bought one little piece of candy at a time. Realizing he had enough for one more… and one more. He made sure that he left with no money and every piece of candy he could! Lol. They were pile on top of each other buying snack. There had to be at least one chaperone for every thirty kids… it. Was. Crazy!. 

We walked up to the lower falls and several people went down to edge of the water. They have made a nice wheelchair path to the overlook, but after that it gets very steep. We wanted everyone to get the idea of what it must have been like for David and his men to hide in this place. Last summer James and I

did the full hike up to Dodim’s cave where David cut a piece of Saul’s cloak. Yesterday’s weather was pleasant, nothing like the heat of June. It is a two hour hike one way and an hour and a half the way down. We didn’t do it this time, but James Doss did share with our group one of the insights about the place we were standing in:

In Ezekiel 47, We receive the following prophetic vision:

“Then he brought me back to the door of the temple; and there was water, flowing from under the threshold of the temple toward the east, for the front of the temple faced east; the water was flowing from under the right side of the temple, south of the altar. 2 He brought me out by way of the north gate, and led me around on the outside to the outer gateway that faces east; and there was water, running out on the right side.”

We were just in Jerusalem. It says in Revelations, that water is flowing from the throne… The next section describes that as Ezekiel went forward. They kept measuring and the water got deeper and deeper the further east he went from Jerusalem. Which makes sense because geographically, the terrain starts dropping off down to the lowest place on earth. The Dead Sea behind us. This fresh water from En Gedi also flows from west to East and down to the Dead sea. 

The prophetic vision continues:

Ezekiel47:6 He said to me, “Son of man, have you seen this?” Then he brought me and returned me to the bank of the river.

7 When I returned, there, along the bank of the river, were very many trees on one side and the other. 8 Then he said to me: “This water flows toward the eastern region, goes down into the [b]valley, and enters the sea. When it reaches the sea, its waters are healed. 9 And it shall be that every living thing that moves, wherever [c]the rivers go, will live. There will be a very great multitude of fish, because these waters go there; for they will be healed, and everything will live wherever the river goes. 10 It shall be that fishermen will stand by it from En Gedi to En Eglaim; they will be places for spreading their nets. Their fish will be of the same kinds as the fish of the Great Sea, exceedingly many. 11 But its swamps and marshes will not be healed; they will be given over to salt. 12 Along the bank of the river, on this side and that, will grow all kinds of trees used for food; their leaves will not wither, and their fruit will not fail. They will bear fruit every month, because their water flows from the sanctuary. Their fruit will be for food, and their leaves for medicine.”

So there will be fishermen from En Gedi to En Glaim. Meir, Where is En Glaim? “It is where our next hotel is. About 15 miles to the South, past Masada.” 

James: So, the waters here will be healed, the fish will return. There will be fisherman using this desert oasis as a port and all the way down to the South. The will be catching fish.

Meir tells us that there is a pipeline that will pump water from the Red Sea into the Dead Sea because the Dead Sea is drying up. They are almost down with the experiments to see how mmuch the ecology of the Dead Sea will change, but they are already seeing trees and fish and organisms return to the South. The valley is being resureected.

James smile at him and said, but we are looking for healing to come from the other direction. From Jerusalem. Meir, you told us once that the sign you were looking for, for the coming of Messiah was the water flowing from the Mount of Olives down to the Mediteranean and to the Dead Sea. We are longing for that as well. 

Meir responded yes… and patted James on the shoulder… Zechariah 14:8-9

And in that day it shall be
That living waters shall flow from Jerusalem,
Half of them toward ^[e]the eastern sea
And half of them toward ^[f]the western sea;
In both summer and winter it shall occur.⁹ And the Lord shall be King over all the earth.
In that day it shall be—
“The Lord is one,”
And His name one.

Meir went on to share with us about David in this place. He believes