A fountain shall flow from the house of the LORD (Joel 3:18).Though such a river has symbolic meaning, we should not miss the plain promises of such a river in the coming kingdom of the Messiah. Trapp gave a typical spiritualized explanation of this river: “The gospel of grace, and the gifts of the Holy Ghost thereby conveyed into the hearts of believers, and poured out upon the world by the death of Christ.” “We have reminders that flowing streams are parables of the flowing life of God (e.g. They were at first so small that they came, drop by drop but they increased.” (Clarke) Running out on the right side: “The waters seem to have been at first in small quantity for the words imply that they oozed or dropped out. During the Kingdom Age, Jerusalem shall have a river such as no other nation ever had.” (Wiersbe) “Jerusalem is the only great city of the ancient world that wasn’t located on a river, and in the east, a dependable water supply is essential for life and for defense. We think of the beauty of Psalm 46:4: There is a river whose streams shall make glad the city of God. “Blessing, fertility and water are almost interchangeable ideas in the Old Testament” (Taylor).
It brought life, growth, vitality, refreshment, hope, and security.
In the semi-arid geography of Israel a river like this was both a blessing and a miracle. There were streams and springs, but never a rich, mighty river, and never one flowing from this part of the city. There was water, running out on the right side: In all of its recorded history, Jerusalem never had such a river. It doesn’t come from a marketplace, a place of business, or an athletic arena. Significantly, the river does not come from a king’s palace or a government building. “Ezekiel uses this imagery to affirm that the new temple, like the old, will be a font of blessing for Israel.” (Vawter and Hoppe) There was water, flowing from under the threshold of the temple: Led back to the door of the temple (presumably by the radiant man of Ezekiel 40:3), Ezekiel saw something that never existed in the temple before: a river flowing directly from the temple. 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.Ī.
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.
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