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Ezekiel 47:1, Then he brought me back to the door of the house; and behold, 
water was flowing from under the threshold of the house toward the east, for 
the house faced east.  And the water was flowing down from under, from the
right side of the house, from south of the altar.

Ezekiel, in a vision, is being shown the future temple in Israel.  At this point in the vision he sees water flowing out from under the house of God.  It is living, pure, and holy water because it comes from where God dwells.  This water is the “living water” that Jesus Christ offered the woman at the well (and to each of us).  He said, “Whoever drinks of this water shall never thirst again.” (John 4:6).

It is the living water that the prophet Zechariah says, “shall flow from Jerusalem, half to the eastern sea and half to the western sea.”  Is this a reference to the message of Christ being preached to the world as some believe?  Jerusalem was the center from which the teaching and revelation of Jesus Christ came.  So, this could very well be what the prophet was prophesying about.   

In his letter to the Ephesians, Paul told men to love their wives as Christ loved the church “that He might sanctify and cleanse her with the washing of water by the word, that He might present her to Himself a glorious church, not having spot or wrinkle or any such thing, but that she should be holy and without blemish.” (Ephesians 5:26, 27).  This water is pure and whoever allows it to flow over them is cleansed; this is the process of sanctification.  It is an on going process that will not end until one enters the glory of heaven.

First and foremost, one must enter the water for this to happen.  We will examine this more as the man leads Ezekiel to the water’s edge.

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