If I’m reading things correctly, in Ezekiel 46, we read that only the Prince used the east gate. It is otherwise shut. In Ezekiel 47, we read about the water flowing through the east gate.

The water comes from where the Prince walks and it flows to what is dead. It flows to the valley of the Dead Sea. The water from the Prince’s stream makes what is dead fresh and pure.

That was one of the amazing things about Jesus’ ministry. Before Christ, if something holy touched something unclean, the holy thing became unclean. When Christ, the Holy One, touched an unclean person, it didn’t make Him unclean, He made the other person clean. He didn’t lose His purity. He transmitted purity.

Life flourishes wherever the water flows. Whatever the Spirit touches should be touched with life; whoever you touch, in word or deed, should be touched with life!

The trees with leaves that never turn brown should be a reflection of every believer. It’s a repeated theme in Scripture that we will stay green and not wither.

Christ is the Vine. We are the branches. The Holy Spirit flowing through the Vine produces the fruit and the vitality, the life. That’s how we are to live, with the Holy Spirit flowing through us producing fruit, food and healing.

Our lives should be a pouring out to others, a giving over of food and healing to those around us, never worrying about a lack for ourselves because the Lord produces a continual harvest.

If you’ve ever wondered if you were a second-class citizen as a Gentile, verse 22 tells us that the foreigners who have joined Israel (which we do in Christ), will be like the native-born. We all get to be Jews, God’s chosen children.