Well, my friend, the unity is a vision that a lot of people have in their mind or in the souls. The Scriptures speak about unity in the book of Genesis, when the people that lived together in the land of Shinar, they settled with the same language and the same culture and had the same idea, to build a city and a tower in order to become famous (The expression that is written there is to make our self a name).This is one way to get a unity, a way that The Lord didn’t like because the people probably was too much arrogant and bragging.

The other way, that we are going to speak about today, is the way of Ezekiel, the prophet who saw the carriage of God, the prophet who gave us the vision of the dry bones, and the prophet who gave us the vision of the two tress become a one as written in Ezekiel 37:15-20 –

” וַיְהִי דְבַר-יְהוָה, אֵלַי לֵאמֹר וְאַתָּה בֶן-אָדָם, קַח-לְךָ עֵץ אֶחָד, וּכְתֹב עָלָיו לִיהוּדָה, וְלִבְנֵי יִשְׂרָאֵל חֲבֵרָו; וּלְקַח, עֵץ אֶחָד, וּכְתוֹב עָלָיו לְיוֹסֵף עֵץ אֶפְרַיִם, וְכָל-בֵּית יִשְׂרָאֵל חֲבֵרָו.  וְקָרַב אֹתָם אֶחָד אֶל-אֶחָד, לְךָ–לְעֵץ אֶחָד; וְהָיוּ לַאֲחָדִים, בְּיָדֶךָ.  וְכַאֲשֶׁר יֹאמְרוּ אֵלֶיךָ, בְּנֵי עַמְּךָ לֵאמֹר:  הֲלוֹא-תַגִּיד לָנוּ, מָה-אֵלֶּה לָּךְ.  דַּבֵּר אֲלֵהֶם, כֹּה-אָמַר אֲדֹנָי יְהוִה, הִנֵּה אֲנִי לֹקֵחַ אֶת-עֵץ יוֹסֵף אֲשֶׁר בְּיַד-אֶפְרַיִם, וְשִׁבְטֵי יִשְׂרָאֵל חֲבֵרָו; וְנָתַתִּי אוֹתָם עָלָיו אֶת-עֵץ יְהוּדָה, וַעֲשִׂיתִם לְעֵץ אֶחָד, וְהָיוּ אֶחָד, בְּיָדִי.  וְהָיוּ הָעֵצִים אֲשֶׁר-תִּכְתֹּב עֲלֵיהֶם, בְּיָדְךָ—לְעֵינֵיהֶם”

“The word of the LORD came to me:”Son of man, take a stick of wood and write on it, ‘Belonging to Judah and the Israelites associated with him.’ Then take another stick of wood, and write on it, ‘Ephraim’s stick, belonging to Joseph and all the house of Israel associated with him.’ Join them together into one stick so that they will become one in your hand. “When your countrymen ask you, ‘Won’t you tell us what you mean by this? say to them, ‘This is what the Sovereign LORD says: I am going to take the stick of Joseph—which is in Ephraim’s hand—and of the Israelite tribes associated with him, and join it to Judah’s stick, making them a single stick of wood, and they will become one in my hand.’ Hold before their eyes the sticks you have written on”

The vision speaks about the kingdoms of Israel and Judah, represented by a tree and the two trees in a miracle becomes a one. The new one is one king, one rule, one place to live and the idea of the unity is clear. When I am reading this verses every time , I think to myself , why the prophecy of the two becomes one couldn’t be like this : there are a lot of trees in the forest and in the end all the forest becomes to one tree the represent all the unity that we can wish for. Every tree must have the uniqueness, but all the trees in the forest can live together in harmony and peace- that is my wish for the close future!

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