Yes, the Dead Sea will be dramatically transformed from a lifeless saltwater sea into living, fish-filled waters during God's kingdom.
Zechariah 14:8 says living waters will go out from Jerusalem in summer and winter, half toward the Mediterranean and half toward the Dead Sea. Ezekiel 47 adds that the Dead Sea's waters will be healed, and every living thing will live wherever the river comes. Les Feldick teaches this occurs when God sets up His kingdom at Christ's second coming, not through human engineering.
Zechariah 14:8 — This verse directly promises living waters flowing from Jerusalem to both the Mediterranean and the Dead Sea.
Ezekiel 47:8 — This verse says the Dead Sea's waters will be healed when the waters from the temple area enter it.
Ezekiel 47:9-10 — These verses describe the Dead Sea becoming full of fish and fishermen spreading nets from En-gedi to En-eglaim.
Zechariah 14:8 declares that in that day living waters shall go out from Jerusalem, half toward the former sea and half toward the hinder sea, in summer and in winter. Ezekiel 47:8-10 describes the result: the waters coming into the Dead Sea shall heal it, everything that liveth and moveth where the river comes shall live, and there will be a very great multitude of fish. The text specifically says fishermen will stand on the Dead Sea's shores from En-gedi even unto En-eglaim, spreading their nets, and the fish will be according to their kinds, as the fish of the great sea, exceeding many.
Les Feldick teaches that the Dead Sea's transformation is a kingdom reality following Christ's second coming. He identifies the 'former sea' in Zechariah 14:8 as the Mediterranean and the 'hinder sea' as the Dead Sea. He says living waters will go out from Jerusalem in summer and winter, flowing from the throne room in Jerusalem to the Mediterranean and down to the Dead Sea, making it no longer a saltwater sea but living water. Les emphasizes that this will not be done by man's technology or the proposed Mediterranean–Dead Sea canal. God will do it in a moment of time at His second coming. He points to Ezekiel 47:10 as proof that the Dead Sea will become a place where fishermen spread their nets from En Gedi to En Eglaim, with fish according to their kinds, just like the Mediterranean. For Les, this healed and living Dead Sea is one of the visible effects of God's glorious kingdom, when the Lord shall be king over all the earth.
In Zechariah 14:8, Les Feldick identifies the 'hinder sea' as the Dead Sea. He says he knows it is the Dead Sea because of the healing of its putrid waters, which are so filled with salt and minerals that nothing can live in it. Ezekiel 47:8 also says the waters go down into the desert and into the sea, which Les connects directly to the Dead Sea.
The healing will happen when God sets up His kingdom at Christ's second coming. Les says the very day the Lord returns to the Mount of Olives, living waters will go out from Jerusalem. He contrasts God's instant, miraculous work with the costly canal project that engineers are planning between the Mediterranean and the Dead Sea.
The Dead Sea will no longer be a saltwater sea; it will be living water. Ezekiel 47:10 pictures fishermen standing on its shores from En Gedi to En Eglaim, spreading their nets, with fish as plentiful as those in the Mediterranean. Every living thing that moves where the river comes will live.
The Stone Kingdom Fills the Earth
Les uses Daniel 2's stone kingdom to show that Messiah's kingdom will fill the whole earth, providing the kingdom-wide context for the Dead Sea's healing.
Living Waters From Jerusalem
Les identifies the 'former sea' as the Mediterranean and the 'hinder sea' as the Dead Sea, and says Ezekiel says the Dead Sea will have every species of fish the Mediterranean has.
Fishermen at the Dead Sea
Les reads Ezekiel 47:10 about fishermen spreading nets at the Dead Sea and says this will happen when God sets up His kingdom at His second coming.
The Dead Sea's Waters Healed
Les reads Ezekiel 47:8 and emphasizes that the Dead Sea's waters will be healed and everything living will live wherever the river comes.
En Gedi to En Eglaim
Les points to the real village of En Gedi on the Dead Sea's shore and says fishermen will stand there prophetically with fish like the Mediterranean's.
Why the Dead Sea Is Identified
Les explains that the Dead Sea's putrid, salt-filled, lifeless waters are exactly what Ezekiel 47 describes being healed by purifying waters from the temple.
God's Instant Miracle vs. Man's Canal
Les contrasts man's costly Mediterranean–Dead Sea canal plans with God doing it in a moment at His second coming, and ties it to the Lord becoming king over all the earth.
A Tremendous, Glorious Kingdom Effect
Les repeats the prophecy of fishermen at the Dead Sea from En Gedi to En Eglaim and calls it one of the things that will happen in bringing about the glorious kingdom.
Zechariah 14:8: And it shall be in that day, that living waters shall go out from Jerusalem; half of them toward the former sea, and half of them toward the hinder sea: in summer and in winter shall it be.
This is the foundational promise that living waters will flow from Jerusalem to both the Mediterranean and the Dead Sea.
Ezekiel 47:8: Then said he unto me, These waters issue out toward the east country, and go down into the desert, and go into the sea: which being brought forth into the sea, the waters shall be healed.
This describes the river reaching the Dead Sea and healing its waters.
Ezekiel 47:9: And it shall come to pass, that every thing that liveth, which moveth, whithersoever the rivers shall come, shall live: and there shall be a very great multitude of fish, because these waters shall come thither: for they shall be healed; and every thing shall live whither the river cometh.
This promises life and abundant fish wherever the healing waters flow.
Ezekiel 47:10: And it shall come to pass, that the fishers shall stand upon it from En-gedi even unto En-eglaim; they shall be a place to spread forth nets; their fish shall be according to their kinds, as the fish of the great sea, exceeding many.
This gives the specific picture of fishermen spreading nets on the healed Dead Sea's shores.
No. Ezekiel 47:8-9 says the waters of the Dead Sea will be healed when the river from the temple enters it. Les Feldick points out that it will no longer be a saltwater sea but living water.
At Christ's second coming when God sets up His kingdom. Ezekiel 47:10 pictures fishermen spreading nets from En-gedi to En-eglaim, and Les says this is one of the effects of that kingdom.
From Jerusalem. Zechariah 14:8 says living waters will go out from Jerusalem, and Les describes a river flowing from the throne room in Jerusalem to both the Mediterranean and the Dead Sea.
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