Yes — according to Ezekiel 47, the Dead Sea will be healed and transformed from a lifeless salt sea into living waters teeming with fish.
Ezekiel 47:8 says the waters that issue out from Jerusalem toward the east country and go down into the desert will heal the Dead Sea when they reach it. Verse 9 says every living creature that moves will live wherever the river comes, and there will be a very great multitude of fish. Verse 10 says fishermen will stand on its shores from En Gedi to En Eglaim and spread their nets, with fish as numerous as those of the great sea. Les Feldick teaches that this will take place when God sets up His Kingdom at Christ's Second Coming.
Ezekiel 47:8 — States that the waters issuing toward the east country and down into the desert will heal the Dead Sea when they reach it.
Ezekiel 47:9 — Promises that every living creature will live wherever the river comes, along with a very great multitude of fish.
Ezekiel 47:10 — Describes fishermen standing from En Gedi to En Eglaim spreading nets, with fish like those of the great sea.
Zechariah 14:8 — Companion prophecy that living waters will go out from Jerusalem, half to the former sea and half to the hinder sea.
Ezekiel 47:8-10 describes a river that issues out from the temple area in Jerusalem toward the east country, goes down into the desert, and enters the Dead Sea. The text says that when these waters are brought into the sea, the waters shall be healed. Verse 9 adds that everything that lives and moves will live wherever the river comes, and there will be a very great multitude of fish because these waters come thither. Verse 10 then pictures fishermen standing on the shore from En Gedi to En Eglaim, spreading their nets, and catching fish according to their kinds, "as the fish of the great sea, exceeding many." Zechariah 14:8 likewise says that living waters will go out from Jerusalem, half toward the former sea (the Mediterranean) and half toward the hinder sea (the Dead Sea), in summer and in winter.
Les Feldick explains that Ezekiel 47 is a vision of a waterway running from the throne room in Jerusalem all the way to the Dead Sea. He emphasizes that the Dead Sea will be healed when these purifying waters arrive, and that it will no longer be a lifeless saltwater sea. Instead, it will become living water, filled with every species of fish that the Mediterranean has now. Les also points to En Gedi as a real village on the shores of the Dead Sea where fishermen will prophetically stand and spread their nets. Les states plainly that this cannot happen through man's technology; it will happen when God sets up His Kingdom at the Second Coming of Christ, and it is one of the effects of that Kingdom. He connects this transformation to the general conditions of the Kingdom era, where the curse is lifted and life flourishes.
Ezekiel 47:8 says the waters issue out toward the east country, go down into the desert, and go down into the Dead Sea. Les Feldick says this is a waterway running out from the throne room in Jerusalem all the way to the Dead Sea (Clip 6). Zechariah 14:8 adds that in that day living waters will go out from Jerusalem, half toward the former sea (the Mediterranean) and half toward the hinder sea (the Dead Sea), flowing in summer and winter (Clip 2).
Ezekiel 47:9 says there will be a very great multitude of fish because the waters shall be healed, and everything will live wherever the river comes. Verse 10 says their fish shall be according to their kinds, as the fish of the great sea — the Mediterranean — very many. Les Feldick summarizes this by saying the Dead Sea will have every species of fish that the Mediterranean has now, and will no longer be a saltwater sea (Clip 2). He also says fishermen will stand on its shores from En Gedi to En Eglaim and spread out their nets (Clips 1 and 7).
Les Feldick says this healing will take place when God sets up His Kingdom at His Second Coming. He says the Dead Sea is currently so filled with salt and minerals that nothing can live in it, but the purifying waters coming from the temple in Jerusalem will heal it (Clip 5). He also asks rhetorically whether man's technology could cause this, answering, "No way" — it will happen as an effect of the Kingdom (Clip 7).
Les connects the restored Dead Sea to the effects of the Kingdom. In the same way that the Kingdom will bring an easy life of tremendous food production without the curse (Clip 0), the Dead Sea will become a place of life and fishing as an effect of Kingdom rule (Clip 7). Ezekiel 47:10 shows fishermen spreading their nets along the shore — a dramatic reversal of the sea's present lifeless condition.
Kingdom Era of Abundance
Les describes the Kingdom as a time of intensive, easy food production with no curse, setting the context for the Dead Sea's restoration.
Fishermen at En Gedi
Les says fishermen will stand on the shores of the Dead Sea from En Gedi to En Eglaim, spreading their nets for fish as plentiful as those of the Mediterranean.
Living Waters from Jerusalem
Les says the Dead Sea will have every species of fish the Mediterranean has now, and will no longer be a saltwater sea but living water, citing Zechariah 14:8.
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There shall be a very great multitude of fish, because these waters shall come thither, for they shall be healed, and everything shall live, whither the river cometh. Now here it comes, "...and it shall come to pass, that the fishermen shall stand upon it..." That is the Dead Sea from En Gedi, all the way from En Gedi.
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"...and it shall be in that day," that is accompanying the return of Christ to the Mount of Olives, to the land of Israel, to the city of Jerusalem, "...it shall be in that day that living waters shall go out from Jerusalem, half of them to the former sea," the Mediterranean, "...and half of them toward the hinder sea," or the Dead Sea, "...in summer and in winter shall it be.
Healing of 'Putrid Waters'
Les explains that the Dead Sea is currently too salty and mineral-filled for anything to live, but purifying waters from the temple in Jerusalem will heal it so that everything lives wherever the river comes.
River from the Throne Room
Les shows from Ezekiel 47:8 that the waterway runs from the throne room in Jerusalem eastward into the desert and down into the Dead Sea, and that the waters shall be healed.
Kingdom Effect, Not Technology
Les says this transformation cannot happen through man's technology; it will occur when God sets up the Kingdom at His Second Coming, with fresh water from Jerusalem purifying 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 is the key verse showing that the Dead Sea will be healed when the river from Jerusalem reaches it.
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 verse promises that the Dead Sea will teem with life wherever the river flows, with a great multitude of fish.
Ezekiel 47:10: And it shall come to pass, that the fishers shall stand upon it from Engedi even unto Eneglaim; 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 verse pictures fishermen lining the healed shores of the Dead Sea from En Gedi to En Eglaim with nets full of abundant fish.
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 companion prophecy says living waters from Jerusalem will go half to the Mediterranean and half to the Dead Sea, helping explain the source of Ezekiel's river.
No. Les says the Dead Sea will no longer be a saltwater sea but will be living water, with every species of fish the Mediterranean has now. Ezekiel 47 says the waters shall be healed and everything will live wherever the river comes.
At Christ's Second Coming, when God sets up His Kingdom. Les says fresh water will go out from Jerusalem and purify the Dead Sea as one of the effects of the Kingdom.
En Gedi is a little village right on the shores of the Dead Sea, according to Les Feldick. Ezekiel 47:10 says fishermen will stand from En Gedi to En Eglaim spreading their nets.
Ezekiel 47:10 says their fish shall be according to their kinds, as the fish of the great sea (the Mediterranean), very many. Les says it will have every species of fish the Mediterranean has now.
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