Yes—the Dead Sea will be healed and become a living sea full of fish in the future kingdom.
Zechariah 14:8 promises living waters from Jerusalem, half going toward the Dead Sea, and Ezekiel 47 describes the waters healing the Dead Sea. Les Feldick teaches this will happen at Christ's Second Coming when God sets up His kingdom on earth.
Zechariah 14:8 — This is the core promise that living waters will go out from Jerusalem, with half toward the Dead Sea, in summer and winter.
Ezekiel 47:8-10 — This explicitly describes the healing of the Dead Sea and the fish and fishermen that will follow.
Zechariah 14:8 promises that in that day living waters will go out from Jerusalem. Half will flow toward the former sea and half toward the hinder sea, which is the Dead Sea, and this flow continues in summer and in winter. Verse 9 adds that in that day the LORD shall be king over all the earth. Ezekiel 47:8-10 expands this picture. The waters go down into the desert and into the sea, and the waters shall be healed. Everything that liveth, which moveth, whithersoever the rivers shall come, shall live. There will be a very great multitude of fish, and fishermen shall stand on the Dead Sea from En-gedi even unto En-eglaim to spread their nets. Their fish will be according to their kinds, as the fish of the great sea, exceeding many.
Les Feldick sees these passages as describing a literal future kingdom on earth. He identifies the former sea in Zechariah 14:8 as the Mediterranean and the hinder sea as the Dead Sea. The living waters will flow from the throne room in Jerusalem, reach the Mediterranean, and go down to the Dead Sea, and he thinks the river may even continue toward the Persian Gulf or Red Sea. This flow will continue through both summer and winter. He teaches that the Dead Sea—presently so filled with salt and minerals that nothing can live in it—will be completely changed. It will no longer be a saltwater sea but living water, with every species of fish the Mediterranean now has. Ezekiel 47:10 is fulfilled literally: fishermen will stand on the shores of the Dead Sea from En Gedi to En Aglaim and spread their nets. Les places this in the kingdom God sets up at Christ's Second Coming, connected with His return to the Mount of Olives, Jerusalem, and the land of Israel. He notes that God will do this in a moment of time, unlike the human plans for a canal between the Mediterranean and the Dead Sea, and that in that day the Lord shall be king over all the earth.
Zechariah 14:8 says living waters will go out from Jerusalem, half to the former sea (the Mediterranean) and half to the hinder sea (the Dead Sea), and it will flow in summer and winter. Verse 9 says the LORD shall be king over all the earth in that day.
Ezekiel 47:8 says the waters entering the sea will heal it. Verse 9 says everything that liveth, which moveth, whithersoever the rivers shall come, shall live. Les emphasizes the present Dead Sea is so filled with salt and minerals that nothing can live in it, but the purifying waters from the temple will change it.
Ezekiel 47:10 says fishermen will stand from En-gedi to En-eglaim and spread their nets, and their fish will be like the fish of the great sea, exceeding many. Les identifies the great sea as the Mediterranean, so the Dead Sea will have every species of fish the Mediterranean now has.
Les places this at Christ's Second Coming, when He returns to the Mount of Olives, Jerusalem, and the land of Israel, and God sets up His Kingdom. He contrasts this with engineers' plans for a canal; God will do it in a moment of time.
Daniel 2 Explained: The Stone Kingdom That Fills the Earth
death, no curse, that makes it what? Spiritual. So the kingdom is all three wrapped up together, but it's still the one and only kingdom. All right, now then if you'll come back to Daniel with me. So as Christ the stone smites all these metals that make up this image, beginning with the feet, and they become like the dust or the chaff of a threshing floor that the wind can just blow away.
Living Waters Split at Jerusalem
Les identifies the former sea as the Mediterranean and the hinder sea as the Dead Sea, and explains that Ezekiel promises the Dead Sea will have every species of fish now found in the Mediterranean.
Fishermen at En Gedi to En Aglaim
Les applies Ezekiel 47:10 literally to the Dead Sea, saying fishermen will spread nets from En Gedi to En Aglaim when God sets up the Kingdom at the Second Coming.
The Dead Sea Waters Healed
Les reads Ezekiel 47:8-9 and shows that the waters from the temple area will heal the Dead Sea and bring a very great multitude of fish.
The Dead Sea Alive with Fish
Les underscores that the Dead Sea will be 'made alive' and supports this by pointing to the future fishermen at En Gedi and their nets full of Mediterranean-like fish.
Purifying Waters from the Temple
Les contrasts the present Dead Sea—so salty and mineral-filled that nothing can live in it—with the future purifying waters from the temple in Jerusalem.
God's Moment-of-Time Miracle
Les contrasts God's future moment-of-time healing with human canal plans, connecting the river to the Mediterranean and Dead Sea and to the Lord's kingship over all the earth.
Fishers Spread Their Nets
Les reiterates that fishermen will stand on the shores of the healed Dead Sea from En Gedi to En Aglaim, with fish like those of the great sea.
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 direct promise that living waters will reach the Dead Sea in the future kingdom.
Zechariah 14:9: And the LORD shall be king over all the earth: in that day shall there be one LORD, and his name one.
This places the Dead Sea healing in the day of the Lord's worldwide reign.
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 explicitly says that the waters entering the Dead Sea will heal 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 shows the result: living creatures and a great multitude of fish wherever the river goes.
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.
Fishermen on the Dead Sea's shores prove it will sustain fish like the Mediterranean.
No. Ezekiel 47:8 says the waters shall be healed, and Les teaches it will become living water rather than a saltwater sea. It will hold the same fish as the Mediterranean.
Zechariah 14:8 says living waters go out from Jerusalem, half toward the Dead Sea. Ezekiel 47 also describes waters from the temple area. Les says the river comes from the throne room in Jerusalem.
According to Zechariah 14 and Les's teaching, it happens in that day accompanying Christ's return to the Mount of Olives and Israel, when the Lord sets up His kingdom. The LORD shall be king over all the earth.
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