Ezekiel 47:1
“The man brought me back to the entrance to the temple, and I saw water coming out from under the threshold of the temple toward the east... wherever the river flows everything will live.”
King James Version
Fulfillment References
Revelation 22:1-2 Zechariah 14:8 John 7:37-39
How Traditions Read This Prophecy
JewishThe Millennial temple from which life-giving water flows — still future.
CatholicTypologically fulfilled in the Spirit flowing from Christ; fully in Revelation 22.
ProtestantRevelation 22:1-2 draws directly on this imagery for the New Jerusalem.
DispensationalLiteral river from the Millennial temple in Jerusalem healing the Dead Sea.
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