Breath comes from the four winds to give life to the bones. 

Ezekiel 37:9-10

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“Also He said to me, “Prophesy to the breath, prophesy, son of man, and say to the breath, ‘Thus says the Lord God: “Come from the four winds, O breath, and breathe on these slain, that they may live. So I prophesied as He commanded me, and breath came into them, and they lived, and stood upon their feet, an exceedingly great army.”’” Ezekiel 37:9-10

The prophecy was that the breath of life would come from the “four winds”, which refers to every direction from around the world. That prophecy was fulfilled when from all around the world, life was breathed into the Jewish people to motivate them to migrate to the newly established State of Israel in 1948. They lived as a nation, stood on their feet as an independent state in the world, and their numbers multiplied as a Jewish nation. They went from zero population as a Jewish nation between 70AD to 1948 to millions after they migrated to the State of Israel. However, they will not be gathered into the New Jerusalem from the “four winds”.

Since the coming of Jesus Christ, all of the prophecies of blessings meant for the Jewish people in the Old Testament have been transferred to those who live for God through Jesus Christ. There are no blessings for the Jewish people in the New Testament, unless they come to God through Jesus Christ and receive the Holy Spirit.

The Holy Spirit speaks to us through the Old Testament of how Christians (the younger) receive the blessings of the Jewish people (the older). There is Jacob who received Esau’s blessing, Genesis 27. Before that, there was Able who received Cain’s blessing, Genesis 4:1-9. There was Zerah who received Perez’s blessing, Genesis 38:27-30. There was Ephraim who received Manasseh’s blessing, Genesis 48:8-20. And there was Moses who became God’s leader and not his older brother Aaron, Exodus 7:7. This is known as the “scarlet cord” that points to Jesus Christ as the Messiah, whom the first-born Jewish people rejected, but the younger Christianity receives.

We who live for God though Jesus Christ will receive the breath of life to resurrect us from everywhere around the world. We will enter into the eternal New Jerusalem like the numbers of an exceedingly great army. The “sons of the Kingdom”, referring to the Jewish people will be cast out into outer darkness, “And I say to you that many will come from east and west, and sit down with Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob in the kingdom of heaven. But the sons of the kingdom will be cast out into outer darkness. There will be weeping and gnashing of teeth.” Matthew 8:11-12

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“….to you who do not hold to her teaching and have not learned Satan’s so-called deep secrets,“
‘I will not impose any other burden on you, except to hold on to what you have until I come.’”
“I am coming soon. Hold on to what you have, so that no one will take your crown.”
Revelation 2:24-25, 3:1