firmly believed, … the sacred writings, which are able to make you wise for salvation through faith in Christ Jesus” (2 Tim. 3:14–15). Paul added that God’s outbreathed Word is “profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, and for training in righteousness” (3:16). This was God’s command to Ezekiel when that faithful prophet was summoned to minister in the Valley of Dry Bones. Facing a grisly scene of decomposed bodies—symbolic of the situation in Sardis and many other places—God told the