Come, Follow Me — Old Testament 2026 · Part 45
11/8/2026
Come, Follow Me for November 2–8: from Sadako’s paper cranes to Ezekiel among the captives. When the city has fallen and hope is lost, the Lord is there.
Adapted from Brother Miller’s Notes
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Ezekiel 1–3; 33–34; 36–37; 47
Come, Follow Me · November 2–8, 2026
Hiroshima Orizuru Tower
Hiroshima, August 1945
The city was destroyed. Sadako Sasaki was two.
February 1955
At twelve, Sadako fell ill with leukaemia.
August 1955
She folded a thousand cranes, and kept folding.
October 25, 1955
Sadako died. She was twelve.
What came after
Her classmates built a monument. Ten million cranes come every year.
Hiroshima
A broken city found hope in a girl’s paper cranes.
Ezekiel 33
Jerusalem has fallen. Ezekiel’s people are captives in Babylon.
Ezekiel 33:21That one that had escaped out of Jerusalem came unto me, saying, The city is smitten.
Ezekiel’s calling
Give hope to a broken people.
Ezekiel 1
The glory of the Lord came to them in Babylon.
Ezekiel 1:28This was the appearance of the likeness of the glory of the Lord. And when I saw it, I fell upon my face,
Ezekiel 3:15Then I came to them of the captivity at Tel-abib, that dwelt by the river of Chebar, and I sat where they sat, and remained there astonished among them seven days.
Ezekiel 3:15
He sat where they sat.
Ezekiel 34:11For thus saith the Lord God; Behold, I, even I, will both search my sheep, and seek them out.
Ezekiel 34:16I will seek that which was lost, and bring again that which was driven away, and will bind up that which was broken, and will strengthen that which was sick:
Gerrit W. Gong · Ministering, 2023In many places, we can reach out, understand others where they are, and build relationships when we regularly visit members in their homes.
Discuss
When has someone sat where you sat?
Where that lands
He comes to where his sheep are.
Ezekiel 33:10If our transgressions and our sins be upon us, and we pine away in them, how should we then live?
Ezekiel 33:11As I live, saith the Lord God, I have no pleasure in the death of the wicked; but that the wicked turn from his way and live:
Ezekiel 36:26A new heart also will I give you, and a new spirit will I put within you:
Ezekiel 36:26 (continued)And I will take away the stony heart out of your flesh, and I will give you an heart of flesh.
Ezekiel 37
A valley full of bones.
Ezekiel 37:11Behold, they say, Our bones are dried, and our hope is lost: we are cut off for our parts.
Our hope is lost
Hiroshima could have said the same in 1945.
Ezekiel 37:5Thus saith the Lord God unto these bones; Behold, I will cause breath to enter into you, and ye shall live:
Discuss
When has the Lord breathed hope back into you?
Ezekiel 37:16
Two sticks: one for Judah, one for Joseph.
Ezekiel 37:17And join them one to another into one stick; and they shall become one in thine hand.
Boyd K. Packer · Scriptures, 1982As you pore over one you are drawn to the other; as you learn from one you are enlightened by the other. They are indeed one in our hands.
Ezekiel 47
Water flows from the temple down to the Dead Sea.
Ezekiel 47:1Behold, waters issued out from under the threshold of the house eastward:
The Dead Sea
So salty that fish and plants can’t live in it.
Ezekiel 47:8These 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.
Ezekiel 47:9And every thing shall live whither the river cometh.
Hiroshima, 1945
Nothing would grow there for seventy-five years, they said.
740 m from the hypocenter. This eucalyptus survived.
Ezekiel 47:12And by the river upon the bank thereof, on this side and on that side, shall grow all trees for meat, whose leaf shall not fade,
Ezekiel 47:12 (continued)Because their waters they issued out of the sanctuary: and the fruit thereof shall be for meat, and the leaf thereof for medicine.
Dale G. Renlund · Family History and Temple Work: Sealing and Healing, 2018The river renewed everything that it touched. The blessings of the temple likewise have a stunning capacity to heal. Temple blessings can heal hearts and lives and families.
Discuss
How can the temple heal you?
Where that lands
Everything lives where his river comes.
The Dome, kept as it was. A city of a million around it.
Ezekiel 48:35And the name of the city from that day shall be, The Lord is there.
To take home
Wherever his people are broken, the Lord is there.
