This verse is often misinterpreted as a literal geographical prediction of a physical river appearing today from Jerusalem's temple mount that heals the Dead Sea, ignoring its visionary and symbolic nature tied to Ezekiel's temple prophecy; others allegorize it solely as personal spiritual growth or baptismal immersion without the broader context of restoration and eschatological renewal, or apply it to modern faith healing pools, detached from the temple's role in divine outpouring.
Ezekiel 47:3
King James Version (1769)
3 And when the man that had the line in his hand went forth eastward, he measured a thousand cubits, and he brought me through the waters; the waters were to the ankles.
Ezekiel 47:3 describes the initial stage in a prophetic vision of a miraculous river flowing eastward from the future temple, where a measuring man leads the prophet through waters reaching only his ankles after a thousand cubits, symbolizing the gradual deepening of God's life-giving presence and blessings that start small but grow to transform barrenness into abundance, healing the sea and producing fruitful vegetation along its banks in the millennial kingdom.