Then said he unto me, These 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.
This cannot be literal water for washing sacrifices, that would make a sacred vision into a common sewer. These waters are the Gospel of Christ flowing out from Jerusalem, carrying the gifts and power of the Holy Ghost to spread and bless the world. Grace begun here becomes glory perfected hereafter.
AI summary
Commenting on Ezekiel 47:1-12
Then said he unto me,.... The man that measured the waters spoke to the prophet again, and showed him the course of the waters; the quickening and healing virtue of them, and the multitude of fish in them: these waters issue out toward the east country; the Gospel was first preached in the eastern parts of the world; See Gill on Eze 47:3, or "towards...
the desert--or "plain," Hebrew, Arabah (Deu 3:17; Deu 4:49; Jos 3:16), which is the name still given to the valley of the Jordan and the plain south of the Dead Sea, and extending to the Elanitic gulf of the Red Sea. the sea--the Dead Sea. "The sea" noted as covering with its waters the guilty cities of the plain, Sodom and Gomorrah.