We're simply listing these as we go through the overview phase and as we think of them during discussions.

1. Timing of Gog/Magog invasion.
2. Placement of New Jerusalem.
3. Rulership of David during millennium.
4. Country of antichrist’s origin.
5. Various resurrections.
6. Physicality of the rapture.
7. Location of battles during the last conflict of Armageddon.
8. Nature of millennium for resurrected believers and others.
9. Physical changes that occur in Israel and the rest of the planet during the millennium.
10. Design of Jerusalem and Temple during the millennium.
11. Babylon in Revelation: religious and economic, or one and the same?
12. Where will the antichrist rule from (what city)?

NOTE:  this document is not yet finished (in-progress).  More will be added to the end, where the rest of the original question(s) will be answered.

Research Question:

How do we know that the Ezekiel 37 “Dry Bones” prophecy refers to the current re-establishment of Israel in her land?  Why, for instance, could it not refer to a spiritual awakening for Israel?  Or, for another example, why could it not be an analogy for the church’s revival?

Let’s begin from the last two questions, and then work our way back to the first.

A.  Analogy for church or really a reference to Israel?

Not the church because:

1. The church does not receive a reference, or an allusion, even one time in the entire prophecy.  (application of the hermeneutic principle of specific reference)
2. Nowhere in the NT does an author reference this passage as an illustration for a re-awakening church.  In the specific texts given by Jesus Himself in Revelation chapters 2-3, where we would expect to see such references, we do not.  (application of the hermeneutic principle of larger context)
3. As Ezekiel chapter 37 is within the context of the entire prophecy given in chapters 35-39, there is no reference to the church or a spiritualized version of Israel present in those chapters. (application of the hermeneutic principle of immediate context)  Dr. Charles Ryrie, and other commentators, suggest an outline to these chapters that follows something like this: (1) 35:1-36:38 focuses on the Rebirth of the Nation of Israel, (2) 37:1-14 focuses on the Resuscitation of the Nation of Israel, (3) 37:15-28 focuses on the Reuniting of the Nation of Israel, (4) 38:1-39:29 focuses on the Victory of the Nation over Gog and Magog.
4. God provides a specific symbol-figure equivalent (SFE) as to who the great company of dry bone are:  “Son of man,” said God, “these bones are the whole house of Israel” (37:11,NIV) (application of the hermeneutic principle of specific reference in the context).  SFEs are particular helpful in interpreting prophecy because they provide specific keys to understanding the text.

Conclusion:  it is a reference to the literal nation of Israel, and we may exclude a spiritualized interpretation of a reference to the Church.

B.  Is it to be understood as a spiritual awakening of Israel or a literal re-establishment of the nation?

1. While a good question, it presumes what we call a false dichotomy.  A false dichotomy is incorrectly dividing something into two parts, creating an either-or decision point.  The prophecy may, in fact, be both a re-establishment of the nation of Israel and a spiritual awakening, although not concurrent events but progressive ones.  Let’s look at the text for clues.

The text we referenced above is a great place to start, since it is followed by an excellent summary of the entire prophecy: 

Eze 37:11  And He said to me, Son of man, these bones are the whole house of Israel. Behold, they say, Our bones are dried and our hope is lost; we are cut off by ourselves.

Eze 37:12  Therefore prophesy and say to them, So says the Lord Jehovah: Behold, O My people, I will open your graves and cause you to come up out of your graves, and will bring you into the land of Israel.

Eze 37:13  And you shall know that I am Jehovah when I have opened your graves, O My people, and have brought you up out of your graves.

Eze 37:14  And I shall put My Spirit in you, and you shall live, and I will place you in your own land. And you shall know that I Jehovah have spoken and have done it, says Jehovah.  (MKJV)

Observations and Interpretations:

1. The bones are the whole house of Israel, meaning they have been lifeless for many, many years. 
2. This condition has been the case for so long that their hope has been lost.
3. God will cause a great resurrection of the bones, bringing them out of their graves.
4. God will cause them to return to their land, the real estate known as Israel.
5. This event will, eventually, lead them to recognize God’s hand of blessing on them; the miracle of their re-establishment will lead them to look toward their God once more.
6. This event will ultimately lead to God putting His Spirit within them.  He says, “you shall live,” which clearly implies that while their structure, the bones, have been resurrected, the Spirit of life has not yet come into them to give them spiritual life.  We know elsewhere that the Scripture teaches that the body without the spirit is dead (James 2:26), so we may interpret this as being a spiritually dead body of people, a nation of people who do not yet possess personal faith in Jesus as their long-awaited Messiah.
7. We see that this revival of Israel is a process, something that begins at one point, and through the various stages of bone-to-bone, then flesh-to-bone, and finally life-in-the-body, the house of Israel is brought back to life after having been “dead” for centuries.
8. The ultimate purpose of this event is the recognition of Jehovah God.

Conclusions:

Is it a physical reawakening?  Yes.

Is it a spiritual reawakening?  Yes.

Are they concurrent (that is, happening at the same time)?  Not at first, but later they are.

Which happens first?  The physical re-establishment.

C.  Has this re-establishment of Israel begun yet?

One commentator writes about it this way:

I call the regathering of five million Jews back to the Holy Land and their becoming a nation in our generation “the infallible sign” of the approach of the end times.  To fully see its significance you must first understand that the regathering of the nation, exactly as the prophets foretold, can be understood only in light of the fact that the Jews exist at all.  Never has a nation been able to maintain its national identity, even three to five hundred years after being removed from its homeland – until Israel.

   Today you will look in vain for descendants of the Hittite nation, the Assyrian nation, and the Babylonian nation, although all were major powers in the ancient world.  In fact, were it not for the Bible, the Hittites would never have been remembered by history, so far into the sands of time had they sunk.  At one time scoffers used to ridicule the Bible for even mentioning the Hittites; it was thought they were fictional.  But archaeologists in the nineteenth century eventually confirmed the accuracy of Scripture when they uncovered irrefutable evidence of the extensive Hittite Empire.  Still, you won’t find any Hittites today. Nor will you meet any Assyrians or Babylonians.  All of these proud peoples have disappeared forever.  They are extinct.  (LaHaye & Jenkins, Are We Living In the End Times?, 1999, Tyndale House Publishers, Inc.: Wheaton, IL., pp. 47-48)

Ever since the Jews were driven out of Israel in 135 AD, they have been scattered across the planet.  Yet throughout all that time they Jews maintained their distinct identity as a people.