Breath. God tells Ezekiel to prophesy directly to the "breath". Breath and body are two different things. You can have the body, but without the "breath" the body is just bones, tendons, and muscles. What is the "breath"? In the beginning Adam is given the breath of life (Genesis 2:7). Jesus was given the breath of life at birth and took his last breath at death (Matthew 27) and had breath again at the resurrection. There is something to this "breath" thing…
Could this also be a vision of the "Resurrection of the Saints"?
