Exegetical and Hermeneutical Commentary of Ezekiel 39:22
So the house of Israel shall know that I [am] the LORD their God from that day and forward.
22. And Israel from that day will feel secure in the protection of Jehovah their God; all misgivings which the past might create will disappear, and they shall know that now Jehovah is indeed their God.
Fuente: The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges
Shall know that I am the Lord: see Eze 34:31.
From that day, from the day of Gogs signal destruction, forward, while time shall be.
Fuente: English Annotations on the Holy Bible by Matthew Poole
22. So the house of Israel shallknow . . . Lordby My interposition for them. So, too, theheathen shall be led to fear the name of the Lord (Ps102:15).
Fuente: Jamieson, Fausset and Brown’s Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible
So the house of Israel shall know that I am the Lord their God,…. That has chosen them, redeemed them, called them, manifested his covenant love and grace to them, and protected and defended them: this destruction of their enemies will be a proof of it; and they will hereby be led into a clearer knowledge of him, and of his goodness to them; and make a more firm and constant profession of him,
even from that day and forward, to the end of time; for after this the Jews will no more apostatize, but will for ever remain the people of God and Christ.
Fuente: John Gill’s Exposition of the Entire Bible
(22) The house of Israel shall know.The knowledge here spoken of is evidently practical, and is expressly declared to remain for ever. It can only be considered as realised, and that still but in germ, in the Christian Church.
Fuente: Ellicott’s Commentary for English Readers (Old and New Testaments)
Eze 39:22 So the house of Israel shall know that I [am] the LORD their God from that day and forward.
Ver. 22. From that day and forward. ] Their experience shall breed confidence.
Fuente: John Trapp’s Complete Commentary (Old and New Testaments)
God. Hebrew. Elohim. App-4.
Fuente: Companion Bible Notes, Appendices and Graphics
know: Eze 39:7, Eze 39:28, Eze 28:26, Eze 34:30, Psa 9:16, Jer 24:7, Jer 31:34, Joh 17:3, 1Jo 5:20
Reciprocal: Exo 7:5 – Egyptians Exo 16:12 – ye shall know Psa 79:10 – let him Isa 2:11 – in that day Isa 25:3 – General Jer 31:1 – will Jer 32:38 – General Eze 14:11 – that they Eze 16:62 – and thou Eze 30:25 – they shall know Eze 34:24 – I the Lord will Eze 37:6 – ye shall Eze 37:23 – they be Eze 39:13 – the day Joe 2:27 – that I Mal 1:5 – The Lord Heb 8:10 – I will be
Fuente: The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Eze 39:22. Once more the main object of all divine demonstrations is stated, which is that they shall know that I am the Lord.
Fuente: Combined Bible Commentary
Section 7 (Eze 39:22-29.)
The perfect completion of God’s ways with His people
{Verse 26. It is not bearing shame in the sense of outward disgrace, but as bearing the inward realization of unworthiness, into which they are brought by the manifestation of the goodness of Jehovah on their behalf. -(J. Bloore)}
The perfect completion of God’s holy ways in government with His people, and their establishment in full blessing, is now expressed as a fitting conclusion. First, the work of judgment confirms Israel beyond all question in the knowledge of Jehovah as their God. Secondly, it answers conclusively every question raised to profane Jehovah’s name because of Israel’s abject condition for the centuries of her dispersion. It was not because He was weak, unable to save, though it might appear so to the mocking eyes of unbelief. It was because He was holy, and must hide His face from them because of their iniquity. So He gave them into the hands of the adversaries, otherwise they could have had no power. This history read in the light of Gog’s judgment will witness to the righteousness and holiness of Jehovah to whom now all the earth must bow. It also becomes the lesson book for the restored nation (ver. 28), while none shall be left out of blessing, nor shall God’s face be anymore hid from them. The Sun of Righteousness has arisen, and in its perpetual shining they shall ever rejoice. Likewise shall we, when in the glory of Christ’s day we read the lesson book of life’s history, which the judgment-seat of Christ will enable us to interpret according to divine righteousness and holiness. What a blessed knowledge this will give us of the Holy and the True, while being then forever like Him no cloud shall ever come between us and the glorious shining of His face!
God is jealous of His holy name, He acts to vindicate it, and in this His people get their full blessing. How gloriously redemption accomplishes both -His glory and our blessing. And so with Israel in that day. But their dwelling securely as regathered will only give them a deeper realization of their shame and trespasses. The grace that restores and blesses writes more deeply upon the heart the failure of which we may be guilty than does the rod of judgment, which may leave of necessity a bleeding furrow. Thus shall the matchless glory of His presence, the perfect grace and kindness displayed in our being there, only make us read more deeply the awful meaning of sin, while we raise our anthem before the throne, “Unto Him that loveth us, and loosed us from our sins by His blood.”
The blessing of those Millennial days will be found through the outpoured Spirit (ver. 29). Whatever may be the difference in dispensation, He has always been the active Divine Agent of blessing. From the time of His brooding upon the face of the waters, He has wrought in loving ministry for the creature. For us the blessing is the highest because of His personal indwelling of every believer in the Lord Jesus Christ, and His baptism. of all such into one Body united to Christ in glory. Though this will not be true of Millennial days, and the presence and activity of the Spirit will then be after the order which the Old Testament makes known, yet it will be in greater fulness and with effects far more widespread than known in the days of old. It will be the glorious time of creation’s deliverance from its groan and its enjoyment of the liberty of the glory of the children of God (Rom 8:21).