Exegetical and Hermeneutical Commentary of Ezekiel 39:27
When I have brought them again from the people, and gathered them out of their enemies’ lands, and am sanctified in them in the sight of many nations;
27. The verse is closely connected with the preceding: none maketh them afraid; when I have brought and have been sanctified in (or, through) them. Cf. Eze 36:23-24, Eze 38:16. For people, peoples. Verse 27. When I have – gathered them] Antiochus had before captured many of the Jews, and sold them for slaves; see Da 11:33. When I have brought them: see the phrase Eze 28:25. The persons here are not the two tribes only, but the ten with them, as Eze 39:25. Out of their enemies lands; wherever they were, they were among enemies, out of their own country. Sanctified; by their accepting punishment, repenting for sin, loathing their former ways, and themselves for them, acknowledging God to be holy, his law holy, and his worship holy, and engaging themselves in covenant of perpetual obedience to God, and keeping it; by these things God will be sanctified among the Israelites, and in sight of the nations, when they see the furnace hath purified them. 27. sanctified in themvindicatedas holy in My dealings with them. When I have brought them again from the people,…. That is, then shall they be ashamed, and repent of all their trespasses and sins:
and gathered them out of their enemies lands; from the provinces of their enemies, as the Targum; when they are collected together in a body out of each of the nations where they are now dispersed, and brought to their own land:
and am sanctified in them in the sight of many nations; when they shall publicly repent of their sins, and forsake them, and seek the Lord their God, and the King Messiah, and embrace and profess him, and acknowledge that God has been righteous and holy in all his dispensations towards them.
27-29. When the new Israel shall be brought back from their captivity among the “peoples” (Eze 39:25; Eze 39:27), filled with the new spirit of shame for their past sins and with a joy in God’s presence which makes them forget their dismal past (Eze 39:26), and “shall dwell securely” in their own land, where none “shall make them afraid” (Eze 39:26, R.V.), and thus Jehovah shall have been sanctified in them (Eze 39:27; Eze 20:41; Eze 36:20; Eze 36:23-24) then shall they know as never before “that I am the Lord their God, in that I caused them to go into captivity and have gathered them and will leave none of them, neither will I hide my face [compare Eze 39:23; Isa 54:8 ] for I have poured out my spirit.” (Compare Eze 36:25-31; Eze 37:14; Isa 59:21; Joe 2:28.) “No historical Church, Jewish or Gentile, has ever yet realized the picture here sketched by Ezekiel. Will it ever be realized on earth? or must we only look for it in the heavenly city, whose Builder and Maker is God?” Plumptre. If the conflict (chapter 38) is to be on this earth, as it surely will be, then the victory and the peace which follows must also be looked for here. The promise is to be fulfilled truly, though not literally. (See introduction chapter Ezekiel 40) It has already received a partial fulfillment (compare Joe 2:28; Act 2:17); yet the foes of the new Israel, the true children of Abraham (Luk 3:8; Joh 8:39; Gal 3:7; Gal 3:9; Gal 3:29), are still active, and Gog the Old Testament “Antichrist” if indeed he has yet put on his armor, has certainly not yet been left dead upon the field. It must always be borne in mind that it is not a literal conflict described in this chapter between men armed with bows and arrows who shall be killed by bolts of lightning, but a spiritual battle between God’s people and the powers of evil. Like Bunyan’s Pilgrim’s Progress, it depicts figuratively that which is everlastingly true, and what may perhaps be often repeated in different individuals and in different ages.
Eze 39:27 When I have brought them again from the people, and gathered them out of their enemies’ lands, and am sanctified in them in the sight of many nations;
Ver. 27. And am sanctified in them, ] i.e., Have fully shown my sanctity and majesty, both by their punishment and by their deliverance.
When. Another mark of time.
I have: Eze 39:25, Eze 28:25, Eze 28:26
and am: Eze 39:13, Eze 36:23, Eze 36:24, Eze 38:16, Eze 38:23, Lev 10:3, Isa 5:16
Reciprocal: Psa 107:3 – gathered Psa 147:2 – he Isa 52:6 – my people Isa 64:2 – to make Jer 12:14 – and pluck Jer 23:3 – General Jer 30:3 – and I Eze 11:17 – General Eze 20:41 – and I will Eze 34:13 – I will bring Eze 36:36 – know Eze 38:8 – into the land
Eze 39:27. God promised to bring his people out of the enemies’ lands.
Eze 39:27-28. When I have brought them again from the people
According to my promises; and gathered them out of their enemies lands Wherever they were scattered; and am sanctified in them By their patiently accepting punishment, repenting of sin, loathing their former ways, and themselves on account of them, acknowledging me to be holy, just, and good, and dedicating themselves unreservedly to my service; when I am thus sanctified among them, and in the sight of the nations who shall see that the furnace has purified them; then shall they know On the fullest experience and clearest evidence; that I am the Lord their God And that I have never ceased to exercise a paternal care over them; and in all my chastisements of them, as well as my benefits conferred on them, have had their good in view: see notes on Eze 39:22, and Eze 34:30. Observe, reader, by the variety of events through which God brings us in the course of his providence, if we look up to him in them all, we shall become better acquainted, both with his divine perfections, and his various designs in all his dispensations toward us.
When God would bring the Israelites back into the land the other nations of the world would recognize that He was different from all other gods. Also Israel would acknowledge Yahweh as her God. She would see what God had done in sending her out of the land for her sin and bringing her back permanently by His grace.
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