Ezekiel 5:13 (ESV)
“Thus shall my anger spend itself, and I will vent my fury upon them and satisfy myself. And they shall know that I am the LORD—that I have spoken in my jealousy—when I spend my fury upon them.
Ezekiel 6:7 (ESV)
And the slain shall fall in your midst, and you shall know that I am the LORD.
Ezekiel 6:10 (ESV)
And they shall know that I am the LORD. I have not said in vain that I would do this evil to them.”
Ezekiel 6:13 (ESV)
And you shall know that I am the LORD, when their slain lie among their idols around their altars, on every high hill, on all the mountaintops, under every green tree, and under every leafy oak, wherever they offered pleasing aroma to all their idols.
Ezekiel 6:14 (ESV)
And I will stretch out my hand against them and make the land desolate and waste, in all their dwelling places, from the wilderness to Riblah. Then they will know that I am the LORD.”
The purpose of God’s discipline is to bring us to the place that we know that He is the Lord!! In subsequent chapters this theme is repeated. We might think that God’s discipline is all punitive, but it is not. It is also restorative. God wants to restore us to come to the knowledge of His glory. When we rebel (like the nation of Israel/Judah) God wants to restore us to come to the knowledge of His Lordship over our lives.
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