Ezekiel 39:7-8 states that the LORD will make His name known to both Israel and the rest of the nations of the world. No one will speak ill of God's name anymore when that day comes, when the enemies of Israel (personified as Gog) are defeated completely. The entire earth will know and fear God. The LORD assures that this day is approaching and will happen.
Ezekiel 39:7-8 names the governing purpose of the Gog oracle: the LORDwill make His holy nameknown among His peopleIsrael and will no longer allow it to be profaned, and the nations will know He is the HolyOne in Israel. The day described in both chapters 38 and 39 has arrived.
The LORD names His own goal: "My holy name I will make known in the midst of My people Israel; and I will not let My holy name be profaned anymore. And the nations will know that I am the LORD, the Holy One in Israel" (v 7). The profaning of the name, the pattern Ezekiel 36:20-23 described, where Israel's exile among the nations caused the nations to conclude that the LORD could not protect His people, ends here. The defeat of Gog is the act that settles the question the exile had opened. The repeated phrase about how the rest of the world will finally see the reality of God and His power now carries a new layer: the nationsknowthat I am the LORD, the Holy One in Israel (v 7).
The title Holy One in Israel places the LORD's transcendent holiness specifically inside His covenant relationship with His people. Ezekiel 37:28 says the nationswill know when the LORD will sanctify, or set apart, Israel when He brings the presence of His sanctuary in their midst. This battle in Ezekiel 39 would appear to be the vehicle by which that verse comes to pass.
The LORD stamps the event as certain and identifies it with the day He has been pointing toward throughout the oracle: "Behold, it is coming and it shall be done," declares the Lord GOD. "That is the day of which I have spoken" (v 8). Behold, it is coming and it shall be done (v 8) is the LORD's own certainty-seal over everything declared in these two chapters. That is the day of which I have spoken (v 8) ties the moment back to the "latter years" and "last days" of Ezekiel 38:8, 16. What was announced there as future is expressed here as imminent.
Ezekiel 39:7-8
7 “My holy name I will make known in the midst of My people Israel; and I will not let My holy name be profaned anymore. And the nations will know that I am the LORD, the Holy One in Israel.
8 “Behold, it is coming and it shall be done,” declares the Lord God. “That is the day of which I have spoken.
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Ezekiel 39:7-8 meaning
Ezekiel 39:7-8 names the governing purpose of the Gog oracle: the LORD will make His holy name known among His people Israel and will no longer allow it to be profaned, and the nations will know He is the Holy One in Israel. The day described in both chapters 38 and 39 has arrived.
The LORD names His own goal: "My holy name I will make known in the midst of My people Israel; and I will not let My holy name be profaned anymore. And the nations will know that I am the LORD, the Holy One in Israel" (v 7). The profaning of the name, the pattern Ezekiel 36:20-23 described, where Israel's exile among the nations caused the nations to conclude that the LORD could not protect His people, ends here. The defeat of Gog is the act that settles the question the exile had opened. The repeated phrase about how the rest of the world will finally see the reality of God and His power now carries a new layer: the nations know that I am the LORD, the Holy One in Israel (v 7).
The title Holy One in Israel places the LORD's transcendent holiness specifically inside His covenant relationship with His people. Ezekiel 37:28 says the nations will know when the LORD will sanctify, or set apart, Israel when He brings the presence of His sanctuary in their midst. This battle in Ezekiel 39 would appear to be the vehicle by which that verse comes to pass.
The LORD stamps the event as certain and identifies it with the day He has been pointing toward throughout the oracle: "Behold, it is coming and it shall be done," declares the Lord GOD. "That is the day of which I have spoken" (v 8). Behold, it is coming and it shall be done (v 8) is the LORD's own certainty-seal over everything declared in these two chapters. That is the day of which I have spoken (v 8) ties the moment back to the "latter years" and "last days" of Ezekiel 38:8, 16. What was announced there as future is expressed here as imminent.