I dealt with them according to their uncleanness and transgressions, and I hid My face from them.
The heathen mistook Israel's ruin for proof that God could not keep His covenant; but when He restores His people after their reformation, all the world will see the truth: Israel fell not by God's weakness but by their own sin, which forfeited His favour and threw them into His enemies' hands. This turns their reproach into His glory.
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Commenting on Ezekiel 39:23-29
Their uncleanness was moral, not ceremonial, they were an adulterous generation in heart. Their transgressions were rebellions against the Messiah Himself: contempt for Him, rejection of His yoke, refusal to submit to His ordinances. The Lord dealt with them according to the desert of such crimes, taking vengeance in the destruction of their nation, city, and temple, withdrawing His presence entirely from them.
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The judgment on Gog displays God's glory to all nations in two ways: Israel learns that the Lord is and remains their God, and the nations see that He gave Israel into captivity because of their faithlessness, then restored them because He is zealous for His holy name.
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Commenting on Ezekiel 39:21-29