And I will not hide my face anymore from them, when I pour out my Spirit upon the house of Israel, declares the Lord GOD.”
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
After their conversion in the latter day, God will never again hide His face from Israel or depart from them as He did after Babylon, when the Romans destroyed them. This pouring out of the Spirit refers not to Pentecost but to a future effusion, when the Jews shall be converted and God will dwell with them perpetually.
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The outpouring of His Spirit is the pledge that He will hide His face no more; it is the sure forerunner of their conversion. When Israel acknowledges Messiah, they shall serve Him as the nations once served them for their rejection of Him.
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