Eze 6:9 | KingComments | STEP | Although the judgment is so severe, God promises that there will be “remnant” ( ). Here, in the midst of all the unfaithfulness and warnings, is a first reference to a remnant and thus to restoration. This remnant will be scattered, but among the nations where they will then be, they will come to repentance and remember the LORD ( ; cf. ; ). He has had to scatter them because they have hurt His heart by the aberrations of their hearts , and by their eyes which played the harlot after their stink gods. The idolatry of Israel is represented as harlotry, as unfaithfulness to the marriage covenant between the LORD and His people (cf. ; ). Their eyes play a major role in their unfaithfulness to God ( ; cf. ). Through the eyes, sin entered the world: Eve saw ( ). When the people come to repentance through God’s work in them, they will loathe themselves in their own sight for all their abominations, for all their disgusting idolatrous practices. We too must know this loathing ourselves in order to truly know and love the Lord. Also this section ends with “then they will know that I am the LORD”, a knowledge that comes here not through judgment, as in , but through the grace that brought them to repentance ( ). They will recognize that He has dealt with them fully righteously. The full fulfillment of this will be experienced by the remnant in the end time.

‏ Ezekiel 6:9

A Remnant

Although the judgment is so severe, God promises that there will be “remnant” (Eze 6:8). Here, in the midst of all the unfaithfulness and warnings, is a first reference to a remnant and thus to restoration. This remnant will be scattered, but among the nations where they will then be, they will come to repentance and remember the LORD (Eze 6:9; cf. Jer 51:50; Zec 10:9).

He has had to scatter them because they have hurt His heart by the aberrations of their hearts, and by their eyes which played the harlot after their stink gods. The idolatry of Israel is represented as harlotry, as unfaithfulness to the marriage covenant between the LORD and His people (cf. Exo 34:15; Hos 1:2). Their eyes play a major role in their unfaithfulness to God (Eze 18:12 ; 15 ; Eze 20:24; cf. Num 15:39). Through the eyes, sin entered the world: Eve saw (Gen 3:6).

When the people come to repentance through God’s work in them, they will loathe themselves in their own sight for all their abominations, for all their disgusting idolatrous practices. We too must know this loathing ourselves in order to truly know and love the Lord.

Also this section ends with “then they will know that I am the LORD”, a knowledge that comes here not through judgment, as in Eze 6:7, but through the grace that brought them to repentance (Eze 6:10). They will recognize that He has dealt with them fully righteously. The full fulfillment of this will be experienced by the remnant in the end time.