The Lord Said: "Everyone Will Know"

 Ezekiel 37:26 I will make a covenant of peace with them. It shall be an everlasting covenant with them. And I will set them in their land and multiply them, and will set my sanctuary in their midst forevermore. 27 My dwelling place shall be with them, and I will be their God, and they shall be my people. 28 Then the nations will know that I am the Lord who sanctifies Israel, when my sanctuary is in their midst forevermore.”

In these prophesies God had given to Ezekiel about the judgment and exile of His people, He had addressed everyone: Israel and Judah, the surrounding nations, the empires who had and would oppress them and be used as instruments of judgment.  But now He has also told them what lies further ahead: restoration of their nation, return of their king, and the rest and peace He has always promised for His own. This new covenant is unlike any which had been made before, exceeding even that made with David. God will be present in an even greater way than in the Ark of the Covenant. All will know that He is Lord.