The Lord Says: "Then You Will Know That I Am the Lord"

Ezekiel 7:5 “Thus says the Lord God: Disaster after disaster! Behold, it comes. 6 An end has come; the end has come; it has awakened against you. Behold, it comes. 7 Your doom has come to you, O inhabitant of the land. The time has come; the day is near, a day of tumult, and not of joyful shouting on the mountains. 8 Now I will soon pour out my wrath upon you, and spend my anger against you, and judge you according to your ways, and I will punish you for all your abominations. 9 And my eye will not spare, nor will I have pity. I will punish you according to your ways, while your abominations are in your midst. Then you will know that I am the Lord, who strikes.

God had been listing reason after reason why He was bringing judgment on Jerusalem and Judea: idolatry, injustice, immorality, refusal to obey and repent, failure to worship Him as directed.  For all these reasons God was sending disaster after disaster. Because they would not respond to His call, they would be caught red-handed, sinning as a daily routine, when judgment came. Here we have another phrase common in Ezekiel: then you will know that I am the Lord; they would know Him because He acts; He strikes; He does. How many times do we need to see before we believe?