They Shall Know that I am the Lord

In reading Ezekiel I find everywhere that God wants to be known.

He wants to be known as the Lord--the Sovereign One. God is the possessor of all things, the ruler of all, and master of all. So when peoples and lands forget He comes in judgment to remind them.

Judgment is one of God's means of helping people to know Him. Not exactly a spiritual discipline instituted by us, but sometimes a form of discipline instituted by God to show a nation or a person that He is the Sovereign and He desires to be known as so.

"And I will scatter the Egyptians among the nations and disperse them throughout the countries. Then they will know that I am the Lord.” Ez. 30:26

I think its best to know that He is the Lord before judgment comes, and this knowledge is practical because we deny the knowledge of Him as Lord when we trust other idols or we treat the things in life as if they are our own.

It is better to figure this out before we need to be reminded.