The Meaning of Ezekiel 39:29 Explained

Ezekiel 39:29

KJV: Neither will I hide my face any more from them: for I have poured out my spirit upon the house of Israel, saith the Lord GOD.

YLT: And I hide not any more My face from them, In that I have poured out My spirit on the house of Israel, An affirmation of the Lord Jehovah!'

Darby: And I will not hide my face any more from them, for I shall have poured out my Spirit upon the house of Israel, saith the Lord Jehovah.

ASV: neither will I hide my face any more from them; for I have poured out my Spirit upon the house of Israel, saith the Lord Jehovah.

Discover Ezekiel 39:29

CONTEXT: What is the Context of Ezekiel 39:29?

MEANING: What does Ezekiel 39:29 Mean?

WORDS: What do the individual words in Ezekiel 39:29 mean?

RELATIONS: What do the major concepts mean in Ezekiel 39:29?

KJV Reverse Interlinear

Neither will I hide  my face  any more from them: for I have poured out  my spirit  upon the house  of Israel,  saith  the Lord  GOD. 

What does Ezekiel 39:29 Mean?

Verse Meaning

The Lord would no longer prove inaccessible to His people because He would bestow His Spirit on all the Israelites. [1]
There are at least eight views as to the time of this future invasion.
1.The invasion is only symbolic of the attempts of evil forces to overcome God"s people. [2] It does not describe a real battle but in the language of warfare pictures the triumph of good over evil, the forces of God over those of Satan. The amount of detail and specific references to places and times in this prophecy argue against this view. [3]
2.It will occur before the Tribulation, either before the Rapture or at the time of the Rapture or just after the Rapture. [4] But the prophecy sets the time of this invasion after God has restored Israel to her land (cf. Ezekiel 38:8; Ezekiel 38:16). Ezekiel 36:26-28; Ezekiel 39:26-29 indicate that Israel"s restoration will involve spiritual regeneration as well as physical return, so the present return of Jews to the State of Israel cannot be the fulfillment.
3.It will happen during the Tribulation (cf. Daniel 11:40-41; Revelation 14:14-20). For three and a half years Antichrist will encourage the Jews to return to Palestine, but then he will break his covenant with them and begin to attack them ( Matthew 24:15-22; Daniel 9:27; Daniel 11:40-41). Thus Israel will enjoy a period of peace in the Tribulation. It is during the first half of the Tribulation, toward its end, that advocates of this view place the fulfillment of this prophecy. [5] Ezekiel 39:7 says that following this battle the Lord"s name will be profaned no longer, but during the second half of the Tribulation it will be profaned (cf. Revelation 13; Revelation 16:9; Revelation 16:11; Revelation 16:21). It also seems unlikely that the Jews could bury corpses for seven months and burn weapons as fuel for seven years following an invasion in the middle of the seven-year Tribulation. The last half of the Tribulation will involve unparalleled persecution for the Jews ( Daniel 9:27).
4.It will take place at the end of the seven-year Tribulation (the battle of Armageddon; cf. Zechariah 12; Zechariah 14:1-4; Revelation 19:11-21). [6] Some advocates equate Gog with the king of the North ( Daniel 11:40). Some of Ezekiel"s descriptions of Gog"s invasion recur in Revelation 19:17-21, which describes the end of the Tribulation. However other aspects appear in Revelation 20:7-10, which describes the end of the Millennium. Israel is dwelling securely in the land that Gog will invade, but at the end of the Tribulation Israel will have been under intense attack for three and a half years ( Daniel 9:27).
5.It will happen between the end of the Tribulation and the beginning of the Millennium. [7] Since Jesus Christ"s return to the earth will end the Tribulation and begin the Millennium, it does not seem that there will be enough time for the invasion of Gog and its consequences then (cf. Ezekiel 39:1-16; Matthew 13:41). Furthermore some of the allusions to this invasion in Revelation suggest a time at the end of the Millennium ( Revelation 20:7-10). John F. Walvoord believed that the rebellion of Gog will occur before the Millennium, but did not say exactly when. [8]
6.It will happen at the beginning of the Millennium. This seems highly unlikely since all who enter the Millennium will be believers who have assisted the Jews ( Matthew 25:31-46). Moreover all weapons of war will be destroyed at the beginning of the Millennium ( Micah 4:1-4).
7.It will occur at the end of the Millennium. [9] Revelation 20:8 refers specifically to Gog and Magog in a context describing the end of the Millennium. Israel dwelling in safety in her land, the situation described repeatedly in Ezekiel 33-39 , fits conditions at the end of the Millennium. Rabbinic writers identified Gog and Magog as the final enemy that will attack Israel in the messianic age. [10] Critics of this view say, Why bury the dead for seven months following the battle when the resurrection of the unsaved will follow immediately (cf. Revelation 20:11-13)? This objection assumes that these events will follow one another immediately, but the text does not say so explicitly. Why would the Israelites burn the weapons for seven years since it appears that God will create a new earth immediately after He quells the rebellion described in Revelation 20:7-10 (cf. Revelation 21:1-4)? Again, there may be time between these events that the Bible does not reveal anywhere but here. Another problem with this view is the description of the Lord calling the birds to a great feast in Revelation 19:17-21, which occurs at the end of the Tribulation.
8.The best solution seems to me to be a combination of views4,7. Apparently the fulfillment will take place in two phases, first at the end of the Tribulation and then at the end of the Millennium, when Israel is dwelling securely (cf. Revelation 19:17-21; Revelation 20:7-8). [11] Ezekiel evidently described the invasion of Israel"s enemies into the Promised Land as a single event, but later revelation clarifies that it will happen on two separate occasions. Part of Ezekiel"s prophecy describes one of these invasions, part the other, and some of it describes both incidents. Gog then does not describe a single individual but two people both of whom share similar plans. In the first fulfillment Gog is the king of the North. In the second he is the human leader who will lead the rebellion at the end of the Millennium.
It seems unnatural for God to describe as one battle one that will have two parts separated by1 ,000 years, and there is certainly no indication in Ezekiel that Gog"s invasion will have two phases. However, in view of later clarification in the Book of Revelation , we apparently have another instance of two events widely separated in time viewed by a prophet as one. The prophets" descriptions of the near and far destructions of Babylon ( Isaiah 21; Jeremiah 51), the two advents of Messiah ( Isaiah 61:1-2), and the coming of two persecutors of the Jews (Antiochus Epiphanes and Antichrist; Daniel 11:21-44) are other examples of this "foreshortened" view of the future.

Chapter Summary: Ezekiel 39

1  God's judgment upon Gog
8  Israel's victory
11  Gog's burial in Hamon-gog
17  The feast of the fowls
21  Israel having been plagued for their sins
25  shall be gathered again with eternal favor

What do the individual words in Ezekiel 39:29 mean?

And not I will hide anymore My face from them for I shall have poured out - My Spirit on the house of Israel says the Lord GOD -
וְלֹֽא־ אַסְתִּ֥יר ע֛וֹד פָּנַ֖י מֵהֶ֑ם אֲשֶׁ֨ר שָׁפַ֤כְתִּי אֶת־ רוּחִי֙ עַל־ בֵּ֣ית יִשְׂרָאֵ֔ל נְאֻ֖ם אֲדֹנָ֥י יְהוִֽה פ

וְלֹֽא־  And  not 
Parse: Conjunctive waw, Adverb, Negative particle
Root: הֲלֹא 
Sense: not, no.
אַסְתִּ֥יר  I  will  hide 
Parse: Verb, Hifil, Imperfect, first person common singular
Root: סָתַר  
Sense: to hide, conceal.
ע֛וֹד  anymore 
Parse: Adverb
Root: עֹוד  
Sense: a going round, continuance adv.
פָּנַ֖י  My  face 
Parse: Noun, masculine plural construct, first person common singular
Root: לִפְנֵי 
Sense: face.
מֵהֶ֑ם  from  them 
Parse: Preposition-m, Pronoun, third person masculine plural
Root: הֵם 
Sense: they, these, the same, who.
שָׁפַ֤כְתִּי  I  shall  have  poured  out 
Parse: Verb, Qal, Perfect, first person common singular
Root: שֶׂפֶק 
Sense: to pour, pour out, spill.
אֶת־  - 
Parse: Direct object marker
Root: אֹות 
Sense: sign of the definite direct object, not translated in English but generally preceding and indicating the accusative.
רוּחִי֙  My  Spirit 
Parse: Noun, common singular construct, first person common singular
Root: רוּחַ  
Sense: wind, breath, mind, spirit.
בֵּ֣ית  the  house 
Parse: Noun, masculine singular construct
Root: בַּיִת 
Sense: house.
יִשְׂרָאֵ֔ל  of  Israel 
Parse: Proper Noun, masculine singular
Root: יִשְׂרָאֵל  
Sense: the second name for Jacob given to him by God after his wrestling with the angel at Peniel.
נְאֻ֖ם  says 
Parse: Noun, masculine singular construct
Root: נְאֻם  
Sense: (Qal) utterance, declaration (of prophet).
אֲדֹנָ֥י  the  Lord 
Parse: Proper Noun, masculine singular
Root: אֲדֹנָי  
Sense: my lord, lord.
יְהוִֽה  GOD 
Parse: Proper Noun, masculine singular
Root: יהוה 
Sense: Jehovah—used primarily in the combination ‘Lord Jehovah’.
פ  - 
Parse: Punctuation

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