Throughout the book of Ezekiel the phrase (or a form of it), "Then they will know that I am the Lord" is repeated often at the end of a chapter or passage. God speaks to His people through the prophet Ezekiel and it seems that God's goal is to make sure that the troubled world in which Ezekiel lives knows that there is a God and that He wants them to know who He is.
Ezekiel's life was characterized by faithfully relaying to the world he lived in the message God gave him and by his own personal obedience to God. God communicated warnings and promises through Ezekiel that would eventually be fulfilled in God's timing. Through a combination of Ezekiel's obedience and God's faithfulness to His word, Ezekiel's world would know that there is a God and that He is Lord.
We might not be prophets but we, like Ezekiel, live in a world that desperately needs to know God.
The Bible says that in the past God spoke through the prophets but now He has spoken through Jesus, His Son (Hebrews 1:1, 2). As followers of Jesus, God calls us to reveal Him to our world through the message of His word and the testimony of our lives. If we will do that, there's a much greater chance that the troubled world in which we live will come to know that there is a God, that He is the Lord and our world is NOT simply spinning out of control.
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