Israel didn’t have ears to hear and eyes to see because they were rebellious. In Psalm 135 we are told they didn’t have ears to hear or eyes to see because they trusted in idols instead of in God.

In Ezekiel 12 the promise isn’t that He will be their God. The promise is that they will know that I am the Lord. They will know that God is God and all powerful and in control when the word which He has spoken comes to pass.

God displayed His power in Egypt that they might know He was the Lord. They don’t all come to know Him as Lord, but they can’t deny His existence and power by the time the Lord is done.

There will be those who learn the fear of the Lord by God’s display, and there will be those who continue to reject Him.

But they don’t really get to deny Him. God shows Himself. He will say the word and perform it. They can try to deny it, but it will be a farce. It will be their own delusion. There are people who say that they would only believe in God if…but the truth is that they still wouldn’t. They would always have an excuse, an explanation. They just refuse.

Once a man came to Christ because God showed the man that He knew the man existed. The man seemed to have really did put it honestly before the Lord that he would believe if God showed him that He was real. God showed me where this man was sitting and his birthday on a calendar. God showed the man that He saw him and knew him and that He was real. The man had a radical conversion, getting rid of all his Eastern religious things, and turned to God.

God reveals Himself. He makes the sun rise each morning! The question isn’t if God is going to show Himself and act. The question is whether or not you will have eyes to see.