Ezekiel 33:33 - Exposition

When this cometh to pass . The words can scarcely refer to the immediately preceding predictions in Ezekiel 33:27 , Ezekiel 33:28 , which were primarily addressed to "the people in the waste places," the remnant left in Judah, and we have to go back to the wider, more general teaching of Ezekiel 33:10-20 . That was the prophet's message of judgment, his call to repentance. When the judgment should come, as it surely would, then they would know, in the bitterness of self-condemnation, that they had been listening, not to a hireling singer, but to a prophet of Jehovah.