When this comes—and come it will!—then they will know that a prophet has been among them.”
The foregoing verses spoke conviction to the Jews who remained in the land of Israel, who were monuments of sparing mercy and yet returned not to the Lord; in these verses those are reproved who were now in captivity in Babylon, under divine rebukes, and yet were not reformed by them. They are not indeed charged with the same gross enormities that the others are charged with.
Commenting on Ezekiel 33:30-33
when this cometh to pass--when My predictions are verified. lo, it will come--rather, "lo it is come" (see Eze 33:22). know--experimentally, and to their cost. Having in the thirty-third chapter laid down repentance as the necessary preliminary to happier times for the people, He now promises the removal of the false shepherds as preparatory to the raising up of the Good Shepherd. Next: Ezekiel Chapter 34
When this cometh to pass - then shall they know that a prophet hath been among them - What I have predicted, (and it is even now at the doors), then they will be convinced that there was a prophet among them, by whose ministry they did not profit as they ought.