Exodus 29:43-46

GOD'S PROMISES

"And there I will meet with the children of Israel; and the Tent shall be sanctified by my glory. And I will sanctify the tent of meeting, and the altar: Aaron also and his sons will I sanctify, to minister to me in the priest's office. And I will dwell among the children of Israel, and will be their God, And they shall know that I am Jehovah their God, that brought them forth out of the land of Egypt, that I might dwell among them: I am Jehovah their God."

"And they shall know that I am Jehovah their God ..." The knowing here means knowledge through experience; and it is exactly the same kind of knowledge referred to in the early chapters of Exodus (Exodus 3:14; 6:3) as a knowledge they had not previously known. The same pattern is here. Yes, Israel already knew Jehovah had brought them through the Red Sea on dry land; but the knowledge spoken of here is a greater, more complete, knowledge. Here is the explanation, absolutely, of the troublesome problem associated with Exodus 6:3. This endless expansion of the true knowledge of Jehovah was to be an endless and continuing thing in Israel, and even throughout Christian times. The prophet Ezekiel used this expression, "Ye shall know that I am Jehovah, etc.," no less than "sixty-six times, usually in the context of a warning."[31] Thus God says to every generation of believers "you shall know (future) that I am Jehovah your God."