Ezekiel 12:15
And they shall know that I am the LORD, when I shall scatter them among the nations, and disperse them in the countries. And they shall know that I am the LORD, when I shall scatter them among the nations, and disperse them in the countries.
The word came through Ezekiel as God's mouthpiece among the captives in Babylonia by the river Chebar while Jeremiah was prophesying in Jerusalem. It stands within the first twenty chapters of Ezekiel. It belongs to a dramatized portrayal of the people moving out into captivity, given as a miniature acted scene.
Chapter 12 follows the repetition in chapter 10 of the vision of chapter 1 showing that the great God has care over His work and over His people, and it belongs to searching moral instruction extending to chapter 27, much of which predicts the last days. Verses 13-21 concern literal Israel's rebellion and carrying away to literal Babylon, where they remained 70 years while the land enjoyed its sabbath.
The scattering among the nations and dispersal through the countries would cause the people to know that the Lord is God, fulfilling His declared purpose. The verse shows God's overruling providence over the nations, so that the wheels within wheels were all in order to Him and God is ruling. Though scattered, the Jewish people remain distinct, demonstrating God's faithfulness to His purpose concerning Israel and the promised Redeemer.
In the chronology held by those who placed its completion in 1843, the scattering began when Israel was scattered by Esarhaddon and Manasseh was carried to Babylon in 677 BC. The people then remained scattered under earthly kings until they fled into the wilderness in A.D. 538. That scattering is connected with the time, times, and half a time, and its completion is placed in 1843, when God's people among Jews and Gentiles would no longer be scattered but gathered into one body in Christ.