Ezekiel 26-28 Judgment Against Tyre

 

Ezekiel 26- 28 – Judgment Against Tyre.

 

Tyre was the capital of the great Phoenician nation which was famous for its seagoing traders. It was destroyed at the same time Jerusalem was destroyed. Nebuchadnezzar took Tyre.

 

The city of Tyre seemed impregnable, but Nebuchadnezzar would besiege it and Alexander the great would wipe it off the face of the earth. Tyre became a bare rock, a place only for drying fishing nets.

 

Ezekiel described Tyre as a beautiful and costly ship, loaded with riches and growing wealthy as it did business with all the nations. But the ship would be broken and would sink, and all the merchants would lament of the loss of their great wealth. What a rebuke to covetousness!

 

The King of Tyre thought he was God, and his heart was lifted with pride. Surely Satan was the cause of this (Gen. 3:5). In fact, God may have been addressing Satan, for the description surely fits. Pride lifted him up, but God cast him down. What a rebuke to his feeble attempt to take the place of God!

 

Despite the riches of Tyre and the vast knowledge its people had gained by trading with cultures all over the known world, Ezekiel sang a funeral dirge for it that both proclaimed and celebrated its rapid and catastrophic demise.

 

The time will come when God will execute judgments on all those around them (Israel) who despise them, bring back the scattered nation to the promised land, and cause the people to dwell securely and safely in the territory which God had promised to His people through Abraham.

 

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