Our Daily Scripture – 11/15/24 (Friday)

SCRIPTURE:  EZEKIEL 26

A PROPHECY AGAINST TYRE (vs. 1-21)

SIN OF TYRE – They said of Jerusalem, “Aha!”.  The gate to the nations is broken, and its doors have swung open to me; now that she lies in ruins I will prosper. (v. 2)

PUNISHMENTS OF TYRE:

  1.  God will bring many nations against Tyre.  They will destroy their walls and towers and became a bare rock. (v. 4)
  2.  She will become a place to spread fishnets and become plunder for the nations. (v. 5)
  3.  Their settlements on the mainland will be ravaged by the sword. (v. 6)
  4.  God will bring Nebuchadnezzar, king of Babylon with horses and chariots, with horsemen and a great army to savage their settlements on the   mainland with the sword, to set up siege works against them and build a ramp up their walls and raise his shield against them. (v. 8)
  5.  Nebuchadnezzar will direct the blows of his battering rams against heir walls and demolish their towers with weapons. (v. 9)
  6.  They will be covered with dust.  War horses, wagons and chariots will enter their gates and broke through their walls. (v. 10)
  7.  The hoofs of horse will trample their streets and kill their people with the sword.  Their strong pillars will fall to the ground. (v. 11)
  8.  Their wealth, merchandise will be plundered. Their walls and fine houses will be demolished.  And their stones, timber and rubble will be thrown into the sea. (v. 12)
  9. They will no longer hear songs, music or harps. (v. 13)
  10.  They will be made into a bare rock and become a place to spread fishnets and never be rebuilt. (v. 14)
  11.  They will become a desolate city without inhabitant and ocean waters will cover them. (v. 19)
  12.  They will no longer return to the land of the living. (v. 20)
  13.  They will have a horrible end and never again be found. (v. 21)

THOUGHTS:

Tyre was judged for its bride of wealth.  Nebuchadnezzar would besiege it and Alexander the Great would cut it off the face of the earth in 332BC.  Tyre would become a bare rock, a place only for drying fish nets.  Tyre was the capital of Phenicia, just north of Israel.  Part of the city was on the coastline and part was on the beautiful island.  Tyre rejoiced when Jerusalem fall because Tyre and Judah always competed for the lucrative trade that came through their lands from Egypt in the south and Mesopotamia in the north,.  Tyre dominated the sea trading routes while Judah dominated the land caravan route.  After Judah was defeated, Tyre thought that they had all the trade routes on itself.  But in 586, Nebuchadnezzar attacked the city and captured it in 15 years.  Later, Alexander the Great destroyed the island and it became a pile of rubber waste today.