SPIRITUAL DIARY FOR 2/25/2015
8:50 PM
My Worship Time Focus: Destruction
for Tyre Forever
Bible Reading & Meditation Reference: Ezekiel
26:19-21
Message of the
verses: “19 For thus says the Lord GOD, "When I make you a
desolate city, like the cities which are not inhabited, when I bring up the
deep over you and the great waters cover you, 20 then I will bring you down with those who go down to the pit,
to the people of old, and
I will make you dwell in the lower parts of the earth, like the ancient
waste places, with those who go down to the pit, so that you will not be
inhabited; but I will set glory in the land of the living. 21 “I will bring
terrors on you and you will be no more; though you will be sought, you will never be found again,"
declares the Lord GOD.”
These three verses show that the Lord plans to end the existence
of Tyre, and some may look at this as a harsh judgment for them, but as with
the case with all people the Lord will give them time to repent and turn to Him
for salvation. We know that God loves
Israel with a special love and that He is not done with them, and was not done
with them even though we have just learned that Jerusalem and the temple were
burned. However this was just a great
discipline that God put on them and would bring them back into the land in a
few short years, but the judgment that He gives to these other nations we have
been reading about, including Tyre is forever as there is no promise for these
nations to survive. God put this judgment
on Tyre because of the way that they treated Israel after they had been
defeated.
We see in these verses that the NASB says in verse 21 “I
will bring terrors on you,” and this is not interpreted right in the KJV where
it reads “I will make thee a terror.” Dr.
Wiersbe writes “The prophet gives us insight into the full extent of Tyre’s
destruction by describing the victims’ descent into ‘the pit’ (v. 20). The Hebrew word bor means ‘a well, a pit, a cistern,’ but also refers to the pit of
death (Pss. 28:1; 88:4, 6) and sometimes is an equivalent of sheol, the realm of departed spirits.”
The promises are completely different for the nation of
Israel as they were for Tyre as we have noted, for Israel still has a bright
future, and as we look at the nation of Israel back in their land and
surrounded by their enemies, and also in the headlines worldwide most days we
can believe that the time is growing shorter to when the Lord Jesus will come
to the clouds above the earth to call His church home to be with Him and then
the tribulation period will begin and after that is over the Lord Jesus will
return to planet earth and sit on the thrown of David for 1000 years. As the apostle John concludes the last book
of the Bible, “Even so, come Lord Jesus.”
2/25/2015 9:08 PM
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