SPIRITUAL DIARY FOR 2/28/2015
9:16 PM
My Worship Time Focus: Manning the Ship
Bible Reading & Meditation Reference: Ezekiel 27:8-11
Message of the
verses: In today’s SD we will be
looking at the second main point that comes from the 27th chapter of
Ezekiel, as we follow Dr. Wiersbe’s outline that speaks of the nation of Tyre’s
judgment using a metaphor of a boat. He
entitled the main point “Lament over Tyre’s Destruction,” and we mentioned that
this is kind of a tiny look at Babylonian’s destruction found in the 17th
chapter of Revelation.
“8 “The inhabitants of Sidon and Arvad were your rowers;
Your wise men, O Tyre, were aboard; they were your pilots. 9 “The elders of
Gebal and her wise men were with you repairing your seams; All the ships of the
sea and their sailors were with you in order to deal in your merchandise. 10 “Persia
and Lud and Put were in your army, your men of war. They hung shield and helmet
in you; they set forth your splendor. 11 “The sons of Arvad and your army were
on your walls, all around, and the Gammadim were in your towers. They hung
their shields on your walls all around; they perfected your beauty.”
Now as we look at the description of those Ezekiel names
as crew members these were actually the nations that caused her to have such
success, helping her to become very rich, and these also would be the nations
who would lose the most when Tyer was destroyed.
Dr. Wiersbe points out that the metaphor briefly shifts
from the ship to the actual city in verses ten and eleven. In these two verses Ezekiel points out the
nations who were protecting Tyre, nations that were actually mercenary soldiers
paid to protect Tyre. Dr. Wiersbe also
points out that it took Nebuchadnezzar thirteen years to defeat this coastal
city as it was defended very well, and I suppose some of it had to do with the
mercenaries who helped protect it.
Dr. Wiersbe concludes with “We shouldn’t carry a metaphor
too far, but it is significant that Ezekiel brought in the army and nave as
necessary parts of the business enterprise of Tyre. Certainly national defense is a important to
the success of business as it is to the safety of private citizen, and
sometimes ‘national interest,’ and ‘business’ become intertwined. ‘Big business’ always appreciates a foreign
policy that opens new markets and protects them.”
2/28/2015 9:32 PM
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