Judgment on Tyre (Amos 1:9-10)

SPIRITUAL DIARY FOR 8/20/2015 10:43 PM

My Worship Time                                                                              Focus:  Judgment on Tyre

Bible Reading & Meditation                                                 Reference:  Amos 1:9-10

            Message of the verses:  “9 Thus says the LORD, "For three transgressions of Tyre and for four I will not revoke its punishment, Because they delivered up an entire population to Edom And did not remember the covenant of brotherhood. 10 “So I will send fire upon the wall of Tyre And it will consume her citadels."”

            We have to go back to several different OT books to learn more about Tyre, and first of all we want to look at the good relationship that Israel had with Tyre during the reigns of David and also his son Solomon.  When we look at verse nine we see the phrase “covenant of brotherhood,” and that is what it is referring to.  There covenant was between friends and not because of their beliefs or political connections, but this friendship lasted many years between the rulers of Tyre and David, and also his son Solomon.

            Now we want to look at Ezekiel 27:13 “13  "Javan, Tubal and Meshech, they were your traders; with the lives of men and vessels of bronze they paid for your merchandise.”  This chapter of Ezekiel speaks of Tyre and we can see from this verse that Tyre was involved in the same kind of slave trading that Philistia was as they captured Jews and sold them as slaves, and they sold them to the Edomites, something they probably thought no one noticed, but we see here that God did notice as Israel is the apple of His eye.

            Dr. Wiersbe concludes this section:  “Judgment came in 332 BC when Alexander the Great wiped Tyre off the face of the earth and left it a place for dying nets (26:5, 14).  ‘though the mills of God grind slowly ‘ yet they grind exceeding small.’  When Rudyard Kipling published his poem ‘Recessional’ during Queen Victoria’s Diamond Jubilee in 1897, he used Tyre as a warning to any people who rebel against the will of God and mistreat men and women created in the image of God.

“Far-called our navies melt away—

On dune and headland sinks the fire—

Lo, all our pomp of yesterday—

Are one with Nineveh and Tyre!”

8/20/2015 11:01 PM