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Monday, February 15 2010
Tyrus is the Greek version of the Hebrew name Tyre, a city on the Mediterranean seacoast of what is today Lebanon. It is one of the most ancient major trading cities of the world. The LORD (i.e. Jesus Christ - see 'Before Abraham Was, I AM') described its political and economic prominence - and eventual corruption.
"27:1 The word of the LORD came again unto me, saying, 27:2 Now, thou son of man, take up a lamentation for Tyrus; 27:3 And say unto Tyrus, O thou that art situate at the entry of the sea, which art a merchant of the people for many isles,Thus saith the Lord GOD; O Tyrus, thou hast said, I am of perfect beauty. 27:4 Thy borders are in the midst of the seas, thy builders have perfected thy beauty. 27:5 They have made all thy ship boards of fir trees of Senir: they have taken cedars from Lebanon to make masts for thee. 27:6 Of the oaks of Bashan have they made thine oars; the company of the Ashurites have made thy benches of ivory, brought out of the isles of Chittim. 27:7 Fine linen with broidered work from Egypt was that which thou spreadest forth to be thy sail; blue and purple from the isles of Elishah was that which covered thee. 27:8 The inhabitants of Zidon and Arvad were thy mariners: thy wise men, O Tyrus, that were in thee, were thy pilots. 27:9 The ancients of Gebal and the wise men thereof were in thee thy calkers: all the ships of the sea with their mariners were in thee to occupy thy merchandise." (Ezekiel 27:1-9 KJV)
"Thou hast been in Eden the garden of God"
The vanity and arrogance (which are very much the same thing) of the human king of Tyre was used as an analogy to portray the inventor of vanity and arrogance - Satan. The Scriptures use metamorphism (a geologic term meaning a change in the structure of rock, however it's an appropriate metaphor because Tyre and Tyrus mean rock - the city was named after its rocky coastline) to portray the king of Tyrus in the same way as what Satan did to turn himself into a loser:
"28:1 The word of the LORD came again unto me, saying, 28:2 Son of man, say unto the prince of Tyrus, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Because thine heart is lifted up, and thou hast said, I am a God, I sit in the seat of God, in the midst of the seas; yet thou art a man, and not God, though thou set thine heart as the heart of God: 28:3 Behold, thou art wiser than Daniel; there is no secret that they can hide from thee: 28:4 With thy wisdom and with thine understanding thou hast gotten thee riches, and hast gotten gold and silver into thy treasures: 28:5 By thy great wisdom and by thy traffic hast thou increased thy riches, and thine heart is lifted up because of thy riches" (Ezekiel 28:1-5 KJV)
"Thou hast been in Eden the garden of God," "Thou art the anointed cherub" and "Thou wast perfect in thy ways from the day that thou wast created, till iniquity was found in thee" can refer only to Satan, not to any mere human king.
"28:11 Moreover the word of the LORD came unto me, saying, 28:12 Son of man, take up a lamentation upon the king of Tyrus, and say unto him, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Thou sealest up the sum, full of wisdom, and perfect in beauty. 28:13 Thou hast been in Eden the garden of God; every precious stone was thy covering, the sardius, topaz, and the diamond, the beryl, the onyx, and the jasper, the sapphire, the emerald, and the carbuncle, and gold: the workmanship of thy tabrets and of thy pipes was prepared in thee in the day that thou wast created. 28:14 Thou art the anointed cherub that covereth; and I have set thee so: thou wast upon the holy mountain of God; thou hast walked up and down in the midst of the stones of fire. 28:15 Thou wast perfect in thy ways from the day that thou wast created, till iniquity was found in thee.28:16 By the multitude of thy merchandise they have filled the midst of thee with violence, and thou hast sinned: therefore I will cast thee as profane out of the mountain of God: and I will destroy thee, O covering cherub, from the midst of the stones of fire. 28:17 Thine heart was lifted up because of thy beauty, thou hast corrupted thy wisdom by reason of thy brightness: I will cast thee to the ground, I will lay thee before kings, that they may behold thee. 28:18 Thou hast defiled thy sanctuaries by the multitude of thine iniquities, by the iniquity of thy traffic; therefore will I bring forth a fire from the midst of thee, it shall devour thee, and I will bring thee to ashes upon the earth in the sight of all them that behold thee. 28:19 All they that know thee among the people shall be astonished at thee: thou shalt be a terror, and never shalt thou be any more." (Ezekiel 28:11-19 KJV)
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This Day In History, February 15
1763: The Treaty of Hubertusburg was signed. It ended the conflict between Austria and Prussia in the Seven Years' War.
1764: St. Louis, Missouri, was founded as a French trading post.
1804: New Jersey became the last northern state to abolish slavery.
1898: The Spanish-American War began after the American battleship USS Maine blew up in Havana harbor. The cause of the explosion remains unknown.
1922: The Permanent Court of International Justice, at The Hague in the Netherlands, held its first session.
1933: Giuseppe Zangara, an Italian-born anarchist, failed in his attempt to assassinate President Franklin Roosevelt in Miami.
1940: Adolf Hitler ordered that all British merchant ships would be considered warships.
1942: British and allied forces surrendered to the Japanese in Singapore - the single most catastrophic defeat in British military history; over 130,000 British, Canadian, Australian, and Indian troops were taken prisoner.
1944: U.S. warplanes bombed the Abbey of Monte Cassino in an effort to neutralize it as a German observation post in central Italy.
1950: Joseph Stalin and Mao Tse-tung signed a Russian-Chinese mutual defense treaty in Moscow.
1961: Eighteen members of the U.S. figure skating team were killed in an airplane crash in Belgium.
1965: Canada adopted the "Maple Leaf" as its new national flag.
1971: Britain converted to decimal currency from pounds, shillings and pence.
1990: Britain and Argentina restored full diplomatic ties, affirming reconciliation after their 1982 war for the Falkland Islands.
