09/10/2020 – Day 195 – Ezekiel 25 – 30 – Judgment against the Nations
My sources for this reading:
Halley’s Bible Handbook – (*A)
The Apologetics Study Bible – (*B)
Chapter 25. Ammon, Moab, Edom, Philistia
“These four nations were Judah’s closest neighbors, who rejoiced in Judah’s destruction by Babylon. Ezekiel here predicts for them the same fate, as did Jeremiah (Jeremiah 27: 1-7). Nebuchadnezzar subdued the Philistines when he took Judah, and four years later invaded Ammon, Moab. Edom.” (*A)
Chapter 26, 27, 28. Tyre. Visions of 586 B.C.
“These visions of the doom of Tyre were given to Ezekiel in the same year that Jerusalem fell, that is, the 11th year (26:1)
Chapter 26. A prophey of Nebuchadnezzar’s Siege, and Tyre’s Permanent Desolation. Next year (585 B.C.) Nebuchadnezzar laid siege to Tyre. It took 13 years to conquer the city (585 – 573 B.C.)
Tyre located 60 miles northwest of Nazareth, was a double city, one part on an island, the other on the mainland in a fertile and well-watered plain at the western foot of the Lebanon mountain range. It was the great maritime power of the ancient world, at its zenigh from the 12th to the 6th centuries B.C., with colonies on the north and west coasts of Africa, in Spain, and Britain, controlling the commerce of the Mediterranean, with the wares of all nations passing through its port. A city renowned for its splendor and fabulous weatlth. WIth its subjugation by Nebuchadnezzar it ceased to be an indepdendent power. It was later subdued by the Persians; and again by Alexander the Great (332 B.C). It never recovered its former glory, and has for centuries been a ‘bare rock’ where fisherman ‘spread their nets’ (26:4 , 5, 14), an amazing fulfillment of Ezekiel’s prophecy that it ‘nevermore should have any being’ (26:14, 21; 27:36; 28:29).” (*A)
“29: 15: Egypt will be the lowliest of kingdoms and willnver again exalt itself over the nations. I will make them so small they cannot rule over the nations” (*B)
Note – An amazing prophecy, and indeed it hasn’t come back in the 2600 years or so since but yet it didn’t get wiped out completely like other nations. It has just been small and inconsequential ever since.
Soli Deo Gloria!