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Ezekiel Chapter 27, Part 4 VERSE 12 “Tarshish was your merchant because of your many luxury goods. They gave you silver, iron, tin, and lead for your goods.” “Tarshish” is Spain in this context. Tyre traded all around the Mediterranean basin, and Spain was known for its mineral wealth. VERSE 13 “Javan, Tubal, and Meshech were your traders. They bartered human lives and vessels of bronze for your merchandise. “They bartered human lives.” Slave traffic was a primary staple of…

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Ezekiel Chapter 27, Part 3 VERSE 4 “Your borders are in the midst of the seas. Your builders have perfected your beauty.” I believe the Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Bible Commentary states it well. “Tyre itself, in consonance with her sea girt position (i.e. being surrounded by the sea), separated by a strait of half a mile from the mainland, is described as a ship built of the best material, and manned with the best mariners and skillful pilots, but at last wrecked…

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Ezekiel Chapter 27, Part 2 Isaiah Chapter 47 Verse 5 “Sit in silence, and go into darkness (“darkness” and “silence” are descriptions of Sheol, the unconscious condition of death), O daughter of the Chaldeans [Papacy, Mystic Babylon]; for you shall no longer be called The Lady of Kingdoms (Presently Papacy is called the Catholic or universal Church, i.e., the church of many nations).” Verse 7 “And you said, ‘I shall be a lady forever,’ So that you did not take…

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Ezekiel Chapter 27, Part 1 Lamentation for Tyre VERSE 1 and 2 “The word of the Lord came again to me, saying, “Now, son of man, take up a lamentation for Tyre.” The previous chapter was proclaimed to be a Proclamation against Tyre while Chapter 27 is designated a Lamentation for Tyre. A proclamation is a public or official announcement, especially one dealing with a matter of great importance: a decree, order, edict, command, rule, ruling, announcement, declaration. A lamentation is…

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Ezekiel Chapter 26 VERSE 17 “And they will take up a lamentation for you, and say to you: “How you have perished, O one inhabited by seafaring men, O renowned city, Who was strong at sea, She and her inhabitants, Who caused their terror to be on all her inhabitants!” And they, the (former) “princes” (the various leaders, rulers, both civil and ecclesiastical) of the sea (the waters, the peoples, multitudes, nations and tongues, Rev 17:15), will lament at the…

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Ezekiel Chapter 26 VERSE 12 “They will plunder your riches and pillage your merchandise; they will break down your walls and destroy your pleasant houses; they will lay your stones, your timber, and your soil in the midst of the water.” Verse 12 as we had suggested at the beginning of our previous post, begins the first of the “many nations” (verse 3) following Nebuchadnezzar who would come against Tyre, in this instance the reference to laying the stones, timbers…

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