Read: Ezekiel 26: 15-end of chapter 28; 2 Kings 25:3-7; Jeremiah 52: 6-11; Jeremiah 39:2-10
The commerce of the whole world was gathered into the warehouses of Tyre. Tyre means “rock” which is a picture of a word. Tyre was strong and very prosperous as it was a seaport where the main commerce was made. It reminds me of the Twin Towers that we watched fall on 9/11. That is how devastating it was to those who watched as it fell. It affected countries all over the known world. In its prosperity it had forgotten the Lord.
Zedekiah refused to surrender like the Lord had told him to do so the king of Babylon had his sons executed before his eyes, then gouged out his eyes. So the deaths of his sons was the last thing he was allowed to see. Forever that image would haunt him. Then he was exiled to Babylon.
What a hard lesson to learn for the king. I can’t imagine what it would be like to have your nation taken over by enemies and burned to the ground but that is actually happening in parts of the world as we read this. I feel like never before, we are living in Biblical times. It is not hard to read these stories and believe them because we hear about them in our news. God has not changed and he still deals with nations the way he did in the Bible. Our only hope is repentance and to hope in the Lord.
God, we do hope in you. Comfort those who have lost so much to war and famine. Gather your body together to love and care for one another.
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