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| 1 The word of Jehovah came again unto me, saying, |
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Verses 1-10 are clearly about the Prince of Tyrus, the Pope.
Verses 11-19 are about the King of Tyrus, Satan.
Verses 20-24 are about Zidon. Tyre (Tyrus) and Sidon (Zidon) are coupled together by our Lord Jesus several times in the New Testament. - Suggestion: As Tyrus pictures Christendom (and especially the union of the Catholic church with the state) Zidon may picture Protestantism.
Verses 25 and 26 are about Jacob, natural Israel. |
| 2 Son of man, say unto the prince of Tyre, Thus saith the Lord Jehovah: Because thy 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 man, and not God, though thou didst set thy heart as the heart of God; |
Prince of Tyrus – Verses 1 to 10 give an exact description of the Pope of Rome, who is Satan's vicegerent on earth. R1237:1*[R1237*]
Tyre represents the kingdom of Satan. R1237:1*[R1237*]
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Son of man – Pastor Russell as the earthly mouthpiece of the Returned Son of Man our glorified Lord Jesus. See son of man.
Prince of Tyrus – The Pope. |
| 3 behold, thou art wiser than Daniel; there is no secret that is hidden from thee; |
Than Daniel – Whose great wisdom is thus acknowledged by Ezekiel, Daniel's contemporary. R3630:3
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| 4 by thy wisdom and by thine understanding thou hast gotten thee riches, and hast gotten gold and silver into thy treasures; |
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| 5 by thy great wisdom and by thy traffic hast thou increased thy riches, and thy heart is lifted up because of thy riches; |
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| 6 therefore thus saith the Lord Jehovah: Because thou hast set thy heart as the heart of God, |
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| 7 therefore, behold, I will bring strangers upon thee, the terrible of the nations; and they shall draw their swords against the beauty of thy wisdom, and they shall defile thy brightness. |
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| 8 They shall bring thee down to the pit; and thou shalt die the death of them that are slain, in the heart of the seas. |
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| 9 Wilt thou yet say before him that slayeth thee, I am God? but thou art man, and not God, in the hand of him that woundeth thee. |
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| 10 Thou shalt die the death of the uncircumcised by the hand of strangers: for I have spoken it, saith the Lord Jehovah. |
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| 11 Moreover the word of Jehovah came unto me, saying, |
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| 12 Son of man, take up a lamentation over the king of Tyre, and say unto him, Thus saith the Lord Jehovah: Thou sealest up the sum, full of wisdom, and perfect in beauty. |
The king of Tyrus – Symbolizing Satan. R3187:2*
Verses 11 to 19 give a description of Satan. R1237:1*[R1237*]
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King of Tyrus – Satan. This shows the true relation between Satan (king) and the Pope (prince.) |
| 13 Thou wast in Eden, the garden of God; every precious stone was thy covering, the sardius, the 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 in thee; in the day that thou wast created they were prepared. |
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Thou – Satan.
Hast been in Eden – As recorded in Gen. 3. |
| 14 Thou wast the anointed cherub that covereth: and I set thee, so that thou wast upon the holy mountain of God; thou hast walked up and down in the midst of the stones of fire. |
Anointed cherub – Satan was created an angel of a very high order. OV298:2[OV298]; R3187:2*
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Anointed cherub that covereth – A cherub is an extremely powerful angel. Remember on the ark of the covenant were two cherubs picturing love and power. The Ark too was anointed (Exo. 30:26). In that symbolic picture the two cherubims (attributes of love and power) spread their wings and covered the ark. Exo. 25:20. |
| 15 Thou wast perfect in thy ways from the day that thou wast created, till unrighteousness was found in thee. |
Iniquity was found – Then estrangement from God becomes rapid. OV298:3[OV298]
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| 16 By the abundance of thy traffic they filled the midst of thee with violence, and thou hast sinned: therefore have I cast thee as profane out of the mountain of God; and I have destroyed thee, O covering cherub, from the midst of the stones of fire. |
Mountain of God – Kingdom of God. A318[A318]
Covering cherub – Of the highest order of angels, glorious and beautiful. OV15:3[OV15]; SM95:1; Q826:T
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| 17 Thy heart was lifted up because of thy beauty; thou hast corrupted thy wisdom by reason of thy brightness: I have cast thee to the ground; I have laid thee before kings, that they may behold thee. |
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| 18 By the multitude of thine iniquities, in the unrighteousness of thy traffic, thou hast profaned thy sanctuaries; therefore have I brought forth a fire from the midst of thee; it hath devoured thee, and I have turned thee to ashes upon the earth in the sight of all them that behold thee. |
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| 19 All they that know thee among the peoples shall be astonished at thee: thou art become a terror, and thou shalt nevermore have any being. |
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| 20 And the word of Jehovah cane unto me, saying, |
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| 21 Son of man, set thy face toward Sidon, and prophesy against it, |
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| 22 and say, Thus saith the Lord Jehovah: Behold, I am against thee, O Sidon; and I will be glorified in the midst of thee; and they shall know that I am Jehovah, when I shall have executed judgments in her, and shall be sanctified in her. |
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| 23 For I will send pestilence into her, and blood into her streets; and the wounded shall fall in the midst of her, with the sword upon her on every side; and they shall know that I am Jehovah. |
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| 24 And there shall be no more a pricking brier unto the house of Israel, nor a hurting thorn of any that are round about them, that did despite unto them; and they shall know that I am the Lord Jehovah. |
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| 25 Thus saith the Lord Jehovah: When I shall have gathered the house of Israel from the peoples among whom they are scattered, and shall be sanctified in them in the sight of the nations, then shall they dwell in their own land which I gave to my servant Jacob. |
When I shall – Very shortly to be brought to pass, and is even now beginning to be fulfilled. R1630:2
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| 26 And they shall dwell securely therein; yes, they shall build houses, and plant vineyards, and shall dwell securely, when I have executed judgments upon all those that do them despite round about them; and they shall know that I am Jehovah their God. |
Executed judgments – Under the righteous reign of "The Christ" before the great "white throne" of truth. R541:5*
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