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In Tyre, the walls built around the city went right down to the sea. They were particularly well guarded
against attack. They thought they were invulnerable, and apart from a miracle from God, they pretty
much were. But, God attacked them where it hurt: in their wealth.

Tyre was generally a friend of Israel, but when Jerusalem fell, Ezekiel 26: 2-3 they rejoiced in seeing it
collapse.

Even though they didn’t worship God, He holds them accountable for their failure to support Israel. The
whole world is in God’s hands, whether they acknowledge Him or not.

V. 10-12 God ‘stretched out His hand’ to shake the kingdoms. That same hand of God had been
extended many different times to reach out to the Gentiles, but it was always rejected.

They could try to flee, to Cyprus or anywhere, but they would still find no rest.

V. 13-14 The land of the Chaldeans was Babylon, which currently was not a military threat. They were a
people ‘which was not’. But God, through Isaiah, tells Tyre and Sidon that it would be the Chaldeans,
the Babylonians, that would bring them to ruin, and that is exactly what happened.

None of this happens because of any strength or power in Babylon. It happened because God ordained
that it would happen. Nothing happens outside of His knowledge.

V. 15-18 The city of Tyre will be forgotten for 70 years. Their trade is compared to be a harlot.

At the end of the 70 years, the Lord ‘will deal’ with Tyre, and she will return to her trade, her
prostitution. What she makes, her ‘gain’ will be set apart for the Lord.

In the US, it comes up from time to time about what would happen if someone won the lottery and
wanted to tithe to the church. I’ve heard people say that we shouldn’t accept it because of its source,
I’ve heard others say that we don’t really know the source of any money that comes into the church. In
V. 18 God tells us that this money coming from what is called prostitution well be set apart for the Lord.
‘The meek will inherit the earth’. Matthew 5: 5.

Later scriptures show us that Tyre, or at least parts of it, were evangelized. Luke 6: 17-20, Matthew 15:
21-28, Acts 21: 3-6

God knew these things even before the destruction of the economy of Tyre and Sidon was carried out.

Chapter 24 - Main Idea: God’s ongoing judgment of human cities one
after another culminates in the destruction of the final version of the
rebellious ‘City of Man’ by the glory of Christ’s second coming.

After going through individual cities and nations punishments in the past
several chapters, we now see the prophecy about the end times, Chapter 24-27. In the US and
presumably around the world, there is an obsession with ‘when’ this will take place.

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