July 31, 2010 Your Lord Forever!

July 31, 2010
Read Ezekiel 26 – 27

Ezek 26:3-6 therefore this is what the Sovereign LORD says: I am against you, O Tyre, and I will bring many nations against you, like the sea casting up its waves. 4 They will destroy the walls of Tyre and pull down her towers; I will scrape away her rubble and make her a bare rock. 5 Out in the sea she will become a place to spread fishnets, for I have spoken, declares the Sovereign LORD. She will become plunder for the nations, 6 and her settlements on the mainland will be ravaged by the sword. Then they will know that I am the LORD.

TYRE was a powerful trading city on the Mediterranean Sea coast. It still exists on the coast of Lebanon and is mainly a fishing and tourist village.

What happened to its power? Here is a picture of how God protects his own, even whenhis own have turned from him. God changed the city by the hand of Babylon. Even as he punished his people in Jerusalem, he would allow only Babylon to be their conqueror. He would not make Jerusalem an economic slave of other nations. He put a shield around his people to protect them for their future restoration.

As a result, God destroyed Tyre’s mainland city during Israel’s exile, and its island section remained until 322 B.C. when Alexander the Great completed the prophesy, reducing the city to rubble and bare rock.

God is about his business through the ages. He has shown here how he protects his people by destroying evil around it.

He has promised to do the same in the world one day. Yes the prophesies of the future are about God protecting his own forever. As surely as his prophecies of old have come true, so will his prophecies of tomorrow.

Trust God’s prophecies. And prepare for his eternal power and peace to reign. Turn to him as your Lord. It’s forever.