Dave Burnette's Commentary

Ezekiel Chapter 28

Written By: God through Inspiration
Penned By: Ezekiel
Date Penned: BC 571
Overview: Messages Against Seven Nations (c 25-32)
Theme: The Reality of Punishment (c 12-32)
Message: The king of Tyre is Condemned (v 1-26) 
 
Ezekiel: Chapter 28 Commentary
 
(28:1) Previously Ezekiel prophesied against the city of Tyre but now he focuses his prophecy on Tyre’s Leader. The chief sin of Tyre’s King was pride, believing himself to be a god. But Ezekiel also made a broader spiritual application, speaking about the spiritual king of Tyre, Satan, Home the people were really following.

(28:2,3) Daniel, and important official in Nebuchadnezzar’s kingdom, was already renowned for his wisdom. Daniel proclaim that all his wisdom came from God. By contrast, the king of Tyre Thought himself was a god. When truly wise people get closer to God, they recognize their need to depend on God for guidance.

(28:6-10) The enemy army that captured Tyre Was the Babylonian Army under Nebuchadnezzar. This occurred in 573 or 572 BC.

(28:12-19) Some of the phrases in this passage describing the human king of Tyre may describe Satan. Great care must be taken to interpret these verses with discernment. It is clear that, at times, Ezekiel describes the king in terms that could not apply to a mere man. This king had been in the garden of Eden, had been a guardian angel, and had access to the holy mountain of God, but was cast down from there. Ezekiel therefore, may have been condemning not only the king of Tyre, But Satan, Who had motivated him to sin.

(28:20,21) Sidon Was another famous support, located 25 miles north of Tyre. God charged  this city with contempt for his people. Sidon’s economy was bound to Tyre’s, so when Tyre fell to Nebuchadnezzar, Sidon was doomed to follow.

(28:24-26) this promise that God‘s people will live in complete safety has yet to be fulfilled. While many were allowed to return from excel under Zerubbabel, Ezra, and Nehemiah, and although the political nation is restored today, the inhabitants do not yet live in complete safety. Therefore, this promise will have its ultimate fulfillment when Christ sets up his eternal Kingdom. Then all people who have been faithful to God will dwell together in harmony and complete safety.

 


Dave Burnette's Life Application


Pride's Path

 

Each day we walk through the Bible chapter by chapter making an application of our text to help us grow in the Lord. Many applications can be made from each day's text. Today we continue the Book of Ezekiel with Chapter 28. In our text today we see the King of Tyre is condemned for as a leader who fell as a result of pride, this King elevated himself to be a god. In making application we see the path of pride showing us the that pride is self worship. Today in our self serving world most make themselves their own God and find them selves as the King of Tyre resulting in failure. How about you? Are you your own god? Let us learn from our test today and the example of the King of Tyre to see the path of pride is self worship and failure.

 

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Ezekiel 28

Ezekiel 28

 1The word of the LORD came again unto me, saying,

 2Son of man, say unto the prince of Tyrus, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Because thine 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 a man, and not God, though thou set thine heart as the heart of God:

 3Behold, thou art wiser than Daniel; there is no secret that they can hide from thee:

 4With thy wisdom and with thine understanding thou hast gotten thee riches, and hast gotten gold and silver into thy treasures:

 5By thy great wisdom and by thy traffick hast thou increased thy riches, and thine heart is lifted up because of thy riches:

 6Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD; Because thou hast set thine heart as the heart of God;

 7Behold, therefore 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.

 8They shall bring thee down to the pit, and thou shalt die the deaths of them that are slain in the midst of the seas.

 9Wilt thou yet say before him that slayeth thee, I am God? but thou shalt be a man, and no God, in the hand of him that slayeth thee.

 10Thou shalt die the deaths of the uncircumcised by the hand of strangers: for I have spoken it, saith the Lord GOD.

 11Moreover the word of the LORD came unto me, saying,

 12Son of man, take up a lamentation upon the king of Tyrus, and say unto him, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Thou sealest up the sum, full of wisdom, and perfect in beauty.

 13Thou hast been in Eden the garden of God; every precious stone was thy covering, the sardius, 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 prepared in thee in the day that thou wast created.

 14Thou art the anointed cherub that covereth; and I have set thee so: thou wast upon the holy mountain of God; thou hast walked up and down in the midst of the stones of fire.

 15Thou wast perfect in thy ways from the day that thou wast created, till iniquity was found in thee.

 16By the multitude of thy merchandise they have filled the midst of thee with violence, and thou hast sinned: therefore I will cast thee as profane out of the mountain of God: and I will destroy thee, O covering cherub, from the midst of the stones of fire.

 17Thine heart was lifted up because of thy beauty, thou hast corrupted thy wisdom by reason of thy brightness: I will cast thee to the ground, I will lay thee before kings, that they may behold thee.

 18Thou hast defiled thy sanctuaries by the multitude of thine iniquities, by the iniquity of thy traffick; therefore will I bring forth a fire from the midst of thee, it shall devour thee, and I will bring thee to ashes upon the earth in the sight of all them that behold thee.

 19All they that know thee among the people shall be astonished at thee: thou shalt be a terror, and never shalt thou be any more.

 20Again the word of the LORD came unto me, saying,

 21Son of man, set thy face against Zidon, and prophesy against it,

 22And say, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I am against thee, O Zidon; and I will be glorified in the midst of thee: and they shall know that I am the LORD, when I shall have executed judgments in her, and shall be sanctified in her.

 23For I will send into her pestilence, and blood into her streets; and the wounded shall be judged in the midst of her by the sword upon her on every side; and they shall know that I am the LORD.

 24And there shall be no more a pricking brier unto the house of Israel, nor any grieving thorn of all that are round about them, that despised them; and they shall know that I am the Lord GOD.

 25Thus saith the Lord GOD; When I shall have gathered the house of Israel from the people among whom they are scattered, and shall be sanctified in them in the sight of the heathen, then shall they dwell in their land that I have given to my servant Jacob.

 26And they shall dwell safely therein, and shall build houses, and plant vineyards; yea, they shall dwell with confidence, when I have executed judgments upon all those that despise them round about them; and they shall know that I am the LORD their God.