Got a Question about Ezekiel 26

[Murph]

I was reading a little about it in the Yahoo news and drew the same conclusion...but something did catch my eye...

news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=578&u=/nm/20060805/ts_nm/mideast_dc_7

Neither side shows any sign of letting up...

Brother Lawerence. I sure am praying for you to come shed some light on all of this for us...

[Murph]

What caught me eye was the attitude of the residents of SIDON...not Tyre but SIDON...

haven't had time to go read all the passages pretainning to Tyre and Sidon...but maybe we are seeing a far prophecy about to be fulfilled...

The people of Sidon have the same attitude displayed so long ago. The have been warned by Israel to leave before the bombing starts and they seem not to believe Israel...they still think they are under no real threat from forgion invasion or destruction...

[Murph]

Whitestone school of spellling kickin' in and I am too tired to correct it...

[babysteps]

yiiiiiikes is when i read it Ezekieal 26 is look like that this be now for tyre and sidon is get destroyed i was wonder is God real mad at these ones ? this it say in thats pretty scary and so this one is geeesh! how come ? Ezekiel 26:1 And it came to pass in the eleventh year, in the first day of the month, that the word of the LORD came unto me, saying,
Ezekiel 26:2 Son of man, because that Tyrus hath said against Jerusalem, Aha, she is broken that was the gates of the people: she is turned unto me: I shall be replenished, now she is laid waste:
Ezekiel 26:3 Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I am against thee, O Tyrus, and will cause many nations to come up against thee, as the sea causeth his waves to come up.
Ezekiel 26:4 And they shall destroy the walls of Tyrus, and break down her towers: I will also scrape her dust from her, and make her like the top of a rock.
Ezekiel 26:5 It shall be a place for the spreading of nets in the midst of the sea: for I have spoken it, saith the Lord GOD: and it shall become a spoil to the nations.
Ezekiel 26:6 And her daughters which are in the field shall be slain by the sword; and they shall know that I am the LORD. why is God mad at them?

[babysteps]

did tyre hurt jerusalem?

[Murph]

Yes...they did then and are now. Lebanon is allowing Hezbollah to operate from their country to attack Israel. In that act they are supporting Hezbollah and their terrorism against Israel...

Since Sidon and Tyre are still there today and are not yet destroyed, I figure we may be seeing the final destruction. Maybe not...we wait and see what God has planned.

BTW...that section concerning Sidon and Tyre extends into Chapters 27 and 28 too.

[snowrosies]

woe be to lebanon and the other ones also it looks as if it has come to a time of reckoning and I am thinking also of the exact page that was recent found in a Irish bog it is very phrophetic word for this time were in Psalms 83:1 Keep not thou silence, O God: hold not thy peace, and be not still, O God.
Psalms 83:2 For, lo, thine enemies make a tumult: and they that hate thee have lifted up the head.
Psalms 83:3 They have taken crafty counsel against thy people, and consulted against thy hidden ones.
Psalms 83:4 They have said, Come, and let us cut them off from being a nation; that the name of Israel may be no more in remembrance.
Psalms 83:5 For they have consulted together with one consent: they are confederate against thee:
Psalms 83:6 The tabernacles of Edom, and the Ishmaelites; of Moab, and the Hagarenes;
Psalms 83:7 Gebal, and Ammon, and Amalek; the Philistines with the inhabitants of Tyre;
Psalms 83:8 Assur also is joined with them: they have holpen the children of Lot. Selah.
Psalms 83:9 Do unto them as unto the Midianites; as to Sisera, as to Jabin, at the brook of Kison:
Psalms 83:10 Which perished at Endor: they became as dung for the earth.
Psalms 83:11 Make their nobles like Oreb, and like Zeeb: yea, all their princes as Zebah, and as Zalmunna:
Psalms 83:12 Who said, Let us take to ourselves the houses of God in possession.
Psalms 83:13 O my God, make them like a wheel; as the stubble before the wind.
Psalms 83:14 As the fire burneth a wood, and as the flame setteth the mountains on fire;
Psalms 83:15 So persecute them with thy tempest, and make them afraid with thy storm.
Psalms 83:16 Fill their faces with shame; that they may seek thy name, O LORD.
Psalms 83:17 Let them be confounded and troubled for ever; yea, let them be put to shame, and perish:
Psalms 83:18 That men may know that thou, whose name alone is JEHOVAH, art the most high over all the earth.

[Lawrence]

Dear Brother Keith:
Thank you for inviting my comments. I have no insight at the moment on Tyre and Sidon except that the Philistines the sea-faring Phonecians came from here.
Flavius Josephus records in his authoritative Jewish History volume "The Antiquities of the Jews" that Alexander the Great used Sidon and Tyre as his amphibious landing areas for the advancing Greco-Macedonian forces enroute to Jerusalem, another port city was Gaza.

Read the account of the same in:

www.ccel.org/j/josephus/works/ant-11.htm

Special reference:
www.ccel.org/j/josephus/works/ant-11.htm
CHAPTER 8.

CONCERNING SANBALLAT AND MANASSEH, AND THE TEMPLE WHICH THEY BUILT ON MOUNT GERIZZIM; AS ALSO HOW ALEXANDER MADE HIS ENTRY INTO THE CITY JERUSALEM, AND WHAT BENEFITS HE BESTOWED ON THE JEWS.

Chapter 8 para 5
Alexander salutes the Jewish High Priest Jaddua and says to his alliances commanders:
"....To whom he replied, "I did not adore him, but that God who hath honored him with his high priesthood; for I saw this very person in a dream, in this very habit, when I was at Dios in Macedonia, who, when I was considering with myself how I might obtain the dominion of Asia, exhorted me to make no delay, but boldly to pass over the sea thither, for that he would conduct my army, and would give me the dominion over the Persians; whence it is that, having seen no other in that habit, and now seeing this person in it, and remembering that vision, and the exhortation which I had in my dream, I believe that I bring this army under the Divine conduct, and shall therewith conquer Darius, and destroy the power of the Persians, and that all things will succeed according to what is in my own mind....."


However Alexander the Great according Josephus destroyed Sidon and Tyre fulfilling Ezekiel 26.

In the Eschatological sense, my reading is that the advancing Gog-Magog forces primarily the Russian Naval amphibous fleets would be using Tyre and Sidon along with the Syrian port of Latakia to disembark the assembly of the Russian Naval Infantary and the ground assault forces.
Ezekiel 38:9 KJV says
"...9Thou shalt ascend and come like a storm, thou shalt be like a cloud to cover the land, thou, and all thy bands, and many people with thee..."
www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Ezekiel%2038&version=9.

That means the Russian and the Muslim allied nations armies would be teeming in the region. The only way they can reach Northern Israel would be through Lebanon and the only way they can reach Lebanon in large numbers is by sea and Tyre,Sidon Latakia would prove the amphibious landing ports.

In the present crisis US naval expeditionary strike group moved into Lebanon through these points to extract US citizens.
Tyre and Sidon though destroyed extensively by Israeli air raids would still be there for the advancing forces of Gog-Magog.

However, the greatest miracle would take place--the supernatural massive annhilation of the forces so much so that Russia would cease to exist.
Israel would be wonderfully and miraculously preserved by our Lord God

Shalom,
Lawrence.

Here is another news on Iran's reaction to the Lebanon crisis from the authentic and reputed analysis of Debka:

Tehran Takes Gloomy View of the Lebanon War and Truce
www.debka.com/article.php?aid=1201

[charlescameron]

Some notes on Ezekiel 26.
‘I am against you, O Tyre... You will be no more... You will never again be found...’(3,21). God’s Word is spoken against us: ‘There is no-one righteous... All have turned away... There is no-one who does good... All have sinned...’(Romans 3:10,12.23). God speaks His Word against us ‘so that every mouth may be silenced’(Romans 3:19). He wants us to to stop making excuses for ourselves. He wants us to start listening to what He has to say to us. For the city of Tyre, the situation was hopeleess. For us, there is a Word of hope. Jesus Christ has come ‘to seek and to save the lost’. Jesus Christ has ‘died for our sins’(Luke 19:10; 1 Peter 3:18). ‘Through faith in Jesus Christ’, we hear God’s Word of forgiveness: ‘I will remember their sins no more’(Romans 3:22; Hebrews 8:12; 10:17).

[veterinarian]

May 16, 2009 8:55:47 GMT -6 charlescameron said:

Some notes on Ezekiel 26.
‘I am against you, O Tyre... You will be no more... You will never again be found...’(3,21). God’s Word is spoken against us: ‘There is no-one righteous... All have turned away... There is no-one who does good... All have sinned...’(Romans 3:10,12.23). God speaks His Word against us ‘so that every mouth may be silenced’(Romans 3:19). He wants us to to stop making excuses for ourselves. He wants us to start listening to what He has to say to us. For the city of Tyre, the situation was hopeleess. For us, there is a Word of hope. Jesus Christ has come ‘to seek and to save the lost’. Jesus Christ has ‘died for our sins’(Luke 19:10; 1 Peter 3:18). ‘Through faith in Jesus Christ’, we hear God’s Word of forgiveness: ‘I will remember their sins no more’(Romans 3:22; Hebrews 8:12; 10:17).