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715. Bible Study: Isaiah 23 (Prophecy against Tyre, Lebanon) · Faith by annm2705

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  Chapter 23 from the book of Isaiah.
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  Dear God, please help us with this chapter.
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  Give us insight and wisdom from the words that were spoken here.
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  We ask for this in Jesus name, Amen.
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  So about this prophecy against. Tyre I really.
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  Don't have any input. I have probably more questions
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  than anything so. I will just.
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  Read scripture and then I will. Go through the.
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  Questions and answers from the study guide but first of all I
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  want to address something that I missed for chapter 22 and this
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  is a question and answer for that So in regarding chapter 22,
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  the question was how could. God be so.
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  Unforgiving because the nation Nation of.
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  Judah was so. Unrepentant because.
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  God is. Holy, he cannot ignore sin.
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  As it was. God had shown incredible
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  patience towards them even when they had.
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  Repeatedly. Broken their covenant with him.
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  Through the prophets God. Had repeatedly invited people
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  to. Restore their relationship.
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  With him but. People had rejected his.
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  Prophets and his message, even the annihilation of the northern
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  Kingdom of Israel in 722 BC, had failed to convince the people of
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  Judah to repent, though God may. Appear to have.
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  Been unforgiving. In reality, Isaiah was only
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  declaring what the people. Had already decided.
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  They would not repent, they would not change their sinful
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  way of. Life.
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  They would not seek. God, the result?
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  They would not be forgiven, but would.
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  Pay the price for their. Sinful ways.
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  So that's something we can all learn from.
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  If we choose to keep on sinning, we're just going to have to pay
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  the. Price for it?
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  Because there's no forgiveness there.
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  Repentance brings about that. So anyway, let's go into chapter
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  23. A prophecy against Tyre.
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  Whale you. Ships of Tarshish for Tyre is
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  destroyed. Now we'll see from the study.
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  Bible that Tyre was destroyed. And again, this coal chapter
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  makes me wonder, is this something that was?
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  Already fulfilled or does this? Have an end time implication and
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  especially at the very end of this chapter makes me question.
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  So it says whale use ships. Of tar ships for tyre is.
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  Destroyed and left. Without house.
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  Or harbor. We know a harbor and houses
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  exist today from the land. Of Cyprus, the.
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  Island Word has come to them. Be silent, you.
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  People of the. Island and you merchants of
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  Saidon. Saidon is near Tyre in Lebanon,
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  whom the seafarers have enriched on the.
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  Great waters. Came the grain of Shihor.
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  The harvest of the Nile was the revenue.
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  Of Tyre. And she became the marketplace
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  of the nations. Well, I was.
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  Curious about that so I just looked up to.
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  See. You know who does Lebanon trade
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  with and what? Trade products do they have?
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  When it talks about the Nile, you know, is there any
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  connection between Lebanon and the Nile?
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  And there's not really, I mean Lebanon and.
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  Egypt do trade. But if?
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  It talks. About like came or on the great
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  waters came the grain of the Shihor in 2025.
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  The grain. That they.
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  Currently import is mainly from Russia and Ukraine so it doesn't
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  connect. With Egypt so.
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  Again, I don't. I don't really know.
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  This could have been from the past.
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  I'm not really. Sure, I just.
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  Have more questions? So the prophecy continues.
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  Be ashamed, Saidon. And you.
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  Fortress of the Sea for the. Sea has spoken.
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  I have neither been in labor nor given birth.
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  I have neither reared sons nor. Brought up daughters.
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  When word comes to Egypt, they will be in anguish.
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  At the report. From Tyre This completely
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  confuses me also, so I'll. Read what the Study Bible says
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  about this. Why would the sea speak?
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  This is symbolic language the Mediterranean was speaking to.
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  Tyre the fortress. Of the sea and Sidon.
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  Tyre's sister. Phoenician city, 25 miles to the
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  north, The sea, appropriately personified as the mother of the
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  Phoenicians had become. Bereft of her.
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  Children and left as if she never had them because God's
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  judgment. Because of God's.
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  Judgment these great. Coastal.
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  Cities would become. Like a childless.
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  Woman a terrible stigma in Isaiah's.
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  Day. So again, that doesn't.
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  Really help clarify. That to me.
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  It I just. Don't quite understand because I
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  don't know really what happened or if this is something that is
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  about to happen. When it talks about I've neither
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  been in labor nor given birth. I always think about the the
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  labor pains related to the end of the end of times in the
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  Bible. That's what it.
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  Often refers to. So I again, I just don't
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  understand this. I don't have insight.
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  Crossover to Tarshish will you people?
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  Of the island. Is this your city of revelry?
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  The old, old city whose feet? Have taken her to settle in far
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  off lands. Who planned this against Tyre?
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  The bestower of. Crowns whose merchants are
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  Princess, whose traitors are renowned of the earth the Lord
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  Almighty planned it to bring down.
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  Her pride. In all her splendor and to
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  humble all those who are renowned on earth.
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  So there's other prophecies about Tyre where it really does
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  tie. To Satan and and I, I didn't
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  look up. Where those were but.
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  It's it's another prophecy. So I don't know if this.
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  Is like a. Spiritual thing rather than the
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  actual. People.
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  That are there but again we know that Satan was prideful and he
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  was you know. This is.
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  The Lord Almighty planned it to bring down her pride in all her
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  splendor and to humble all who are renowned on the earth.
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  So it's not only. The ruler of Tyre, but.
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  All the renowned people on the on the earth so and it's due to.
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  Pride. This is what is is.
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  Prophesied against Tyre till your land, till your land, as
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  they do along the Nile. Daughter Tarshish.
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  For you no longer. Have a harbor, so the.
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  Harbour's gone. But obviously there is a harbor
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  today, so. Was it gone and then restored
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  again? But then we'll see something at
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  the end of the. Chapter that also.
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  Doesn't make sense. About a restoration.
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  The Lord. Has stretched.
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  Out his hand. Over the sea.
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  And made its Kingdom tremble. He has given an order concerning
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  Phoenicia. That her fortresses be
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  destroyed. He said no more of your
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  revelling virgin daughter Sidon, now crushed up.
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  Crossover to Cyprus. Even there you will find no
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  rest. Look at the land of the
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  Babylonians, the people that is now of no account.
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  The Assyrians have made it a place.
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  For desert creatures, they raised up their siege towers.
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  They stripped its fortress bare. And turned it into a ruin.
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  Whale, you ships of Tarsus, your fortress is destroyed.
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  At that time. Tyre will be.
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  Forgotten for 70 years, the span of a King's life.
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  But at the end of these 70 years, it will happen.
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  To Tyre. As in the song of.
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  The prostitute. So that 70 years kind of stood
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  out to me, The study Bible. Says.
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  What does it mean that tyre will be forgotten for 70 years after
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  seeing a? Cherub Severe.
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  Harassment of Phoenicia in 701 tires trading was.
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  Very largely disrupted. For almost exactly 70 years,
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  when the decline of the Assyrian Empire Empire permitted its
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  commercial recovery, so that you know.
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  That could be. I don't know.
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  Again, that's it says for almost, so it doesn't seem like.
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  Exact, I just looked up also. You know what is significant
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  about 70 years in Lebanon and I found out that.
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  There was a civil war. That went from 1975 to 2005, and
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  it lasted for 70 years. And there were Christians,
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  Druze, and. I guess Israel.
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  Was involved. As well.
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  In the in this civil war that that occurred and eventually
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  what happened with Syria left Lebanon at that point, but
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  Israel and Lebanon are not at peace.
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  So again, I'm just confused. By all of.
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  This, so Isaiah continues, take up a.
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  Harp Walk Walk through the. City you've forgotten prostitute
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  play the. Harp well.
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  Sing many a song so that. You will be.
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  Remembered at the end of 70 years.
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  The Lord will deal with Tyre. He will return her.
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  To her lucrative. Prostitution and will.
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  Ply her trade. With all the kingdoms on the
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  face of the earth. OK, so that would make sense
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  that, you know, if that happened in ancient times with the
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  Assyrians and they didn't have trade going on, they were kind
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  of forgotten. But then it stirred back up
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  again. That would all make sense.
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  But here's the question that I'm like, I don't get this part.
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  So it says that you know, at the end of her 70.
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  Years or at. The end of 70 years.
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  The Lord will deal with Tyre. She will.
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  Return to her. Lucrative.
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  Prostitution and will ply her trade.
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  With all the. Kingdoms on the face of the
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  earth, this is the one that's questioned.
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  Yet her profit. And her earnings?
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  Will be set apart. For the Lord they will not be.
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  Stored up or. Hoarded her prophets.
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  Will go to those who live before.
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  The Lord for abundant food and fine clothes.
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  OK, has that. Ever happened?
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  I don't recall that. Like Lebanon, you know,
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  providing for food and fine, fine clothes.
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  For the people of the Lord. Everything's going to be set
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  apart. Is this something that willingly
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  will happen or is I I don't know.
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  I mean, this is just a big question.
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  So that last statement, that last verse 18 seems like that
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  hasn't ever happened. That has to be.
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  Future. So does that mean that all of
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  this prophecy is one of those again, double fulfilled?
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  Prophecies where it had. A partial fulfillment back in
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  the ancient days, but. It also has a.
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  Future fulfillment. I just don't really know so and
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  the study Bible doesn't help me much with it anyway.
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  So there is a question like. How was Tyre destroyed?
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  From the study Bible Tyres Island.
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  Fortress about. Half Mile Offshore made it
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  appear unconquerable if the mainland portion of the city
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  fell, as it did to Babylon in five, 72 BC.
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  The people. Retreated to the.
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  Island until the invaders left 15 years later, in this case of
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  the babylonian attack, but centuries later Alexander the
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  Great defeated mainland tire then using timber and stones
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  from its ruins, he. Built a Causeway across the
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  water. To the island city, the fortress
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  finally fell in three. 32 BC. Afterward, Alexander crucified.
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  2000 people and sold 30,000 more into slavery and it says.
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  How was Tyre a bestower of? Crowns Tyre, a predominant city
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  of Phoenicia, was an island city of world commerce and great
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  maritime power. Its wealth gave it.
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  Gave it power to bestow. Crowns, that is.
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  Tyre gave. Political and economic power to
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  kings in its colonies. Though the location of Tarshish
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  is uncertain, it certainly was one of Tyres colonies, and Tyres
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  merchants had become so wealthy that they were no longer
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  considered businessmen, but Princess.
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  A part. Of the nobility.
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  Why call Saidon a virgin daughter?
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  Simply to show the contrast between what Saidon was and what
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  she would become. Saidon, along with all of
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  Phoenicia, would no longer be like a young girl enjoying the
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  pampered life she would be. Captured.
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  Beaten and raped, Saidon was. Captured by the.
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  Assyrians and later by the Babylonians.
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  Why would Saidon Cross? Over to Cyprus to escape.
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  Seen a cherub and the Assyrians by finding safety among allies
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  on the island, but any such rest?
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  Would be short lived. Sidon's defeat by the Assyrians
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  was an inevitable was as inevitable as the defeats handed
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  to the not yet powerful Babylon which submitted to domination by
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  Sargon the Second in 710 BC and to sing a cherub in 689 BC.
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  So what does it mean that Tyre will be forgotten for 70?
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  Years after seeing a cherub. Severe harassment of Phoenicia
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  in seven O 1 tyres trading was very.
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  Largely disrupted. For almost exactly 70 years,
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  when the decline of the Assyrian Empire permitted its commercial.
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  Recovery How was Tyre like a prostitute a prostitute?
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  Nation compromised ethical standards.
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  For the sake. Of making a profit and building
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  a thriving business with merchants from many countries.
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  We see that in Revelation chapter 14 verse. 8.
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  Chapter 17, verses one through 5 and verse 18 with a marked
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  change of tone reveals that ultimately it was.
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  God's purpose that the richest. Pagan city symbolized.
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  Here by Tyre. Would be Pagan no longer.
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  But would dedicate all its resources to the worship.
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  Of God. So that was that sentence that
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  kind of stood out to me like these earnings will be set.
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  Apart for the. Lord, they will not be stored up
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  or hoarded. Her prophets will.
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  Go to those who live before the. Lord for abundant food and fine
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  clothes. So that I don't know, that just
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  has to be. Maybe during the Millennium, I'm
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  not sure, but it certainly isn't now.
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  And this chapter only leaves me with more questions, not really
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  answers, so I will wrap this one up.
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  We have a short one and next time we're going to talk about
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  the Lords devastation of the. Earth.
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  So this involves everybody that hasn't been specifically singled
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  out and it has a lot of information.
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  This is certainly end times because he hasn't devastated the
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  entire Earth yet. And you know, this was written
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  after the flood and he promised he wouldn't flood the earth any
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  more, like in total. So that's not going to happen.
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  The next time will be. Basically by fire.
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  And so this will be an interesting 1 S.
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  Hope you come back and join this podcast.
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  To stay in the Word of God.