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850. Bible Study: Ezekiel 27 (Allied: Lebanon, Syria, Turkey, Iran, Libya, Saudia Arabia, Jordan, Iraq, Yemen) · Faith by annm2705

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  Ezekiel chapter 27 First, let's pray.
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  Dear Lord, please bring things to mind as I read through this
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  and help me to not talk about things in the wrong direction.
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  This there's a lot of things that are not clear in this
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  chapter and and we need guidance from you.
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  We need guidance from the Holy Spirit and wisdom to understand
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  what's written here because there are various
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  interpretations and I know we probably won't get it all right,
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  but we need, we need you to understand what's written here.
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  So I ask that you bring thoughts to mind and scripture to mind,
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  most importantly, scripture to mind to back up anything that I
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  say. And as we go through this
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  chapter, I ask this in Jesus name, Amen.
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  So this chapter I, I want to cover both chapters because they
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  somewhat relate to one another. 27 and 28.
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  We'll see where we go. I will read through this first
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  and I guess comment along the way.
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  Read this study Bibles, questions and answers.
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  Then I'll get into all the research stuff that I did.
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  And there may be 3 or 4 podcasts with this depending on how long
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  it gets. So this is about element over
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  tire. The word of the Lord came to me,
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  Son of man, take up a lament concerning Tyre, say to Tyre,
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  situated at the gateway to the sea, merchant of peoples on many
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  coasts. This is what the Sovereign Lord
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  says. You say, Tyre, I am perfect in
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  beauty. Your domain on the high seas,
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  Your domain was on the high seas.
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  Your builders brought your beauty to perfection.
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  They made all your Timbers of juniper from Senir.
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  They took a cedar from Lebanon to make a mast for you of oaks
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  from Bashan. They made your oars.
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  So that is Syria today. So of oaks from Syria today.
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  They made your oars of Cypress wood from the coast of Cyprus.
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  Turkey occupied this area. They made your deck adorned with
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  ivory. Fine embroidered linen from
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  Egypt was your sail and served as your banner.
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  Your awnings were of blue and purple from the coast of
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  Elishesh. Men of Saidan and Arvad were
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  your oarsmen. That refers to Lebanon and
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  Syria. Your skilled mentire were aboard
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  as your sailors, veteran Craftsman of Byblos were on
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  board. So that's an area north of a
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  modern day area north of Beirut. As shipwrights to caulk your
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  seams, all the ships of the sea and their sailors came along to
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  trade for your wares. Men of Persia, Lydia and Put
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  served as soldiers in your army. So here there's like a tire
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  alliance and those modern day lands are Iran, Turkey and
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  Libya. They hung their Shields and
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  helmets on your walls, bringing you splendor.
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  Men of Arvad and Helik, that's Syria, guarded your walls on
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  every side. Men of Gamad.
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  I did look up Gamad and I have Philippines question mark so I
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  don't know if that's correct or not.
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  Were in your towers. They hung their Shields around
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  your walls and brought your beauty to perfection.
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  Tarshish did business with you because of your great wealth of
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  goods. They exchanged silver, iron and
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  tin for your merchandise. Tarshish was like Cadiz in
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  Spain, Greece, Tubal and Meshech basically in Turkey did business
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  with you. They traded human beings and
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  articles of bronze for your wares.
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  Men of Beth Torgoma exchanged chariot horses, Calvary horses
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  and mules for your merchandise. I can't read what I wrote here
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  about Torgoma, so I'll have to skip that.
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  The men of Rhodes traded with you and many coastlands were
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  your customers. They paid you with ivory, Tusk
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  and Ebony. So Rhodes is also called D Dan
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  in another version of another translation of the Bible, and
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  that would refer to modern day Saudi Arabia.
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  So the men of Rhodes traded with you and many coastlands were
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  your customers. They paid you with ivory, Tusk
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  and Ebony. Aram did business with you
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  because of your many products. They exchanged turquoise, purple
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  fabric, embroidered work, fine linen, coral and rubies for your
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  merchandise. So, Aram, I have Jordan with a
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  question mark on that one. So Judah and Israel trade with
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  you, traded with you. They exchanged wheat from
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  Minneth and confections, honey, olive oil and balm for your
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  wares. Damascus did business with you
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  because of your many products and great wealth of goods.
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  They offered wine from Hellbon, wool from Zahar, and cask of
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  wine from Izell in exchange for your wares.
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  Wrought iron, cassia and calamus, Didan or Saudi Arabia
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  traded in saddle blankets with you, Arabia and all.
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  The Princess of Kedar were your customers.
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  So Kadar was actually Ishmael son.
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  They did business with you in lambs, Rams and goats.
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  The merchants of Sheba, that would be modern day Yemen and
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  Rama traded with you for your merchandise.
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  They exchanged the finest of all spices and precious stones and
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  gold. Heron, Kana and Eden and
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  merchants of Sheba, Asher and Kilmed traded with you.
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  So that would be SE Turkey, Assyria, Iraq and Yemen.
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  That's the modern day locations in your marketplace.
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  They traded with You Beautiful garments, blue fabric
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  embroidered work and multi colored rugs with cords twisted
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  and tightly knotted. The ships of Tarshish serve as
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  carriers for your wares. You are filled with heavy cargo
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  as you sail the sea. Your oarsmen take you out to the
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  high seas, but the east wind will break you to pieces far out
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  at sea. Now this was interesting because
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  I just want to point this out and again, this is, I'm not
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  absolutely certain, but when you look up the original Hebrew, and
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  I've looked this up before, sometimes the word for wind,
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  this is in the NIV version would mean like a Tempest wind, like a
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  something, you know, like a hurricane basically.
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  And so that would be kind of what I was expecting.
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  But the way the word that was used here was Rua, which is
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  spirit. So but the east wind or the
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  spirit will break you to pieces far out to the sea.
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  Now here's a question is as we go on, I will show you how a lot
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  of this description about Tyre does match up with Mystery
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  Babylon. And Mystery Babylon is still a
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  mystery because we I alluded to it a little bit.
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  I, I think it may be a spiritual thing.
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  And actually I'll take a pause for a minute and, and look this
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  up, you know, because I, the more I study the Bible, the more
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  I think mystery Babylon really seems spiritual.
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  And so I just was curious that I, I Google searched this, not
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  like, just to see, like if anybody else has thought this.
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  So is mystery Babylon spiritual? So this was the AI response?
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  Yes, Mystery Babylon is widely interpreted as a spiritual
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  symbol rather than just a literal city or nation
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  representing A corrupt global system of false religion,
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  idolatry, and rebellion against God found in the Book of
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  Revelation chapter 17, verse 5. This quote, mother of harlots,
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  represents spiritual adultery and the antithesis of the true
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  church. So the spiritual symbolism it
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  represents A worldwide system of deception and spiritual adultery
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  where humanity prioritizes human tradition, wealth and self
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  worship over God. So and then it says definition.
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  It is often described as the culmination of all false man
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  made religions and ideologies, which began with the tower of
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  Babel. That's something else that we
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  just talked about in the last podcast.
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  This is, you know, that Babylon keeps re emerging.
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  The first time we heard of Babel was trying to build this tower
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  that would reach the heavens and God said, no, no, no, you're not
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  going to do that. And then we see Babylon being
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  connected with modern day Iraq and invading God's people's
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  territory and conquering. And and then we have like all
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  the way in the very end times in the Book of Revelation that
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  there's this Mystery Babylon where if it is spiritual, maybe
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  there's a lot of spiritual children of Babylon, which
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  ultimately I really think in totality it equates Satan and
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  the fallen angels. That's what I think really
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  Mystery Babylon is Satan and the fallen angels, the angels that
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  were kicked out of heaven because they rebelled against
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  God and they've spread all over the earth.
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  And Satan does have this temporary rule over the the
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  earth currently pretty much Adam and Eve gave up their dominion
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  when they doubted God and then it apparently got turned over to
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  Satan. But Jesus is returning to take
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  over again when he returns, and then he will be the king of
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  kings. And so it has a good ending.
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  But right now we're in this, we're in this transitional state
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  where Satan has a lot of proxies all over the earth and, and
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  there is a, a spiritual battle. And I think more and more
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  people, I'm starting to see a lot more people realizing this.
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  And anyway, I'm not going to get sidetracked.
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  So characteristics, I'm going to go back to Mystery Babylon.
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  Characteristics. It is described as quote being
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  drunk with the blood of the Saints and is aligned with a
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  global worldly political system interpretations.
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  While some interpret it as a future literal city like a
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  revived Rome, many view it as a spiritual, historical and end
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  times religious force that opposes God's truth.
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  It functions as a symbolic entity representing quote city
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  of the world as defined by Augustine, focusing on the love
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  of the world rather than the love of God.
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  So in my opinion is very much similar to this where I do think
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  that it could be, it could be specific cities and it could
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  also be more of a spiritual place.
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  I mean, there is certainly, I mean, when we get into I, I do
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  have tabs later on that I'll talk about in the Book of
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  Revelation where it goes into more detail and I'll talk about
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  all those things because the Book of Revelation actually
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  explains a lot of the questions that people would have if they
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  would just first read the symbolism.
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  Then later in that chapter it explains what all of that is.
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  So I I think Babylon could be maybe both.
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  So there could be a mystery Babylon that is an actual city
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  and it could be multiple cities, it could be multiple locations.
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  Where as a summarized saying, focusing on the love of the
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  world rather than the love of God.
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  And it's a false religion and it's rebellion against God and
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  it's idolatry because like I said, ultimately I believe this
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  Babylon spirit is actually Satan and his fallen angels.
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  And so that's that's my interpretation of the things
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  I've read in the Bible and and obviously other some others
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  believe this could be as well. In fact, there's another one
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  that the ending of gotquestions.org, it says so can
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  the mystery of the horror of Babylon be sold?
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  Yes, at least partially. The horror of Babylon is an evil
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  world system controlled by the Antichrist during the last days
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  before Jesus return. The horror of Babylon also has
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  religious, religious connotations, spiritual,
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  spiritual adultery with the beast being the focus of an
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  ungodly end times religious system.
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  So I think there are, you know, reputable people who see this
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  also as a possibility. And anyway, I'll get back to
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  Scripture, but the going back to Ezekiel chapter 27, verse 26,
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  where it says, but the east wind will break you into pieces far
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  out at sea. So it's something spiritual, a
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  spirit of a destroyer. And sometimes God uses evil
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  against evil and like enemies of his, he'll use them against one
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  another. Well, they will where they will
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  actually destroy one another. So it's not always good versus
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  evil. Sometimes it's evil versus evil
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  and God is in control of all of this.
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  So sometimes God will use something evil to destroy
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  something else evil. So in this case, I don't know
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  and I'm not saying this is what it is, but because it says the
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  Spirit will break you into pieces far out at sea.
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  I just, you know, the spirit of a destroyer.
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  That's what I think about that they're the king over all is the
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  spirit of a destroyer. So ultimately with with humans,
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  the enemy of God, Satan, he, he doesn't even if somebody aligns,
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  even if human beings align themselves with them, it's not
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  beyond Satan to destroy that person.
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  In fact, that's what he does with everybody eventually.
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  They destroy their own lives by following him.
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  So it's not like Satan has compassion over people.
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  He will manipulate them and tempt them and draw them in and
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  confuse them about good things. You know, they'll he'll take
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  things that will appeal to someone's emotion and then
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  manipulate them, but eventually put them on a path to
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  destruction because that's his ultimate goal.
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  It says Satan seeks to kill and destroy.
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  And I think I'm going to do another podcast just about about
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  Satan, about the evil 1 and what scripture says about it.
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  Not to focus on him because I really don't like giving him any
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  time of day. But if you know the enemy, then
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  you can battle against the enemy spiritually.
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  And the Bible does say resist the devil and he will flee.
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  So it's not like it's a hard battle, but you have to
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  recognize, you have to recognize the voice of the enemy.
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  So again, like I said, I'm, I'm going to do a separate podcast
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  on that because I'm not everybody's going to want to go
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  through that. OK, So let's continue here,
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  verse 27 from chapter 27. Your wealth, merchandise and
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  wares, your Mariners, sailors and ship rights, your merchants
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  and all your soldiers and everyone else on board will sink
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  into the heart of the sea on the day of your shipwreck.
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  The shore lands will quake when your sailors cry out.
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  All who handle the oars will abandoned their ships, the
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  Mariners. OK, so that's interesting.
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  All who handled the oars in the earlier it said the oarsmen.
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  Let's see. I forgot where it was, but I
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  remember reading that's OK men of Sidon and Arvad.
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  So that's Lebanon and Syria were your oarsmen.
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  And this is talking about Tyre. And so here it says, let's see.
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  All who handle the oars will abandoned their ships.
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  The Mariners and all the sailors will stand on the shore.
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  They will raise their voice and cry bitterly over you.
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  They will sprinkle dust on their heads and roll in ashes.
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  They will shave their heads because of you and put on
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  sackcloth. They will weep over you with the
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  anguish of the soul and with bitter mourning.
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  As they wail and mourn over you. They will take up a lament
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  concerning you who was ever silenced, like Tyre, surrounded
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  by the sea. When your merchandise went out
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  to the seas, you satisfied many nations with your great wealth
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  and your wares. You enriched the kings of the
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  earth. Now you are shattered by the sea
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  in the depths of the waters. Your wares and all your company
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  have gone down with you. All who live in the coast lands
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  are appalled at you. Their kings shudder with horror
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  and their faces are distorted with fear.
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  The merchants among the nations scoff at you.
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  You have come to a horrible end and will be no more.
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  That's the end of chapter 27. So I think maybe the next
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  chapter gets into a little bit more where it really sounds like
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  Mystery Mystery Babylon, but it's like all the coastland or
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  piles. Like there's this, there's this
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  shocking thing that happens to Mystery Babylon and everyone who
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  sees it is in shock. And Mystery Babylon is called a
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  merchant is called like someone who trades with them.
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  And a lot of times things have a literal and a symbolic
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  significance. So while there may be literal
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  goods that have been traded among these countries or nations
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  that are participating in this chapter, then there could also
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  be like a spiritual tie between all of them.
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  Like the the goods, the wares that they're buying from,
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  they're buying into this idolatrous false religion.
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  Now, let me remind you of the different countries that are
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  referenced in here. Like I looked up each of these
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  ancient, ancient nations or cities and said, where are they
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  today? So I'm just going to read all of
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  the countries from today to kind of give a picture of this.
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  So we're obviously talking about Lebanon, Syria, Turkey, Iran,
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  Libya, Saudi Arabia, Jordan, Ishmael's son, which is
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  southeast Turkey and Iraq and Yemen.
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  It's kind of interesting because I noticed a commonality, I don't
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  know if you did, but all of these that are tied together
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  happen to be Islamic places in Egypt too.
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  I forgot Egypt. So isn't it interesting that
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  Islam is present in all of these?
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  And if you didn't listen to my prior podcast, this is this is
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  kind of weird or coincidental. And I'm not saying that this is
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  factual, but it's something that was observed.
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  The star in the Crescent represent Islam and its moon and
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  celestial bodies. Well, it it came about from
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  ancient Babylon and it was a reference to Ishtar, and Ishtar
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  was called the queen of heaven. Now Satan is the author of
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  confusion and I did. I don't know if it was Inana and
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  Ishtar. They're the same.
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  It's just one is a a Sumerian name and the other one is a
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  Babylonian name for the same entity.
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  They merge together and and they I think it's bad this, this
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  Ishtar being our Inana. I mean, it's love and war put
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  together, but this being is an androgynous being.
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  And think about the influence in our world today over trans
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  rights, LGBTQ, and all of this. There's a spiritual entity
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  that's influencing this. And again, once I do the summary
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  of what the Bible says about Satan, then you will see how
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  Satan does interact and empower people and influence people.
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  So the remedy for this is to get close to God.
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  The Holy Spirit will destroy these strongholds.
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  So we are not captive. But the Bible does say that
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  until we have the Holy Spirit, we are captive by the enemy.
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  The enemy is in control of our lives until that whole, the Holy
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  Spirit of God comes into our life.
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  Until we are in agreement with God, that other spirit is going
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  to wreck our lives. And so this is really important
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  for people to to understand. And that's why I, I do these
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  podcasts because I think there is the enemy is hidden to many
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  people. And I want to expose the enemy
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  because expose the enemy, but also not get people in fear, but
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  let them know the solution. The solution is the Holy Spirit
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  of God. The Holy Spirit of God comes to
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  us through Jesus. OK, that's another thing.
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  Islam does not acknowledge the divinity of Jesus.
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  They will say, oh, he was a good man, he was a prophet and all
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  this, but they, they, they say Allah has no son.
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  So Allah is not the same God. In fact, Allah could be Mystery
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  Babylon and there's just, you know, look at the follow the the
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  trail and see if it makes sense. I'm not saying that I know that
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  because I don't. This is an assumption based on
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  things that I see in the Bible and things that have come to me
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  as I was reading the Bible. And it is there's, I don't know.
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  Anyway, I'm not going to dwell on that very long because I just
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  want to get back to this chapter.
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  Let's read. I will read through the
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  questions and answers from this chapter and then we'll move on
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  to the next one, the next chapter 28.
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  So where was Tyre and why was it special?
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  Tyre was, and still is located on the shores of the
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  Mediterranean Sea in Lebanon. Historically, it was a large,
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  wealthy, cosmopolitan center with a significant seaport that
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  was home base for the legendary Phoenician seafarers of the
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  ancient world. Why would foreigners fight for
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  Tyre? These were mercenaries, soldiers
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  for hire. Hiring armies has been a common
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  practice throughout history. Such soldiers were generally
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  well trained, ruthless, and well paid.
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  Even David used mercenaries and you can find that in a second
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  Samuel chapter 15 verse 18. So again, look at all of these
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  alliances though that we mentioned earlier.
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  Why are all of tires trading partners listed here?
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  Seeing tires influence at the height of its glory days helps
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  us fully understand the dimensions of the destruction
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  that was coming to tire. Seeing the extent of tires,
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  wealth and power enables us to recognize how far it fell and
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  how severely it was judged. This list of trading partners
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  stands in stark contrast to what history lated later recorded a
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  list of those who conquered Tyre, the Babylonians, Persians,
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  Greeks, Romans and Turks. So it's, yeah, it's interesting,
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  like I said, that sometimes God uses enemy against enemy, but
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  here they're all allied together.
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  They're all participating together.
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  And then, of course, people who don't have God have the true
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  God. They seek power, they seek
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  conquering. That's another thing that you
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  know, to control. They seek control.
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  Does God seek? Ask yourself this question.
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  Does the true God seek to control us?
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  He can. He created us.
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  He could easily control us. But what does he do?
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  He gives us free will. He does not control us.
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  He allows us to make a decision. We will have consequences based
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  on our decision, but he does not control us.
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  But the enemy has to control. So that's another thing to look
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  at is controlling. Anyone who's trying to control a
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  situation is not necessarily on God's side.
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  So anyway, let's see, I forgot where I was now.
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  Why would other OK? Why would other nations grieve
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  over Tyres downfall? Perhaps because Tyre had made so
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  many people wealthy in Tyre which trusted in power and
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  wealth? No, if Tyre, which trusted in
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  power and wealth, could fall, then all who profited because of
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  Tyre were also vulnerable. Why would dusty heads and sooty
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  clothes be a sign of mourning? In Ezekiel's time, deep inner
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  sorrow was expressed openly and outwardly.
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  Dust and ashes may have become symbols of mourning because
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  ashes were all that remained following a devastating fire,
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  while dust followed the while dust followed the death of a
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  body. Ashes to ashes and dust to dust
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  continues to this day as a statement of grief and death.
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  So here's another thing that we'll get to in the next chapter
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  2 Like, has this prophecy been accomplished or it does it still
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  remain? Like tires still exist today?
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  And I know that there are scholars who say that, well,
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  it's just not the same as it was before.
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  But the way that Ezekiel describes it, it surely seems
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  like God is saying a lot more than that.
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  Like it's really going to be devastated, like it will not be
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  found anymore. And I don't think that's
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  happened. So that causes me to believe
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  that this is a yet to be fulfilled prophecy.
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  It was maybe partially fulfilled, but again, this is
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  like back in Ezekiel's day. I guess there could be all these
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  different areas of people that came from, you know, the modern
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  day nations help you think about these people.
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  But isn't it interesting also that these alliances have
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  maintained their allies over thousands of years?
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  Think back to when Ezekiel was written and today we are still
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  seeing these entities or these nations aligned with one
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  another. So again that makes me think
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  this is a spiritual thing that perpetuates from generation to
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  generation. So what were these kings afraid
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  of? They were afraid of what
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  happened to Tyre could happen to them.
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  The news of Tyres destruction appalled them because they
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  realized Babylon could do the same to them.
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  They also feared that tires fall would would cause severe
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  economic depression in the region.
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  Why would the merchants of other nations scoff at Tire?
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  To scoff means to express contempt and scorn.
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  Those who had once honored the merchants and leaders of Tire
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  now wanted nothing to do with them.
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  So that's a a change of heart, isn't it?
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  When you're an ally, when you're benefiting from someone and all
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  of a sudden you see their destruction and now you don't
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  like them anymore, that just doesn't quite make sense.
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  And I don't know how that's going to unfold.
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  So anyway, I'm going to stop here but start another podcast
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  on chapter 28 because I just don't want this one to get too
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  long. It's already 30 minutes, so I'll
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  end it here. And if you're not subscribed,
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  please do so. There's some interesting ones.
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  And then there's other chapters that are just OK, but it's
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  staying in the word. I try to do it everyday, miss a
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  few here and there, but our faith comes by hearing the word
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  and actually hearing the word is about Jesus and what He's done
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  for us. So ultimately, there is a
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  Savior. There is someone who gets us out
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  of this mess that we're in, and that Savior is Jesus.