November 8

<p>Ezekiel 27-29 We are in the Prophetic Stream reading from the Modern English Version. 7streamsmethod.com | @serenatravis | <a href= "https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr?cmd=_s-xclick&hosted_button_id=YPPA8XGTQ2YHU">Donate</a> Commentary by Dr. Drake Travis</p> <blockquote> <div>Lord, what an awful price people pay for mocking you, ignoring you, assuming your role is theirs.  I pray we are the opposite of these wrong-minded people. May we worship and serve you humbly all our days.  Amen.</div> </blockquote> <div>Ezekiel's visions of what is going to happen to Tyre continues:</div> <div>27 - this chapter is the middle of the visions for Tyre.  Here Ezekiel gives an elaborate list of the superlatives that are Tyre.  The impressions of the picturesque city, the exquisite goods that ship through, the regal and ornate ships that move along the coasts and take wares to and from Tyre - it is all listed with aplomb;  as we just read.  But Tyre is about to come apart at the seams. Terror is going to sweep over this city, these people, this region.  Tyre has mocked and jeered at Jerusalem's calamity --> and because of this attitude, they are headed for ruin.  This is one of God's divine rules. Tyre is "on a timer" now.   They will be removed from the map permanently.  Visiting Tyre even today is a walk through an archaeological site.</div> <div>28 - Tyre had a wealthy and confident king who was so self-assured and arrogant that he needs a stern word from God. Tyre's king is that appallingly arrogant. So God is sending a message.  Collateral readings and other historical documents reveal that Tyre's king basically rolled his eyes over these prophesies.  He thought he was "untouchable".  God declared otherwise.  Ezekiel also penned the lament for the king of Tyre.  How do you like that? A death prophecy complete with funeral arrangements, heavens!  And Sidon just to the north was going to see rough days in the near future. They were a headquarters of wretched man-made religion. (Jesus even called its residents "dogs" ca.