The pride of the earth at the end of this age will be the city that will be built in Tyre, Lebanon. The city will be a joint effort by all the nations of the world. They will be glad to contribute to the construction of this city, for there has never been anything like it. Many merchants of the earth will become very wealthy from supplying the wares needed to build the city. All the merchant shipping lines of the world will become extremely wealthy from all the required shipping of the material to build the city and then all the supplies that are needed to maintain the city. The city will produce many goods that will then be needed to be shipped back to the nations. Tyre will be a global commerce capital of the world and likely the global capital. This city will appear to be the answer to all the worlds woes, but it becomes the woe to the world. From the City of Tyre will come a leader who is influenced by Satan and then becomes impowered by Satan. This will be the King of Tyre that the prophet Ezekiel wrote about in his 28th Chapter. The City of Tyre, Ezekiel wrote about in his 27th Chapter. Satan has been scheming to bring the world to this point for quite a while. This city will be short lived. The prophet Jeremiah wrote about this city in his 50th and 51st Chapters in which he concludes in Chapter 51, verse 58, with this;
"...........So the peoples will toil for nothing, and the nations exhausted
only for fire."
John concluded Chapter 17 of Revelation with this city Babylon the Great (Tyre) coming to an end with Jesus putting into the hearts of those who where involved with this city, to destroy the very city they created and to hate her, now knowing they were deceived by her. John begins Chapter 18 with this;
(1)"After these things I saw another angel coming down from heaven, having
great authority, and the earth was illumined with his glory.(2) And he cried out
with a mighty voice, saying,
'Fallen, fallen is Babylon the great! And she has become a
dwelling place of demons and a prison of every unclean and,
hateful bird.(3) For all the nations have drunk of the wine of
the passions of her immorality, and the kings of the earth have
committed acts of immorality with her, and the merchants of
the earth have become rich by the wealth of her sensuality.'
From this city, Satan will feed the lust and desires of the flesh and fallen nature of man. Without having Jesus in ones soul, that soul is always looking for something to fill it. Some over use alcohol, drugs, sex, acquiring material items, religion and a vast number of other things to try to fill the void they feel. These things when abused for this purpose are all used in vain. The soul was meant to be filled with Jesus. Only then can a person feel complete and no longer have to abuse the forementioned items to try to acheive fullfillment. From this city Satan will supply not only these items, but will come up with many more false satisfactions to the lust and desires of man. He will do this to keep them falsely satisfied so that he can drag them futher and further away from the true answer, Jesus. He will make them feel economically secure after a period of great financial insecurity. This has always been a false sense of fullfillment. Wealth means nothing if you are a captive. Satan has always kept people who are deceived in that state, by appearing to give them material stability. The happier he can keep their flesh the less they realize they need the true and eternal answer for their soul, Jesus.
John continues in verse 4;
(4)"And I heard another voice from heaven, saying,
'Come out of her, my people, that you may not participate
in her sins and that you may not receive her plaques; (5)for
her sins have piled up as high as heaven, and God has
remembered her iniquities.(6)Pay her back even as she has
paid, give her back double according to hert deeds; in the
cup which she has mixed, mix twice as much for her.
She will reap what she sowed.
(7)'To the degree that she glorified herself and lived
sensuously, to the same degree give her torment and
mourning; for she says in her heart, I SIT AS A
QUEEN AND I AM NOT A WIDOW, AND WILL
NEVER SEE MOURNING.'
The prophet Isaiah wrote this in his 47th Chapter, verse 7, pertaining to Babylon;
"Yet you said,'I shall be a queen forever.'
John continues in verse 8;
(8)For this reason in one day her plaques will come,
pestilence, and mourning and famine, and she will be
burned up with fire; for the Lord God who judges her
is strong."
May Jesus peace and understanding be with you.
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