OBSERVATIONS IN EZEKIEL CHAPTER 28

Ezekiel 28 along with Isaiah 14 are chapters that describe our adversary ha Satan and his rebellion and fall from grace. Recently as I was reading Ezekiel 27 and 28 I saw some things in chapter 28 I’ll share with you in this post.

Chapter 28 begins with an oracle against the prince of Tyre who has deified himself as a god: Son of man, say unto the prince of Tyre, Thus hath the Lord GOD said: Because thy heart has lifted thee up and thou hast said, I am God, I sit in the seat of God, in the midst of the seas (yet thou art man, and not God); and thou hast set thine heart as the heart of God….

In the past I didn’t see that he was referred to as a prince and that Yahweh said he was a man—not God. Verses 3 through 10 then go on to describe how the prince has sinned in deifying and enriching himself.

Then verse 11 begins a dirge for the king of Tyre: ¶ And the word of the LORD came unto me, saying, Son of man, raise up lamentations upon the king of Tyre and say unto him, Thus hath the Lord GOD said: Thou dost seal up the sum of perfection, full of wisdom, and completed in beauty.

Thou hast been in Eden the garden of God; every precious stone was thy covering: the sardius, topaz, diamond, turquoise, onyx, and beryl, the sapphire, ruby, and emerald, and gold; the works of thy tambourines and of thy pipes were prepared in thee in the day that thou wast created.

Thou, great cherub, wast covered, and I placed thee; thou wast in the holy mountain of God; thou hast walked among stones of fire. Thou wast perfect in all thy ways from the day that thou wast created, until iniquity was found in thee. Because of the multitude of thy trafficking thou wast filled with violence, and thou hast sinned; and I cast thee out of the mountain of God, and I cast thee unto evil from among the stones of fire, O cherub that wast covered.

For the first time in my reading of this chapter I noticed an address to the prince and another to the King. Let’s look at both of these words:

Prince – Strong’s Hebrew #5057 – leader, ruler, captain, governor, chief ruler.

King – Strong’s Hebrew #4428 – King, royal ruler, prominent leader in a covenant and is often used as “God”, supreme sovereign, set up to be king or ruler

As I continued reading down through verse 19 I began to understand that the prince is describing the Antichrist and the King is describing ha Satan. The prince will be the man that ha Satan will enter and control during the tribulation period.

Yahweh is describing the personalities of both the antichrist and ha Satan (the Adversary) to us in these verses. In the past I had viewed verses 1-19 as only describing ha Satan. As I continued reading through the chapter I began to see the entire tribulation period come into view in verses 20-24: ¶ And the word of the LORD came unto me, saying, Son of man, set thy face against Zidon and prophesy against her and say, Thus hath the Lord GOD said: Behold, I am against thee, O Zidon; and I will be glorified in the midst of thee; and they shall know that I am the LORD, when I shall have executed judgments in her and shall be sanctified in her.

For I will send into her pestilence and blood into her streets; and the dead shall fall in the midst of her, by the sword upon her on every side; and they shall know that I am the LORD. And there shall no longer be a pricking brier unto the house of Israel, nor any thorn that causes him pain, round about them of those that despise them; and they shall know that I am the Lord GOD.

These verses are describing the final judgment upon the World Order that has rebelled against Yahweh. It is describing that and the final battle of Armageddon. Zidon in these verses is the type for the beast government that will be led by antichrist.

Finally we read verses 25-26: Thus hath the Lord GOD said: When I shall have gathered the house of Israel from the peoples among whom they are scattered and shall be sanctified in them in the eyes of the Gentiles, then they shall dwell in their land that I have given to my slave Jacob. And they shall dwell safely therein and shall build houses and plant vineyards; and they shall dwell with confidence, when I have executed judgments in all those that spoil them round about them; and they shall know that I am the LORD their God.

The final regathering of Israel is described in these great verses. The House of Judah and Israel are reunited in the land (Ezekiel 37.15-28), we receive our land inheritance (Ezekiel 47.22-23) and we rule and reign with King Yeshua in the Millennial Kingdom (Revelation 20.6).

The Gentiles represent the nations who have not been grafted into Israel due to unbelief. All who accept Yeshua are grafted into Israel as the Apostle Paul describes in Ephesians 2.10-3.8

It always amazes me how we can read scripture over and over and not see until our eyes are opened. Our Father likes to hide his information in plain sight. I love it when my eyes are opened!