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Ezekiel 
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Day 281

"When I make you a desolate city"

Text: Ezekiel 26:19

GOD’S SOVEREIGNTY

The fortune of fate of any nation depends on the Lord’s will and sovereignty. Tyre refused to acknowledge that it was subject to God. It believed that the destiny of the nation depended solely upon its leaders and not God. They were proven wrong completely.

“For thus says the Lord God:
‘When I make you a desolate city,
like cities that are not inhabited,
when I bring the deep upon you,
and great waters cover you,
then I will bring you down with those who descend into the Pit,
to the people of old,
and I will make you dwell in the lowest part of the earth,
in places desolate from antiquity,
with those who go down to the Pit,
so that you may never be inhabited;
and I shall establish glory in the land of the living.
I will make you a terror, and you shall be no more;
though you are sought for, you will never be found again,’
says the Lord God.”
Ezekiel 26:19-21

1. God’s sovereign will.

a) God’s will is sovereign.

b) No matter how great any nation may be, it is still subject to God’s will.

2. It is God who can do the following things:

a) He can make a city desolate.

b) He can cause a city to be uninhabited.

c) He can cause Tyre to be drowned by the sea.

3. Descending into the Pit.

a) This is a reference to the abode of the dead.

b) God can cause a nation to die and transferred to the lowest level of the earth.

c) God will consign Tyre to go down to the Pit.

d) Tyre would never be inhabited and enjoy glory anymore.

e) Many would seek Tyre and hope to raise it up to its former glory.

f) But all these attempts would fail.

g) God’s sovereign will cannot be contravened.

h) Tyre would never be a powerful nation ever again.

This was a sobering message for Tyre and all the coastlands to hear!