The American Wisdom Series

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Pamphlet #6305

Claiming you didn't "hear" Him ask you won't be an excuse when you stand before Him, for there is no shortage of Bibles in our land.

This 28th chapter of Ezekiel is one of the most informative chapters in God's Word concerning Satan, for it not only tells us that he was created like all the rest of us, but it tells us how he operated in the first earth age and how he operates today, in this final generation, which if you have eyes to see and ears to hear, you will understand is very much like the way it became in the first earth age right before God destroyed it!

We also learned that the beginning of the end for Satan, who was once an admired prince of our people, all started when he became prideful and full of "self" (ego) and began to think of himself as being the provider to all of God's children. You can be sure he had every opportunity to repent and change his ways and return to the perfect ways of God that he once faithfully followed. But alas, he was judged and sentenced to die, to perish and be no more! That is why he is called the son of perdition!

Through the manipulation of the powers of civil authority and education and religion and the economy, Satan caused 1/3 of God's children to become "liberals" and follow his "systems" in the world that then was (2 Pet. 3:6). But our loving Father decided not to hold judgment for those children who fell away, but rather to postpone it until after His Plan of Salvation was complete and everyone had a fair and ample opportunity to learn through the pain and suffering and death of the flesh, that they will surely die (the second death, which is of their soul) if they continue to follow Satan.

You see, our Father is in complete control and we must come to realize that all governments and nations and peoples exist because of Him, period, and nothing happens unless He has either allowed it or caused it to happen. The Plan of God which is so full of rewards for those who love Him, also many times includes the just chastisement of people [it is important that you learn to recognize this personal chastisement for what it is and change your actions and/or thoughts accordingly] and nations. The reason is that His Plan is a Plan of Love, call it "tough love" if you must, designed to bring back His sons to Him, to "salvage" (salvation) them, so that they might escape the same judgment given to Satan, which is to perish. God even gave His only begotten Son as the sacrificial Passover Lamb to atone for the sins of all those who will accept Jesus Christ and believe in Him and follow His commandments.

So when we read of the judgments brought upon the peoples and the cities and the nations of the world we must always remember that it is for one purpose, and one purpose only, "That they shall KNOW that HE is the Lord God". We are now ready to read about the judgment of Zidon.

Zidon was the mother city, which was located along the mainland coastline just a "stone's throw" from the rock island city of Tyrus. God was against this city of Zidon and she was overthrown along with Tyre.

Here is a second witness to the demise of Tyre, daughter of Zidon, as recorded in Isaiah 23:

Isaiah 23:4
Be thou ashamed, O Zidon: for the sea hath spoken, even the strength of the sea, saying, I travail not, nor bring forth children, neither do I nourish up young men, nor bring up virgins.

[5]As at the report concerning Egypt, so shall they be sorely pained at the report of Tyre.

[6] Pass ye over to Tarshish; howl, ye inhabitants of the isle.

Isaiah 23:7
Is this your joyous city, whose antiquity is of ancient days? her own feet shall carry her afar off to sojourn.

[8] Who hath taken this counsel against Tyre, the crowning city, whose merchants are princes, whose traffickers are the honourable of the earth?

[9]The LORD of hosts hath purposed it, to stain the pride of all glory, and to bring into contempt all the honourable of the earth.

[10]Pass through thy land as a river, O daughter of Tarshish: there is no more strength.

[11] He stretched out his hand over the sea, he shook the kingdoms: the LORD hath given a commandment against the merchant city, to destroy the strong holds thereof.

Now here is what our Father has decreed for the city of Zidon.

Ezekiel 28:21
Son of man, set thy face against Zidon, and prophesy against it,

Zidon comes from the root word "Zud" which means "to fish" and so Zidon was famous for its fisheries. The problem is that Zidon also "fished" for the souls of men and used the bait of intoxicating "religion" to "ensnare" the children of Israel into idolatry. Do you know what her biggest contribution was to mankind? It is from Zidon that the sex goddess Ashtoreth, also known as Ishtar and Easter, has come to infect Christianity. Is your church polluted with her symbols of sex and fertility, her "quick like a bunny" rabbits and her Ishtar eggs?  God specifically asked you the question in chapter 20 and He WILL REQUIRE that you answer it. Claiming you didn't "hear" Him ask you won't be an excuse when you stand before Him, for there is no shortage of Bibles in our land, only a shortage of those who will read it and take the time to understand it.

As a reminder, here was the question:

Ezekiel 20:30
Wherefore say unto the house of Israel, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Are ye polluted after the manner of your fathers? and commit ye whoredom after their abominations?

Here is the record of our fathers seeking and serving the goddess of Zidon.

1 Kings 11:5
For Solomon went after Ashtoreth the goddess of the Zidonians, and after Milcom the abomination of the Ammonites.

Judges 10:6
And the children of Israel did evil again in the sight of the LORD, and served Baalim, and Ashtaroth, and the gods of Syria, and the gods of Zidon, and the gods of Moab, and the gods of the children of Ammon, and the gods of the Philistines, and forsook the LORD, and served not him.

Ezekiel 28:22
And say, Thus saith the Lord GOD; 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.

[23]For I will send into her pestilence, and blood into her street; and the wounded shall be judged in the midst of her by the sword upon her on every side; and they shall know that I am the LORD.

Ezekiel 28:24
And there shall be no more a pricking brier unto the house of Israel, nor any grieving thorn of all that are round about them, that despised them; and they shall know that I am the Lord GOD.

[25] Thus saith the Lord GOD; When I shall have gathered the house of Israel [Editors Note: Not the people who call themselves jews, but the real house of Israel. See Rev. 2:9 & 3:9]  from the people among whom they are scattered, and shall be sanctified in them in the sight of the heathen, then shall they dwell in their land that I have given to my servant Jacob.

[26] And they shall dwell safely therein, and shall build houses, and plant vineyards; yea, they shall dwell with confidence, when I have executed judgments upon all those that despise them round about them; and they shall know that I am the LORD their God.

Jeremiah 23:5-8
Behold, the days come, saith the LORD, that I will raise unto David a righteous Branch, and a King shall reign and prosper, and shall execute judgment and justice in the earth.

[6]In his days Judah shall be saved, and Israel shall dwell safely: and this is his name whereby he shall be called, THE LORD OUR RIGHTEOUSNESS.

[7]Therefore, behold, the days come, saith the LORD, that they shall no more say, The LORD liveth, which brought up the children of Israel out of the land of Egypt;

[7] "So the day will come, the Eternal declares, when men no longer say, 'As surely as the Eternal lives, who brought the Israelites out of the land of Egypt!' but, they will say ...

[8] 'As surely as the Eternal lives, who brought the descendents of the house of Israel from the north country and!'--- and from every country where I drove them; they shall dwell in their own land." (Moffat)

[8] But, The LORD liveth, which brought up and which led the seed of the house of Israel out of the north country, and from all countries whither I had driven them; and they shall dwell in their own land.