Ezekiel 26 to 40 covers our Old Testament readings. Very stirring are some of these prophecies against the nations. The ruin of Tyre and the lamentation over her destruction are given in chapters 26 to 28. From Tyre the prophet rises to the instigator of all Tyre's wickedness, Satan, one of the covering cherubs at one time, but fallen now, even as he comes to fall. The utter destruction of Tyre is predicted, and praise God, too, the utter destruction of Satan, the king of Tyre, of whom it is said that he will be "brought to ashes upon the earth in the sight of all them that behold thee," and "thou shalt nevermore have any being." Chapters 29, 30, 31, and 32 are prophecies of Egypt. Literally have they been fulfilled. That kingdom which was at that time one of the greatest kingdoms and at one time the greatest empire in the earth, would become the very "basest of the kingdoms."
