Isaiah 23 and Revelation 18

Ezekiel’s prophecy called Tyre the home of Lucifer,

“Son of man, say unto the prince of Tyrus, Thus saith the Lord GOD; …: Behold, thou art wiser than Daniel; there is no secret that they can hide from thee…. Thou hast been in Eden the garden of God; every precious stone was thy covering, the sardius, topaz, and the diamond, the beryl, the onyx, and the jasper, the sapphire, the emerald, and the carbuncle, and gold: the workmanship of thy tabrets and of thy pipes was prepared in thee in the day that thou wast created. Thou art the anointed cherub that covereth; and I have set thee so: thou wast upon the holy mountain of God; thou hast walked up and down in the midst of the stones of fire. Thou wast perfect in thy ways from the day that thou wast created, till iniquity was found in thee. By the multitude of thy merchandise they have filled the midst of thee with violence, and thou hast sinned: therefore I will cast thee as profane out of the mountain of God: and I will destroy thee, O covering cherub, from the midst of the stones of fire. Thine heart was lifted up because of thy beauty, thou hast corrupted thy wisdom by reason of thy brightness: I will cast thee to the ground, I will lay thee before kings, that they may behold thee.” (Eze. 28:2,3,13-17).

It shouldn’t be confusing to interpret Tyre as both the papacy and the devil in charge of it. We learn that Revelation’s Beast did not operate alone, but, had a higher guidance and inspiration for its acts of terror—the dragon, “Satan” (Rev. 12:9). Just as other enemies of God were not on auto-pilot, but had an overlord, i.e. Persia and “the prince of the kingdom of Persia” (Dan. 10:13). Likewise, Greece and “the prince of Grecia” (vs. 20), and so has every city-sate/empire. Isaiah 14 speaks of the king of Babylon, but then describes Satan. Could the same be said of New York City or Washington, DC? Chicago, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Minneapolis-St. Paul, Moscow, Beijing, Berlin, London, etc.? One day, could the same be said of America, Russia, China, Germany, England, etc? Didn’t Satan say, “All this power [‘all the kingdoms of the world’ (vs. 5)] will I give thee, and the glory of them: for that is delivered unto me…. ” (Luke 4:6).

Isaiah’s chapter 47 prophecy against Babylon was one of Christ’s templates for John’s prophecy of the final world empire. The other was Isaiah 23 against Tyre, which has a time prophecy and is more chronologically descriptive. So, we will look at that today.

What more can we learn about events that will happen during the exaltation of the abomination of desolation? How can Tyre reveal the mysteries of the apocalyptic Babylon of Revelation 17, 18 that describe the world before Jesus returns?

Apocalyptic Prophecies of Revelation	The  Humbling,  Local Prophecies of Tyre	Explanation Of Apocalyptic Prophecies	Explanation Of  The Humbling,  Local Prophecies	Extra Explanation
Rev 13:1  And I stood upon the sand of the sea, and saw a beast rise up out of the sea, having seven heads and ten horns, and upon his horns ten crowns, and upon his heads the name of blasphemy.  Rev 13:2  And the beast which I saw was like unto a leopard, and his feet were as the feet of a bear, and his mouth as the mouth of a lion: and the dragon gave him his power, and his seat, and great authority.  Rev 13:3  And I saw one of his heads as it were wounded to death; Rev 12:15  And the serpent cast out of his mouth water as a flood after the woman, that he might cause her to be carried away of the flood.  Rev 12:16  And the earth helped the woman, and the earth opened her mouth, and swallowed up the flood which the dragon cast out of his mouth.	Eze. 28:2,3 Son of man, say unto the prince of Tyrus, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Because thine heart is lifted up, and thou hast said, I am a God, I sit in the seat of God, in the midst of the seas; yet thou art a man, and not God, though thou set thine heart as the heart of God.). Isa 23:6  Pass ye over to Tarshish; howl, ye inhabitants of the isle.  Isa 23:7  Is this your joyous city [Tyre], whose antiquity is of ancient days? her own feet shall carry her afar off to sojourn [the inhabitants will travel into captivity on foot].  Isa 23:8  Who hath taken this counsel against Tyre, the crowning city, whose merchants are princes, whose traffickers are the honourable of the earth?	Protestant America conquered the Catholic Papacy’s control of the world’s wealth through free trade rather than through despotic provincial/monarchical aggressor action. Protestantism would maintain its dominance over Rome, “the joyous city”, “the crowning city”, from 1800 to 2000, the length of the Protestant American empire. But, after 70 years of Jesuit suppression, in 1773, a major change would take place in Protestant thought. They have been granted a 200+ year probation in their refuge continence, rejecting the Lord’s messengers John and Charles Wesley’s message of distinct steps to salvation, Samuel Morse’s warning of papal inroads through the St. Leopold Foundation, William Miller’s message of apocalyptic prophecy, and finally Ellen White’s message of sanctification and the sealing. In essence the Protestant churches rejected their holy Bible. They were too intent on living for this world. 1843 was the 70 year point after the Vatican retired the Jesuits. Satan’s response: Jesuit assassination of the pope and change of name from Jesuit to Illuminati, France’s Reign of Terror, Austria’s totalitarian king/Jesuit’s St. Leopold Conspiracy against America, America’s Civil War, WWI and WWII, Russia’s Communist Bolshevik Revolution, Germany’s Hitler, Communism in China, dictators in Spain, North Korea, North Viet Nam, Cuba, Argentina, Nicaragua, Venezuela, Uganda, movements in Europe and  North America for socialist governments, a soon WWIII	Nebuchadnezzar conquered the whole land of Canaan, Egypt, and Lydia (modern day Turkey, the home of the Assyrian empire). Tyre was in Canaan, and was reaping its portion on the Fertile Crescent at the far end of from Nebuchadnezzar’s home, Babylon. By attacking and occupying Tyre’s position on the Mediteranean, he gained both profits from the world-wide traffic passing overland through the Fertile Crescent. “Behold the land of the Chaldeans; this people was not, till the Assyrian founded it for them that dwell in the wilderness: they set up the towers thereof, they raised up the palaces thereof; and he [Nebuchadnezzar] brought it [Tyre] to ruin.” (Isa. 23:13).This would continue for the 70 year life of the Babylonian Empire.	Why was Tyre (and Babylon) called “the joyous city”? Why was Nineveh, destroyed at the same time as Tyre, also called by a similar description, “the rejoicing city”? “This is the rejoicing city that dwelt carelessly, that said in her heart, I am, and there is none beside me.” (Zeph. 2:15). And Jerusalem seems to be destroyed for the same condemnation of Tyre. “I will search Jerusalem with candles, and punish the men that are settled on their lees: that say in their heart, The LORD will not do good, neither will he do evil.” (Zeph. 1:12). “But draw near hither, ye sons of the sorceress, the seed of the adulterer and the whore.” (Isa. 57:3). The Jews were the sons of Jerusalem (see Isa. 51:17,18), and were called the children of Jerusalem, the sorceress also being called Tyre, (see 1Ki_11:5; 1Ki_11:33; 2Ki_23:13.
	Isa 23:8  Who hath taken this counsel against Tyre, the crowning city, whose merchants are princes, whose traffickers are the honourable of the earth?  Isa 23:9  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.	Tyre went from “joyous city,” (Isa 23:7) to “thou oppressed virgin”. “Thou shalt no more rejoice, O thou oppressed virgin” (Isa 23:12 ). “Howl, ye ships of Tarshish: for your strength [Tyre] is laid waste.” (Isa. 23:14). The Lord raised up Protestant America to stain the pride of every high priest of the Vatican and to use peace and liberty to bring the world’s wealth to America. The USA became the mart of the nations—the New York Stock Exchange, and the city of refuge to woo the despotized people from around the globe. We have garnered as many caches of gold as had Neo-Babylon. But, today we are following the same decline as it did anciently. We are no longer the head of gold because we have lost Nebuchadnezzar’s heart of gold. “Take an harp, go about the city, thou harlot that hast been forgotten; make sweet melody, sing many songs, that thou mayest be remembered.” (Isa. 23:16). Symbolic Tyre is already singing again and calling to all her former merchants to again traffic her wares, i.e. not only the world’s products and services, but “the slaves [‘bodies’], and souls of men” (Rev. 18:13), and carving up America for gain.	The Lord raised up Nebuchadnezzar to stain the pride of every proud and great one of personage in Tyre, and to bring into contempt all the wealthy magnates ruling the shipping lanes between Zidon, Chittim, and Tarshish in the Iberian peninsula (that became Spain). He controlled all the wares from the British Isles through the Mediterranean and over the Fertile Crescent to the Orient. “Howl, ye ships of Tarshish: for your strength [Tyre] is laid waste.” (Isa. 23:14). Has protestant America achieved the same power and wealth by the blessing of Jehovah, to rob Satan of his favored earthly political power of the most ancient times, and his beloved Ashtoreth? Is this why the Vatican so desires to have back such wealth and power?	Nah 3:1  Woe to the bloody city! it is all full of lies and robbery; the prey departeth not;…  Nah 3:4  Because of the multitude of the whoredoms of the wellfavoured harlot, the mistress of witchcrafts, that selleth nations through her whoredoms, and families through her witchcrafts. (Nah. 3:4, cf Rev. 2:22,23)
	Isa 23:10  Pass through thy land as a river, O daughter of Tarshish: there is [Tyre has] no more strength.  Isa 23:11  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.  Isa 23:12  And He said, Thou shalt no more rejoice, O thou oppressed virgin, daughter of Zidon: arise, pass over to Chittim; there also shalt thou have no rest.	In 1798 with the Catholic Papacy and, again after probation closes, the New Age Jesuit Papacy + the United States of Christian America Law Enforcement for the New World Order, dries up. “And the sixth angel poured out his vial upon the great river Euphrates; and the water thereof was dried up, that the way of the kings of the east might be prepared.” (Rev. 16:12).		Nah 3:5  Behold, I am against thee, saith the LORD of hosts; and I will discover thy skirts upon thy face, and I will shew the nations thy nakedness, and the kingdoms thy shame.… Nah 3:15  make thyself many as the cankerworm, make thyself many as the locusts.  Nah 3:16  Thou hast multiplied thy merchants above the stars of heaven: the cankerworm spoileth, and flieth away.  Nah 3:17  Thy crowned are as the locusts, and thy captains as the great grasshoppers, which camp in the hedges in the cold day…. Nah 3:18  Thy shepherds slumber, O king of Assyria: thy nobles shall dwell in the dust: thy people is scattered upon the mountains, and no man gathereth them.  Nah 3:19  There is no healing of thy bruise; thy wound is grievous: all that hear the bruit of thee shall clap the hands over thee: for upon whom hath not thy wickedness passed continually?
and his deadly wound was healed: and all the world wondered after the beast.   Rev 13:11  And I beheld another beast coming up out of the earth; and he had two horns like a lamb, and he spake as a dragon.  Rev 13:12  And he exerciseth all the power of the first beast before him, and causeth the earth and them which dwell therein to worship the first beast, whose deadly wound was healed.  Rev 13:14  And deceiveth them that dwell on the earth by the means of those miracles which he had power to do in the sight of the beast; …  Rev 13:15  And he had power to give life unto the image of the beast,	Isa 23:15  And it shall come to pass in that day, that Tyre shall be forgotten seventy years, according to the days of one king: after the end of seventy years shall Tyre sing as an harlot.  Isa 23:16  Take an harp, go about the city, thou harlot that hast been forgotten; make sweet melody, sing many songs, that thou mayest be remembered. Isa 23:17  And it shall come to pass after the end of seventy years, that the LORD will visit Tyre, and she shall turn to her hire, and shall commit fornication with all the kingdoms of the world upon the face of the earth.	So, yes, the papacy went down hard because the Lord raised up Protestant America. But after civil America and apostate Protestantism run their course, in Belshazzar fashion, then “the LORD will visit [a Protestant-Rome papacy let out of the bottomless pit in the fifth and sixth trumpets], and she shall turn to her hire, and shall commit fornication with all the kingdoms of the world upon the face of the earth.” Despotic Christendom will sing again and gather in all the ill-gotten wealth and power that the Lord took from her. “While they [Protestants] are bent upon the accomplishment of their purpose [in the work of Sunday exaltation], Rome is aiming to re-establish her power, to recover her lost supremacy.” GC 581.1 “They [Protestants by securing for themselves the institutions and usages of the church the support of the state] are opening the door for the papacy to regain in Protestant America the supremacy which she has lost in the Old World.” GC 573.1	Isa 24:16  But I said, My leanness, my leanness, woe unto me! the treacherous dealers have dealt treacherously; yea, the treacherous dealers have dealt very treacherously.  Isa 24:17  Fear, and the pit, and the snare, are upon thee, O inhabitant of the earth.  Isa 24:18  And it shall come to pass, that he who fleeth from the noise of the fear shall fall into the pit; and he that cometh up out of the midst of the pit shall be taken in the snare: for the windows from on high are open, and the foundations of the earth do shake.  Isa 24:19  The earth is utterly broken down, the earth is clean dissolved, the earth is moved exceedingly.  Isa 24:20  The earth shall reel to and fro like a drunkard, and shall be removed like a cottage; and the transgression thereof shall be heavy upon it; and it shall fall, and not rise again.  Isa 24:21  And it shall come to pass in that day, that the LORD shall punish the host of the high ones that are on high, and the kings of the earth upon the earth.  Isa 24:22  And they shall be gathered together, as prisoners are gathered in the pit, and shall be shut up in the prison, and after many days shall they be visited.	Jdg 18:7  the five men departed, and came to Laish, and saw the people that were therein, how they dwelt careless, after the manner of the Zidonians, quiet and secure; and there was no magistrate in the land, that might put them to shame in any thing; and they were far from the Zidonians, and had no business with any man.  Tyre existed also from ancient times. “Is this your joyous city, whose antiquity is of ancient days?” (Isa 23:7).
Rev 18:1  And after these things I saw another angel come down from heaven, having great power; and the earth was lightened with his glory.  Rev 18:2  And he cried mightily with a strong voice, saying, Babylon the great is fallen, is fallen, and is become the habitation of devils, and the hold of every foul spirit, and a cage of every unclean and hateful bird.  Rev 18:3  For all nations have drunk of the wine of the wrath of her fornication, and the kings of the earth have committed fornication with her, and the merchants of the earth are waxed rich through the abundance of her delicacies.  Rev 18:4  And I heard another voice from heaven, saying, Come out of her, my people, that ye be not partakers of her sins, and that ye receive not of her plagues.  Rev 18:5  For her sins have reached unto heaven, and God hath remembered her iniquities.			Isa 24:16  From the uttermost part of the earth have we heard songs, even glory to the righteous.
Rev 18:6  Reward her even as she rewarded you, and double unto her double according to her works: in the cup which she hath filled fill to her double.  Rev 18:7  How much she hath glorified herself, and lived deliciously, so much torment and sorrow give her: for she saith in her heart, I sit a queen, and am no widow, and shall see no sorrow.  Rev 18:8  Therefore shall her plagues come in one day, death, and mourning, and famine; and she shall be utterly burned with fire: for strong is the Lord God who judgeth her.  Rev 18:11  And the merchants of the earth shall weep and mourn over her; for no man buyeth their merchandise any more:  Rev 18:12  The merchandise of gold, and silver, and precious stones, and of pearls, and fine linen, and purple, and silk, and scarlet, and all thyine wood, and all manner vessels of ivory, and all manner vessels of most precious wood, and of brass, and iron, and marble, Rev 19:11  And I saw heaven opened, and behold a white horse; and he that sat upon him was called Faithful and True, and in righteousness he doth judge and make war.  Rev 19:12  His eyes were as a flame of fire, and on his head were many crowns; and he had a name written, that no man knew, but he himself.  Rev 19:13  And he was clothed with a vesture dipped in blood: and his name is called The Word of God.  Rev 19:14  And the armies which were in heaven followed him upon white horses, clothed in fine linen, white and clean.  Rev 19:15  And out of his mouth goeth a sharp sword, that with it he should smite the nations: and he shall rule them with a rod of iron: and he treadeth the winepress of the fierceness and wrath of Almighty God.  Rev 19:16  And he hath on his vesture and on his thigh a name written, KING OF KINGS, AND LORD OF LORDS.  Rev 19:17  And I saw an angel standing in the sun; and he cried with a loud voice, saying to all the fowls that fly in the midst of heaven, Come and gather yourselves together unto the supper of the great God;  Rev 19:18  That ye may eat the flesh of kings, and the flesh of captains, and the flesh of mighty men, and the flesh of horses, and of them that sit on them, and the flesh of all men, both free and bond, both small and great.  Rev 19:19  And I saw the beast, and the kings of the earth, and their armies, gathered together to make war against him that sat on the horse, and against his army.  Rev 19:20  And the beast was taken, and with him the false prophet that wrought miracles before him, with which he deceived them that had received the mark of the beast, and them that worshipped his image. These both were cast alive into a lake of fire burning with brimstone.		Luk 21:25  And there shall be signs in the sun, and in the moon, and in the stars; and upon the earth distress of nations, with perplexity; the sea and the waves roaring;  Luk 21:26  Men’s hearts failing them for fear, and for looking after those things which are coming on the earth: for the powers of heaven shall be shaken.	Rev 14:10  The same shall drink of the wine of the wrath of God, which is poured out without mixture into the cup of his indignation; and he shall be tormented with fire and brimstone in the presence of the holy angels, and in the presence of the Lamb:  Rev 14:11  And the smoke of their torment ascendeth up for ever and ever: and they have no rest day nor night,	Isa 24:1  Behold, the LORD maketh the earth empty, and maketh it waste, and turneth it upside down, and scattereth abroad the inhabitants thereof.  Isa 24:3  The land shall be utterly emptied, and utterly spoiled: for the LORD hath spoken this word.  Isa 24:4  The earth mourneth and fadeth away, the world languisheth and fadeth away, the haughty people of the earth do languish.  Isa 24:5  The earth also is defiled under the inhabitants thereof; because they have transgressed the laws, changed the ordinance, broken the everlasting covenant.  Isa 24:11  There is a crying for wine in the streets; all joy is darkened, the mirth of the land is gone.  Isa 24:12  In the city is left desolation, and the gate is smitten with destruction.  Isa 24:14  They shall lift up their voice, they shall sing for the majesty of the LORD, they shall cry aloud from the sea.  Isa 24:15  Wherefore glorify ye the LORD in the fires, even the name of the LORD God of Israel in the isles of the sea.
Rev 21:3  And I heard a great voice out of heaven saying, Behold, the tabernacle of God is with men, and he will dwell with them, and they shall be his people, and God himself shall be with them, and be their God.  Rev 21:4  And God shall wipe away all tears from their eyes; and there shall be no more death, neither sorrow, nor crying, neither shall there be any more pain: for the former things are passed away.  Rev 21:5  And he that sat upon the throne said, Behold, I make all things new.	Isa 23:18  And her merchandise and her hire shall be holiness to the LORD: it shall not be treasured nor laid up; for her merchandise shall be for them that dwell before the LORD, to eat sufficiently, and for durable clothing.	Dan 2:34  Thou sawest till that a stone was cut out without hands, which smote the image upon his feet that were of iron and clay, and brake them to pieces.  Dan 2:35  …and the stone that smote the image became a great mountain, and filled the whole earth. Isa 25:2  For thou hast made of a city an heap; of a defenced city a ruin: a palace of strangers to be no city; it shall never be built.… Isa 25:6  And in this mountain shall the LORD of hosts make unto all people a feast of fat things, a feast of wines on the lees, of fat things full of marrow, of wines on the lees well refined.