Oh let the Son of God and found you with his spirit and his life,

let him fill your heart and satisfy your soul.

Oh, let him have the things that hold you

and his spirit like a dove will descend upon your life and make you

whole. you home.

Welcome to the Word for today,

featuring the Bible Teaching of Pastor Chuck Smith,

founder of the Calvary Chapel Movement.

This radio program is a verse by verse study through the entire

Bible. And on today's edition of the Word for today,

Pastor Chuck continues with the judgment of God against Tyre. As pick up in Isaiah chapter 23 verse one and now with today's

message here's pastor Chuck now in chapter 23 he takes up his burden against Tyre.

Tyre was, of course, a seaport town.

It was the area the people of Tyre were known as Phoenicians and so you who are

versed in your ancient history know of the Phoenicians.

And the tremendous Navy that the Phoenicians possessed,

they were merchants, their ships plied the Mediterranean. In fact, they even went around the Cape Horn to bring back goods, merchandise and all and the Phoenician Navy more or less ruled the seas and in those days the navies were used primarily for

merchandising and so Tyre was the commercial capital of the world as far as goods and variety of goods and all.

Commercial is a more or less centered in Tyre in those days, the city of tire. So he is pronouncing now the

judgment of God against tire, the commercial capital.

It is interesting as you go into the prophecies of Ezekiel that Ezekiel also in chapter

26 declares the destruction of tire.

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