Isaiah
23:17
17 And it shall come to pass after the end [qets] of seventy [shib`iym] years
[shaneh], that the LORD [Yahovah] will visit [paqad] Tyre [Tsor], and she shall turn [shuwb]
to her hire ['ethnan], and shall commit
fornication [zanah] with all the kingdoms [mamlakah] of the world ['erets] upon
the face [paniym] of the earth ['adamah]. KJV-Interlinear
17 At the end of seventy years, the LORD
will visit Tyre, and she will return to her wages and will prostitute herself
with all the kingdoms of the world on the face of the earth. ESV
We have already studied
the meaning of the seventy year period.
For it is both an actual seventy year period which occurred in the
distant past between the Babylonian and Persian empires, as well as a symbolic
period of a single but completed reign pointing toward the reign of the anti-christ
who will rule in the future during the seven year Tribulation.
The principle
being made here, is that despite its old ways which are being compared to that
of the prostitute who earns her pay through interactions with anyone, so too,
Tyre earned her pay through trading with anyone whether legal or not. And as a result of her improprieties, so to
speak, Tyre was destroyed.
Gods brings
destruction, but God also brings recovery.
The Tyre of the
past, did not learn from its destruction.
People of the past, or of any generation for that matter, did not and do
not learn from their past.
Tyre will return
to its former ways and will be destroyed again and again as history repeats
itself from generation to generation.
When it is
finally destroyed again in the Tribulation, it will be recovered, not as Tyre,
but as the economy of the Millennium, as people who remain alive at the second
advent will begin a new race of humanity during the Millennium, which will last
for 1000 years, but in the end, the people will turn away again from Christ
despite his actual presence here on the earth.
Not having
learned from history, that last and final economy will be destroyed as the whole
old universe is destroyed and will be replaced with whatever God has in mind for
the new universe. This time it will last
forever.
Despite what
anyone thinks, all of history is courtesy of Jesus Christ. All economics are courtesy of Jesus Christ. All life is courtesy of Jesus Christ.
There is no such
thing as a self-made person.
Everything that
exists today was built upon the events of the past, all of which God designed
and coordinated through His divine plan.
Only man takes
those blessings and turns them into evil ways, which from time to time, need to
be corrected through judgments of one sort or another, lest mans genius would have
led to his total destruction long ago.
