Isaiah
23:18
18 And her merchandise [cachar] and her hire ['ethnan]
shall be holiness [qodesh] to the LORD [Yahovah]: it shall not be treasured ['atsar] nor laid up [chacan]; for
her merchandise [cachar] shall be for them that
dwell [yashab] before [paniym] the LORD [Yahovah], to eat ['akal] sufficiently [sob`ah], and
for durable [`athiyq] clothing [makacceh]. KJV-Interlinear
18 Her merchandise and her wages will be
holy to the LORD. It will not be stored or hoarded, but her merchandise will
supply abundant food and fine clothing for those who dwell before the LORD. ESV
Tyre, represents
the ultimate in corruption in economics and secular life that will one day be
destroyed within the space of one reign of an evil ruler. That will all occur within the space of the
seven years of the Tribulation. This all
following the pattern of its history way back when it was destroyed by Babylon,
restored under Persia, after seventy years, and then taken again by Alexander.
At the end of the
seven year rule of the anti-christ, for which it is completed, we know that
Christ will return in the Second Advent to completely obliterate the world and
the evil that is within it. But He will also
rescue many believers who will have survived and of whom will become the initial
population of Gods Kingdom here on the earth, which we call the Millennium.
With the world
virtually destroyed, that small population will need something to live on, and
those resources will come out of whatever remains from the destroyed world, Eze.
39. And so they will live for seven
years on those resources left behind, scattered on the battlefields, and so
forth.
All of the logistical
resources and supplies that had been intended for evil, will become the
resources for the initial years of the Millennium.
