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turtle30cshell Daily Devotions
Economic Fall
3/10/2017

Daily Devotions: by Christina Farris

Ezekiel 27:1-36 KJV
(1) The word of the LORD came again unto me, saying,
(2) Now, thou son of man, take up a lamentation for Tyrus;
(3) And say unto Tyrus, O thou that art situate at the entry of the sea, which art a merchant of the people for many isles, Thus saith the Lord GOD; O Tyrus, thou hast said, I am of perfect beauty.
(4) Thy borders are in the midst of the seas, thy builders have perfected thy beauty.
(5) They have made all thy ship boards of fir trees of Senir: they have taken cedars from Lebanon to make masts for thee.
(6) Of the oaks of Bashan have they made thine oars; the company of the Ashurites have made thy benches of ivory, brought out of the isles of Chittim.
(7) Fine linen with broidered work from Egypt was that which thou spreadest forth to be thy sail; blue and purple from the isles of Elishah was that which covered thee.
(8) The inhabitants of Zidon and Arvad were thy mariners: thy wise men, O Tyrus, that were in thee, were thy pilots.
(9) The ancients of Gebal and the wise men thereof were in thee thy calkers: all the ships of the sea with their mariners were in thee to occupy thy merchandise.
(10) They of Persia and of Lud and of Phut were in thine army, thy men of war: they hanged the shield and helmet in thee; they set forth thy comeliness.
(11) The men of Arvad with thine army were upon thy walls round about, and the Gammadims were in thy towers: they hanged their shields upon thy walls round about; they have made thy beauty perfect.
(12) Tarshish was thy merchant by reason of the multitude of all kind of riches; with silver, iron, tin, and lead, they traded in thy fairs.
(13) Javan, Tubal, and Meshech, they were thy merchants: they traded the persons of men and vessels of brass in thy market.
(14) They of the house of Togarmah traded in thy fairs with horses and horsemen and mules.
(15) The men of Dedan were thy merchants; many isles were the merchandise of thine hand: they brought thee for a present horns of ivory and ebony.
(16) Syria was thy merchant by reason of the multitude of the wares of thy making: they occupied in thy fairs with emeralds, purple, and broidered work, and fine linen, and coral, and agate.
(17) Judah, and the land of Israel, they were thy merchants: they traded in thy market wheat of Minnith, and Pannag, and honey, and oil, and balm.
(18) Damascus was thy merchant in the multitude of the wares of thy making, for the multitude of all riches; in the wine of Helbon, and white wool.
(19) Dan also and Javan going to and fro occupied in thy fairs: bright iron, cassia, and calamus, were in thy market.
(20) Dedan was thy merchant in precious clothes for chariots.
(21) Arabia, and all the princes of Kedar, they occupied with thee in lambs, and rams, and goats: in these were they thy merchants.
(22) The merchants of Sheba and Raamah, they were thy merchants: they occupied in thy fairs with chief of all spices, and with all precious stones, and gold.
(23) Haran, and Canneh, and Eden, the merchants of Sheba, Asshur, and Chilmad, were thy merchants.
(24) These were thy merchants in all sorts of things, in blue clothes, and broidered work, and in chests of rich apparel, bound with cords, and made of cedar, among thy merchandise.
(25) The ships of Tarshish did sing of thee in thy market: and thou wast replenished, and made very glorious in the midst of the seas.
(26) Thy rowers have brought thee into great waters: the east wind hath broken thee in the midst of the seas.
(27) Thy riches, and thy fairs, thy merchandise, thy mariners, and thy pilots, thy calkers, and the occupiers of thy merchandise, and all thy men of war, that are in thee, and in all thy company which is in the midst of thee, shall fall into the midst of the seas in the day of thy ruin.
(28) The suburbs shall shake at the sound of the cry of thy pilots.
(29) And all that handle the oar, the mariners, and all the pilots of the sea, shall come down from their ships, they shall stand upon the land;
(30) And shall cause their voice to be heard against thee, and shall cry bitterly, and shall cast up dust upon their heads, they shall wallow themselves in the ashes:
(31) And they shall make themselves utterly bald for thee, and gird them with sackcloth, and they shall weep for thee with bitterness of heart and bitter wailing.
(32) And in their wailing they shall take up a lamentation for thee, and lament over thee, saying, What city is like Tyrus, like the destroyed in the midst of the sea?
(33) When thy wares went forth out of the seas, thou filledst many people; thou didst enrich the kings of the earth with the multitude of thy riches and of thy merchandise.
(34) In the time when thou shalt be broken by the seas in the depths of the waters thy merchandise and all thy company in the midst of thee shall fall.
(35) All the inhabitants of the isles shall be astonished at thee, and their kings shall be sore afraid, they shall be troubled in their countenance.
(36) The merchants among the people shall hiss at thee; thou shalt be a terror, and never shalt be any more.

When I hear the word border walls I think of segregation of a country. I think of Berlin and their wall. I Think Jericho, and the Great Wall of China. Some walls built to keep evil in while other walls built to keep evil out. The key for entrance was fair and good profitable trading, which also had the ability to have spies to enter in. Yet with no walls it like a free pass into a land of no barriers. An unlocked door to a theif is an open door. A locked door needing a key only means he needs a ladder to scale the wale or rope and anchor. Ships of Tyre travel all over bringing trade goods from afar. Camels crossed deserts to the land of Tyre as well as travel by water to the land of Egypt and beyond. A city of market of many things, and yet the danger of spies at the door that desire the wealth that good trade makes.

A nation of wealth can not strive behind a wall under siege beyond the ability to circulate their own money without financial growth. Financial growth must begin with fair trade. No one ever imagine Russia or China economics ever collapsing or taking a plunge. Never had the stock market ever think it would crash but it did in America too. People of good and bad economies fight to remain by hoping to get the better trade agreement. People need basics to live on and anything else is free market to rise and raise to the highest bidder. Luxury items rising to the heights that make even basics like flour and fuel to rise beyond poor man’s pocket. Yet the rich man struggles too with the ideas of how the work force is effect by every decision he makes.

Tyre a city of wealth, trade was good from other country but their guard was down the idea of destruction. The idea of destroying a city of wealth makes no since to those that profit from it or seek the advantage. What then is economic collapse but the fall of not being able to trade any longer and prosper. The Chaldeans started with the siege of a land to over power it only to them go trampling through and destroying everything and anything in their path. The grasshoppers destroying the economics through theft, weapons of destruction and war. Destroying the fineries that ships had brought from afar in trade and profit.

Tyre had wealth but would fall and those around would mourn because of how it effect their own greed. In fact the beautiful city would cause people to put on sack cloth and ashes to mourn for her. She exalted herself as a god only to be destroyed. She honor not God or cared for what God could do for her, but what she could do by her own hands.

Every time I plant a garden, and I am at the mercy of God for things to grow, though scientifically things should grow, it does not ever mean it will. If you look at a garden from atheist view it will grow if weather is right and the environment and seeds are good. Yet to a believer even if it hot dry or over wet, the seeds will still can grow and produce with the power of God. God protecting his people even in situations where the impossible still happens.

The other day I was in the kitchen and we bought a flat top stove when our stove went out in the fall. Well even after six months I still reminding hubby when he cooks just because the eye is not open you still have to watch where you sit a plastic spoon. Lost one utensil already to laying something down on the eye. The point being prophesy is not always about the ability of everyone but God’s ability to foretell. I can warn about plastic on the stove, but unless one forgets the utensils will be safe, if one forgets then they will melt. That not God, that common sense that God gave you. Economy failing because of war is common sense, but the fact remains to imagine an enemy coming in to destroy as the Chaldeans/Babylonians did was unthinkable.

The World Trade Center was hit twice. No one ever imagine it being hit even the first time tell it happened. It was a wake up call to America of those that wish our country to be destroyed. CIA and FBI known of the issues of years, but it became clear with the first wide spread news reports of World Trade Center. Counter terrorism issues were beefed up to protect us and yet economic crash still happened, but our nation still stood as people continue to fight to stand once more. No the World Trade Center was not why we had economic collapse. It would have happened because of those we trade with economics were falling around us had several years before. Chief countries plunging to new lows because of disasters. Chernobyl, Cold War having effects not even fully realized by this century. The point I am making economically all nations are vulnerable, because of the circle of trade. Make everyone money equal and you get a creek all the same size flowing into an ocean that will become as small as a creek. Nothing moving in a creek at least no big ships. The idea of one world order will never work beyond equality of human rights.

The city of Tyre would fall and people would mourn the realization of what was in the trade world was no more. The wealth from trading had been destroy by jealous pirates that only desire to destroy and not plunder the wealth. They sought to destroy and burn what was not theirs. Makes no sense. Yet Babylon would be a rich country too but not by wealth of another country beyong the thief of their workers through slave trade.

When a country only see a person has unequal because of race, wealth or education they are playing God. Yet a country that never looks to God and says they need no God like Tyre did, finds themselves being like Lucifer, and claiming their beauty that can be destroyed. Will God win he will indeed, because his ability to make the impossible come to pass will occur not by chance or man making it happen, but the power of God when Christ returns.

Dear Heavenly Father the appearing of your Son is proof of your power to claim the ability ot keep economy of heaven going and the New Jerusalem that will come with Christ returns. In Jesus precious name, Amen.

Continual Scripture Study for Devotion:Revelation 18:9-20 KJV
(9) And the kings of the earth, who have committed fornication and lived deliciously with her, shall bewail her, and lament for her, when they shall see the smoke of her burning,
(10) Standing afar off for the fear of her torment, saying, Alas, alas, that great city Babylon, that mighty city! for in one hour is thy judgment come.
(11) And the merchants of the earth shall weep and mourn over her; for no man buyeth their merchandise any more:
(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,
(13) And cinnamon, and odours, and ointments, and frankincense, and wine, and oil, and fine flour, and wheat, and beasts, and sheep, and horses, and chariots, and slaves, and souls of men.
(14) And the fruits that thy soul lusted after are departed from thee, and all things which were dainty and goodly are departed from thee, and thou shalt find them no more at all.
(15) The merchants of these things, which were made rich by her, shall stand afar off for the fear of her torment, weeping and wailing,
(16) And saying, Alas, alas, that great city, that was clothed in fine linen, and purple, and scarlet, and decked with gold, and precious stones, and pearls!
(17) For in one hour so great riches is come to nought. And every shipmaster, and all the company in ships, and sailors, and as many as trade by sea, stood afar off,
(18) And cried when they saw the smoke of her burning, saying, What city is like unto this great city!
(19) And they cast dust on their heads, and cried, weeping and wailing, saying, Alas, alas, that great city, wherein were made rich all that had ships in the sea by reason of her costliness! for in one hour is she made desolate.
(20) Rejoice over her, thou heaven, and ye holy apostles and prophets; for God hath avenged you on her.

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