his waves to come up.
4    And they shall destroy the walls of Tyrus, and break down her towers: I will also scrape her dust from her, and make her like the top of a rock.
5    It shall be a place for the spreading of nets in the midst of the sea: for I have spoken it, saith the Lord GOD: and it shall become a spoil to the nations.

     And so it is; "like the top of a rock", still today. GOD Rules, not man!

Isa 23:6     Pass ye over to Tarshish; howl, ye inhabitants of the isle.
7    Is this your joyous city, whose antiquity is of ancient days? her own feet shall carry her afar off to sojourn.

     Many of the inhabitants of Tyre would then escape to areas around the Mediterranean such as southern Spain (Tarshish) in order to setup trade again. In essence, God pushed and scattered the Kenites to the western lands at the destruction of Tyre.
     This word "ancient" is Hebrew 'qedem', meaning 'the east, antiquity' (Strong's no. 6924). This points to Tyre as being associated with the marts of the ancient east all the way back to Babel (Gen.11).

 

Ezekiel 28: Read All.

 God gave a prophecy to the king and prince of Tyrus, and Satan was strongly alluded to as the head over that system of Tyre.

 

 See Ezek.28:11-19 especially: Read All:

 

The Tyrus link to Satan shows that this false system of material gain and power seeking was one of the matters which originally caused his fall in that time of the first earth age.

 

 In Revelation 12:3-4, Read All.

 

 Our Lord Christ gave us this link also, naming the number of "seven crowns" being different in that time 'of old' when Satan rebelled, as compared with the future "beast" system being setup today, with "ten crowns".

 

 Compare Rev.12:3; And there appeared another wonder in heaven; and behold, a great red dragon, having seven heads and ten horns, and seven crowns upon his heads.

 

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.17, Read All.

 

Because of this link our Lord made, we are to understand that this Isaiah 23 Chapter holds also to a prophecy against a modern Tyre, as a 'type' for the future one-world "beast" kingdom being setup in 'our day'.

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?

     "Who has done this to you Tyre?” our LORD is saying. "Who has brought this counsel against you Tyre?" The LORD GOD did this to Tyre, and He will do likewise to the false 'ten crown' beast system being setup today.
     Her merchants who controlled the wealth made for themselves their 'own' kings over the peoples. That is the meaning of "the crowning city". But who is The One which has sole