Acts 9: Read All.

 

 Galatians 1:14. And profited in the Jews religion above many my equals in mine own nation, being more exceedingly zealous of the traditions of my fathers.

 Numbers 33:55: Read All.

 

God referred to the "workers of iniquity" who mixed in with the children of Canaan, as being "pricks" in Israel's eyes for turning away from His Commandments. The Hebrew word also means 'a brier or thorn' (Strong's no. 7899). If you further recall who the metaphorical 'thorns' are in God's Word, i.e. the "workers of iniquity", then our Lord Jesus revealed something deep to His. The symbolic kicking against the "pricks" mentioned in God's Word has two meanings. One is that by following Tyre, it goes against God's own children He protects, including His People He established in the Western Christian Nations. Paul was doing just that by following the "traditions" of the Pharisees by persecuting Christians, and thus Christ Jesus also.

 

The other meaning is that God will only allow the children of the wicked to be defeated by His Hand, and none other.

 

 The 'thorns', or 'pricks' in both houses of Israel's eyes represent a chastising force against God's People as they turn away from The LORD. The 'thorns' are necessary for the negative side of our Father's Plan, and God allows them to work according to His Will (see what Jesus said about leaving the 'tares' alone, not attempting to utterly destroy them;

Matt.13:27-30: Read All.

     Now compare all this to what God has said to Tyre in this Chapter of Isaiah. How does God preserving the Western Christian Nations through history fit with this also? The Truth... those who put their trust and faith on The Father and The Son will never fall at the hands of their enemies; not as people or as a nation... "If"... we stay on Him doing His Will.

 

Ezek.38 & 39; Read All for the defeat God works upon Esau (Russia) in the future.

Isa 23:15    And it shall come to pass in that day, that Tyre shall be forgotten seventy years, according to the days of one king: after the end of seventy years shall Tyre sing as an harlot.

     This "seventy years" applied to the captivity time of the "house of Judah" to Babylon during Nebuchadnezzar’s reign.

 

Jer.25 thru 29: Read All. This again links Nebuchadnezzar as coming up against Tyre.

Isa 23:16    Take an harp, go about the city, thou harlot that hast been forgotten; make sweet melody, sing many songs, that thou mayest be remembered.
17    And it shall come to pass after the end of seventy years that the LORD will visit Tyre, and she shall turn to her hire, and shall commit fornication with all the kingdoms of the world upon the face of the earth.

     Our Lord Christ's Book of Revelation mentions kings who commit fornication with "the great whore":

Rev 17:1    And there came one of the seven angels which had the seven vials, and talked with me, saying unto me, "Come hither; I will shew unto thee the judgment of the great whore that sitteth upon many waters:
2    With whom the kings of the earth have committed fornication, and the