Comments on: The Lord Reigneth http://www.badeagle.com/2009/06/05/the-lord-reigneth/ For American Indian Patriots Fri, 30 Jul 2010 04:20:27 -0600 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: David Yeagley http://www.badeagle.com/2009/06/05/the-lord-reigneth/comment-page-1/#comment-18838 David Yeagley Sun, 07 Jun 2009 00:29:28 +0000 http://www.badeagle.com/?p=3741#comment-18838 And one more piece. God explicitly claimed control over Babylon, and regarded Nebuchadnezzar as His servant, worthy of wages! Ezekiel 29: 18-20 18 <em>...Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon caused his army to serve a great service against Tyrus: every head was made bald, and every shoulder was peeled: yet had he no wages, nor his army, for Tyrus, for the service that he had served against it:</em> 19 <em>Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I will give the land of Egypt unto Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon; and he shall take her multitude, and take her spoil, and take her prey; and it shall be the wages for his army.</em> 20 <em>I have given him the land of Egypt for his labour wherewith he served against it, because they wrought for me, saith the Lord GOD.</em> In other words, the luxurious city of Tyrus was given delivered into Nebuchadnezzar's hand--as payment for what he had done, for the Lord, to Egypt. Incredible. That's Tyrus, in <em>addition</em> to Egypt, as spoils. And one more piece. God explicitly claimed control over Babylon, and regarded Nebuchadnezzar as His servant, worthy of wages! Ezekiel 29: 18-20

18 …Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon caused his army to serve a great service against Tyrus: every head was made bald, and every shoulder was peeled: yet had he no wages, nor his army, for Tyrus, for the service that he had served against it:

19 Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I will give the land of Egypt unto Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon; and he shall take her multitude, and take her spoil, and take her prey; and it shall be the wages for his army.

20 I have given him the land of Egypt for his labour wherewith he served against it, because they wrought for me, saith the Lord GOD.

In other words, the luxurious city of Tyrus was given delivered into Nebuchadnezzar’s hand–as payment for what he had done, for the Lord, to Egypt. Incredible. That’s Tyrus, in addition to Egypt, as spoils.

]]> By: David Yeagley http://www.badeagle.com/2009/06/05/the-lord-reigneth/comment-page-1/#comment-18837 David Yeagley Sun, 07 Jun 2009 00:24:40 +0000 http://www.badeagle.com/?p=3741#comment-18837 Then there is this lovely portion in Ezekiel. God judged that it was time to end Egypt, and the Pharaoh bit, once and and for all--again, by the hand of the new Babylon (Nebuchadnezzar). Ezek. 30: 22-26: 22 <em>Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I am against Pharaoh king of Egypt, and will break his arms, the strong, and that which was broken; and I will cause the sword to fall out of his hand.</em> 23 <em>And I will scatter the Egyptians among the nations, and will disperse them through the countries.</em> 24 <em>And I will strengthen the arms of the king of Babylon, and put my sword in his hand: but I will break Pharaoh's arms, and he shall groan before him with the groanings of a deadly wounded man.</em> 25 <em>But I will strengthen the arms of the king of Babylon, and the arms of Pharaoh shall fall down; and they shall know that I am the LORD, when I shall put my sword into the hand of the king of Babylon, and he shall stretch it out upon the land of Egypt.</em> 26 <em>And I will scatter the Egyptians among the nations, and disperse them among the countries; and they shall know that I am the LORD.<em> Everybody gets it, in the end. Probation ends. There is restoration, however. The Lord promised to herd the Egyptians back to their homeland, in due time. These things seem cyclic. The one interesting thing is, God said Egypt would never be a world power again, after this defeat by Babylon. Turned out to be true, eh? Then there is this lovely portion in Ezekiel. God judged that it was time to end Egypt, and the Pharaoh bit, once and and for all–again, by the hand of the new Babylon (Nebuchadnezzar). Ezek. 30: 22-26:

22 Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I am against Pharaoh king of Egypt, and will break his arms, the strong, and that which was broken; and I will cause the sword to fall out of his hand.

23 And I will scatter the Egyptians among the nations, and will disperse them through the countries.

24 And I will strengthen the arms of the king of Babylon, and put my sword in his hand: but I will break Pharaoh’s arms, and he shall groan before him with the groanings of a deadly wounded man.

25 But I will strengthen the arms of the king of Babylon, and the arms of Pharaoh shall fall down; and they shall know that I am the LORD, when I shall put my sword into the hand of the king of Babylon, and he shall stretch it out upon the land of Egypt.

26 And I will scatter the Egyptians among the nations, and disperse them among the countries; and they shall know that I am the LORD.

Everybody gets it, in the end. Probation ends. There is restoration, however. The Lord promised to herd the Egyptians back to their homeland, in due time. These things seem cyclic.

The one interesting thing is, God said Egypt would never be a world power again, after this defeat by Babylon. Turned out to be true, eh?

]]> By: David Yeagley http://www.badeagle.com/2009/06/05/the-lord-reigneth/comment-page-1/#comment-18836 David Yeagley Sun, 07 Jun 2009 00:16:27 +0000 http://www.badeagle.com/?p=3741#comment-18836 Jeremiah lived approximately the same time as Ezekiel, but never went to Babylon. He had this earlier prophecy of the Lord: (Jer. 27: 5-8) 5 <em>I have made the earth, the man and the beast that are upon the ground, by my great power and by my outstretched arm, and have given it unto whom it seemed meet unto me.</em> 6 <em>And now have I given all these lands into the hand of Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon, my servant; and the beasts of the field have I given him also to serve him.</em> 7 <em>And all nations shall serve him, and his son, and his son's son, until the very time of his land come: and then many nations and great kings shall serve themselves of him.</em> 8 <em>And it shall come to pass, that the nation and kingdom which will not serve the same Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon, and that will not put their neck under the yoke of the king of Babylon, that nation will I punish, saith the LORD, with the sword, and with the famine, and with the pestilence, until I have consumed them by his hand.</em> I don't think the message could be clearer. At the time, the Babylonian empire was brought about by God, in a stage in the development of civilization. Jeremiah lived approximately the same time as Ezekiel, but never went to Babylon. He had this earlier prophecy of the Lord: (Jer. 27: 5-8)

5 I have made the earth, the man and the beast that are upon the ground, by my great power and by my outstretched arm, and have given it unto whom it seemed meet unto me.

6 And now have I given all these lands into the hand of Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon, my servant; and the beasts of the field have I given him also to serve him.

7 And all nations shall serve him, and his son, and his son’s son, until the very time of his land come: and then many nations and great kings shall serve themselves of him.

8 And it shall come to pass, that the nation and kingdom which will not serve the same Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon, and that will not put their neck under the yoke of the king of Babylon, that nation will I punish, saith the LORD, with the sword, and with the famine, and with the pestilence, until I have consumed them by his hand.

I don’t think the message could be clearer. At the time, the Babylonian empire was brought about by God, in a stage in the development of civilization.

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