Ezekiel 28:14-15
You were anointed as a guardian cherub,
for so I ordained you.
You were on the holy mount of God;
you walked among the fiery stones.
You were blameless in your ways
from the day you were created
till wickedness was found in you...
How do you read that to mean?
Maybe, might help reading the verses that follow.
grace and peace ..............
I was actually asking where I might find it said that the devil was an angel who rebelled. I still can’t find it anywhere.
But as far as Ezekiel 28:
Eze 28:1 - The word of the LORD came to me again, saying,
Eze 28:2 - “Son of man,
say to the prince of Tyre, ‘Thus says the Lord GOD:
“Because your heart
is lifted up,
And you say, ‘I
am a god,
I sit
in the seat of gods,
In the midst of the seas,’
Yet you are a man, and not a god,
Though you set your heart as the heart of a god
Eze 28:3 - (Behold, you
are wiser than Daniel!
There is no secret that can be hidden from you!
Eze 28:4 - With your wisdom and your understanding
You have gained riches for yourself,
And gathered gold and silver into your treasuries;
Eze 28:5 -
By your great wisdom in trade you have increased your riches,
And your heart is lifted up because of your riches),
Eze 28:6 - ‘Therefore thus says the Lord GOD:
“Because you have set your heart as the heart of a god,
Eze 28:7 - Behold, therefore,
I will bring strangers against you,
The most terrible of the nations;
And they shall draw their swords against the beauty of your wisdom,
And defile your splendor.
Eze 28:8 -
They shall throw you down into the Pit,
And you shall die the death of the slain
In the midst of the seas.
Eze 28:9 - “Will you still say before him who slays you,
‘I
am a god’?
But you
shall be a man, and not a god,
In the hand of him who slays you.
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Eze 28:10 -
You shall die the death of the uncircumcised
By the hand of aliens;
For I have spoken,” says the Lord GOD.’ ”
How can anyone claim this is speaking of an angel who rebelled in heaven.
Eze 28:11 - Moreover the word of the LORD came to me, saying,
Eze 28:12 - “Son of man,
take up a lamentation for the king of Tyre, and say to him, ‘Thus says the Lord GOD:
“You
were the seal of perfection,
Full of wisdom and perfect in beauty.
Eze 28:13 - You were in Eden, the garden of God;
Every precious stone
was your covering:
The sardius, topaz, and diamond,
Beryl, onyx, and jasper,
Sapphire, turquoise, and emerald with gold.
The workmanship of your timbrels and pipes
Was prepared for you on the day you were created.
Eze 28:14 - “You
were the anointed cherub who covers;
I established you;
You were on the holy mountain of God;
You walked back and forth in the midst of fiery stones.
Eze 28:15 - You
were perfect in your ways from the day you were created,
Till iniquity was found in you.
Eze 28:16 - “
By the abundance of your trading
You became filled with violence within,
And you sinned;
Therefore I cast you as a profane thing
Out of the mountain of God;
And I destroyed you, O covering cherub,
From the midst of the fiery stones.
Eze 28:17 - “Your heart was lifted up because of your beauty;
You corrupted your wisdom for the sake of your splendor;
I cast you to the ground,
I laid you before kings,
That they might gaze at you.
Eze 28:18 - “
You defiled your sanctuaries
By the multitude of your iniquities,
By the iniquity of your trading;
Therefore I brought fire from your midst;
It devoured you,
And I turned you to ashes upon the earth
In the sight of all who saw you.
Eze 28:19 -
All who knew you among the peoples are astonished at you;
You have become a horror,
And shall be no more forever.” ’ ”
This is obvious prophecy. It’s foretelling of the fall of a king. A king who has been designated by God for a purpose.
It’s a king who imagines himself to be God and who has accumulated much wealth for himself through trade. But he is a man and not God.
He will die the death of the uncircumcised suggesting he is a Jewish king in Israel.
I believe this prophecy is to take place when God’s judgments are brought upon His people and the nations.
This king sounds very much like the man of sin Paul spoke of. And also of the Antichrist.
The place of his rule will be in Jerusalem where God is about to bring His own kingdom to be the garden of God.
And the ones spoken of who this king is among( fiery stones) sound like the holy angels who are working behind the scenes to bring this king down. Because it is God who cuts this evil man down when His judgments are upon the earth.
I believe this man is described as the red dragon of Revelation. As well as the man of sin Paul describes. And he sounds much like the little horn of Daniel 7.
