Ezekiel 28:1-8

God controls the world that we live in and He appoints who is placed in power. 

We may not understand  but He does and His thoughts are far above ours…He alone is God and we are mere men! 

One thing is sure and true God hates arrogance and pride but He lifts up the humble.

¹⁹ “They threw dust on their heads and cried out, weeping and wailing, and saying, ‘Alas, alas, that great city, in which all who had ships on the sea became rich by her wealth! For in one hour she is made desolate.’ 

Revelation 18:19

Ezekiel 28:1-8

28 The word of the Lord came to me again, saying, 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

³ (Behold, you are wiser than Daniel!

There is no secret that can be hidden from you!

⁴ With your wisdom and your understanding

You have gained riches for yourself,

And gathered gold and silver into your treasuries;

⁵ By your great wisdom in trade you have increased your riches,

And your heart is lifted up because of your riches),”

⁶ ‘Therefore thus says the Lord God:

“Because you have set your heart as the heart of a god,

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.

⁸ They shall throw you down into the Pit,

And you shall die the death of the slain

In the midst of the seas.

¹⁶Your fierceness has deceived you, The pride of your heart, O you who dwell in the clefts of the rock, Who hold the height of the hill! Though you make your nest as high as the eagle, I will bring you down from there,” says the Lord. 

Jeremiah 49:16

⁸“Therefore hear this now, you who are given to pleasures, Who dwell securely, Who say in your heart, ‘I am, and there is no one else besides me; I shall not sit as a widow, Nor shall I know the loss of children’; 

Isaiah 47:8

⁴ who opposes and exalts himself above all that is called God or that is worshiped, so that he sits as God in the temple of God, showing himself that he is God. 

2 Thessalonians 2:4

²⁰ Daniel answered and said: “Blessed be the name of God forever and ever, ^lFor wisdom and might are His. ²¹And He changes the times and the seasons; He removes kings and raises up kings; He gives wisdom to the wise And knowledge to those who have understanding. ²²He reveals deep and secret things; He knows what is in the darkness, And light dwells with Him. ²³“I thank You and praise You, O God of my fathers; You have given me wisdom and might, And have now made known to me what we asked of You, For You have made known to us the king’s demand.” 

Daniel 2:20–23