And he said, Thou shalt no more rejoice, O thou oppressed virgin, daughter of Zidon: arise, pass over to Chittim; there also shalt thou have no rest.
The subject of the passage is the daughter of Zidon, the city of Tyre. Her place in the Old Testament is significant in that she is sometimes the friend of Israel, and sometimes seen as a type of Satan.[1]
Jesus said of Tyre and Sidon that if the mighty works that were done in Capernaum had been done there, they would have repented.[2] Tyre is a Gentile people very near to salvation, but missing it.
I think of Judas Iscariot. As one of the twelve, he has as close a relationship with Jesus as was possible. He witnessed the miracles of Christ. He heard all of the messages of Christ. And yet still he rejected Christ.
I am reminded that there is no evidence sufficient to prove Christ to those who wish to reject Him. We come to Christ, not blindly because there is sufficient evidence, but by faith because we have to see and accept that evidence.
What of those who come so close to the knowledge of the truth and yet continue on in rejection?
Hebrews 10:26 (KJV)
For if we sin wilfully after that we have received the knowledge of the truth, there remaineth no more sacrifice for sins,
· Judas found no recourse but to hang himself
· Tyre found no cause to rejoice again
But such is not the case with you and me. We have reason to rejoice because we have Jesus Christ.
Pray for souls to trust Christ so that they may always have hope and reason for rejoicing.
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The Tragedy of Almost: Lessons from the Daughter of Zidon
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Isaiah 23:12 (KJV) The Tragedy of Almost
[1] Ezekiel 28:12-19 (KJV)
Son of man, take up a lamentation upon the king of Tyrus, and say unto him, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Thou sealest up the sum, full of wisdom, and perfect in beauty.
Thou hast been in Eden the garden of God; every precious stone was thy covering, the sardius, topaz, and the diamond, the beryl, the onyx, and the jasper, the sapphire, the emerald, and the carbuncle, and gold: the workmanship of thy tabrets and of thy pipes was prepared in thee in the day that thou wast created.
Thou art the anointed cherub that covereth; and I have set thee so: thou wast upon the holy mountain of God; thou hast walked up and down in the midst of the stones of fire.
Thou wast perfect in thy ways from the day that thou wast created, till iniquity was found in thee.
By the multitude of thy merchandise they have filled the midst of thee with violence, and thou hast sinned: therefore I will cast thee as profane out of the mountain of God: and I will destroy thee, O covering cherub, from the midst of the stones of fire.
Thine heart was lifted up because of thy beauty, thou hast corrupted thy wisdom by reason of thy brightness: I will cast thee to the ground, I will lay thee before kings, that they may behold thee.
Thou hast defiled thy sanctuaries by the multitude of thine iniquities, by the iniquity of thy traffick; therefore will I bring forth a fire from the midst of thee, it shall devour thee, and I will bring thee to ashes upon the earth in the sight of all them that behold thee.
All they that know thee among the people shall be astonished at thee: thou shalt be a terror, and never shalt thou be any more.
[2] Luke 10:13 (KJV)
Woe unto thee, Chorazin! woe unto thee, Bethsaida! for if the mighty works had been done in Tyre and Sidon, which have been done in you, they had a great while ago repented, sitting in sackcloth and ashes.
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