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Ezekiel 28:6

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“Therefore thus saith the Lord God; Because thou hast set thine heart as the heart of God;”

With thy wisdom and with thine understanding thou hast gotten thee riches, and hast gotten gold and silver into thy treasures:

By thy great wisdom and by thy traffick hast thou increased thy riches, and thine heart is lifted up because of thy riches:

Therefore thus saith the Lord God; Because thou hast set thine heart as the heart of God;

Behold, therefore I will bring strangers upon thee, the terrible of the nations: and they shall draw their swords against the beauty of thy wisdom, and they shall defile thy brightness.

They shall bring thee down to the pit, and thou shalt die the deaths of them that are slain in the midst of the seas.

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Literal Fulfillment

This verse describes the pride of the King of Tyre, comparing his self-perception to that of God. While it's part of a prophetic passage, the statement itself is a description of an internal state ("set thine heart as the heart of God") rather than a concrete, physical event that would be literally fulfilled in a historical or future sense. The "fulfillment" here is in the judgment that follows this pride, not in the pride itself being a literal event.

Prophetic Methods of Communication

This verse describes a reason for divine judgment ("Because thou hast set thine heart as the heart of God") and explicitly states the speaker ("thus saith the Lord God"), but it does not describe *how* God communicates with the prophet, nor does it mention any specific method of revelation.

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Cross-References

2 Thessalonians 2:4Thematic

“Who opposeth and exalteth himself above all that is called God, or that is worshipped; so that he as God sitteth in the temple of God, shewing himself that he is God.”

Job 40:9Thematic

“Hast thou an arm like God? or canst thou thunder with a voice like him?”

Job 9:4Thematic

“He is wise in heart, and mighty in strength: who hath hardened himself against him, and hath prospered?”

Ezekiel 28:2Thematic

“Son of man, say unto the prince of Tyrus, Thus saith the Lord God; Because thine heart is lifted up, and thou hast said, I am a God, I sit in the seat of God, in the midst of the seas; yet thou art a man, and not God, though thou set thine heart as the heart of God:”

Exodus 9:17Thematic

“As yet exaltest thou thyself against my people, that thou wilt not let them go?”

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