Condemnation Against the King of Tyre

Ezekiel 28:1-10 

1 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.

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.
10 You shall die the death of the uncircumcised
By the hand of aliens;
For I have spoken," says the Lord GOD.'"

Condemnation was spoken to the one making himself to be God.  His pride and arrogance gave delusions of grandeur, thinking a created creature could be the Creator!  This of course is a type or picture of the created usurper from the garden of Eden who lifted himself up in his thinking to be equal to the LORD.  Only God in the form of a man, Jesus Christ, is divine and sits in the heavenly place of sovereign power and authority.  Not satan nor the prince of Tyre.  He imagined and boasted that he was a god in such pride and was told by the real God that he was hardly divine and mocked his supposed wisdom as if it was better than those whom God gave His wisdom to like Daniel.  What cunning wisdom this prince did have was only useful for gaining wealth by trade and increased arrogance with pride alongside.  The judgment of the LORD for this blasphemy and pride was to bring armies against him as His tools to humble through destruction.  Their swords would be drawn against the beauty of his misused wisdom and would tarnish the splendor of all the ill gotten gain.  He would be thrown into the Pit of the sea just as the devil will be forever thrown down into the lake of fire which is the ultimate Pit of everlasting torment and destruction (Revelation 20:3, 10).  Neither of these two will then boast against the LORD who created them and still claim to be a god.  Death and destruction of condemnation demonstrate this.  We who are in Christ, however, have the ultimate victory in Him over any who claim divinity and over the pride of the devil, so we should learn humility and subservience to our Sovereign LORD from examples like this for our understanding and learning.