Tyre

In reference to his power and wicked influence he is variously called the prince of devils, the prince of this world, the king of Babylon, king of Tyrus etc.

Jehovah uses ancient Tyre to picture the commerce or Big Business that exploits the people and controls the trade of the peoples by sea or other waterways.

By sea and land Big Business controls the world. This dominating, ruling factor is the offspring or seed of Satan. The king of Tyre therefore represents Satan himself, and Pharaoh of Egypt also represents Satan himself. The princes and supporters in this prophecy picture the chief ones in Satan’s visible organization. Tyre represents the commercial factor of Satan’s organization that dominates the sea.

Both Tyre and Egypt represented the Devil in his world-wide visible organization. Therefore modern Tyre and modern Egypt consist of the commercial power, both by sea and by land, that dominates the nations of the earth.

The braggadocio of the “prince of Tyre”, Big Business and leaders, will come to naught and these will fall before the assault of the King of kings.

“The ships of Tarshish,” operated by modern Tyre and Zidon, will not then be able to weather such stormy seas.

Ancient Tyre, as shown by the Scriptures, did in fact control the commerce of the sea. "The sea" symbolically stands for the people that bear up and give support to the Devil's religious organization. Therefore Tyre pictures religion commercialized, that is to say, religious doctrines and ceremonies and superstitions used for commercial purposes for the enrichment of a few at the expense of the credulous people.

Modern Tyre, therefore, is organized religion, visibly ruling the people under its father the invisible ruler, "the king of Tyrus," who is the Devil.

“Tyre” specifically refers to the commercial religious element of “Christendom”, of which the Roman Catholic Hierarchy is the chief and dominant part; whereas “Zidon” particularly pictures those religious elements that preceded the Roman Catholic Hierarchy, and the religious doctrines, traditions and practices of which the Hierarchy adopted and absorbed.

For this crime the covering cherub, grown proud and selfish, would bring destruction upon himself, foreshadowed by the destruction that came upon the perfidious, commercialized line of kings of Tyre, accompanied by the ruin of their capital city Tyre. God is thus absolved from the charge of creating Satan the Devil. The anointed covering cherub in Eden made himself that wicked one.

Our determining whether this is the correct reading of Ezekiel's prophecy against the king of Tyre waits upon the discovery of an older Hebrew manuscript of Ezekiel's prophecy that will agree with the Septuagint Version (LXX). In the meantime we shall hold to the traditional Masoretic Hebrew text, with which the Latin Vulgate agrees. 15 Whereas Jehovah by his Word conversed with Adam and Eve in their perfection and innocence, the Genesis record does not show that the anointed covering cherub did so directly.