Ezekiel 32:9

Ezekiel 32:9 says, I will also vex the hearts of many people, when I shall bring thy destruction among the nations, into the countries which thou hast not known.  God said that He was going to vex the hearts of the people who heard about the destruction of Egypt.  He also said that many of these people were unknown to them.  If a powerful country or leader falls today, many people may be troubled by it, especially if they thought the country or person to be too great to fall.   

Verse ten adds, Yea, I will make many people amazed at thee, and their kings shall be horribly afraid for thee, when I shall brandish my sword before them; and they shall tremble at every moment, every man for his own life, in the day of thy fall.  God said that He was going to cause people to be amazed at the fall of Egypt.  God also said that when people of other countries heard what happened to the Pharaoh and Egypt that they would tremble before Him.  Even if it doesn't happen in this lifetime, one day all those who have refused to accept Jesus Christ as their Savior and Lord will tremble before Him in fear.  If we do not accept God’s gracious gift of salvation, we will one day face His everlasting punishment, and this should cause us to tremble in fear.   

Verse eleven continues, For thus saith the Lord God; The sword of the king of Babylon shall come upon thee.  God then told the Pharaoh that he was to be destroyed by the king of Babylon and that God would be the One Who allowed this to happen.  We will ultimately be destroyed by our sins if we have not repented and accepted God’s forgiveness, but even in this lifetime, we may be defeated by other nations.   

Verse twelve concludes, By the swords of the mighty will I cause thy multitude to fall, the terrible of the nations, all of them: and they shall spoil the pomp of Egypt, and all the multitude thereof shall be destroyed.  Once more, God said that He was the One causing the destruction of Egypt, even if He worked through Babylon to accomplish this destruction.  It is not whether we fall as a nation today or not, but it is whether or not we are sent away to everlasting punishment that should cause us to tremble if we have not accepted Jesus Christ as our personal Savior and Lord. 

Ezekiel 32:5

Ezekiel 32:5 says, And I will lay thy flesh upon the mountains, and fill the valleys with thy height.  God said that the people of Egypt were going to be killed on the mountains and in the valleys.  Their great army was not going to save them, and no matter what great force we put our faith in today rather than God it will one day be completely destroyed.   

Verse six adds, I will also water with thy blood the land wherein thou swimmest, even to the mountains; and the rivers shall be full of thee.  God said that the rivers were going to be filled with the blood of the Egyptians as well as the land all the way to the mountains. Matthew Henry says this could be referring to the analogy of the people of Egypt being like a great whale and it being cast on the land and filling the whole valley, but the prophecy was about Egypt being destroyed, even if it was an analogy.  We need to see the meaning behind analogies and parables in the Bible and not try to take them literally.   

Verse seven continues, And when I shall put thee out, I will cover the heaven, and make the stars thereof dark; I will cover the sun with a cloud, and the moon shall not give her light.  God said that when His judgment came on the people of Egypt that the world would be in darkness.  The Pharoah had seen himself as the sun who bought light to his people, but he was going to see how wrong he was.  God is the only one who can bring light and darkness on the world, and Jesus Christ is the only true Light of the world.  Everything or everyone else that we put our faith in will leave us in darkness.   

Verse eight concludes, All the bright lights of heaven will I make dark over thee, and set darkness upon thy land, saith the Lord God.  God said that He was going to make all the brightest lights in heaven dark before the Egyptians.  Everything that we look to for light other than Jesus Christ will one day be made dark.  That is why we need to come to the Light of Christ while we can. 

Ezekiel 32:1

Ezekiel 32:1 says, And it came to pass in the twelfth year, in the twelfth month, in the first day of the month, that the word of the Lord came unto me, saying,  Once more, Ezekiel gives a specific day when God’s word came to Him with a new prophecy.   We will not be given a new prophesy, but we should always hear when God speaks to us. 

Verse two adds, Son of man, take up a lamentation for Pharaoh king of Egypt, and say unto him, Thou art like a young lion of the nations, and thou art as a whale in the seas: and thou camest forth with thy rivers, and troubledst the waters with thy feet, and fouledst their rivers.  God told Ezekiel to tell the pharaoh that he was like a young lion, roaring all around and thinking of himself as more powerful than any other ruler.  He was also compared to a whale in the ocean that roiled the waters and made them muddy.  Matthew Henry says that fouling the rivers referred to when the pharaoh started an unnecessary war with the Cyrenians that caused trouble not only for Egypt but for the neighboring countries as well.  If we engage in unnecessary wars today, we may cause problems not only ourselves but other people as well.  Ezekiel was also told that he was to take up a lamentation for the people of Egypt because of their sinful actions, and we as followers of Christ today should lament the fate of those who will not put their faith in Him.   

Verse three continues, Thus saith the Lord God; I will therefore spread out my net over thee with a company of many people; and they shall bring thee up in my net.  Ezekiel was to tell the pharaoh that He was going to cast a net over Egypt through a company of many people that would bring them into His net.  This happened when the Chaldeans defeated Egypt.  Though Egypt was defeated by another country, it was God that either caused or allowed this to happen.   We may be defeated by another country today if we do not put our faith in God, but it is God Who will bring the ultimate defeat when Jesus Christ returns in judgment.   

Verse four concludes, Then will I leave thee upon the land, I will cast thee forth upon the open field, and will cause all the fowls of the heaven to remain upon thee, and I will fill the beasts of the whole earth with thee.  Using the comparison of the pharaoh being like a whale disturbing the waters, God said He was going to cast him out of the water and onto the land where he would be helpless and eaten by the foul of the air and the beasts of the ground.  The pharaoh's own self-pride led him to this position, and he was going to find himself unable to defend himself even against birds.  We are just as powerless when we serve false gods and are full of self-pride when we do.      

Ezekiel 31:15

Ezekiel 31:15 says, Thus saith the Lord God; In the day when he went down to the grave I caused a mourning: I covered the deep for him, and I restrained the floods thereof, and the great waters were stayed: and I caused Lebanon to mourn for him, and all the trees of the field fainted for him.  Still using the analogy of a great cedar to refer to Assyria, God said when it fell, He caused a great mourning for it.  Those nations that had been in alliance with or under the power of Assyria would mourn her passing, since it meant they could likewise fall.    

Verse sixteen adds,  I made the nations to shake at the sound of his fall, when I cast him down to hell with them that descend into the pit: and all the trees of Eden, the choice and best of Lebanon, all that drink water, shall be comforted in the nether parts of the earth.  God said that He caused the nations to shake at the fall of Assyria as they would later at the fall of Egypt.  When we see powerful people who deny God fall, it should cause us to quake in fear if we have not accepted Jesus Christ as our personal Savior and Lord.   

Verse seventeen continues, They also went down into hell with him unto them that be slain with the sword; and they that were his arm, that dwelt under his shadow in the midst of the heathen.  God said that all those who had relied on Assyria went down into the pit with him.  All who put their faith in the powers of the world instead of putting their faith in God will one day go down into the pits of hell together.   

Verse eighteen concludes, To whom art thou thus like in glory and in greatness among the trees of Eden? yet shalt thou be brought down with the trees of Eden unto the nether parts of the earth: thou shalt lie in the midst of the uncircumcised with them that be slain by the sword. This is Pharaoh and all his multitude, saith the Lord God. God asked who the Pharaoh and the people of Egypt thought they were that made them incapable of falling.  God said like the people of Assyria before them that they would go down into the pit.  No matter how powerful we may believe ourselves to be, if we have not repented of our sins and put our faith in Jesus Christ, we will one day go down into the pits of hell, just like all before us who have refused to accept God’s gift of salvation have.