Ezekiel 28:1

 Ezekiel 28:1 says, The word of the Lord came again unto me, saying,  

Verse two adds, 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:  Ezekial was to warn the prince of Tyrus that he was not God even if he professed himself to be a god, even trying to take God’s throne.  There are nations today that profess that there is no God and demand that their citizens put their faith in the leaders of the nation as god or instead of God, but one day, they will fall.  Even if this doesn’t happen until Jesus Christ returns, it will happen.  

Verse three continues, Behold, thou art wiser than Daniel; there is no secret that they can hide from thee:  God said that the prince of Tyrus thought of himself as being wiser than Daniel, who was noted for both his wisdom and his prudence.  No leader of a country today should be viewed as equal to or greater than Jesus Christ. 

Verse four states, With thy wisdom and with thine understanding thou hast gotten thee riches, and hast gotten gold and silver into thy treasures: God’s message to the prince of Tyrus was that he was filled with self-pride thinking that he was responsible for all the riches that Tyrus had amassed and therefore should be worshipped as a god.  We should never worship anyone in the world as if they are a god, and we certainly shouldn’t even see them as equal to God.  

Verse five adds, By thy great wisdom and by thy traffick hast thou increased thy riches, and thine heart is lifted up because of thy riches:  God said that the people of Tyrus thought that their own wisdom and the traffic of goods through there were responsible for their riches, and they didn’t give God any credit for this.  They became full of self-pride instead.   Some people today if they become rich or powerful in the world may think that they are better than other people and never give God any credit for their success.  At times, it may be their own greed and mistreatment of others that brings riches to them, and God may not have anything to do with it, but like the people of Tyrus, one day all the riches they have will go away.