Hi Mike,

Thank you for your insight. I’ve been studying some different work and hope you can help me with your wisdom of Ezekiel 28.
Verse 13 – What do all the stones and diamonds have to do with the King?
Verse 14 – What is the holy mountain of God and the stones of fire?
Verse 16 – Why does he keep calling him a cherub?
I hope you can help me understand this better. Any time you can spend would be appreciated.
Thank You,

M____

Hi M____,

Thank you for your questions. The answer is: it’s all within us.
The stones and diamonds are God’s precious truths given to his “anointed.” King Saul was anointed of God, and yet he sought to kill God’s elect.

1Sa 24:6 And he [ David, when God delivered King Saul into David’s hand in the cave] said unto his men, The LORD forbid that I should do this thing unto my master, the LORD’S anointed, to stretch forth mine hand against him, seeing he is the anointed of the LORD.

We are neither King Saul nor King David. Both are within us at our appointed time:

Ecc 3:1 To every [ thing there is] a season, and a time to every purpose under the heaven:
Ecc 3:2 A time to be born, and a time to die; a time to plant, and a time to pluck up [ that which is] planted;
Ecc 3:3 A time to kill, and a time to heal; a time to break down, and a time to build up;
Ecc 3:4 A time to weep, and a time to laugh; a time to mourn, and a time to dance;
Ecc 3:5 A time to cast away stones, and a time to gather stones together; a time to embrace, and a time to refrain from embracing;
Ecc 3:6 A time to get, and a time to lose; a time to keep, and a time to cast away;
Ecc 3:7 A time to rend, and a time to sew; a time to keep silence, and a time to speak;
Ecc 3:8 A time to love, and a time to hate; a time of war, and a time of peace.
Ecc 3:9 What profit hath he that worketh in that wherein he laboureth?
Ecc 3:10 I have seen the travail, which God hath given to the sons of men to be exercised in it.
Ecc 3:11 He hath made every thing beautiful in his time: also he hath set the world in their heart, so that no man can find out the work that God maketh from the beginning to the end.
Psa 139:16 Thine eyes did see mine unformed substance; And in thy book they were all written, Even the days that were ordained for me, When as yet there was none of them. (ASV)

Precious stones in scripture are like precious metals. They are given to God’s anointed, and God’s anointed abuse them and act as if they have these riches because of their own efforts. We all do the same thing:

Eze 16:17 Thou hast also taken thy fair jewels of my gold and of my silver, which I had given thee, and madest to thyself images of men [ false doctrines], and didst commit whoredom with them,

All the powers that be are the Lord’s anointed to be such powers:

Rom 13:1 Let every soul be subject unto the higher powers. For there is no power but of God: the powers that be are ordained of God.

The King of Tyre was “ordained of God,” too. But like King Nebuchadnezzar before him, the King of Tyre considered himself to be the source of his own strength and power.

Dan 4:30 The king [ Nebuchadnezzar] spake, and said, Is not this great Babylon, that I have built for the house of the kingdom by the might of my power, and for the honour of my majesty?
Dan 4:31 While the word was in the king’s mouth, there fell a voice from heaven, [ saying], O king Nebuchadnezzar, to thee it is spoken; The kingdom is departed from thee.
Dan 4:32 And they shall drive thee from men, and thy dwelling [ shall be] with the beasts of the field: they shall make thee to eat grass as oxen, and seven times shall pass over thee, until thou know that the most High ruleth in the kingdom of men, and giveth it to whomsoever he will.
Dan 4:33 The same hour was the thing fulfilled upon Nebuchadnezzar: and he was driven from men, and did eat grass as oxen, and his body was wet with the dew of heaven, till his hairs were grown like eagles’ [ feathers], and his nails like birds’ claws.

Ezekiel 28 and Isa 14 are saying the same thing.

Eze 28:2 Son of man, say unto the prince of Tyre, Thus saith the Lord Jehovah: Because thy 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 man, and not God, though thou didst set thy heart as the heart of God;

“Thou hast said…” God answers us “according to the idols of our hearts.”

Eze 14:2 And the word of the LORD came unto me, saying,
Eze 14:3 Son of man, these men have set up their idols in their heart, and put the stumblingblock of their iniquity before their face: should I be enquired of at all by them?
Eze 14:4 Therefore speak unto them, and say unto them, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Every man of the house of Israel that setteth up his idols in his heart, and putteth the stumblingblock of his iniquity before his face, and cometh to the prophet; I the LORD will answer him that cometh according to the multitude of his idols;

That is the premise for calling the king of Tyre a ‘cherub’ and for calling the King of Babylon ‘son of the morning.’

Isa 14:11 Thy pomp is brought down to the grave, and the noise of thy viols: the worm is spread under thee, and the worms cover thee.
Isa 14:12 How art thou fallen from heaven, O Lucifer, son of the morning! how art thou cut down to the ground, which didst weaken the nations!

Mountains in scripture are kingdoms. You and I are “the mountain of God.” It is in us that God dwells and His kingdom grows:

Luk 17:20 And when he was demanded of the Pharisees, when the kingdom of God should come, he answered them and said, The kingdom of God cometh not with observation:
Luk 17:21 Neither shall they say, Lo here! or, lo there! for, behold, the kingdom of God is within you.

When we think that we are responsible for our own salvation, we are at that moment “the King of Tyre [ and] the King of Babylon.” Ezekiel 28 and Isa 14, are one and the same, the beast within, the man of sin within, sitting on the throne of God within.
I hope this is of some help.
Mike