Chapter xxviii.
The greater part of this chapter is also devoted to Tyrus. This
concluding prophecy about Tyrus is the most interesting. It concerns the
proud ruler of that city, who is called Prince and also King. But this
ruler as Prince and King is typical of another and more sinister being
as we learn from this chapter. Tyrus with its earthly glory, wealth and
pride, as pointed out in the previous expositions, is the type of the
glory of the world, the commercial glory and all connected with it, and
clearly foreshadows the final great commercial world-system, Babylon the
Great. Inasmuch then as Tyrus foreshadows this, its proud and wicked
King is typical of the prince of this world, the one who fell by pride
and who is the ruler and god of this age. As the prince of this world he
showed to the Lord Jesus Christ all the kingdoms of the world and their
glory, and offered all to the Lord. This sinister being and his coming
masterpiece, the Antichrist, who is to rule during the end of this age
on the earth, are foreshadowed in a striking way in the ruler of Tyrus.