Today, I am reading and commenting on Ezekiel 29-31.

Ezekiel now turns his attention (or, has it turned there by God) to Egypt.  The first reason God gives for the disaster which Egypt is about to experience is that its ruler thought he was the creator of the Nile River, and it was the Nile which was the root of Egypt’s greatness.  Therefore the ruler of Egypt thought that Egypt’s greatness was because of himself.  This echoes God’s condemnation of Tyre because Tyre’s king thought he was a god.  In both cases I do not think it was just the ruler taking undo credit for the success of their nations.  I believe that God was condemning the people for sharing their ruler’s belief in their own divinity.  They took credit for what God had done.  In the same way, many people in the United States think that the success of the United States owes nothing to God’s blessing (and I am sure that the same is true of people in other countries).  Ezekiel tells us that God is bringing judgement upon Egypt so that all who live there will know that He is God.  Let us not think that we are gods and thus inspire God to demonstrate to us that He alone is God.

I use the daily Bible reading schedule from “The Bible.net” for my daily Bible reading.