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which transcends time, because another famous king hundreds of years later would also make the same deadly mistake.

As the Roman Empire flourish, the same could not be said about Tyre and Sidon that had now become poor, abased and receiving welfare from Rome. Let’s see what happened to Herod as he failed to give honor and glory to the LORD. Acts 12:20-23 records this strange and frightening account: “Now Herod had been very angry with the people of Tyre and Sidon; but they came to him with one accord, and having made Blastus the king’s personal aide their friend, they asked for peace, because their country was supplied with food by the king’s country. So on a set day Herod, arrayed in royal apparel, sat on his throne and gave an oration to them. And the people kept shouting, “The voice of a god and not a man!” Then immediately an angel of the Lord struck him because he did not give glory to God. And he was eaten by worms and died“(NKJV).

This earthly king attempted to exalt himself as God; but instantly found himself in a bed of worms until his death. The prince of the nation of Tyre was also prideful and so sealed his own fate. In the supernatural realm, there was a powerful fallen angel known by many names and titles including Lucifer, who along with a very large number of angels attempted insurrection against the LORD God his Creator, desiring to be heralded as king. If such a powerful arch angel along with other angelic beings failed to overthrow the kingdom of GOD, how likely would it be for even the most powerful human created a little lower than the angels accomplish such a feat?

We know that the LORD was addressing a human and not a spiritual being, because it is so stated in Ezekiel 28:2-5. It was by the extraordinary intellectual and creative genius of this leader, one that surpassed that of Daniel that made Tyrus so famous but he had a weakness called pride, which wormed itself like cancer into his unusual abilities and made the nation vulnerable to those who craved their wealth and power for themselves. At an appointed time, Tyrus’ final destruction came at the hands of Alexander the Great and his army (see Josephus 11.8.4).

Unlike Daniel, the prince of Tyrus enjoyed the attention and priceless gifts lavished upon him by others because of his wisdom, never remembering to acknowledge God for his unequaled