# Persist, Don’t Just Exist

URL: https://manofgod.online/daily/2026-10-14-persist-don-t-just-exist/
Date: 2026-10-14
Tags: sovereignty, humility, faithfulness, perseverance, worship
Summary: Daily Bible reading for 2026-10-14: Persist, Don’t Just Exist. Reflections on Sovereignty, Humility, Faithfulness and links to cited verse pages.

1. Yahweh’s word came again to me, saying,
2. “Son of man, tell the prince of Tyre, ‘The Lord Yahweh says: “Because your heart is lifted up, and you have said, ‘I am a god, I sit in the seat of God, in the middle of the seas;’ yet you are man, and not God, though you set your heart as the heart of God—
3. behold, you are wiser than Daniel; there is no secret that is hidden from you;
4. by your wisdom and by your understanding you have gotten yourself riches, and have gotten gold and silver into your treasures;
5. by your great wisdom and by your trading you have increased your riches, and your heart is lifted up because of your riches—”
6. “ ‘therefore the Lord Yahweh says: “Because you have set your heart as the heart of God,
7. therefore, behold, I will bring strangers on you, the terrible of the nations. They will draw their swords against the beauty of your wisdom. They will defile your brightness.
8. They will bring you down to the pit. You will die the death of those who are slain in the heart of the seas.
9. Will you yet say before him who kills you, ‘I am God’? But you are man, and not God, in the hand of him who wounds you.
10. You will die the death of the uncircumcised by the hand of strangers; for I have spoken it,” says the Lord Yahweh.’ ”
11. Moreover Yahweh’s word came to me, saying,
12. “Son of man, take up a lamentation over the king of Tyre, and tell him, ‘The Lord Yahweh says: “You were the seal of full measure, full of wisdom, and perfect in beauty.
13. You were in Eden, the garden of God. Every precious stone adorned you: ruby, topaz, emerald, chrysolite, onyx, jasper, sapphire, turquoise, and beryl. Gold work of tambourines and of pipes was in you. They were prepared in the day that you were created.
14. You were the anointed cherub who covers. Then I set you up on the holy mountain of God. You have walked up and down in the middle of the stones of fire.
15. You were perfect in your ways from the day that you were created, until unrighteousness was found in you.
16. By the abundance of your commerce, your insides were filled with violence, and you have sinned. Therefore I have cast you as profane out of God’s mountain. I have destroyed you, covering cherub, from the middle of the stones of fire.
17. Your heart was lifted up because of your beauty. You have corrupted your wisdom by reason of your splendor. I have cast you to the ground. I have laid you before kings, that they may see you.
18. By the multitude of your iniquities, in the unrighteousness of your commerce, you have profaned your sanctuaries. Therefore I have brought out a fire from the middle of you. It has devoured you. I have turned you to ashes on the earth in the sight of all those who see you.
19. All those who know you among the peoples will be astonished at you. You have become a terror, and you will exist no more.” ’ ”
20. Yahweh’s word came to me, saying,
21. “Son of man, set your face toward Sidon, and prophesy against it,
22. and say, ‘The Lord Yahweh says: “Behold, I am against you, Sidon. I will be glorified among you. Then they will know that I am Yahweh, when I have executed judgments in her, and am sanctified in her.
23. For I will send pestilence into her, and blood into her streets. The wounded will fall within her, with the sword on her on every side. Then they will know that I am Yahweh.
24. “ ‘ “There will be no more a pricking brier to the house of Israel, nor a hurting thorn of any that are around them that scorned them. Then they will know that I am the Lord Yahweh.”
25. “ ‘The Lord Yahweh says: “When I have gathered the house of Israel from the peoples among whom they are scattered, and am sanctified in them in the sight of the nations, then they will dwell in their own land which I gave to my servant Jacob.
26. They will dwell in it securely. Yes, they will build houses, plant vineyards, and will dwell securely, when I have executed judgments on all those who scorn them all around. Then they will know that I am Yahweh their God.” ’ ”
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1. In the tenth year, in the tenth month, on the twelfth day of the month, Yahweh’s word came to me, saying,
2. “Son of man, set your face against Pharaoh king of Egypt, and prophesy against him and against all Egypt.
3. Speak and say, ‘The Lord Yahweh says: “Behold, I am against you, Pharaoh king of Egypt, the great monster that lies in the middle of his rivers, that has said, ‘My river is my own, and I have made it for myself.’
4. I will put hooks in your jaws, and I will make the fish of your rivers stick to your scales. I will bring you up out of the middle of your rivers, with all the fish of your rivers which stick to your scales.
5. I’ll cast you out into the wilderness, you and all the fish of your rivers. You’ll fall on the open field. You won’t be brought together or gathered. I have given you for food to the animals of the earth and to the birds of the sky.
6. “ ‘ “All the inhabitants of Egypt will know that I am Yahweh, because they have been a staff of reed to the house of Israel.
7. When they took hold of you by your hand, you broke, and tore all their shoulders. When they leaned on you, you broke, and paralyzed all of their thighs.”
8. “ ‘Therefore the Lord Yahweh says: “Behold, I will bring a sword on you, and will cut off man and animal from you.
9. The land of Egypt will be a desolation and a waste. Then they will know that I am Yahweh. “ ‘ “Because he has said, ‘The river is mine, and I have made it;’
10. therefore, behold, I am against you, and against your rivers. I will make the land of Egypt an utter waste and desolation, from the tower of Seveneh even to the border of Ethiopia.
11. No foot of man will pass through it, nor will any animal foot pass through it. It won’t be inhabited for forty years.
12. I will make the land of Egypt a desolation in the middle of the countries that are desolate. Her cities among the cities that are laid waste will be a desolation forty years. I will scatter the Egyptians among the nations, and will disperse them through the countries.”
13. “ ‘For the Lord Yahweh says: “At the end of forty years I will gather the Egyptians from the peoples where they were scattered.
14. I will reverse the captivity of Egypt, and will cause them to return into the land of Pathros, into the land of their birth. They will be a lowly kingdom, there.
15. It will be the lowest of the kingdoms. It won’t lift itself up above the nations any more. I will diminish them, so that they will no longer rule over the nations.
16. It will no longer be the confidence of the house of Israel, bringing iniquity to memory, when they turn to look after them. Then they will know that I am the Lord Yahweh.” ’ ”
17. It came to pass in the twenty-seventh year, in the first month, in the first day of the month, Yahweh’s word came to me, saying,
18. “Son of man, Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon caused his army to serve a great service against Tyre. Every head was made bald, and every shoulder was worn; yet he had no wages, nor did his army, from Tyre, for the service that he had served against it.
19. Therefore the Lord Yahweh says: ‘Behold, I will give the land of Egypt to Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon. He will carry off her multitude, take her plunder, and take her prey. That will be the wages for his army.
20. I have given him the land of Egypt as his payment for which he served, because they worked for me,’ says the Lord Yahweh.
21. “In that day I will cause a horn to sprout for the house of Israel, and I will open your mouth among them. Then they will know that I am Yahweh.”
  Ezekiel Ezekiel 28

“ Behold, I am against you, Pharaoh king of Egypt, the great dragon that lies in the midst of his streams, … “
 Eze 29:3
 The picture here is similar to the one drawn in Revelation about the dragon.

“that says, ‘My Nile is my own; I made it for myself’.  “ - Eze 29:3
 Seems God is talking here, and He does not like that His creation is used to say it comes from other Gods.

  “Son of man, Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon made his army labor hard against Tyre. Every head was made bald, and every shoulder was rubbed bare, yet neither he nor his army got anything from Tyre to pay for the labor that he had performed against her. 

19 Therefore thus says the Lord God: Behold, I will give the land of Egypt to Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon; and he shall carry off its wealth and despoil it and plunder it; and it shall be the wages for his army. - Eze 29:18-19

God is in control of order and He uses the most unlikely people for His will. We need to be steadfast in His will and clear for our intentions to follow Him. Holy Spirit guide my heart to the Father and His will that I may praise Him in all that I do and work through.
11. I saw another beast coming up out of the earth. He had two horns like a lamb, and he spoke like a dragon.
12. He exercises all the authority of the first beast in his presence. He makes the earth and those who dwell in it to worship the first beast, whose fatal wound was healed.
13. He performs great signs, even making fire come down out of the sky to the earth in the sight of people.
14. He deceives my own people who dwell on the earth because of the signs he was granted to do in front of the beast, saying to those who dwell on the earth that they should make an image to the beast who had the sword wound and lived.
15. It was given to him to give breath to it, to the image of the beast, that the image of the beast should both speak, and cause as many as wouldn’t worship the image of the beast to be killed.
16. He causes all, the small and the great, the rich and the poor, and the free and the slave, to be given marks on their right hands, or on their foreheads;
17. and that no one would be able to buy or to sell, unless he has that mark, which is the name of the beast or the number of his name.
18. Here is wisdom. He who has understanding, let him calculate the number of the beast, for it is the number of a man. His number is six hundred sixty-six.
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1. I saw, and behold, the Lamb standing on Mount Zion, and with him a number, one hundred forty-four thousand, having his name, and the name of his Father, written on their foreheads.
2. I heard a sound from heaven, like the sound of many waters, and like the sound of a great thunder. The sound which I heard was like that of harpists playing on their harps.
3. They sing a new song before the throne, and before the four living creatures and the elders. No one could learn the song except the one hundred forty-four thousand, those who had been redeemed out of the earth.
4. These are those who were not defiled with women, for they are virgins. These are those who follow the Lamb wherever he goes. These were redeemed by Jesus from among men, the first fruits to God and to the Lamb.
5. In their mouth was found no lie, for they are blameless.
6. I saw an angel flying in mid heaven, having an eternal Good News to proclaim to those who dwell on the earth, and to every nation, tribe, language, and people.
7. He said with a loud voice, “Fear the Lord, and give him glory; for the hour of his judgment has come. Worship him who made the heaven, the earth, the sea, and the springs of waters!”
8. Another, a second angel, followed, saying, “Babylon the great has fallen, which has made all the nations to drink of the wine of the wrath of her sexual immorality.”
9. Another angel, a third, followed them, saying with a great voice, “If anyone worships the beast and his image, and receives a mark on his forehead, or on his hand,
10. he also will drink of the wine of the wrath of God, which is prepared unmixed in the cup of his anger. He will be tormented with fire and sulfur in the presence of the holy angels, and in the presence of the Lamb.
11. The smoke of their torment goes up forever and ever. They have no rest day and night, those who worship the beast and his image, and whoever receives the mark of his name.
12. Here is the perseverance of the saints, those who keep the commandments of God, and the faith of Jesus.”
13. I heard a voice from heaven saying, “Write, ‘Blessed are the dead who die in the Lord from now on.’ ” “Yes,” says the Spirit, “that they may rest from their labors; for their works follow with them.”
  Revelation Revelation 13

There seems to be a lot happening here, marks of the beast, marks that make it that you cannot buy things, virgins that are set apart. I do not understand it all and feel that it there is a lot to unpack and learn from clever people, what I do know, be faithful to God, learn to be bold for Him, walk and read in His word and seek Him first. If I keep doing these things God is with me and He is for me, He saved me by Jesus blood and I seek His face, everything else will play themselves out becase God is great and worthy to be praised.
24. “Remember that you magnify his work, about which men have sung.
25. All men have looked on it. Man sees it afar off.
26. Behold, God is great, and we don’t know him. The number of his years is unsearchable.
27. For he draws up the drops of water, which distill in rain from his vapor,
28. which the skies pour down and which drop on man abundantly.
29. Yes, can any understand the spreading of the clouds, and the thunderings of his pavilion?
30. Behold, he spreads his light around him. He covers the bottom of the sea.
31. For by these he judges the people. He gives food in abundance.
32. He covers his hands with the lightning, and commands it to strike the mark.
33. Its noise tells about him, and the livestock also concerning the storm that comes up.
  Job Job 36

He covers his hands with the lightning and commands it to strike the mark  - Job 36:32
God is always in control from the simple prompts in the heart to the earth shattering events that happen, His hand is in control, if we see it or not. Have faith.

Harvested verse pages

Ezekiel 28 v 1–26 · Ezekiel 29 v 18–19 · Ezekiel 29 v 1–21 · Ezekiel 29 v 3 · Job 36 v 24–33 · Job 36 v 32 · Revelation 13 v 11–18 · Revelation 14 v 1–13