If you are not willing to see this spiritually...you will not see, you will not understand. We have to see that biblical trees represent people. That, I believe, is the first step in seeing with spiritual eyes (at least it was for me).
Ezekiel 31:3 Behold, the Assyrian was a cedar in Lebanon with fair branches, and with a shadowing shroud, and of an high stature; and his top was among the thick boughs.
The king of Babylon as well as the king of Assyrian represent Satan. Historically they took captive the house of Judah and the house of Israel (Jews and Christians) and today the captivity continues through spiritual deception. Here the "Assyrian was a cedar." Was he a real tree? No. Cedars, as well as olive, figs, palms, etc. are people: as an example....
Psalm 92:12 The righteous shall flourish like the palm tree: he shall grow like a cedar in Lebanon.
31:4-7 The waters made him great, the deep set him up on high with her rivers running round about his plants, and sent her little rivers unto all the trees of the field. Therefore his height was exalted above all the trees of the field, and his boughs were multiplied, and his branches became long because of the multitude of waters, when he shot forth. All the fowls of heaven made their nests in his boughs, and under his branches did all the beasts of the field bring forth their young, and under his shadow dwelt all great nations. Thus was he fair in his greatness, in the length of his branches: for his root was by great waters.
Waters, trees of the field, fowls of heaven, beasts of the field....should all be seen spiritually! But, this OP concerns the following....
31:8-9 The cedars in the garden of God could not hide him: the fir trees were not like his boughs, and the chestnut trees were not like his branches; nor any tree in the garden of God was like unto him in his beauty. I have made him fair by the multitude of his branches: so that all the trees of Eden, that were in the garden of God, envied him.
This is Satan...the beautiful tree of knowledge of good and evil....in the garden of Eden in the FIRST AGE, before his fall. There were many "trees," people in the garden. This should be easy to understand as literal trees do not envy. God made him fair and he was loved but then....Satan rebelled. That was in the first earth age and his rebellion is the reason for the destruction of that age.
31:10 Therefore thus saith the Lord God; Because thou hast lifted up thyself in height, and he hath shot up his top among the thick boughs, and his heart is lifted up in his height; I have therefore delivered him into the hand of the mighty one of the heathen; he shall surely deal with him: I have driven him out for his wickedness.
Pride and ego speak of a "heart lifted up in height." He thought he was God and he was "driven out" with many of those that followed him.
31:15-16 Thus saith the Lord God; In the day when he went down to the grave I caused a mourning: I covered the deep for him, and I restrained the floods thereof, and the great waters were stayed: and I caused Lebanon to mourn for him, and all the trees of the field fainted for him. I made the nations to shake at the sound of his fall, when I cast him down to hell with them that descend into the pit: and all the trees of Eden, the choice and best of Lebanon, all that drink water, shall be comforted in the nether parts of the earth.
Within those two verses we see the first earth age...when he went down to the grave, when all the trees of the field fainted for him, when God made the nations shake....and then the tense changes, no longer past tense but....He teaches of this present age.
And all the trees of Eden, the choice and best of Lebanon, all that drink water, shall be comforted in the nether parts of the earth.
31:17-18 They also went down into hell with him unto them that be slain with the sword; and they that were his arm, that dwelt under his shadow in the midst of the heathen. To whom art thou thus like in glory and in greatness among the trees of Eden? yet shalt thou be brought down with the trees of Eden unto the nether parts of the earth: thou shalt lie in the midst of the uncircumcised with them that be slain by the sword. This is Pharaoh and all his multitude, saith the Lord God.
That is what I would like to discuss...why would the "choice and best" of God's trees go "down into hell?"
Ezekiel 31:3 Behold, the Assyrian was a cedar in Lebanon with fair branches, and with a shadowing shroud, and of an high stature; and his top was among the thick boughs.
The king of Babylon as well as the king of Assyrian represent Satan. Historically they took captive the house of Judah and the house of Israel (Jews and Christians) and today the captivity continues through spiritual deception. Here the "Assyrian was a cedar." Was he a real tree? No. Cedars, as well as olive, figs, palms, etc. are people: as an example....
Psalm 92:12 The righteous shall flourish like the palm tree: he shall grow like a cedar in Lebanon.
31:4-7 The waters made him great, the deep set him up on high with her rivers running round about his plants, and sent her little rivers unto all the trees of the field. Therefore his height was exalted above all the trees of the field, and his boughs were multiplied, and his branches became long because of the multitude of waters, when he shot forth. All the fowls of heaven made their nests in his boughs, and under his branches did all the beasts of the field bring forth their young, and under his shadow dwelt all great nations. Thus was he fair in his greatness, in the length of his branches: for his root was by great waters.
Waters, trees of the field, fowls of heaven, beasts of the field....should all be seen spiritually! But, this OP concerns the following....
31:8-9 The cedars in the garden of God could not hide him: the fir trees were not like his boughs, and the chestnut trees were not like his branches; nor any tree in the garden of God was like unto him in his beauty. I have made him fair by the multitude of his branches: so that all the trees of Eden, that were in the garden of God, envied him.
This is Satan...the beautiful tree of knowledge of good and evil....in the garden of Eden in the FIRST AGE, before his fall. There were many "trees," people in the garden. This should be easy to understand as literal trees do not envy. God made him fair and he was loved but then....Satan rebelled. That was in the first earth age and his rebellion is the reason for the destruction of that age.
31:10 Therefore thus saith the Lord God; Because thou hast lifted up thyself in height, and he hath shot up his top among the thick boughs, and his heart is lifted up in his height; I have therefore delivered him into the hand of the mighty one of the heathen; he shall surely deal with him: I have driven him out for his wickedness.
Pride and ego speak of a "heart lifted up in height." He thought he was God and he was "driven out" with many of those that followed him.
31:15-16 Thus saith the Lord God; In the day when he went down to the grave I caused a mourning: I covered the deep for him, and I restrained the floods thereof, and the great waters were stayed: and I caused Lebanon to mourn for him, and all the trees of the field fainted for him. I made the nations to shake at the sound of his fall, when I cast him down to hell with them that descend into the pit: and all the trees of Eden, the choice and best of Lebanon, all that drink water, shall be comforted in the nether parts of the earth.
Within those two verses we see the first earth age...when he went down to the grave, when all the trees of the field fainted for him, when God made the nations shake....and then the tense changes, no longer past tense but....He teaches of this present age.
And all the trees of Eden, the choice and best of Lebanon, all that drink water, shall be comforted in the nether parts of the earth.
31:17-18 They also went down into hell with him unto them that be slain with the sword; and they that were his arm, that dwelt under his shadow in the midst of the heathen. To whom art thou thus like in glory and in greatness among the trees of Eden? yet shalt thou be brought down with the trees of Eden unto the nether parts of the earth: thou shalt lie in the midst of the uncircumcised with them that be slain by the sword. This is Pharaoh and all his multitude, saith the Lord God.
That is what I would like to discuss...why would the "choice and best" of God's trees go "down into hell?"