A Better Basis for Belief - SOME STRIKING FULFILLMENTS OF PROPHECY

 Note: I have had some problems with my arm I type with. It has been really hurting, so when these blogs are short, that is 0the reason why. 

Some one hundred fifty years before Nebuchadnezzar destroyed the land cccccity of Tyre Isaiah foretold it, and several years before this event both Jeremiah and Ezekiel foretold it. But scores of years afterward Zechariah was still foretelling it.  Why?  Because about a half a mile out in the water from the seacoast of Tyre was an island on which was the water city most of the inhabitants had evacuatd with their possessions to the island city , and Nebucahdnezzar never did take it. But Alexander the Great did, 333-332 B.C.  To do it he built a mole or land bridge  out into the water and to the island, and this mole he made out of the ruins and debris of the old land city of Tyre.  Thus were completely fulfilled Ezekiel's words, "Your walls shall be torn down, and your happy homes destroyed; your stones and timber and dust shall be sunk in the heart  of the waters."  (Isaiah 24:1-13; Jeremiah 27:1-11; Ezekiel 26:1-14; Zechariah 9:2-4, AT)  Complete fulfillment came, nearly two hundred years after Zechariah said it, nearly three hudred years after Jeremiah and Ezekiel said oit, and more than four hundred years after Isaiah said it!

Before the fall of Nineveh the prophet Nahum predicted concerning it:  "With an overflowing flood he will make an end of his adversaries; . . . The Gates of the rivers are opened, and the palace melts away. And Nineveh is like a pool of water, . . . To your foes the gates of your land will opened wide; fire will devour your barriers." (Nahum 1:8' 2:6, 8; 3:13, AT)  Nineveh was overthrown by the Chaldeans and Medes in 632 B.C. But note hos.  The swollen Tigris  river made a breach in the city's wall and overflowed the city, opening the way for the easy entry fo the enemy forcss.  One  historical account states that the Assyrian king made a large funeral pyre in the palace, on which he and many of his servants and concubines died when  the torch was put to it.  The burning and sacking of the city was completed after the foe entered the burning and partly inundated city. Though now known through excavation, Nineveh's  desolation wa sso complete that it later became a myth, We read: "They were greatly aided by a sudden rise of the Tigris, which carried away a geat part of the city wall and rendered the palace indefensible.  So complete was the desolation that in Greek and Roman times the departed Nineveh became like a myth. Yet all the while part of the city lay buried under mounds of apparent rubbish."  Through his prophet Nahum Jehovah foretold its fate and the manner of its fall.

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