• There are approximately 2,500 prophecies in the Bible

• About 2,000 have already been fulfilled …to the letter

• The remaining 500 reach into the future and are still being fulfilled

What’s so special about the Bible?

21 And if you say in your heart, 'How shall we know the word which the LORD has not spoken?' 22 when a prophet speaks in the name of the LORD, if the thing does not happen or come to pass, that is the thing which the LORD has not spoken; the prophet has spoken it presumptuously; you shall not be afraid of him.

Deuteronomy 18:21-22

THE DESTRUCTION OF TYRE

Ezekiel 26

THE DESTRUCTION OF TYRE

3 Therefore thus says the Lord GOD: 'Behold, I am against you, O Tyre, and will cause many nations to come up against you, as the sea causes its waves to come up. 4 And they shall destroy the walls of Tyre and break down her towers; I will also scrape her dust from her, and make her like the top of a rock.

Ezekiel 26:3-4

7 Thus says the Lord GOD: 'Behold, I will bring against Tyre from the north Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon

Fulfilled in 585 BC through 573 BC when Nebuchadnezzar seized the city of Tyre.

Ezekiel 26:7

8 He will heap up a siege mound against you, build a wall against you, and raise a defense against you.9 He will direct his battering rams against your walls, and with his axes he will break down your towers.

Ezekiel 26:8-9

10 Because of the abundance of his horses, their dust will cover you; your walls will shake at the noise of the horsemen, the wagons, and the chariots, when he enters your gates, as men enter a city that has been breached. 11 With the hooves of his horses he will trample all your streets; he will slay your people by the sword, and your strong pillars will fall to the ground.

Ezekiel 26:8

12 They will plunder your riches and pillage your merchandise; they will break down your walls and destroy your pleasant houses; they will lay your stones, your timber, and your soil in the midst of the water

Fulfilled in 332 BC when Alexander the Great was expanding his empire

Ezekiel 26:12

“Probably the most famous episode in the history of Tyre was its resistance to the army of the Macedonian conqueror Alexander the Great, who took it after a seven month siege in in 332 BC using floating batteries and building a causeway to gain access to the island. After its capture, 10,000 of the inhabitants were put to death and 30,000 were sold into slavery. Alexander’s causeway, which was never removed, permanently converted the island into a peninsula.”

Encyclopedia Britannica (Vol. X, pg. 223)

14 I will make you like the top of a rock; you shall be a place for spreading nets, and you shall never be rebuilt, for I the LORD have spoken,' says the Lord GOD.

Ezekiel 26:14

THE FALL OF BABYLON

Jeremiah 50

1 The word that the LORD spoke against Babylon…2 Say, 'Babylon is taken…3 For out of the north a nation comes up against her, which shall make her land desolate, and no one shall dwell therein.

64 Babylon shall sink and not rise from the catastrophe that I will bring upon her.

Jeremiah 50:1-3 & 51:64

58 Thus says the Lord of hosts: “The broad walls of Babylon shall be utterly broken, and her high gates shall burn with fire.”

Jeremiah 51:58

Outer wall was 344 feet high and 86 feet wide

Inner wall was 75 feet high and 32 feet wide

Both walls were surrounded by a deep, wide moat

26 Cast her up as heaps of ruins, and destroy her utterly; let nothing of her be left

Jeremiah 50:26

37 Babylon shall become a heap, a dwelling place for jackals, an astonishment and a hissing, without an inhabitant

Jeremiah 51:37

“The present site (of Babylon’s walls) is an extensive field of ruins and contains several prominent mounds.”

Encyclopedia Britannica (Vol. II, pg. 556)

42 The sea has come up over Babylon; She is covered with the multitude of its waves. 43 Her cities are a desolation, a dry land and a wilderness…

Jeremiah 51:42-43

“For the space of two months throughout the year the ruins of Babylon are inundated by the annual overflowing of the Euphrates so as to render many parts of them inaccessible by converting the valleys into swamps..”

Rich’s Memoirs; pg. 13

“After the subsiding of the waters, even the low heaps become again sunburnt ruins and the sight of Babylon is like that of the other cities of Chaldea, a dry waste, a parched and burning plain.”

Buckingham’s Travels; Vol. II, pgs. 302-305

13 Because of the wrath of the LORD she shall not be inhabited, but she shall be wholly desolate

Jeremiah 50:13

39 It shall be inhabited no more forever, nor shall it be dwelt in from generation to generation.40 no one shall reside there, nor son of man dwell in it.

Jeremiah 50:39-40

“…he now founded Alexandria at the mouth of Tigris…suddenly while busy with plans to improve the irrigation of the Euphrates and to settle the coast of the Persian Gulf, Alexander was taken ill after a prolonged banquet and drinking bought; ten days later, on June 13, 323, he died in his 33rd year.”

Encyclopedia Britannica (Vol. I, pg. 472)

“When Saddam Hussein rose to power in Iraq, he conceived a grandiose scheme to rebuild the ancient City of Babylon. Saddam Hussein said that Babylon's great palaces would rise from dust. Like the powerful King Nebuchadnezzar who conquered Jerusalem 2,500 years ago, Saddam Hussein would rule over the world's greatest empire.”

Jackie Crave; www.architecture.about.com

• Fall of Israel – 1 Kings 14:15• Fall of Judah – 2 Kings 20:18-19• Fall of Egypt – Ezekiel 30:13• Fall of Sidon – Ezekiel 28:2• Rise of Persia & King Cyrus – Isaiah 44:24 - 45:2• Rise of Alexander’s Four Generals – Daniel 8:8-23• Fall of Jerusalem by Titus of Rome – Matthew 24:2• International persecution of Hebrews– Dt. 28:36-37• More & More!!!

2,000 Fulfilled Prophecies

22 … if the thing does not happen or come to pass, the LORD has not spoken; the prophet has spoken it presumptuously; you shall not be afraid of him.

Deuteronomy 18:22

• Gender• Date of Birth• Name• Weight at Birth• College to Attend• Occupation• Manner of Death• Age at Death

If you could predict…

The chances of all eight of your predictions being fulfilled is

mathematically impossible –

1 in 10 to the 17th power

(10 with 17 zeroes)

• Born in Bethlehem• Preceded by Messenger• Ministered in Galilee• Mocked by Religious Leaders • Friend Betrays Him• Sold for 30 Pieces• Nailed to a Cross• Buried in a Rich Man’s Tomb

A Special Life…

Micah 5:2

Malachi 3:1

Isaiah 9:1-2

Psalm 22:7

Psalm 41:9

Zechariah 11:12

Psalm 22:16

Psalm 53:9

21 for prophecy never came by the will of man, but holy men of God spoke as they were moved by the Holy Spirit.

2 Peter 1:21