Prophecy addendum
It was suggested that Tyre, as mentioned previously in the Bible Prophecy post that Tyre had not been destroyed because it was obviously still there.
Okay, Tyre is now a tourist city in Lebanon. Rome is now a big city in Italy. But the kingdom that was the city-state of Tyre was totally destroyed and all of its buildings torn down. The empire that was Rome has left behind artifacts, but no longer is an empire at all. If you wish to claim that Tyre is still the powerful city-state of Biblical times, have a nice day...Just as it would be foolish to say that modern Rome is still that empire that ruled the "civilized" Western world for hundreds of years. I can look in a phone book and find a guy named Robert E Lee but it won't be the same person as the civil war-era General of the Confederate Armies. Both those cities have the same names as the empires they replaced but are not the same at all.
It would make no sense for Ezekiel to predict the downfall of Tyre if Amos had already done so almost two hundred years earlier, because it hadn't yet happened yet and why repeat another's unfulfilled prophecy? Yet he was inspired by God to write "... they will break down your walls and demolish your fine houses and throw your stones, timber and rubble into the sea." That is precisely what happened. Specifics point to foreknowledge.
Isaiah didn't simply predict the downfall of Babylon, he named the very conqueror generations before he was even born! Specifics point to foreknowledge again!
By the way, there are plenty of clues in the Bible that point out knowledge beyond that of mankind at the time of the writing. How about in Isaiah 40:22 when it is said of God that "He sits enthroned above the circle of the earth...?" Chuwg, pronounced "khoog" means a circle or a roundness. In other words, God is mentioning the fact that the earth is round a couple of thousand years ahead of many secular thinkers and well ahead of the scientists of the day. In Psalms 19 we are told that the "speech" of the heavenly bodies goes everywhere and transmits heat. These are properties of light that we understand today that a Jewish prophet could not comprehend without the inspiration of God.
There was a claim that Ezekiel 29:10-13 was never fulfilled, which had never been presented to me before now, so I will have to do some research. We certainly know that the Northern Kingdom of Egypt was conquered more than once within two hundred years of the writing of those words. Stay tuned for more there. That passage is the only reasonable answer I have yet received and is worth my continued attention.
Okay, Tyre is now a tourist city in Lebanon. Rome is now a big city in Italy. But the kingdom that was the city-state of Tyre was totally destroyed and all of its buildings torn down. The empire that was Rome has left behind artifacts, but no longer is an empire at all. If you wish to claim that Tyre is still the powerful city-state of Biblical times, have a nice day...Just as it would be foolish to say that modern Rome is still that empire that ruled the "civilized" Western world for hundreds of years. I can look in a phone book and find a guy named Robert E Lee but it won't be the same person as the civil war-era General of the Confederate Armies. Both those cities have the same names as the empires they replaced but are not the same at all.
It would make no sense for Ezekiel to predict the downfall of Tyre if Amos had already done so almost two hundred years earlier, because it hadn't yet happened yet and why repeat another's unfulfilled prophecy? Yet he was inspired by God to write "... they will break down your walls and demolish your fine houses and throw your stones, timber and rubble into the sea." That is precisely what happened. Specifics point to foreknowledge.
Isaiah didn't simply predict the downfall of Babylon, he named the very conqueror generations before he was even born! Specifics point to foreknowledge again!
By the way, there are plenty of clues in the Bible that point out knowledge beyond that of mankind at the time of the writing. How about in Isaiah 40:22 when it is said of God that "He sits enthroned above the circle of the earth...?" Chuwg, pronounced "khoog" means a circle or a roundness. In other words, God is mentioning the fact that the earth is round a couple of thousand years ahead of many secular thinkers and well ahead of the scientists of the day. In Psalms 19 we are told that the "speech" of the heavenly bodies goes everywhere and transmits heat. These are properties of light that we understand today that a Jewish prophet could not comprehend without the inspiration of God.
There was a claim that Ezekiel 29:10-13 was never fulfilled, which had never been presented to me before now, so I will have to do some research. We certainly know that the Northern Kingdom of Egypt was conquered more than once within two hundred years of the writing of those words. Stay tuned for more there. That passage is the only reasonable answer I have yet received and is worth my continued attention.