Old Testiment Prophecy

Below are prophecies that were fulfilled in the Old Testament. These prophecies show how God is superior to everyone else, saying what will happen in the future with complete accuracy. No one has ever been completely right for everything they said will happen in the future while giving specific details on what will happen. Click on each verse to see the prophecy and to read a description of how it was fulfilled.

Ezekiel 26:7-14
Isaiah 44:28-45:1
Daniel 8:3-9, 20-22
Jeremiah 25:11,12

Tyre being destroyed
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Ezekiel 26:7-8; 9-10; 11-12; 13-14

Versus 7-11 predict Nebuchadnezzar coming and destroying the city of Tyre. This happened a while after Ezekiel predicted it.

Versus 12-14 shift character. While versus 7-11 said “he” referring to Nebuchadnezzar, versus 12-14 say “they”. The “they” refers Alexander the Great who came years after this was prophesied and destroyed the second Tyre. When Nebuchadnezzar came and attacked Tyre the first time, the people of Tyre fled from him by escaping to an island off the coast from them. They moved all their people to the island and called the island Tyre. When Nebuchadnezzar overcame the coastal city of Tyre, he raised the city to the ground out of anger because the people of Tyre escaped to the island city and took all their valuables with them.

Many years later Alexander the Great came to the island city of Tyre and demanded that they surrender to him. They refused because they felt safe on their island city and because they had become powerful and had one of the greatest navies at the time. So Alexander the Great, in order to reach the island city, built a giant causeway by gathering together all the ruins of the coastal city of Tyre that Nebuchadnezzar destroyed, and threw them into the sea. When Alexander the Great ran out of stone and timber to throw into the sea, he had the dust scraped off the ground in order to throw it in the sea thus fulfilling what God had said.

It was hundreds of years later before the island city of Tyre was discovered again. The location had been forgotten for a very long time. The only people who even came to the island were fishers who spread their fishing nets on the rocks. They didn’t know that it was the island city of Tyre because it had been so thoroughly destroyed.

Cyrus being named
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Isaiah 44:28-45:1

This is very amazing. Cyrus was a king of a country to the East of Israel. This was predicted over 150 years before Cyrus was born. To name a person before they are born is beyond this world. Cyrus is one of the kings that came and defeated Babylon and over time decreed that Jerusalem and the temple in Jerusalem should be rebuilt. The night that Cyrus’ army defeated Babylon, the city’s riverbed gates and palace gates were left open, fulfilling another part of this prophecy. It seems as though only God could arrange for this to happen for what city that is being surrounded by an attacking army is going to leave their gates open, the very night that the attacking army would try to enter through that part of the gates. Cyrus’ army came through the riverbed one night, a river ran through the city, and for some reason the gates that lined the inside of the city were unlocked. When Cyrus’ army came into the city, the palace gates were unlocked as well and the army came in and killed the Babylonian king. This is a testimony to God’s greatness. No one has ever named someone over 150 years before they are born and decreed what they would do in their live or how they would do it.

The Two Kingdoms Foretold
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Daniel 8:3-4; 5-6; 7-9, 20-22

This is a prophecy speaking of two mighty kingdoms that would come to rule a majority of the known world at the time it was written.  The two kingdoms were the  Media, Persia empire and the Greek empire under Alexander the Great.   This is an amazing prophecy because it was written before Media and Persia joined forces to overthrow the Babylonian empire. When they did join forces and overthrow the Babylonian empire, Persia was the stronger military power so it became greater then Media, hence the two horn goat with one horn becoming stronger than the other. The great horn of Greece was Alexander the Great who was Greece’s first great king. He grew very strong but at the height of his power he died. Then four of his generals took over his kingdom and split it into four different parts, none of them as powerful as Alexander the Great’s kingdom though. One of the generals ended up becoming stronger than the other generals and started to invade and take over other lands. The general who ended up becoming stronger was in Egypt and took over parts of Israel.

Babylon’s Destruction
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Jeremiah 25:11,12

This is a prediction of Israel becoming a desolate land by the hand of Babylon. This also predicts that the Babylonian empire will only last for 70 years. That is what happened, starting from the rein of Nebuchadnezzar, king of Babylon, to the destruction of the Babylonian empire was 70 years. The 70 years was also part of the land of Israel’s rest. God commanded that the Israeli people to let the land rest every 7th year when they enter the land, basically don’t plant crops every seventh year. The Israeli people didn’t do this though. The seventy years equated to the exact number of years that the land of Israel should have rested.