"BARE ROCK!"

Ezekiel 26:7-14                         (ESV)
"7 "For THUS SAYS THE LORD GOD: Behold, I will bring against Tyre from the north Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, king of kings, with horses and chariots, and with horsemen and a host of many soldiers.
8 He will kill with the sword your daughters on the mainland. He will set up a siege wall against you and throw up a mound against you, and raise a roof of shields against you.
9 He will direct the shock of his battering rams against your walls, and with his axes he will break down your towers.
10 His horses will be so many that their dust will cover you. Your walls will shake at the noise of the horsemen and wagons and chariots, when he enters your gates as men enter a city that has been breached.
11 With the hoofs of his horses he will trample all your streets. He will kill your people with the sword, and your mighty pillars will fall to the ground.
12 They will plunder your riches and loot your merchandise. They will break down your walls and destroy your pleasant houses. Your stones and timber and soil they will cast into the midst of the waters.
13 And I will stop the music of your songs, and the sound of your lyres shall be heard no more.
14 I will make you a "BARE ROCK". You shall be a place for the spreading of nets. YOU SHALL NEVER BE REBUILT, for I am the LORD; I HAVE SPOKEN, declares the LORD GOD."



ALMIGHTY GOD isn't only intimately involved with the lives of HIS children that worship HIM, but ALL who live in "this world".   This is evidenced by the scripture above as the city of Tyre was prophesied to be destroyed in about 586 B.C.   According to one internet search engine, Tyre was indeed destroyed in 332 B.C. by Alexander (the Great).   The entry of this secular website is below:

Alexander replaced everything, intentionally making a new city. 1 By 332 B.C., the city which boasted against God was annihilated. Regarding what is called Phoenician Tyre, (a) the empire was erased (b) the structures were left in waste (c) the people were replaced. Experts regularly call it a new city.

Alexander (some call the Great) was certainly not a believer that GOD is WHO HE says HE is, but he accomplished what GOD's WORD proclaimed would happen 250 years prior!  Don't let the enemy blind you to what GOD has told you will come about!  GOD is ABLE to do "far more abundantly" (Ephesians 3:20-21) than anything we can calculate.  HE isn't constrained by the elements that our minds are exposed to.  Alexander (the Great) died in a city now known as Baghdad, Iraq, formerly known as Babylon!

One thing that cannot be omitted from this writing is a phrase that I noticed when researching these verses on a secular internet search engine.  It says "The name of the city means "rock" after the rocky formation on which the town was originally built."  Ezekiel 26:14 begins with the words "I (GOD) will make you a "BARE ROCK".  The WORD of GOD, it can't be proven wrong!!!