Wonderful Prophecy Concerning Tyre.
“Of old Tyre not a vestige remains. History accounts for this remarkable fact. Three centuries before Christ the city was taken by Alexander the Great, who immediately proceeded to besiege New Tyre on the island. Not being able to reach its walls with his engines, he collected the whole remains of the old city—stones, timber, rubbish—threw them into the narrow channel, and they formed a causeway. Three centuries before Alexander the Great was born, Ezekiel wrote: ‘Thus saith the Lord God, Behold, I am against thee, O Tyre, and will cause many nations to come up against thee, as the sea causeth his waves to come up. And they shall destroy the walls of Tyrus, and break down her towers; I will also scrape her dust from her, and make her like the top of a rock. They shall lay thy stones, and thy timber, and thy dust in the midst of the water. I will make thee a terror, and thou shalt be no more; though thou be sought for, yet shalt thou never more be found again, saith the Lord God.’ The site of Tyre is as bare as the top of a rock; and here and there I saw the fishermen spreading their nets upon the shore, to dry in the bright sunshine. When I saw them, I sat down on one of the highest fragments of the wall, and read, with mingled feelings of wonder and awe, the words of Ezekiel, ‘I will make thee like the top of a rock; thou shalt be a place to spread nets upon.’”—Giant Cities of Bashan.