Daily Devotion

April 12, 2006

Psa 119:118 KJV Thou hast trodden down all them that err from thy statutes: for their deceit is falsehood.

History is one of the greatest proofs of the existence of its great Planner: God.  One doesn’t need to be a theologian to see it.  Prophecies concerning the fate of certain cities have been amazingly fulfilled!

For example, through the prophet Ezekiel, the Lord said that the city of Tyre in Lebanon would be completely destroyed & would become as bare as the top of a rock; and that her stones & debris would be cast into the sea, and that she would become a place for the spreading of the fishermen’s nets (Ez chapters 26 and 30). That's exactly what happened to that city and it is evident today.  Nebuchadnezzar, the king of Babylon, came along to conquer it but the inhabitants having been warned, fled to a little island a half a mile offshore with all their treasures & riches. Nebuchadnezzar couldn’t get at them because he didn’t have a navy, so he was so angry at them he destroyed the entire old city of Tyre, the great city of the Phoenicians, and left it there in ruins. But 250 years later, along came Alexander the Great, who in turn had a navy, and he wasn't going to pass up all those riches, so he decided to take all the ruins & scrape them into the water & build a half a mile causeway, a road to the new city of Tyre and captured it.  Today, fishermen spread their nets on this causeway, just as the prophecy predicted!

The prophecies about the cites that God allowed to be destroyed for their sins stand forever as a testimony and warning to us and our nation of His eternal never failing Word and justice.  

Psa 9:17  The wicked shall be turned into hell, and all the nations that forget God.

Patrick Lumbroso
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