Prophecies Fulfilled in History

But I will scatter you among the nations and will draw out a sword after you as your land becomes desolate and your cities are laid waste.

• [PROPHECY] I will scatter you among the heathen and draw out a sword after you → HISTORY: Rome burned Jerusalem and its temple in AD 70, and the Jews were killed, enslaved or scattered across the empire. Recorded by Josephus, Jewish War 6.9.

Then you will eat the fruit of your womb, the flesh of the sons and daughters whom Yahweh your God has given you, in the siege and distress that your enemy will inflict on you.

• [PROPHECY] You shall eat the fruit of your own body, the flesh of your sons and daughters, in the siege → HISTORY: During the Roman siege of Jerusalem in AD 70, starving people ate anything, and a mother named Mary ate her own son. Recorded by Josephus, Jewish War 6.3.4.

The most gentle and refined man among you will begrudge his brother, the wife he embraces, and the rest of his children who have survived,

refusing to share with any of them the flesh of his children he will eat because he has nothing left in the siege and distress that your enemy will inflict on you within all your gates.

The most gentle and refined woman among you, so gentle and refined she would not venture to set the sole of her foot on the ground, will begrudge the husband she embraces and her son and daughter

the afterbirth that comes from between her legs and the children she bears, because she will secretly eat them for lack of anything else in the siege and distress that your enemy will inflict on you within your gates.

Just as it pleased Yahweh to make you prosper and multiply, so also it will please Him to annihilate you and destroy you. And you will be uprooted from the land you are entering to possess.

• [PROPHECY] Yahweh will scatter you among all peoples, from one end of the earth to the other; you shall serve other gods there → HISTORY: Babylon carried the Jews away in 597 and 586 BC, and Rome scattered them again after AD 70 and AD 135. Found in the Babylonian Chronicle and recorded by Josephus and Cassius Dio.

Then Yahweh will scatter you among all the nations, from one end of the earth to the other, and there you will worship other gods, gods of wood and stone, which neither you nor your fathers have known.

Among those nations you will find no repose, not even a resting place for the sole of your foot. There Yahweh will give you a trembling heart, failing eyes, and a despairing soul.

• [PROPHECY] Among those nations you shall find no rest; you shall fear day and night, and have no assurance of life → HISTORY: Jews were driven out of England in 1290 and Spain in 1492, and about six million were murdered in the Holocaust, 1939 to 1945. Recorded in the royal orders of expulsion and Nazi records.

So your life will hang in doubt before you, and you will be afraid night and day, never certain of survival.

In the morning you will say, ‘If only it were evening!’ and in the evening you will say, ‘If only it were morning!’—because of the dread in your hearts of the terrifying sights you will see.

Yahweh will return you to Egypt in ships by a route that I said you should never see again. There you will sell yourselves to your enemies as male and female slaves, but no one will buy you.”

• [PROPHECY] Israel would be taken back to Egypt and sold as slaves, but no one would buy → HISTORY: After Rome took Jerusalem in AD 70, captives were sent in chains to Egypt's mines. So many were sold that buyers were few and the price was very low. Recorded by Josephus, Jewish War 6.8.2 and 6.9.2. MEDIUM

And Babylon, the jewel of the kingdoms, the glory of the pride of the Chaldeans, will be overthrown by God like Sodom and Gomorrah.

• [PROPHECY] Babylon would be overthrown like Sodom and never lived in again → HISTORY: Babylon slowly emptied after the Greeks built a new capital nearby about 300 BC. By about AD 20 it was called a great desert. Recorded by Strabo, Geography 16.1.5. MEDIUM

She will never be inhabited or settled from generation to generation; no nomad will pitch his tent there, no shepherd will rest his flock there.

But desert creatures will lie down there, and howling creatures will fill her houses. Ostriches will dwell there, and wild goats will leap about.

Hyenas will howl in her fortresses and jackals in her luxurious palaces. Babylon’s time is at hand, and her days will not be prolonged.

“I will rise up against them,” declares Yahweh of Hosts. “I will cut off from Babylon her name and her remnant, her offspring and her posterity,” declares Yahweh.

• [PROPHECY] I will cut off from Babylon the name and remnant; I will make it a possession for the porcupine → HISTORY: Babylon was left almost empty after the Greeks moved its people to the new city of Seleucia about 300 BC. By about AD 20 it was a great desert. Recorded by Strabo, Geography 16.1.5. MEDIUM

“I will make her a place for owls and for swamplands; I will sweep her away with the broom of destruction,” declares Yahweh of Hosts.

In the year that King Ahaz died, this burden was received:

• [PROPHECY] Burden against Philistia → HISTORY: Assyrian kings beat the Philistine cities of Gaza, Ashdod, Ashkelon and Ekron between 720 and 701 BC. Recorded in the royal records of Sargon II and Sennacherib. MEDIUM

Do not rejoice, all you Philistines, that the rod that struck you is broken. For a viper will spring from the root of the snake, and a flying serpent from its egg.

Then the firstborn of the poor will find pasture, and the needy will lie down in safety, but I will kill your root by famine, and your remnant will be slain.

Wail, O gate! Cry out, O city! Melt away, all you Philistines! For a cloud of smoke comes from the north, and there are no stragglers in its ranks.

What answer will be given to the envoys of that nation? “Yahweh has founded Zion, where His afflicted people will find refuge.”

And now Yahweh says, “In three years, as a hired worker counts the years, Moab’s splendor will become an object of contempt, with all her many people. And those who are left will be few and feeble.”

• [PROPHECY] Within three years Moab's glory would be brought low → HISTORY: Assyria made Moab a servant land that paid tribute. Moab bowed to Sargon II about 711 BC and to Sennacherib in 701 BC. Recorded in Assyrian royal records. MEDIUM

I will deliver the Egyptians into the hands of a harsh master, and a fierce king will rule over them,” declares the Lord Yahweh of Hosts.

• [PROPHECY] A harsh master and fierce king would rule Egypt → HISTORY: The Assyrian king Esarhaddon conquered Egypt and took its capital Memphis in 671 BC. Shown on his stone monument found at Zincirli in Turkey. MEDIUM

In that day there will be an altar to Yahweh in the center of the land of Egypt, and a pillar to Yahweh near her border.

• [PROPHECY] An altar to Yahweh would stand in the middle of Egypt → HISTORY: The Jewish priest Onias built a temple to Yahweh at Leontopolis in Egypt about 160 BC, pointing to this verse. Recorded by Josephus, Antiquities 13.3.1. MEDIUM

so the king of Assyria will lead away the captives of Egypt and the exiles of Cush, young and old alike, naked and barefoot, with bared buttocks—to Egypt’s shame.

• [PROPHECY] Sargon (king of Assyria) would lead Egyptians and Ethiopians naked into captivity → HISTORY: Sargon II's army took Ashdod in 711 BC. Later Assyrian kings took Egyptian and Cushite captives when they conquered Egypt in 671 and 663 BC. Recorded in Assyrian royal records. MEDIUM

This is the burden against Dumah: One calls to me from Seir, “Watchman, what is left of the night? Watchman, what is left of the night?”

• [PROPHECY] Burden against Dumah (Edom) → HISTORY: The Babylonian king Nabonidus marched into Edom and Arabia about 553 BC. Found in the Nabonidus Chronicle and on his rock carving at Sela in Jordan. MEDIUM

The watchman replies, “Morning has come, but also the night. If you would inquire, then inquire. Come back yet again.”

For this is what the Lord says to me: “Within one year, as a hired worker would count it, all the glory of Kedar will be gone.

• [PROPHECY] Within one year the glory of Kedar would end → HISTORY: The Assyrian king Sennacherib attacked the Arab tribe of Kedar about 690 BC and carried off their gods. Ashurbanipal crushed them about 645 BC. Recorded in Assyrian royal records. MEDIUM

This is the burden against Tyre: Wail, O ships of Tarshish, for Tyre is laid waste, without house or harbor. Word has reached them from the land of Cyprus.

• [PROPHECY] Tyre would be laid waste → HISTORY: Nebuchadnezzar besieged Tyre for 13 years, about 586 to 573 BC. Alexander the Great took Tyre in 332 BC. Recorded by Josephus, Against Apion 1.21, and Arrian, Anabasis 2.24.

It will not be quenched—day or night. Its smoke will ascend forever. From generation to generation it will lie desolate; no one will ever again pass through it.

• [PROPHECY] Edom would lie desolate from generation to generation → HISTORY: Babylon's king Nabonidus struck Edom about 553 BC. About 125 BC the Jewish ruler John Hyrcanus conquered the Edomites and made them part of Judea. Recorded by Josephus, Antiquities 13.9.1.

This is what Yahweh says to Cyrus His anointed, whose right hand I have grasped to subdue nations before him, to disarm kings, to open the doors before him, so that the gates will not be shut:

• [PROPHECY] Cyrus's right hand held to subdue nations, opening 'two-leaved gates' before him → HISTORY: Cyrus the Persian took Babylon without a battle in 539 BC. Found on the Cyrus Cylinder and recorded by Herodotus, Histories 1.191.

Who has heard of such as this? Who has seen such things? Can a country be born in a day or a nation be delivered in an instant? Yet as soon as Zion was in labor, she gave birth to her children.

• [PROPHECY] Shall a nation be born in a day? → HISTORY: The modern State of Israel declared itself a nation in one day, May 14, 1948. Found in Israel's Declaration of Independence. Many Christians see this verse here, while others see Zion's return from exile. MEDIUM

Therefore this is what Yahweh says concerning Jehoiakim son of Josiah king of Judah: “They will not mourn for him: ‘Alas, my brother! Alas, my sister!’ They will not mourn for him: ‘Alas, my master! Alas, his splendor!’

• [PROPHECY] Jehoiakim would be buried with the burial of a donkey → HISTORY: Nebuchadnezzar killed King Jehoiakim and had his body thrown outside the walls of Jerusalem without burial, about 598 BC. Recorded by Josephus, Antiquities 10.6.3. MEDIUM

He will be buried like a donkey, dragged away and thrown outside the gates of Jerusalem.

This is what Yahweh says: “Enroll this man as childless, a man who will not prosper in his lifetime. None of his descendants will prosper to sit on the throne of David or to rule again in Judah.”

• [PROPHECY] Coniah (Jehoiachin) → HISTORY: King Jehoiachin was taken to Babylon in 597 BC, and none of his descendants ever ruled as king in Jerusalem. Babylonian ration tablets found in Babylon name him and his sons as captives.

How awful that day will be! None will be like it! It is the time of Jacob’s distress, but he will be saved out of it.

• [PROPHECY] The time of Jacob's distress, yet he will be saved out of it; God will not make a full end of him → HISTORY: About six million Jews were murdered in the Holocaust, 1939 to 1945, yet the Jewish people survived and founded Israel in 1948. Many Christians see this verse here, while others read it differently. MEDIUM

On that day, declares Yahweh of Hosts, I will break the yoke off their necks and tear off their bonds, and no longer will strangers enslave them.

As for you, O Jacob My servant, do not be afraid, declares Yahweh, and do not be dismayed, O Israel. For I will surely save you out of a distant place, your descendants from the land of their captivity! Jacob will return to quiet and ease, with no one to make him afraid.

For I am with you to save you, declares Yahweh. Though I will completely destroy all the nations to which I have scattered you, I will not completely destroy you. Yet I will discipline you justly, and will by no means leave you unpunished.”

Then tell them that this is what Yahweh of Hosts, the God of Israel, says: ‘I will send for My servant Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, and I will set his throne over these stones that I have embedded, and he will spread his royal pavilion over them.

• [PROPHECY] Nebuchadnezzar would set his throne in Egypt and strike the land → HISTORY: Nebuchadnezzar marched on Egypt in 568 BC. Found on a Babylonian tablet and recorded by Josephus. MEDIUM

He will come and strike down the land of Egypt, bringing death to those destined for death, captivity to those destined for captivity, and the sword to those destined for the sword.

“The swift cannot flee, and the warrior cannot escape! In the north by the River Euphrates they stumble and fall.

• [PROPHECY] Egypt's warriors would stumble and fall in the north by the Euphrates → HISTORY: Nebuchadnezzar crushed Pharaoh Neco's army at Carchemish by the Euphrates in 605 BC. Found in the Babylonian Chronicle.

This is the word that Yahweh spoke to Jeremiah the prophet about the coming of Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon to strike the land of Egypt:

• [PROPHECY] Nebuchadnezzar would come and strike the land of Egypt → HISTORY: Nebuchadnezzar marched against Egypt in 568 BC. Found on a Babylonian tablet and recorded by Josephus. MEDIUM

The people of Gaza will shave their heads in mourning; Ashkelon will be silenced. O remnant of their valley, how long will you gash yourself?

• [PROPHECY] Gaza would shave its head in mourning and Ashkelon would be silenced → HISTORY: Nebuchadnezzar took Ashkelon and left it in ruins, 604 BC. Found in the Babylonian Chronicle and the burn layer at Ashkelon.

Moab will be destroyed as a nation because he vaunted himself against Yahweh.

• [PROPHECY] Moab would be destroyed as a nation → HISTORY: Nebuchadnezzar made war on Moab and Ammon in 582 BC, and Moab soon vanished as a nation. Recorded by Josephus, Antiquities 10.9.7. MEDIUM

Therefore, behold, the days are coming, declares Yahweh, when I will sound the battle cry against Rabbah of the Ammonites. It will become a heap of ruins, and its villages will be burned. Then Israel will drive out their dispossessors, says Yahweh.

• [PROPHECY] Rabbah of the Ammonites would become a heap of ruins → HISTORY: Nebuchadnezzar made war on Ammon in 582 BC, and the Ammonite kingdom came to an end. Recorded by Josephus, Antiquities 10.9.7. MEDIUM

“Edom will become an object of horror. All who pass by will be appalled and will scoff at all her wounds.

• [PROPHECY] Edom would be overthrown like Sodom and no one would live there → HISTORY: Nabonidus of Babylon struck Edom about 553 BC, and by 312 BC Arab Nabataeans held its land. Recorded by Diodorus 19.94.

As Sodom and Gomorrah were overthrown along with their neighbors,” says Yahweh, “no one will dwell there; no man will abide there.

“I will set fire to the walls of Damascus; it will consume the fortresses of Ben-hadad.”

• [PROPHECY] God would set fire to the walls of Damascus → HISTORY: Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon took control of all of Syria, the land around Damascus, in 605 to 604 BC. Recorded in the Babylonian Chronicle. MEDIUM

Run! Escape quickly! Lie low, O residents of Hazor,” declares Yahweh, “for Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon has drawn up a plan against you; he has devised a strategy against you.

• [PROPHECY] Nebuchadnezzar had drawn up a plan against Hazor and Kedar → HISTORY: Nebuchadnezzar sent his army into the desert and raided the Arab tribes, 599 to 598 BC. Recorded in the Babylonian Chronicle.

This is what Yahweh of Hosts says: “Behold, I will shatter Elam’s bow, the mainstay of their might.

• [PROPHECY] God would shatter Elam's bow, the source of its strength → HISTORY: Babylon marched on Elam in 596 BC, and later Persia took it over. Found in the Babylonian Chronicle and Behistun Inscription. MEDIUM

For behold, I stir up and bring against Babylon an assembly of great nations from the land of the north. They will line up against her; from the north she will be captured. Their arrows will be like skilled warriors who do not return empty-handed.

• [PROPHECY] An alliance of great nations from the north would capture Babylon → HISTORY: Cyrus, with Persians and Medes from the north, took Babylon in 539 BC. Found in the Nabonidus Chronicle and Cyrus Cylinder.

A drought is upon her waters, and they will be dried up. For it is a land of graven images, and the people go mad over idols.

• [PROPHECY] A drought would come on Babylon's waters and they would dry up → HISTORY: Cyrus turned the Euphrates River aside so his soldiers could walk into Babylon along the riverbed, 539 BC. Recorded by Herodotus, Histories 1.191. MEDIUM

Sharpen the arrows! Fill the quivers! Yahweh has aroused the spirit of the kings of the Medes, because His plan is aimed at Babylon to destroy her, for it is the vengeance of Yahweh— vengeance for His temple.

• [PROPHECY] Yahweh has stirred up the spirit of the kings of the Medes; His plan is against Babylon → HISTORY: Cyrus, who ruled both the Persians and the Medes, took Babylon in 539 BC. Recorded in the Nabonidus Chronicle and the Cyrus Cylinder.

The warriors of Babylon have stopped fighting; they sit in their strongholds. Their strength is exhausted; they have become like women. Babylon’s homes have been set ablaze, the bars of her gates are broken.

• [PROPHECY] Babylon's warriors would stop fighting and runners would tell the king his city was taken → HISTORY: Babylon fell to Cyrus in 539 BC with almost no fighting. Recorded by Herodotus and the Nabonidus Chronicle. MEDIUM

One courier races to meet another, and messenger follows messenger, to announce to the king of Babylon that his city has been captured from end to end.

Babylon will become a heap of rubble, a haunt for jackals, an object of horror and scorn, without inhabitant.

• [PROPHECY] Babylon shall become a heap, a dwelling for jackals, an astonishment and a hissing, without an inhabitant → HISTORY: Babylon slowly emptied, and by AD 20 Strabo called it a great desert. Recorded by Strabo 16.1.5. MEDIUM

This is what Yahweh of Hosts says: “Babylon’s thick walls will be leveled, and her high gates consumed by fire. So the labor of the people will be for nothing; the nations will exhaust themselves to fuel the flames.”

• [PROPHECY] Babylon's thick walls would be leveled and her high gates burned → HISTORY: Darius tore down Babylon's walls and gates after a revolt, about 520 BC. Recorded by Herodotus 3.159. MEDIUM

therefore I will indeed give you as a possession to the people of the East. They will set up their camps and pitch their tents among you. They will eat your fruit and drink your milk.

• [PROPHECY] Ammon would be given to people of the East and Rabbah made a pasture for camels → HISTORY: Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon made war on the Ammonites and conquered them, 582 BC. Recorded by Josephus, Antiquities 10.9.7.

I will make Rabbah a pasture for camels, and Ammon a resting place for sheep. Then you will know that I am Yahweh.’

This is what the Lord Yahweh says: ‘Because Moab and Seir said, “Look, the house of Judah is like all the other nations,”

• [PROPHECY] Against Moab → HISTORY: Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon made war on the Moabites and conquered them, 582 BC. Recorded by Josephus, Antiquities 10.9.7.

therefore I will indeed expose the flank of Moab beginning with its frontier cities—Beth-jeshimoth, Baal-meon, and Kiriathaim—the glory of the land.

I will give it along with the Ammonites as a possession to the people of the East, so that the Ammonites will no longer be remembered among the nations.

So I will execute judgments on Moab, and they will know that I am Yahweh.’

This is what the Lord Yahweh says: ‘Because the Philistines acted in vengeance, taking vengeance with malice of soul to destroy Judah with ancient hostility,

• [PROPHECY] Against the Philistines → HISTORY: Nebuchadnezzar destroyed Ashkelon in 604 BC, and the Philistines later vanished as a people. Found in the Babylonian Chronicle. MEDIUM

therefore this is what the Lord Yahweh says: Behold, I will stretch out My hand against the Philistines, and I will cut off the Cherethites and destroy the remnant along the coast.

I will execute great vengeance against them with furious reproof. Then they will know that I am Yahweh, when I lay My vengeance upon them.’”

therefore this is what the Lord Yahweh says: ‘Behold, O Tyre, I am against you, and I will raise up many nations against you, as the sea brings up its waves.

• [PROPHECY] Many nations would come against Tyre like waves and scrape her to bare rock → HISTORY: Nebuchadnezzar besieged Tyre about 586 to 573 BC, and Alexander took it in 332 BC. Recorded by Josephus and Arrian.

They will destroy the walls of Tyre and demolish her towers. I will scrape the soil from her and make her a bare rock.

She will become a place to spread nets in the sea, for I have spoken, declares the Lord Yahweh. She will become plunder for the nations,

• [PROPHECY] Tyre shall be a place for spreading nets in the midst of the sea; you shall never be rebuilt → HISTORY: Alexander used the ruins of old Tyre to build a road into the sea, 332 BC. Recorded by Diodorus 17.40 and Curtius. MEDIUM

I will make you a bare rock, and you will become a place to spread the fishing nets. You will never be rebuilt, for I, Yahweh, have spoken, declares the Lord Yahweh.’

• [PROPHECY] Tyre shall be a place for spreading nets in the midst of the sea; you shall never be rebuilt → HISTORY: Alexander used the ruins of old Tyre to build a road into the sea, 332 BC. Recorded by Diodorus 17.40 and Curtius. MEDIUM

behold, I will bring foreigners against you, the most ruthless of nations. They will draw their swords against the beauty of your wisdom and will defile your splendor.

• [PROPHECY] Foreign nations would bring the proud ruler of Tyre down to a violent death → HISTORY: Nebuchadnezzar besieged Tyre about 586 to 573 BC, and Alexander took it in 332 BC. Recorded by Josephus and Arrian. MEDIUM

They will bring you down to the Pit, and you will die a violent death in the heart of the seas.

Then the word of Yahweh came to me, saying,

• [PROPHECY] Against Sidon → HISTORY: When Persia's Artaxerxes III took Sidon about 345 BC, the people burned the city and over 40,000 died. Recorded by Diodorus 16.45. MEDIUM

“Son of man, set your face against Sidon and prophesy against her.

And you are to declare that this is what the Lord Yahweh says: ‘Behold, I am against you, O Sidon, and I will be glorified within you. They will know that I am Yahweh when I execute judgments against her and demonstrate My holiness through her.

I will send a plague against her and shed blood in her streets; the slain will fall within her, while the sword is against her on every side. Then they will know that I am Yahweh.

For the people of Israel will no longer face a pricking brier or a painful thorn from all around them who treat them with contempt. Then they will know that I am the Lord Yahweh.’

I will make the land of Egypt a desolation among desolate lands, and her cities will lie desolate for forty years among the ruined cities. And I will disperse the Egyptians among the nations and scatter them throughout the countries.

• [PROPHECY] Egypt would lie desolate for forty years and her people be scattered → HISTORY: Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon invaded Egypt in his 37th year, 568 BC. Found on a broken Babylonian tablet, British Museum BM 33041. MEDIUM

I will restore Egypt from captivity and bring them back to the land of Pathros, the land of their origin. There they will be a lowly kingdom.

• [PROPHECY] Egypt would be a 'base kingdom' → HISTORY: Cambyses of Persia conquered Egypt in 525 BC, and foreigners ruled it most of the time after. Recorded by Herodotus, book 3.

Egypt will be the lowliest of kingdoms and will never again exalt itself above the nations. For I will diminish Egypt so that it will never again rule over the nations.

In the twenty-seventh year, on the first day of the first month, the word of Yahweh came to me, saying,

• [PROPHECY] Nebuchadnezzar shall have the wages of Egypt for his army in return for his labor against Tyre → HISTORY: Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon invaded Egypt in 568 BC, after his long siege of Tyre. Found on a broken Babylonian tablet, British Museum BM 33041. MEDIUM

Therefore this is what the Lord Yahweh says: I will give the land of Egypt to Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, who will carry off its wealth, seize its spoil, and remove its plunder. This will be the wages for his army.

I have given him the land of Egypt as the reward for his labor, because it was done for Me, declares the Lord Yahweh.

This is what the Lord Yahweh says: I will put an end to the hordes of Egypt by the hand of Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon.

• [PROPHECY] God would end the hordes of Egypt by the hand of Nebuchadnezzar → HISTORY: Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon invaded Egypt and fought King Amasis, 568 BC. Found on a broken Babylonian tablet, British Museum BM 33041. MEDIUM

This is what the Lord Yahweh says: I will destroy the idols and put an end to the images in Memphis. There will no longer be a prince in Egypt, and I will instill fear in that land.

• [PROPHECY] God would destroy the idols of Memphis and there would no longer be a prince in Egypt → HISTORY: Cambyses conquered Egypt in 525 BC, and Egypt's last native king fled in 343 BC. Recorded by Herodotus and Diodorus. MEDIUM

For this is what the Lord Yahweh says: ‘The sword of the king of Babylon will come against you!

• [PROPHECY] The sword of the king of Babylon would come against Egypt → HISTORY: Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon invaded Egypt in 568 BC. Found on a broken Babylonian tablet, British Museum BM 33041. MEDIUM

I will make your hordes fall by the swords of the mighty, the most ruthless of all nations. They will ravage the pride of Egypt and all her multitudes will be destroyed.

But you, O mountains of Israel, will produce branches and bear fruit for My people Israel, for they will soon come home.

• [PROPHECY] The mountains of Israel would bear fruit, be farmed again, and the ruins rebuilt → HISTORY: Jews came home and rebuilt after 538 BC. Twain found the land bare in 1867, and since 1948 it is widely farmed. Many Christians see this here. MEDIUM

For behold, I am on your side; I will turn toward you, and you will be tilled and sown.

I will multiply the people upon you—the house of Israel in its entirety. The cities will be inhabited and the ruins rebuilt.

For I will take you from among the nations and gather you out of all the countries, and I will bring you back into your own land.

• [PROPHECY] God would gather Israel out of all countries into their own land → HISTORY: Cyrus let captives go home about 538 BC, and Israel was founded May 14, 1948. Found in the Cyrus Cylinder and Israel's Declaration. MEDIUM

This is what the Lord Yahweh says: On the day I cleanse you from all your iniquities, I will cause the cities to be resettled and the ruins to be rebuilt.

• [PROPHECY] Desolate cities rebuilt and inhabited; wasteland tilled instead of being a desolation → HISTORY: Returning Jews rebuilt their towns after 538 BC, and since 1948 Israel has replanted much waste land. Many Christians see this here. MEDIUM

The desolate land will be cultivated instead of lying desolate in the sight of all who pass through.

Then they will say, ‘This land that was desolate has become like the garden of Eden. The cities that were once ruined, desolate, and destroyed are now fortified and inhabited.’

Then the nations around you that remain will know that I, Yahweh, have rebuilt what was destroyed, and I have replanted what was desolate. I, Yahweh, have spoken, and I will do it.

Then He said to me, “Son of man, these bones are the whole house of Israel. Look, they are saying, ‘Our bones are dried up, and our hope has perished; we are cut off.’

• [PROPHECY] The dry bones are Israel; God would open their graves and bring them back to the land → HISTORY: After the Holocaust killed about six million Jews, Israel was founded May 14, 1948. Many Christians see this here. MEDIUM

Therefore prophesy and tell them that this is what the Lord Yahweh says: ‘O My people, I will open your graves and bring you up from them, and I will bring you back to the land of Israel.

you are to tell them that this is what the Lord Yahweh says: ‘I will take the Israelites out of the nations to which they have gone, and I will gather them from all around and bring them into their own land.

• [PROPHECY] God would take the Israelites out of the nations and bring them into their own land → HISTORY: Jews came home from Babylon after 538 BC and from many nations after May 14, 1948. Found in the Cyrus Cylinder and Israel's Declaration. MEDIUM

But after you, there will arise another kingdom, inferior to yours. Next, a third kingdom, one of bronze, will rule the whole earth.

• [PROPHECY] After Babylon a lesser kingdom would rise, then a third kingdom of bronze would rule the whole earth → HISTORY: Cyrus of Persia took Babylon in 539 BC. Then Alexander the Great of Greece beat Persia in 334 to 331 BC. Recorded in the Nabonidus Chronicle and by Arrian, Anabasis.

Finally, there will be a fourth kingdom as strong as iron; for iron shatters and crushes all things, and like iron that crushes all things, it will shatter and crush all the others.

• [PROPHECY] A fourth kingdom strong as iron would crush all the others → HISTORY: Rome crushed the Greek kingdoms. It made Syria a Roman province in 64 BC and took Egypt in 30 BC. Recorded by Appian, Cassius Dio and Josephus. MEDIUM

The first beast was like a lion, and it had the wings of an eagle. I watched until its wings were torn off and it was lifted up from the ground and made to stand on two feet like a man and given the heart of a man.

• [PROPHECY] Four great beasts would rise from the sea, a lion, a bear, a leopard, and a terrifying beast with iron teeth → HISTORY: Persia took Babylon in 539 BC. Alexander the Great of Greece beat Persia in 331 BC. Rome took Syria in 64 BC. Recorded in the Nabonidus Chronicle and by Herodotus, Arrian and Appian. MEDIUM

Suddenly another beast appeared, which looked like a bear. It was raised up on one of its sides, and it had three ribs in its mouth between its teeth. So it was told, ‘Get up and gorge yourself on flesh!’

Next, as I watched, suddenly another beast appeared. It was like a leopard, and on its back it had four wings like those of a bird. The beast also had four heads, and it was given authority to rule.

After this, as I watched in my vision in the night, suddenly a fourth beast appeared, and it was terrifying—dreadful and extremely strong—with large iron teeth. It devoured and crushed; then it trampled underfoot whatever was left. It was different from all the beasts before it, and it had ten horns.

This is what he said: ‘The fourth beast is a fourth kingdom that will appear on the earth, different from all the other kingdoms, and it will devour the whole earth, trample it down, and crush it.

• [PROPHECY] The fourth kingdom would devour the whole earth, trample it, and crush it → HISTORY: Rome ruled all the lands around the Mediterranean Sea. Its empire lasted from 27 BC until the west fell in AD 476. Recorded by Augustus in his Res Gestae and by Tacitus. MEDIUM

Then I lifted up my eyes and saw a ram with two horns standing beside the canal. The horns were long, but one was longer than the other, and the longer one grew up later.

• [PROPHECY] Ram with two horns (Medo-Persia) pushed westward; a male goat (Greece) with a notable horn came from the west → HISTORY: Alexander the Great of Greece beat the Persian Empire in three big battles from 334 to 331 BC. Recorded by Arrian, Anabasis books 1 to 3.

I saw the ram charging toward the west and the north and the south. No animal could stand against him, and there was no deliverance from his power. He did as he pleased and became great.

As I was contemplating all this, suddenly a goat with a prominent horn between his eyes came out of the west, crossing the surface of the entire earth without touching the ground.

He came toward the two-horned ram I had seen standing beside the canal and rushed at him with furious power.

I saw him approach the ram in a rage against him, and he struck the ram and shattered his two horns. The ram was powerless to stand against him, and the goat threw him to the ground and trampled him, and no one could deliver the ram from his power.

Thus the goat became very great, but at the height of his power, his large horn was broken off, and four prominent horns came up in its place, pointing toward the four winds of heaven.

And he will confirm a covenant with many for one week, but in the middle of the week he will put an end to sacrifice and offering. And on the wing of the temple will come the abomination that causes desolation, until the decreed destruction is poured out upon him.”

Now then, I will tell you the truth: Three more kings will arise in Persia, and then a fourth, who will be far richer than all the others. By the power of his wealth, he will stir up everyone against the kingdom of Greece.

• [PROPHECY] Three more kings will arise in Persia, and the fourth shall be far richer... then a mighty king shall arise, who shall rule with great dominion... his kingdom shall be broken up and divided toward the four winds → HISTORY: Three more Persian kings ruled, then a fourth, Xerxes, attacked Greece in 480 BC. Alexander's empire split four ways after 323 BC. Recorded by Herodotus and Arrian.

Then a mighty king will arise, who will rule with great authority and do as he pleases.

But as soon as he is established, his kingdom will be broken up and parceled out toward the four winds of heaven. It will not go to his descendants, nor will it have the authority with which he ruled, because his kingdom will be uprooted and given to others.

After some years they will form an alliance, and the daughter of the king of the South will go to the king of the North to seal the agreement. But his daughter will not retain her position of power, nor will his strength endure. At that time she will be given up, along with her royal escort and her father and the one who supported her.

• [PROPHECY] The daughter of the king of the South would marry the king of the North and be given up, then her brother would take revenge and carry off their gods to Egypt → HISTORY: Berenice of Egypt married Antiochus II of Syria and was killed about 246 BC. Her brother Ptolemy III then invaded Syria and brought idols back to Egypt. Recorded by Appian and Jerome.

But one from her family line will rise up in his place, come against the army of the king of the North, and enter his fortress, fighting and prevailing.

He will take even their gods captive to Egypt, with their metal images and their precious vessels of silver and gold. For some years he will stay away from the king of the North,

But his sons will stir up strife and assemble a great army, which will advance forcefully, sweeping through like a flood, and will again carry the battle as far as his fortress.

• [PROPHECY] The sons of the king of the North would gather a great army, but the enraged king of the South would defeat it → HISTORY: Ptolemy IV of Egypt beat the huge army of Antiochus III of Syria at Raphia, near Gaza, in 217 BC. Recorded by Polybius, Histories 5.79 to 86.

In a rage, the king of the South will march out to fight the king of the North, who will raise a large army, but it will be delivered into the hand of his enemy.

He will resolve to come with the strength of his whole kingdom, and will reach an agreement with the king of the South. He will give him a daughter in marriage in order to overthrow the kingdom, but his plan will not succeed or help him.

• [PROPHECY] The king of the North would give a daughter in marriage to the king of the South, but his plan would fail → HISTORY: Antiochus III of Syria gave his daughter Cleopatra to Ptolemy V of Egypt as his wife, about 193 BC. But she stood with her husband. Recorded by Appian, Syrian Wars 5, and Livy.

Then he will turn his face to the coastlands and capture many of them. But a commander will put an end to his reproach and will turn it back upon him.

• [PROPHECY] The king of the North would take coastlands, be stopped by a commander, then fall in his own land → HISTORY: A Roman army under Scipio beat Antiochus III at Magnesia in 190 BC. He was killed in 187 BC while robbing a temple in Elymais, in his own kingdom. Recorded by Livy and Diodorus.

After this, he will turn back toward the fortresses of his own land, but he will stumble and fall and be no more.

For the Israelites must live many days without king or prince, without sacrifice or sacred pillar, and without ephod or idol.

• [PROPHECY] The children of Israel shall abide many days without king, prince, sacrifice, sacred pillar, ephod, or teraphim; afterward they shall return and seek David their king → HISTORY: Israel lost its last king when Assyria took Samaria in 722 BC. Rome burned the temple in AD 70, and the sacrifices ended. There has been no temple since. Recorded in Assyrian records and by Josephus.

Afterward, the people of Israel will return and seek Yahweh their God and David their king. They will come trembling to Yahweh and to His goodness in the last days.

Behold, I will rouse them from the places to which you sold them; I will return your recompense upon your heads.

• [PROPHECY] The cities that sold Judah as slaves would have their own sons and daughters sold → HISTORY: Alexander the Great sold about 30,000 people of Tyre as slaves in 332 BC. Persia had destroyed Sidon about 345 BC. Recorded by Arrian, Anabasis 2.24, and Diodorus 16.45. MEDIUM

I will sell your sons and daughters into the hands of the people of Judah, and they will sell them to the Sabeans—to a distant nation.” Indeed, Yahweh has spoken.

This is what Yahweh says: “For three transgressions of Gaza, even four, I will not revoke My judgment, because they exiled a whole population, delivering them up to Edom.

• [PROPHECY] For three transgressions of Gaza... I will send a fire on the wall of Gaza → HISTORY: Tiglath pileser III of Assyria took Gaza in 734 BC. Sargon II took Ashdod in 711 BC. Recorded in the royal records of these Assyrian kings.

So I will send fire upon the walls of Gaza, to consume its citadels.

I will cut off the ruler of Ashdod and the one who wields the scepter in Ashkelon. I will turn My hand against Ekron, and the remnant of the Philistines will perish,” says the Lord Yahweh.

This is what Yahweh says: “For three transgressions of Tyre, even four, I will not revoke My judgment, because they delivered up a whole congregation of exiles to Edom and broke a covenant of brotherhood.

• [PROPHECY] For three transgressions of Tyre... I will send a fire on the wall of Tyre → HISTORY: Alexander the Great broke through the walls of Tyre and took it in 332 BC, and he ordered its buildings set on fire. Recorded by Arrian, Anabasis 2.24, and Curtius Rufus 4.4.

So I will send fire upon the walls of Tyre to consume its citadels.”

This is what Yahweh says: “For three transgressions of Edom, even four, I will not revoke My judgment, because he pursued his brother with the sword and stifled all compassion; his anger raged continually, and his fury flamed incessantly.

• [PROPHECY] For three transgressions of Edom... I will send a fire upon Teman → HISTORY: King Nabonidus of Babylon marched against Edom about 553 BC. Found in the Nabonidus Chronicle and on a rock carving of Nabonidus at Sela in Jordan. MEDIUM

So I will send fire upon Teman to consume the citadels of Bozrah.”

This is what Yahweh says: “For three transgressions of the Ammonites, even four, I will not revoke My judgment, because they ripped open the pregnant women of Gilead in order to enlarge their territory.

• [PROPHECY] For three transgressions of Ammon... their king shall go into captivity → HISTORY: Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon conquered Ammon about 582 BC. Recorded by Josephus, Antiquities 10.9.7. MEDIUM

So I will kindle a fire in the walls of Rabbah to consume its citadels amid war cries on the day of battle and a violent wind on the day of tempest.

Their king will go into exile— he and his princes together,” says Yahweh.

This is what Yahweh says: “For three transgressions of Moab, even four, I will not revoke My judgment, because he burned to lime the bones of Edom’s king.

• [PROPHECY] For three transgressions of Moab... I will send a fire upon Moab → HISTORY: Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon conquered Moab about 582 BC. Recorded by Josephus, Antiquities 10.9.7.

So I will send fire against Moab to consume the citadels of Kerioth. Moab will die in tumult, amid war cries and the sound of the ram’s horn.

I will cut off the ruler of Moab and kill all the officials with him,” says Yahweh.

This is the vision of Obadiah: This is what the Lord Yahweh says about Edom— We have heard a message from Yahweh; an envoy has been sent among the nations to say, “Rise up, and let us go to battle against her!”—

• [PROPHECY] Behold, I will make you small among nations; you are greatly despised, O Edom → HISTORY: Nabonidus of Babylon attacked Edom about 553 BC. By 312 BC Arab Nabataeans held the old land of Edom around Petra. Recorded in the Nabonidus Chronicle and by Diodorus 19.94.

“Behold, I will make you small among the nations; you will be deeply despised.

The pride of your heart has deceived you, O dwellers in the clefts of the rocks whose habitation is the heights, who say in your heart, ‘Who can bring me down to the ground?’

Because of the violence against your brother Jacob, you will be covered with shame and cut off forever.

• [PROPHECY] For violence against your brother Jacob, shame shall cover you, and you shall be cut off forever → HISTORY: John Hyrcanus, a Jewish ruler, conquered the Edomites about 125 BC and made them become Jews. After Rome's war of AD 66 to 70 they fade from history. Recorded by Josephus, Antiquities 13.9.1. MEDIUM

But with an overwhelming flood He will make an end of Nineveh and pursue His enemies into darkness.

• [PROPHECY] With an overflowing flood He will make an utter end of Nineveh → HISTORY: The Babylonians and Medes took Nineveh in 612 BC. A Greek writer says a flooded river broke down part of the city wall. Recorded in the Babylonian Chronicle and by Diodorus 2.27. MEDIUM

Yahweh has issued a command concerning you, O Nineveh: “There will be no descendants to carry on your name. I will cut off the carved image and cast idol from the house of your gods; I will prepare your grave, for you are contemptible.”

• [PROPHECY] Nineveh would have no one to carry on its name and God would prepare its grave → HISTORY: The Babylonians and Medes destroyed Nineveh in 612 BC. The last Assyrian king lost Harran by 609 BC, and Assyria was gone. Recorded in the Babylonian Chronicle.

The river gates are thrown open and the palace collapses.

• [PROPHECY] The gates of the rivers are opened, and the palace is dissolved → HISTORY: When Nineveh fell in 612 BC, the river flooded and broke the walls, and the palace burned. Recorded by Diodorus 2.27. MEDIUM

“Plunder the silver! Plunder the gold!” There is no end to the treasure, an abundance of every precious thing.

• [PROPHECY] The attackers would plunder Nineveh's silver and gold → HISTORY: The Babylonians and Medes carried off great spoil from Nineveh in 612 BC. Recorded in the Babylonian Chronicle.

You too will become drunk; you will go into hiding and seek refuge from the enemy.

• [PROPHECY] Nineveh would become drunk and go into hiding from the enemy → HISTORY: A Greek writer says the Assyrian soldiers were drunk from a feast when the enemy attacked at night, about 612 BC. Recorded by Diodorus 2.26. MEDIUM

Look at your troops— they are like your women! The gates of your land are wide open to your enemies; fire consumes their bars.

• [PROPHECY] The gates of the land would be wide open to the enemy and fire would consume their bars → HISTORY: When Nineveh fell in 612 BC, its Halzi Gate had been quickly narrowed, and fallen fighters lay in the passage. Found by a University of California dig, 1989 to 1990. MEDIUM

There the fire will devour you; the sword will cut you down and consume you like a young locust. Make yourself many like the young locust; make yourself many like the swarming locust!

• [PROPHECY] There the fire shall devour you; the sword shall cut you off → HISTORY: Nineveh was burned when it fell in 612 BC. Found by diggers who uncovered thick burn layers in its palaces, starting with Austen Henry Layard in the 1840s.

O king of Assyria, your shepherds slumber; your officers sleep. Your people are scattered on the mountains with no one to gather them.

• [PROPHECY] Your people are scattered on the mountains, and no one gathers them; there is no healing of your bruise → HISTORY: The last Assyrian king, Ashur uballit II, lost Harran in 610 BC and failed to take it back in 609 BC. Then Assyria disappears from history. Recorded in the Babylonian Chronicle. MEDIUM

There is no healing for your injury; your wound is severe. All who hear the news of you applaud your downfall, for who has not experienced your constant cruelty?

For Gaza will be abandoned, and Ashkelon left in ruins. Ashdod will be driven out at noon, and Ekron will be uprooted.

• [PROPHECY] For Gaza shall be forsaken, and Ashkelon desolate; they shall drive out Ashdod at noon; Ekron shall be uprooted → HISTORY: Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon destroyed Ashkelon in 604 BC. Ekron was burned about the same time. Found in the Babylonian Chronicle and in burned ruins dug up at Ashkelon and Ekron.

Woe to the dwellers of the seacoast, O nation of the Cherethites! The word of Yahweh is against you, O Canaan, land of the Philistines: “I will destroy you, and no one will be left.”

So the seacoast will become a land of pastures, with wells for shepherds and folds for sheep.

“I have heard the reproach of Moab and the insults of the Ammonites, who have taunted My people and threatened their borders.

• [PROPHECY] Moab shall be like Sodom, and Ammon like Gomorrah → HISTORY: Babylon's King Nebuchadnezzar conquered Moab and Ammon about 582 BC, and both nations later faded from history. Recorded by Josephus, Antiquities 10.9.7.

Therefore, as surely as I live,” declares Yahweh of Hosts, the God of Israel, “surely Moab will be like Sodom and the Ammonites like Gomorrah— a place of weeds and salt pits, a perpetual wasteland. The remnant of My people will plunder them; the remainder of My nation will dispossess them.”

This they shall have in return for their pride, for taunting and mocking the people of Yahweh of Hosts.

“You too, O Cushites, will be slain by My sword.”

• [PROPHECY] You Ethiopians also shall be slain by My sword → HISTORY: Babylon's King Nebuchadnezzar invaded Egypt about 568 BC. Found in a broken Babylonian clay tablet, British Museum 33041. MEDIUM

And He will stretch out His hand against the north and destroy Assyria; He will make Nineveh a desolation, as dry as a desert.

• [PROPHECY] He will stretch out His hand against the north, destroy Assyria, and make Nineveh a desolation → HISTORY: Nineveh, the capital of Assyria, fell to the Babylonians and Medes in 612 BC. Recorded in the Babylonian Chronicle, and its ruins are in Mosul, Iraq.

Herds will lie down in her midst, creatures of every kind. Both the desert owl and screech owl will roost atop her pillars. Their calls will sound from the window, but desolation will lie on the threshold, for He will expose the beams of cedar.

This carefree city that dwells securely, that says in her heart: “I am it, and there is none besides me,” what a ruin she has become, a resting place for beasts. Everyone who passes by her hisses and shakes his fist.

For then I will restore pure lips to the peoples, that all may call upon the name of Yahweh and serve Him shoulder to shoulder.

• [PROPHECY] I will turn to the peoples a pure language so they may all call upon the name of Yahweh → HISTORY: Some Christians see this in the rebirth of spoken Hebrew led by Eliezer Ben Yehuda, starting in 1881. Most scholars read it as pure worship from all nations. LOW

Tyre has built herself a fortress; she has heaped up silver like dust, and gold like the dirt of the streets.

• [PROPHECY] Tyre's wealth would be cast into the sea and the city consumed by fire → HISTORY: Alexander the Great besieged the island city of Tyre for seven months and captured it in 332 BC. Recorded by Arrian, Anabasis 2.18 to 2.24.

Behold, the Lord will impoverish her and cast her wealth into the sea, and she will be consumed by fire.

Ashkelon will see and fear; Gaza will writhe in agony, as will Ekron, for her hope will wither. There will cease to be a king in Gaza, and Ashkelon will be uninhabited.

• [PROPHECY] Gaza would lose its king and a mixed people would live in Ashdod → HISTORY: Alexander the Great captured Gaza in 332 BC, and its ruler Batis was killed. Recorded by Arrian, Anabasis 2.25 to 2.27, and Curtius 4.6.

A mixed race will occupy Ashdod, and I will cut off the pride of the Philistines.

But I will camp around My house because of an army, because of those who march to and fro, and never again will an oppressor overrun My people, for now I keep watch with My own eyes.

• [PROPHECY] God would camp around His house because of the army marching to and fro → HISTORY: Alexander marched through in 332 BC but spared Jerusalem. Josephus, Antiquities 11.8, tells it, though many scholars doubt parts. MEDIUM

“Behold, I will make Jerusalem a cup of drunkenness to all the surrounding peoples. Judah will be besieged, as well as Jerusalem.

• [PROPHECY] I will make Jerusalem a cup of drunkenness to all the surrounding peoples; a very heavy stone for all peoples → HISTORY: Many Christians see this in the world's long fight over Jerusalem since Israel became a nation in 1948. Others read it differently. LOW

On that day, when all the nations of the earth gather against her, I will make Jerusalem a heavy stone for all the peoples; all who would heave it away will be severely injured.

Jesus answered, “See to it that no one deceives you.

• [PROPHECY] Many would come claiming to be the Christ and deceive many → HISTORY: Theudas about AD 45 and the Egyptian in the AD 50s led crowds astray. Recorded by Josephus. Bar Kokhba was hailed as Messiah in AD 132. MEDIUM

For many will come in My name, claiming, ‘I am the Christ,’ and will deceive many.

Then they will deliver you over to be persecuted and killed, and you will be hated by all nations because of My name.

• [PROPHECY] They will deliver you up to tribulation and kill you, and you will be hated by all nations for My name's sake → HISTORY: Nero killed Christians in AD 64, and Diocletian's persecution ran AD 303 to 311. Recorded by Tacitus and Eusebius.

And this gospel of the kingdom will be preached in all the world as a testimony to all nations, and then the end will come.

• [PROPHECY] This gospel of the kingdom will be preached in all the world as a witness to all the nations → HISTORY: By 2025 over 99 percent of people could reach at least some Scripture in their language. Reported by Wycliffe Global Alliance.

“Do you see all these great buildings?” Jesus replied. “Not one stone here will be left on another; every one will be thrown down.”

• [PROPHECY] Not one stone shall be left here upon another, that shall not be thrown down (regarding the Temple) → HISTORY: Rome burned the temple in AD 70 and tore the city down. Recorded by Josephus. Fallen Temple Mount stones lie below the Western Wall.

Jesus began by telling them, “See to it that no one deceives you.

• [PROPHECY] Many would come claiming to be the Christ and deceive many → HISTORY: Theudas about AD 45 and the Egyptian in the AD 50s led crowds astray. Recorded by Josephus. Bar Kokhba was hailed as Messiah in AD 132. MEDIUM

Many will come in My name, claiming, ‘I am He,’ and will deceive many.

So be on your guard. You will be delivered over to the councils and beaten in the synagogues. On My account you will stand before governors and kings as witnesses to them.

• [PROPHECY] They will deliver you up to tribulation and kill you, and you will be hated by all nations for My name's sake → HISTORY: Nero killed Christians in AD 64, and Diocletian's persecution ran AD 303 to 311. Recorded by Tacitus and Eusebius.

And the gospel must first be proclaimed to all the nations.

• [PROPHECY] This gospel of the kingdom will be preached in all the world as a witness to all the nations → HISTORY: By 2025 over 99 percent of people could reach at least some Scripture in their language. Reported by Wycliffe Global Alliance.

For He has looked with favor on the humble state of His servant. From now on all generations will call me blessed.

• [PROPHECY] All generations would call Mary blessed → HISTORY: Christians have honored Mary in every age since. An early prayer to her is found on a papyrus from about AD 250 to 400, and the Council of Ephesus honored her in AD 431. MEDIUM

O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, who kills the prophets and stones those sent to her, how often I have longed to gather your children together as a hen gathers her chicks under her wings, but you were unwilling!

• [PROPHECY] O Jerusalem, Jerusalem... your house is left to you desolate → HISTORY: Roman soldiers led by Titus destroyed Jerusalem and its temple in AD 70. Recorded by Josephus, Jewish War books 5 and 6.

Look, your house is left to you desolate. And I tell you that you will not see Me again until you say, ‘Blessed is He who comes in the name of the Lord.’”

“As for what you see here, the time will come when not one stone will be left on another; every one will be thrown down.”

• [PROPHECY] Not one stone shall be left here upon another, that shall not be thrown down (regarding the Temple) → HISTORY: Rome burned the temple in AD 70 and tore the city down. Recorded by Josephus. Fallen Temple Mount stones lie below the Western Wall.

Jesus answered, “See to it that you are not deceived. For many will come in My name, claiming, ‘I am He,’ and, ‘The time is near.’ Do not follow them.

• [PROPHECY] Many would come claiming to be the Christ and deceive many → HISTORY: Theudas about AD 45 and the Egyptian in the AD 50s led crowds astray. Recorded by Josephus. Bar Kokhba was hailed as Messiah in AD 132. MEDIUM

But when you see Jerusalem surrounded by armies, you will know that her desolation is near.

• [PROPHECY] When you see Jerusalem surrounded by armies, then know that its desolation is near... they will fall by the edge of the sword and be led away captive into all nations; and Jerusalem will be trampled by Gentiles until the times of the Gentiles are fulfilled → HISTORY: Rome took Jerusalem in AD 70 and carried 97,000 captives across the empire. Recorded by Josephus, Jewish War 6.9.

Then let those who are in Judea flee to the mountains, let those in the city get out, and let those in the country stay out of the city.

For these are the days of vengeance, to fulfill all that is written.

How miserable those days will be for pregnant and nursing mothers! For there will be great distress upon the land and wrath against this people.

They will fall by the edge of the sword and be led captive into all the nations. And Jerusalem will be trodden down by the Gentiles, until the times of the Gentiles are fulfilled.

• [PROPHECY] Jerusalem will be trampled by Gentiles until the times of the Gentiles are fulfilled → HISTORY: Many Christians see this in 1967, when Israel took the Old City of Jerusalem. Others read it differently. MEDIUM

But Jesus turned to them and said, “Daughters of Jerusalem, do not weep for Me, but weep for yourselves and for your children.

• [PROPHECY] Days would come when the daughters of Jerusalem would weep for themselves and their children → HISTORY: During the Roman siege of AD 70, terrible hunger and killing struck the mothers and children of Jerusalem. Recorded by Josephus, Jewish War books 5 and 6.

Look, the days are coming when people will say, ‘Blessed are the barren women, the wombs that never bore, and breasts that never nursed!’

Remember the word that I spoke to you: ‘No servant is greater than his master.’ If they persecuted Me, they will persecute you as well; if they kept My word, they will keep yours as well.

• [PROPHECY] If they persecuted Me, they will also persecute you... the time is coming that whoever kills you will think that he offers God service → HISTORY: Jewish leaders had James, the brother of Jesus, stoned about AD 62, and Nero killed many Christians in Rome in AD 64. Recorded by Josephus, Antiquities 20.9.1, and Tacitus, Annals 15.44.

They will put you out of the synagogues. In fact, a time is coming when anyone who kills you will think he is offering a service to God.

• [PROPHECY] If they persecuted Me, they will also persecute you... the time is coming that whoever kills you will think that he offers God service → HISTORY: Jewish leaders had James, the brother of Jesus, stoned about AD 62, and Nero killed many Christians in Rome in AD 64. Recorded by Josephus, Antiquities 20.9.1, and Tacitus, Annals 15.44.

I know that after my departure, savage wolves will come in among you and will not spare the flock.

• [PROPHECY] After my departure savage wolves will come in among you, not sparing the flock. Also from among yourselves men will rise up, speaking perverse things, to draw away the disciples after themselves (Paul to Ephesian elders) → HISTORY: Within about 50 years, false teachers troubled the church at Ephesus. Ignatius warned about them about AD 110, and Irenaeus tells of the false teacher Cerinthus there.

Even from your own number, men will rise up and distort the truth to draw away disciples after them.

Now the Spirit expressly states that in later times some will abandon the faith to follow deceitful spirits and the teachings of demons,

• [PROPHECY] In latter times some will depart from the faith, giving heed to deceiving spirits and doctrines of demons... forbidding to marry, commanding to abstain from foods → HISTORY: By about AD 120 to 180, groups like the Encratites and followers of Marcion banned marriage and meat. Recorded by Irenaeus, Against Heresies 1.24 and 1.28.

influenced by the hypocrisy of liars, whose consciences are seared with a hot iron.

They will prohibit marriage and require abstinence from certain foods that God has created to be received with thanksgiving by those who believe and know the truth.

But understand this: In the last days terrible times will come.

• [PROPHECY] In the last days perilous times will come. Men will be lovers of themselves, lovers of money, boasters, proud, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy, unloving, unforgiving, slanderers, without self-control, brutal, despisers of good, traitors, headstrong, haughty, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God → HISTORY: This describes a pattern, not one event. Christians in every age, including our own, have seen these traits grow in the world and even in the church. MEDIUM

For men will be lovers of themselves, lovers of money, boastful, arrogant, abusive, disobedient to their parents, ungrateful, unholy,

unloving, unforgiving, slanderous, without self-control, brutal, without love of good,

traitorous, reckless, conceited, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God,

having a form of godliness but denying its power. Turn away from such as these!

For the time will come when men will not tolerate sound doctrine, but with itching ears they will gather around themselves teachers to suit their own desires.

• [PROPHECY] The time will come when they will not endure sound doctrine, but heap up teachers according to their own desires → HISTORY: An early example is Marcion, who cut the Bible down to fit his own ideas and was put out of the church in Rome about AD 144. Recorded by Tertullian, Against Marcion. MEDIUM

So they will turn their ears away from the truth and turn aside to myths.

For I am already being poured out like a drink offering, and the time of my departure is at hand.

• [PROPHECY] The time of Paul's departure, his death, was at hand → HISTORY: Paul was beheaded in Rome under Emperor Nero, about AD 64 to 68. Recorded by Tertullian and by Eusebius, Church History 2.25, and his death is noted in 1 Clement 5. MEDIUM

because I know that this tent will soon be laid aside, as our Lord Jesus Christ has made clear to me.

• [PROPHECY] Peter would soon lay aside his body, as Jesus had shown him → HISTORY: Peter was put to death in Rome under Emperor Nero, about AD 64 to 68. Recorded in 1 Clement 5 and by Eusebius, Church History 2.25.

Now there were also false prophets among the people, just as there will be false teachers among you. They will secretly introduce destructive heresies, even denying the Master who bought them—bringing swift destruction on themselves.

• [PROPHECY] There will be false teachers among you, who will secretly bring in destructive heresies, even denying the Lord who bought them... many will follow their destructive ways → HISTORY: False teachers soon spread, like the Gnostics Irenaeus wrote against about AD 180. Later Arius taught Jesus was a created being, and the Council of Nicaea rejected this in AD 325.

Many will follow in their depravity, and because of them the way of truth will be defamed.

In their greed, these false teachers will exploit you with deceptive words. The longstanding verdict against them remains in force, and their destruction does not sleep.

Therefore, keep in mind how far you have fallen. Repent and perform the deeds you did at first. But if you do not repent, I will come to you and remove your lampstand from its place.

• [PROPHECY] To Ephesus → HISTORY: Ephesus's harbor filled with mud, and by the 1400s the city lay empty. MEDIUM

Do not fear what you are about to suffer. Behold, the devil is about to throw some of you into prison to test you, and you will suffer tribulation for ten days. Be faithful even unto death, and I will give you the crown of life.

• [PROPHECY] To Smyrna → HISTORY: Polycarp of Smyrna was killed for his faith about AD 155. Recorded in the Martyrdom of Polycarp. MEDIUM