Cyrus Prediction

[Pat Mustard]

A Christian lady and I were talking about parts of the Bible the other day. She brought up the topic of Cyrus as being predicted a hundred years before his time. I told her I didn’t have an answer for her at the moment but would get back to her on it. I don’t know how to answer her back in providing information regarding the book of Isaiah predicting Cyrus. Will you help?

Most of the old testament was written after what isvknown as the Babylonian captivity, most predictions in it are post facto ones. Plus what was considered prophesy in the bible is massively different from what modern christians think it is. Prophesy is a warning to desist from prohibited behaviour or "bad things" will happen.