(July 25, 2025 at 2:07 pm)BrianSoddingBoru4 Wrote:(July 25, 2025 at 1:57 pm)INeutralZone Wrote: The NATION of Tyre no longer exists. You're referring to the present existence of the DISTRICT of Tyre. Two entirely different things.
Tyre was never a nation in the modern sense. It was a city-state like Athens. There has never been a time when Tyre was completely destroyed or completely uninhabited. In fact, the population of modern Tyre is roughly four times what it was at the height ancient Tyre.
History-1 : Prophecy-nil.
Boru
But we're not discussing the "modern sense;" correct?
At the time the prophecy against it was written, Tyre was considered to be a nation because it had its own government. Not only that, at the time that the Bible prophecy was written against it, Tyre was "a major regional power and a key ancient Near Eastern commercial center that greatly influenced Mediterranean shipping lanes and overland trade between the coast and Arabia."
https://learn.ligonier.org/devotionals/judgment-tyre
So distinct was the nation of Tyre from other nations at the time the prophecy was written against it that the Abrahamic God specified that "many nations" would destroy it over time, thereby distinguishing Tyre from other nations and at the same time confirming that Tyre was indeed a nation.
Ezekiel 26:3
"therefore this is what the Sovereign Lord Jehovah says: ‘Here I am against you, O Tyre, and I will bring up many nations against you, just as the sea brings up its waves."
