Kyu, since most everything you say is a really lame ... arsed attempt at defending your monkey man faith like some spoiled punk on the street and when I open up your posts all I can hear is the ocean I am going to go ahead and post a sensible reaction to what you did manage to say about Tyre.
Its long and boring so just snip it out and say something totally stupid to express your opinionated and uninformed bullshit in response to it to reaffirm your newest religion, Atheism.
I had to cut this down considerably since a great deal of it was a repeat of what the average Atheist, eager to oversimplify the History of Tyre and Bible prophecy already rejects. A brief(er) history of Tyre.
Sidon was, according to the stamp of her own coins, the "Mother of Kambe, Hippo, Kition, Tyre." A colony from Sidon founded Tyre and those living in Tyre called themselves Sidonians. The Bible calls its merchants "the merchants of Sidon" and Tyre itself the "virgin daughter of Sidon." (Isaiah 23:2, 12 AS) Tyre's own coins were stamped "the Metropolis of the Sidonians."
Also on her coins was stamped: "Sacred and iviolate." Rich and busy worshipping Mammon, Tyre hired soldiers from Persia, Lud, and Put (Ezekiel 27:10). For five years Assyrian king Shalmaneser laid siege to Tyre but couldn't take the city.
The Bible presents Tyre of ancient times as a Phoenician ship with precious merchandise - proud and soon to be wrecked. They were Canaanites, but the Greeks called them Phoenicians (meaning reddish purple) because of the purple dye and cloth they exported.
In Tyre they worshipped Mammon. They worshipped Ashtoreth (Easter) and her male counterpart, Baal in the form of Melkarth.
It was the commercial center of the ancient world. Silver from Tarshish. Horses from Armenia. Ebony and ivory from Dedan. Emeralds, embroidered fine linen and coral from Edom. Wheat, honey and balm from Judah and Israel. Helbon wine from Damascus. Lambs, goats, spices, precious stone and gold from Arabia
God said that he would bring up nation after nation up against Tyre. The skeptic will cling dogedly to the fact that the prophecy says that 'Tyre would never be rebuilt' even though it would be pointless to say that nation after nation would have to keep destroying what hadn't been rebuilt and the Bible itself points out that Tyre was still there hundreds of years after Nebchadnezzar when Alexander did the same thing though Tyre had moved to an island nearby.
What about after Alexander? Not much different really, except that which the myopic skeptic of the Bible can't tell.
After Alexander scrapped the ruins of what had been Tyre and threw it into the sea Roman emperor Augustus took away the last trace of independent existence of the island Tyre.
In 638 A.D. Tyre was captured by the Moslems.
In 1124 Tyre was taken by the crusaders.
In 1291 the crusaders lost Tyre and was once again reduced to a pile of stones.
In 1516 Tyre was captured by the Turks and was soon desolated.
In 1619 Sandys visited Tyre and said: "This once famous Tyre is now no other than a heap of ruins."
In 1697 Maundrell said about Tyre: "Its present inhabitants are only a few poor wretches harbouring themselves in the vaults, and subsisting chiefly upon fishing, who seem to be preserved in this place by Divine Providence as a visible argument how God has fulfilled his word concerning Tyre, viz., That it should be as the top of a rock, a place for fishers to dry their nets on."
In 1751 Swedish naturalist Hasselquist said of Tyre: "Here are about ten inhabitants, Turks and Christians, who live by fishing."
In 1838 Dr. Robinson visited and later wrote: "I continued my walk along the whole western and northern shore of the peninsula, musing upon the pomp and glory, the pride and fall, of ancient Tyre. Here was the little isle once covered by her palaces and surrounded by her fleet . . . . But alas! . . . Tyre has indeed become 'like the top of a rock, a place to spread nets upon!' The sole remaining tokens of her more ancient splendour - columns of red and gray granite, sometimes forty or fifty heaped together, or marble pillars - lie broken and strewed beneath the waves in the midst of the sea; and the hovels that now nestle upon a portion of her site present no contradiction of the dread decree, 'Thou shalt be built no more.'"
Es Sur, the Arabic old name of Tyre is now a villiage of about 9,000 people. It rests on the north end of the former Island. Alexander’s causeway is still there, and the ancient island itself, now a peninsula, is connected to the mainland by a portion of land almost half a mile broad. Once the center of world commerce it now has an insignificant trade in cotton and tobacco.
According to secular history Nebuchadnezzar began his siege of Tyre shortly after destroying Jerusalem. From Phoenician annals and other previously written histories, Josephus said that Nebuchadnezzar's siege lasted 13 years. Ezekiel 26:8-11 indicates that he did considerable damage.
Tyre recovered somewhat, though Alexander the Great attacked Tyre which had moved to an island about a half mile from mainland. Alexander's men scraped up the ruins of the mainland city and threw it into the sea building a causeway to the island. After 7 months Alexander prevailed and the city was burned. (Zechariah 9:4)
Tyre kept trying to make a come back though she always fell (Ezekiel 26:3) and now all that is left are her ruins and a small seaport called Sour (Sur). Nina Jidejian's book Tyre Through the Ages (1969) said of her: "The port has become a haven today for fishing boats and a place for spreading nets," (Ezekiel 26:5, 14)
Its long and boring so just snip it out and say something totally stupid to express your opinionated and uninformed bullshit in response to it to reaffirm your newest religion, Atheism.
I had to cut this down considerably since a great deal of it was a repeat of what the average Atheist, eager to oversimplify the History of Tyre and Bible prophecy already rejects. A brief(er) history of Tyre.
Sidon was, according to the stamp of her own coins, the "Mother of Kambe, Hippo, Kition, Tyre." A colony from Sidon founded Tyre and those living in Tyre called themselves Sidonians. The Bible calls its merchants "the merchants of Sidon" and Tyre itself the "virgin daughter of Sidon." (Isaiah 23:2, 12 AS) Tyre's own coins were stamped "the Metropolis of the Sidonians."
Also on her coins was stamped: "Sacred and iviolate." Rich and busy worshipping Mammon, Tyre hired soldiers from Persia, Lud, and Put (Ezekiel 27:10). For five years Assyrian king Shalmaneser laid siege to Tyre but couldn't take the city.
The Bible presents Tyre of ancient times as a Phoenician ship with precious merchandise - proud and soon to be wrecked. They were Canaanites, but the Greeks called them Phoenicians (meaning reddish purple) because of the purple dye and cloth they exported.
In Tyre they worshipped Mammon. They worshipped Ashtoreth (Easter) and her male counterpart, Baal in the form of Melkarth.
It was the commercial center of the ancient world. Silver from Tarshish. Horses from Armenia. Ebony and ivory from Dedan. Emeralds, embroidered fine linen and coral from Edom. Wheat, honey and balm from Judah and Israel. Helbon wine from Damascus. Lambs, goats, spices, precious stone and gold from Arabia
God said that he would bring up nation after nation up against Tyre. The skeptic will cling dogedly to the fact that the prophecy says that 'Tyre would never be rebuilt' even though it would be pointless to say that nation after nation would have to keep destroying what hadn't been rebuilt and the Bible itself points out that Tyre was still there hundreds of years after Nebchadnezzar when Alexander did the same thing though Tyre had moved to an island nearby.
What about after Alexander? Not much different really, except that which the myopic skeptic of the Bible can't tell.
After Alexander scrapped the ruins of what had been Tyre and threw it into the sea Roman emperor Augustus took away the last trace of independent existence of the island Tyre.
In 638 A.D. Tyre was captured by the Moslems.
In 1124 Tyre was taken by the crusaders.
In 1291 the crusaders lost Tyre and was once again reduced to a pile of stones.
In 1516 Tyre was captured by the Turks and was soon desolated.
In 1619 Sandys visited Tyre and said: "This once famous Tyre is now no other than a heap of ruins."
In 1697 Maundrell said about Tyre: "Its present inhabitants are only a few poor wretches harbouring themselves in the vaults, and subsisting chiefly upon fishing, who seem to be preserved in this place by Divine Providence as a visible argument how God has fulfilled his word concerning Tyre, viz., That it should be as the top of a rock, a place for fishers to dry their nets on."
In 1751 Swedish naturalist Hasselquist said of Tyre: "Here are about ten inhabitants, Turks and Christians, who live by fishing."
In 1838 Dr. Robinson visited and later wrote: "I continued my walk along the whole western and northern shore of the peninsula, musing upon the pomp and glory, the pride and fall, of ancient Tyre. Here was the little isle once covered by her palaces and surrounded by her fleet . . . . But alas! . . . Tyre has indeed become 'like the top of a rock, a place to spread nets upon!' The sole remaining tokens of her more ancient splendour - columns of red and gray granite, sometimes forty or fifty heaped together, or marble pillars - lie broken and strewed beneath the waves in the midst of the sea; and the hovels that now nestle upon a portion of her site present no contradiction of the dread decree, 'Thou shalt be built no more.'"
Es Sur, the Arabic old name of Tyre is now a villiage of about 9,000 people. It rests on the north end of the former Island. Alexander’s causeway is still there, and the ancient island itself, now a peninsula, is connected to the mainland by a portion of land almost half a mile broad. Once the center of world commerce it now has an insignificant trade in cotton and tobacco.
According to secular history Nebuchadnezzar began his siege of Tyre shortly after destroying Jerusalem. From Phoenician annals and other previously written histories, Josephus said that Nebuchadnezzar's siege lasted 13 years. Ezekiel 26:8-11 indicates that he did considerable damage.
Tyre recovered somewhat, though Alexander the Great attacked Tyre which had moved to an island about a half mile from mainland. Alexander's men scraped up the ruins of the mainland city and threw it into the sea building a causeway to the island. After 7 months Alexander prevailed and the city was burned. (Zechariah 9:4)
Tyre kept trying to make a come back though she always fell (Ezekiel 26:3) and now all that is left are her ruins and a small seaport called Sour (Sur). Nina Jidejian's book Tyre Through the Ages (1969) said of her: "The port has become a haven today for fishing boats and a place for spreading nets," (Ezekiel 26:5, 14)
