Fulfilled Prophecy a Poteht Argument for the Bible 69 removed their treasures to an island about half a mile from the shore. About 250 years later Alexander came against the island city. The ruins of Tyre which Nebuchadnezzar had left standing were used by Alexander. He constructed out of them with great ingenuity and perseverance a dam from the main land to the rock city in the sea. Thus literally it was fulfilled, “They shall lay thy stones and thy timber and thy dust in the midst of the water.” The sentence pronounced upon that proud city, for so long the powerful mistress of the sea, “Thou shalt be built no more,” has been fully carried out. Of still greater interest are the prophecies which foretell the doom of Egypt. Ezekiel and Nahum mention the Egyp tian city No. (Ezek. 30:14-16; Nah. 3 :8 .) No is Thebes and was tire ancient capital of Egypt. The Egyptian name is No-Amon. It had a hundred gates, as we learn from Homer, and was a city of marvelous beauty. I t was surrounded by walls twenty-four feet thick, and had a circumference of one mile and three quarters. The Lord announced through Ezekiel that this great city should be rent asunder and that its vast population should be cut off. Five hundred years later Pto lemy Laltyrus, the grandfather of Cleopatra, after besieging the city several years razed to the ground the previously ruined city. Every word given through Ezekiel had come true. One could fill many pages showing the literal fulfillment of Ezekiel’s great predictions relating to Egypt. The decline and degrada tion predicted has come true. The rivers and canals of Egypt have dried up. The land has become desolate. The immense fisheries which yielded such a great income to the rulers of Egypt are no longer in existence. Ezek. 30 :7 has found a literal fulfillment. Egypt is a land of ruins and wasted cities. The instruments whom God used in accomplishing this were strangers (Ezek. 30:12) like Cambyses, Amroo, Ochus and others. “There shall be no more a prince.of the land of Egypt” (Ezek. 30:13). This too has been literally fulfilled. Ochus subdued rebellious Egypt 350 B. C., and since that
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