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SPEAKER: Pastor Charlie Riley
April 24, 2021

Pastor Charlie Riley
April 24, 2021

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God’s Fingerprint On History

The Fall of Tyre
Written 586 BC
Fulfilled 253 Years Later
Large Port City
Wealthiest City
Most Secure City
Had Its Own Island

Ezekiel 26:4
3 “Therefore thus says the Lord God: ‘Behold, I am against you, O Tyre, and will cause many nations to come up against you, as the sea causes its waves to come up. 4 And they shall destroy the walls of Tyre and break down her towers; I will also scrape her dust from her, and make her like the top of a rock. 5 It shall be a place for spreading nets in the midst of the sea, for I have spoken,’ says the Lord God; ‘it shall become plunder for the nations. 6 Also her daughter villages which are in the fields shall be slain by the sword. Then they shall know that I am the Lord.’
7 “For thus says the Lord God: ‘Behold, I will bring against Tyre from the north Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, king of kings, with horses, with chariots, and with horsemen, and an army with many people. 8 He will slay with the sword your daughter villages in the fields; he will heap up a siege mound against you, build a wall against you, and raise a defense against you. 9 He will direct his battering rams against your walls, and with his axes he will break down your towers. 10 Because of the abundance of his horses, their dust will cover you; your walls will shake at the noise of the horsemen, the wagons, and the chariots, when he enters your gates, as men enter a city that has been breached. 11 With the hooves of his horses he will trample all your streets; he will slay your people by the sword, and your strong pillars will fall to the ground. 12 They will plunder your riches and pillage your merchandise; they will break down your walls and destroy your pleasant houses; they will lay your stones, your timber, and your soil in the midst of the water. 13 I will put an end to the sound of your songs, and the sound of your harps shall be heard no more. 14 I will make you like the top of a rock; you shall be a place for spreading nets, and you shall never be rebuilt, for I the Lord have spoken,’ says the Lord God.

Summary
Many nations would come against Tyre (Ezek. 26:3)
The walls of Tyre would be broken down (Ezek. 26:4)
Dust would be scraped from her, and she would be left like a bare rock (Ezek. 26:4)
Tyre would be a place for the spreading of nets (Ezek. 26:5)
Nebuchadnezzar, king of Babylon, would build a siege wall around Tyre (Ezek. 26:8)
Nebuchadnezzar would plunder the city (Ezek. 26:9-12)
The stones, timber and soil of Tyre would be cast into the sea (Ezek. 26:12)
The city would never be rebuilt (Ezek. 26:14)

Nebuchadnezzar Destroys Tyre
Rebuilt
Alexander The Great In 330 B.C. Attacks Tyre And The Island
Stones, Timber, Soil Thrown Into The Sea
He Built A Causeway To The Island
City Was Flattened Like The Top Of The Rock

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The Fall Of Babylon
Babylon 740-680 B.C.
Wall 75 Feet Thick
300 Feet Tall
Surrounded By The Euphrates River (65-250 Wide)
Euphrates River Ran Under The City

Jeremiah 50:9
“I will raise and cause to come up against Babylon an assembly of great nations…”

Jeremiah 51:36
“I will dry up her sea and make her spring dry…’

Jeremiah 50:38
“A drought is against her water, and they will be dried up . For it is the land of carved images…”
Jeremiah 51:39
“I will prepare their feast; I will make them drunk, that they may rejoice, And sleep a perpetual sleep…”

Secular History
King Cyrus (King of the Medes and Persians)
Redirected the Euphrates River
Marched His Troops Under the walls and Attacked
The Babylonians Were Drunk Partying

100 Bible Prophecies Fulfilled By Jesus

His Fingerprints On The Present

Global Communication
Revelation 11:9-10
9 Then those from the peoples, tribes, tongues, and nations will see their dead bodies three-and-a-half days, and not allow their dead bodies to be put into graves. 10 And those who dwell on the earth will rejoice over them, make merry, and send gifts to one another, because these two prophets tormented those who dwell on the earth.

Mankind Able To Destroy All Life
Matthew 24:21-22
For then there will be great tribulation, such as has not been since the beginning of the world until this time, no, nor ever shall be. 22 And unless those days were shortened, no flesh would be saved; but for the elect’s sake those days will be shortened.

Use of Nuclear Weapons Anticipated
Zechariah 14:12
And this shall be the plague with which the Lord will strike all the people who fought against Jerusalem: Their flesh shall dissolve while they stand on their feet,
Their eyes shall dissolve in their sockets, And their tongues shall dissolve in their mouths.

Damascus (Syria) Will Be Destroyed
Jeremiah 49:23-27; Isaiah 17:14
Amos 1:3-5; Zechariah 9:1-8
Isaiah 17:1
The burden against Damascus. “Behold, Damascus will cease from being a city,
And it will be a ruinous heap.

Youth Rebellion Would Increase
2 Timothy 3:2-3
But know this, that in the last days perilous times will come: 2 For men will be lovers of themselves, lovers of money, boasters, proud, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy, 3 unloving, unforgiving, slanderers, without self-control, brutal, despisers of good, 4 traitors, headstrong, haughty, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God, 5 having a form of godliness but denying its power. And from such people turn away! 6 For of this sort are those who creep into households and make captives of gullible women loaded down with sins, led away by various lusts, 7 always learning and never able to come to the knowledge of the truth.

Humanity Increasingly Materialistic
2 Timothy 3:1-5
But know this, that in the last days perilous times will come: 2 For men will be lovers of themselves, lovers of money, boasters, proud, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy, 3 unloving, unforgiving, slanderers, without self-control, brutal, despisers of good, 4 traitors, headstrong, haughty, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God, 5 having a form of godliness but denying its power. And from such people turn away!

Homosexuality Would Be Flaunted and Forced
Luke 17:28-30
Likewise as it was also in the days of Lot: They ate, they drank, they bought, they sold, they planted, they built; 29 but on the day that Lot went out of Sodom it rained fire and brimstone from heaven and destroyed them all. 30 Even so will it be in the day when the Son of Man is revealed.

Jude 1:7
as Sodom and Gomorrah, and the cities around them in a similar manner to these, having given themselves over to sexual immorality and gone after strange flesh, are set forth as an example, suffering the vengeance of eternal fire

Ethnic Conflicts
Mark 13:7-8; Luke 21:10
7 But when you hear of wars and rumors of wars, do not be troubled; for such things must happen, but the end is not yet.8 For nation will rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom. And there will be earthquakes in various places, and there will be famines and troubles. These are the beginnings of [b]sorrows.

Travel To and Fro, Knowledge Will Increase
Daniel 12:4
“But you, Daniel, shut up the words, and seal the book until the time of the end; many shall run to and fro, and knowledge shall increase.”

Earth Filled With Violence
Violent Crime Up 500% From 1960

Luke 17:26; Genesis 6:11-13
And as it was in the days of Noah, so it will be also in the days of the Son of Man:

Israel Turns The Desert Into Blossoms and Exports Produce
Is 27:6
Those who come He shall cause to take root in Jacob; Israel shall blossom and bud,
And fill the face of the world with fruit.

Regathering Of Israel
Isaiah 11:11-12, Ezekiel 37:21-22
It shall come to pass in that day That the Lord shall set His hand again the second time
To recover the remnant of His people who are left, From Assyria and Egypt, From Pathros and Cush, From Elam and Shinar, From Hamath and the islands of the sea. 12 He will set up a banner for the nations, And will assemble the outcasts of Israel, And gather together the dispersed of Judah From the four corners of the earth.

Epidemic Drug Use
“sorceries” Greek Word “pharmakeia”

Revelation 9:21
And they did not repent of their murders or their sorceries or their sexual immorality or their thefts.

Occult Interest
Sorceries, Witchcraft and Magic
Revelation 9:21; 18:23; Isaiah 47:9-15; Micah 5:10-15

His Fingerprints On The Future

The Gospel Preached Over All The Earth
Matthew 24:14, Mark 13:10; Revelation 14:6

Israel Will Sign A Peace Treaty
Daniel 9:27
Then he shall confirm a covenant with many for one week; But in the middle of the week He shall bring an end to sacrifice and offering. And on the wing of abominations shall be one who makes desolate, Even until the consummation, which is determined, Is poured out on the desolate.”

Chaotic Weather Will Be Prevalent
Luke 21:25-26, Matthew 24:8
25 “And there will be signs in the sun, in the moon, and in the stars; and on the earth distress of nations, with perplexity, the sea and the waves roaring; 26 men’s hearts failing them from fear and the expectation of those things which are coming on the earth, for the powers of the heavens will be shaken.

Deadly Diseases (Pestilence) Would Be Common
Matthew 24:7; Revelation 6:8
7 For nation will rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom. And there will be famines, pestilences, and earthquakes in various places.

Move Toward Global Government
Daniel 2:40-44; Daniel 7:23; Revelation 13:7-8

Final Generation Would Be Willing To Accept A Mark
Revelation 13:16
He causes all, both small and great, rich and poor, free and slave, to receive a mark on their right hand or on their foreheads,

Final Generation Would Be Willing To Accept A Mark Connected To Global Economics
Revelation 13:16-17
He causes all, both small and great, rich and poor, free and slave, to receive a mark on their right hand or on their foreheads, 17 and that no one may buy or sell except one who has [a]the mark or the name of the beast, or the number of his name.

Eastern Gate Would Remain Closed For The Messiah
Ezekiel 44:1-3
Then He brought me back to the outer gate of the sanctuary which faces toward the east, but it was shut. 2 And the Lord said to me, “This gate shall be shut; it shall not be opened, and no man shall enter by it, because the Lord God of Israel has entered by it; therefore it shall be shut. 3 As for the prince, because he is the prince, he may sit in it to eat bread before the Lord; he shall enter by way of the vestibule of the gateway, and go out the same way.”

Revelation 22:12
“And behold, I am coming quickly, and My reward is with Me, to give to every one according to his work. 13 I am the Alpha and the Omega, the [f]Beginning and the End, the First and the Last.”

History Is His-Story

If History Is Secure In Him
My History Is Safe With Him

He Is The God Of My Past

2 Corinthians 5:16-17
16 Therefore, from now on, we regard no one according to the flesh. Even though we have known Christ according to the flesh, yet now we know Him thus no longer. 17 Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation; old things have passed away; behold, all things have become new.

He Is The God Of My Present

John 10:25-30
25 Jesus answered them, “I told you, and you do not believe. The works that I do in My Father’s name, they bear witness of Me. 26 But you do not believe, because you are not of My sheep, [e]as I said to you. 27 My sheep hear My voice, and I know them, and they follow Me. 28 And I give them eternal life, and they shall never perish; neither shall anyone snatch them out of My hand. 29 My Father, who has given them to Me, is greater than all; and no one is able to snatch them out of My Father’s hand. 30 I and My Father are one.”

He Is The God Of My Future

Luke 21:25
25 “And there will be signs in the sun, in the moon, and in the stars; and on the earth distress of nations, with perplexity, the sea and the waves roaring; 26 men’s hearts failing them from fear and the expectation of those things which are coming on the earth, for the powers of the heavens will be shaken. 27 Then they will see the Son of Man coming in a cloud with power and great glory. 28 Now when these things begin to happen, look up and lift up your heads, because your redemption draws near.”