Cameron Taylor

Consider how prophecy already proved itself in Israel’s history. Isaiah, writing around 700 BCE, named Cyrus the Persian as the one who would restore Jerusalem and the Temple (Isaiah 44–45). When he wrote, Jerusalem was intact, Cyrus was not yet born, and Babylon had not yet risen to power. Yet 160 years later, after Jerusalem fell, Babylon conquered, and Persia triumphed, Cyrus issued the decree to rebuild — just as Isaiah foretold.