LEBANON. Tyr: the prophecy has come true!

It is time to talk about the Bible prophecies were fulfilled in the fate of nations and peoples, cities and civilizations.
Here's a riddle: the city of Tyre. In ancient times, was the largest commercial city in the Mediterranean. The Bible mentions many times. And now he is in Lebanon, on the beach. Many ruins remained around there, what to see, but ... it ruins the later, Roman buildings.

Roman ruins in Tyre

And the biblical Tyre left no stone unturned, literally. In its place now - smooth rock. How could this happen?
It was like:

In the eleventh year, on the first day of the first month, the word of the Lord to me: 
Son of man, because Tyre said concerning Jerusalem, "and! well! he crushed - the gates of the peoples; He appeals to me; Fill; He is devastated, "- for thus saith the Lord God: Behold, I will - on you, O Tyre, and will raise up against you many nations, as the sea causeth his waves to come. 
And they shall destroy the walls of Tyre and break down her towers; I will also scrape her dust from her, and make her a bare rock. Place for the spreading of nets in the midst of the sea will be; for I have spoken it, saith the Lord GOD: and it shall become a spoil to the nations. And her daughters which are in the field shall be slain by the sword, and they shall know that I am the LORD. For thus saith the Lord God: Behold, I will bring against Tyre from the north Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, king of kings, with horses and chariots, and with horsemen, and his army, and much people. Thy daughters he beat a sword and want a fort against thee, and against thee nasyplet shaft and put shields against you; and thy walls pridvinet battering rams and your towers will destroy their axes. From the set of his horses their dust shall cover thee, and the noise of the horsemen and chariots wheels thy walls shall shake, when he shall enter into thy gates, as men enter into a broken city. Hoofs of his horses he istopchet all your street, and your people will break the sword, and thy down to the ground. 

And plunder your riches, and make a prey of thy merchandise, and destroy thy walls, and break thy pleasant houses: and thy stones and thy timber and thy will be thrown into the water. 
And the noise of thy songs, and the sound of your harps will not be heard. I will make you a bare rock, you'll place to spread nets upon; thou shalt be built no more: for I the LORD have spoken it, saith the Lord GOD. 
Ezekiel, Chapter 26

The first part of Ezekiel speaks specifically about the Babylonian king.
And turned it in 586 BC (about a year). But by the time of Nebuchadnezzar troops entered the city, the inhabitants of Tyre fled with all the goodness of the island, which was not far from the shore. It saved them because Nebuchadnezzar had no ships to cross - he was advancing on dry land.

Further, for 240 years, the city of Tyre remained destruction, and its residents continued to live on the island. And in 333 BC granted to them ... Alexander the Great! But, having come to the place of glory of Tyre, he found there only ruins. On the island, he also could not attack -
residents were warned about his offense and built a powerful underwater barriers (artificial reefs), these fences were so arranged that the tides could not bring them with sand. Alexander understood - when you try to attack from the sea, ships, he would lose the fleet. Here residents relax, they say, it worked! Had passed! But they underestimated the resourcefulness of Alexander:
for the first time in the history of military sieges and he came up with an original way to get them, to build a road between the mainland and the island, and to make her army to the island to get to the treasure.
But, imagine, in those days, when there was no mining trucks and mining machines, which take as much Fabric? Very simple: Fabric ... they took out of the city of Tyre, lay in ruins.
Alexander sent to this business all his huge army, and they, stone by stone, brick by brick, timber for log, all carried and thrown into the sea. And it still was not enough! Then they scraped the whole earth, to hard rock, and also thrown into the sea.
So exactly, in fine detail, the prophecy of Ezekiel! At the site of Tyre remained bare rock.
Think about it: the prophet, who lived long before these events, could not by itself come up with such a story. This God has determined in advance and announced, to teach a lesson to those who gloats over the suffering of others and even tries to extract from it the benefit:
because Tyre said concerning Jerusalem, "and! well! he crushed - the gates of the peoples; He appeals to me; Fill; for it is spoiled. "..
Так его жители, наследники славы Тира, пали от меча Александра и его войска, а все их сокровища, накопленные за много столетий торговли и процветания, достались завоевателям.

So its inhabitants, the heirs of glory of Tyre, with the sword of Alexander and his army, and all their treasures accumulated over many centuries of trade and prosperity, went to the conquerors.

So Alexander forever changed the geography of the Mediterranean coast of Lebanon: the island turned into a peninsula :)

That is on the peninsula and is a modern small Lebanese city of Tyre. But this place used to be just an island and not a place of ancient Tyre. So the prophecy that Tyre will be no more built up, also celebrated. At the site of the ancient Thira no nothing, just rock on which now, as in the prophecy was written, the fishermen dried network.