It is difficult even for the hardened skeptic to have doubts after studying the following amazing prophecy regarding Tyre:

 "For thus says Yahweh 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. He will slay with the sword your daughter villages in the fields; he will heap a siege mound against you, build a wall against you, and raise a defense against you. He will direct his battering rams against your walls, and with his axes he will break down your towers. 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. 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. 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. I will put an end to the sound of your songs, and the sound of your harps shall be heard no more. I will make you like the top of a rock; you shall be a place for spreading nets, you shall never be rebuilt, for I Yahweh have spoken" (Ezek 26:3-14).

THE FACTS:

Nebuchadnezzar took the mainland city and passed by the island city as he laid the mainland city waste three years after the prophecy. According to the Encyclopedia Britannica: "After 13 year siege (585-573 B.C) Nebuchadnezzar II, Tyre made terms and acknowledged Babylonian suzerainty.

When he broke the gates down, he found the city almost empty. The majority of the people have moved by ship to an island about 1/2 a mile off the coasts and fortified a city there. The mainland city was destroyed in 573, but the city of Tyre remained a powerful city for several hundred years.

Alexander later also attacked Tyre and possessing no fleet, he demolished old Tyre, on the mainland, and with the debris built a mole 200 feet across the straits separating the old and new towns, erecting towers and war engines at the further end.

The old city of Tyre did supply stones and dirt to build the causeway (Loeb Classical Library:Quintius Curtius IV, 2. 18-19).

Tyre was one city divided between the mainland from the Alcatraz-like Island fortress and the causeway which still remains as Philip Myers who was a secular historian and not a theologian stated: "uniting the rock with the mainland.".

When the city at last was taken after a 7 month siege 8000 of the inhabitants were slayed and 30,000 sold into slavery.

Mr. Myers also wrote: "Alexander the great reduced the city to ruins (332 B.C). She recovered in a measure from this blow but never regained the place she had previously held in the world. The larger part of the site of the once great city is now bare as a top of a rock, a place where the fisherman that still frequent the spot spread there nets to dry.".

John C. Beck also wrote: "The history of Tyre does not stop after the conquest of Alexander. Men continue to rebuild her and armies continue to besiege her walls until finally, after 1600 years, she falls NEVER to be rebuilt again.".

Joseph Michaud writes concerning The Muslims destroying Tyre: "There houses, their temples, the monuments of there piety, their valour and their industry, everything was condemned to perish with them by the sword or by fire.".

LeStrange quotes Abu'lfiela (1321 A.D): "The city was re-conquered by the Moslems in 690 (1291), ...and then was laid in ruins, as it remains down to the present day".

Today Tyre is a place of fish and the laying of fish nets.

Nina Jidejian writes: "The Sidonian port of Tyre is still in use today. Small fishing vessels lay at anchor there. An examination of the foundations reveals granite columns of the Roman period which were incorporated as binders in the walls by the Crusaders. The port has become a haven today for fishing boats and a place for spreading nets."

The existence of a small fishing village Tyre, the mistress of the seas, the trade and commercial center of the world for centuries, past away NEVER to rise (re-build) again. The fishermen drying their nets upon the rocks that once formed the foundation of that ancient metropolis are the last link in the chain of prophecy that Ezekiel gave over 25 hundred years ago."

She concludes: "Tyre's stones may be found as far away as Acre and Beirut. Yet evidences of a great past are abundant and recent excavations have revealed successive levels of this proud Phoenician seaport...The great ancient city of Tyre lay buried under accumulated debris. The ruins of an aqueduct and a few scattered columns and the ruins of a Christian basilica were the only remains found above ground....looking down into the water one can see a mass of granite columns and stone blocks strewn over the sea bottom. Until recently the ruins of Tyre above water were few."

Old Tyre today stands as it has for twenty five centuries, a bare rock, uninhabited by man. Although it is still an excellent site for a city and would have free water enough for a large modern city, yet it has never been rebuilt even though it has fresh springs producing 10 million gallons of fresh water daily.

The city was never rebuilt again.

Tyre was destroyed in 1291 and then it died forever and never was rebuilt.

Hans-Wolf Rackl, in Archeology underwater notes: "Today hardly a single stone of the old Tyre is intact.".

It could be argued that there is a city of Tyre today, yet this city is not the original city of Tyre, but it is built down the coast from the original site of Tyre. The fact that there is a small fishermen village nearby only confirms that there is a need of someone to fish and dry their nets.

Also is argued that the prophecy was written after the events occurred when Alexander destroyed the city, yet this argument is invalid since the Muslims completed the prophecy and literally destroyed everything to the point it became a bare rock and never was rebuilt after that.