Cyrus, ‘My Shepherd’

Bible scholar Harold Willmington once wrote, “Bible prophecy is simply history written in advance!” In the case of Cyrus, king of ancient Medo-Persia, God wrote the history 100 years before Cyrus was born and approximately 150 years before Cyrus conquered Babylon and let the Jewish people return to their land. In Isaiah 45:1, God declared, “Thus says the LORD to His anointed, to Cyrus, w