Breaking The Jewish Code Perry Stone

Babylonians enslaved the Jews, until Persian invaders shut off the water, dug under the city, and overthrew the Babylonians in one night. Two leaders, Darius, a Mede, and Cyrus, a Persian, now ruled from the Babylonian throne. Jewish history reveals that after the Persian invasion, the Hebrew prophet Daniel opened the scroll of the prophet Isaiah and showed Cyrus a 140-year-old prophecy that predicted Cyrus’s name and his preordained God-given assignment. Josephus recorded Cyrus’s reaction when he read his own name in the Hebrew scroll: Thus saith Cyrus the king: Since God Almighty has appointed me to be king of the inhabited earth, I believe He is that God of which the nation of the Israelites worship; for indeed He foretold my name by the prophets and that I should build a house in Jerusalem in the country of Judea.1 This amazing prophecy motivated Cyrus to act it out. He permitted the Jews to return to Israel to rebuild their temple and to restore the sacred vessels Nebuchadnezzar had seized seventy years prior. Two prophecies from Isaiah, a Hebrew prophet, transformed the course of Israel’s history! The General’s Dream Saved Jerusalem A second example concerns a Greek general. After two hundred years of Persian rule, the Greeks overthrew the Persians, capturing Babylon. The new global leader was