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Recently I had the privilege of spending two weeks in Turkey, long a crossroads, both north-south and east-west, between the vast continents of Asia, Europe and Africa and their armies.
The sense of history one gains from a visit like this is staggering. We saw artifacts and remains from the great empires of history that march across the pages of the Bible—Egypt, Israel, Judah, Assyria, Babylon, Persia, Greece and Rome. Objects from the reigns of ancient monarchs like Hezekiah, Sennacherib, Shalmaneser, Nebuchadnezzar, Alexander the Great and Herod made the Bible leap to life.
Yet perhaps most staggering of all is how the great God of the Bible foretold the rise and fall of these mighty empires (see, for example, the remarkable prophecies of the empires of Babylon, Persia, Greece and Rome found in Daniel 2,7,8,11).
And rise and fall they did. Some, like the Roman Empire, endured for a thousand years. Other lasted far less.
All had their day in the sun as superpowers before which others trembled. But today their crumbling ruins stand in silence, mute witnesses to the fact that "the Most High is sovereign over the kingdoms of men" (Daniel 4:17,32, New International Version).
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