One thing I have learned in my Bible studies, God has the absolutely best sense of irony, but of course as in all things he is God, so expected.
Jer 28:1 In the fifth month of that same year, the fourth year, early in the reign of Zedekiah king of Judah, the prophet Hananiah son of Azzur, who was from Gibeon, said to me in the house of the LORD in the presence of the priests and all the people:
2 “This is what the LORD Almighty, the God of Israel, says: ‘I will break the yoke of the king of Babylon.
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16 Therefore this is what the LORD says: ‘I am about to remove you from the face of the earth. This very year you are going to die, because you have preached rebellion against the LORD.’ ”
17 In the seventh month of that same year, Hananiah the prophet died.
If you want to stretch things a bit “Donald” (meaning biggest boss ruler in Scot Gaelic) roughly equates to “Cyrus” (meaning big boss ruler in whatever that language was) and both were certainly the, or at least among the, biggest big shots in the world at their respective times.
I’m not at all wise or learned enough to find signs in scripture, but that is all one heck of a coincidence.
“One thing I have learned in my Bible studies, God has the absolutely best sense of irony, but of course as in all things he is God, so expected.”
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The Biblical prophet Nahum issued a summary statement about the fall of the ancient Assyrian empire’s demise. It could be just as easily be a description of the Iranian Mullah’s fall:
Nothing can heal you;
your wound is fatal.
All who hear the news about you
clap their hands at your fall,
for who has not felt
your endless cruelty?