There is an amazing chapter in the Bible that you may not have noticed. Isaiah prophesies the name of a ruler yet to be born and gives him a specific name, Cyrus. God would stir Cyrus heart to send God's people back home from their captivity in Babylon.
This was prophesied a century and a half before Cyrus was born and two centuries before the empire arose. God said nothing could stop this prophecy from being fulfilled and it did all come to pass.
God did this to prove a point. "That they may know from the rising of the son to its setting that there is none besides me. I am The Lord, and there is no other. I turn light into darkness. I make peace and create calamity; I The Lord, do all these things" (Isaiah 45:6-7; 1-7; Colossians 1:16-17).
