Map of Alexander the Great (Decisive Battles)
| “For I myself believe that there was at that time no race of mankind, no city, no single individual, to which the name of Alexander had not reached.”
- Arrian
Soldier, statesman, conquering general, King of Greece, Pharaoh of Egypt, Lord of Asia. Alexander III of Macedon, better known to us as Alexander the Great, was all of these and much more. Although the mists of antiquity have clouded a full and complete understanding regarding all the details of Alexander the Great’s life and conquests, nonetheless we must depend upon the ancient sources in order to reconstruct at least a reliable overview of his brief but significant life. Amidst the jumbled and oft times contradictory accounts of the ancient historians Diodorus, Curtius, Plutarch, and Arrian, there lies virtually untouched the Old Testament prophetic announcements concerning God’s sovereign election of Alexander’s Empire for His own higher purposes. There exists a body of evidence concerning Alexander the Great which is most often ignored by students of his reign. This evidence consists of four important prophetic references in the Biblical book of Daniel each written centuries before Alexander’s birth. |