On this day in 334 B.C., Greek forces under Alexander the Great met a mighty Persian army under the direction of King Darius III along the Granicus River in present day Turkey. In this clash of empires, the Greeks were outnumbered by more than 10 to 1. Yet Alexander employed a brilliant strategy and won a victory that made him master of a huge empire.

Years earlier, God gave Daniel a vision about these and other related events. The prophecies were so precise that some scholars believe that Daniel's account must have been after the events themselves. But these skeptics fail to understand that we serve a God who is beyond time. As He told Isaiah, He declares "the end from the beginning" (Isaiah 46:10).