Fulfilled prophecy reveals that God exists and the Bible is God's inspired word
Submitted by sank on Fri, 10/31/2008 - 16:56
For example consider just two prophecies about the birth of Jesus:
| Prophecy | Reference | Date | Fulfilled reference | Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Virgin gives birth | Isaiah 7:14 | 750 BC | Matthew 1:18-25 | 1 AD |
| Birth place of the Messiah | Micah 5:2 | 700 BC | Matthew 2:1-6 | 1 AD |
In both cases, the prophets who wrote them and all their contemporaries died within 100 years. Thereafter, millions of people were born and died during the following 750 years between the date of prophecy and its fulfilment. Yet what they wrote was fulfilled to the very word hundreds of years later.
As dead people cannot keep their promises, we can conclude that these words were not of the prophets' themselves, but of God who inspired them to write. We can see the INVISIBLE HAND of GOD working to fulfill these prophecies hundreds of years later. Space will not permit me to list all the various prophecies and their fulfilment here. Thus it proves that the Bible is God's inspired word.
IT ALSO PROVES THAT GOD EXISTS
and He is Almighty, Omnipresent, Omniscient, Faithful and Trustworthy.
- ALMIGHTY or All Powerful: There is nothing impossible with God. The virgin birth is humanly impossible, but for God nothing is impossible.
- EVERYWHERE PRESENT or Omnipresent: He was present when He inspired his prophets to write, He was present at the time when it was fulfilled and He is alive even today to fulfill some more prophecies that need to be fulfilled in the future. He is the eternal God.
- ALL KNOWING or Omniscient: He knows everything about the past, present and the future. That is why He could prophesy through the prophets what happened and also what is going to happen in the future. That is why He could inspire Moses to write down how He created the world (the book of Genesis) even though Moses was not present at the time. For the same reason, He inspired John to write what is going to happen far into the future (the Book of Revelation), and all other books of the Bible through the rest of the writers.
- FAITHFUL or Promise Keeping: for He has kept all His promises and predictions of the future no matter how many there are.
- TRUSTWORTHY: As He has proved faithful in the past, we can TRUST Him to fulfill all the future promises too.
In summary we KNOW that: GOD EXISTS, He is ALIVE and He is ACTIVE. The Holy Bible is God's inspired Word with special messages to meet man's present and future needs. JESUS is the promised MESSIAH, the Son of God and the Saviour of the world.
