ONE HEARTBEAT AWAY - PART 26

                                            ONE HEARTBEAT
    AWAY
   
    PART 26

                                         (Mark Cahill's Book)


Fulfilled Prophecy supports the Bible.

The scientific evidence for the Bible is absolutely stunning, but it doesn't even begin to compare with the fact that it showed me beyond a shadow of a doubt that the Bible is the Word of God.

What fact was that?   What was it that would prove there is no way the Bible could be from man, but must be from the hand of Almighty God?  One hundred per cent accuracy in fortelling the future. If we could find that in a religious text we would have the answer we are seeking.

Next question:  What do you think is the only book in the world that contains hundreds of  very detailed prophecies
and records the fulfillment of those prophecies?  The answer is the Bible.  

The Book of Mormon for the Latter day Saints doesn't; The Koran for Muslims doesn't;  The Bhagavad Gita for Hindus doesn't; In all the writings of Buddha, Confuscius, and Lao Tse, you will not find a single example of prophecy being fulfilled. In the Koran the only instance of a specific prophecy is when Mahommed predicted that he himself would return to Mecca - a prophecy very easy for him to fulfill himself.

The Bible, on the other hand, contains more than 2,000 detailed prophecies in the Old Testament alone. In fact, twenty-five per cent of the Bible is predictive in nature. And except for the prophecies that tell about the End Time return of Jesus, every single prophecy - including those about political, religious, intellectual, and geographic events , leading up to the return of Jesus Christ to the earth - has been fulfilled down to the smallest detail.

One of the interesting things about the Bible is that it says that anyone who does not predict with 100% accuracy  is a false prophet. The fact that people "predict"  something in the National Enquirer,  doesn't  make them true prophets. 

In Old Testament times, if someone claimed to be speaking for God, and the prophecy did not come true, the penalty was death by stoning. (God takes misrepresenting Him very seriously).

So when prophets spoke, 
they made sure they
were properly 
representing God's words, and not their own! 

Prophecy is so important, because it demonstrates Who God is and that He 
can be trusted.

Remember the former things of old: for I am God, and there is none else;  I am God, and there is none like Me.

.Declaring the end from the beginning, and from ancient times the things which are not yet done, saying  My councel shall stand, and I will do all My pleasure:

....Yea, I have spoken it, I will also bring it to pass. I have purposed it I will also do it. (Isaiah 46:9-11).

God says He will declare the end from the beginning. If He says through His prophets that  He will do something 
He will do it. Let us see if that is true.

The Old Testament was finished more than 400years before the New testament was written. To see how good God's prediction ability was, let us take a look  at a small portion of those Old Testament prophecies that predict  Who the Messiah, the expected Savior would be.

 next post 31st August