God of love:
Fulfilled Prophecies
The
remarkable evidence of fulfilled prophecy is just one
case in point. Hundreds of Bible prophecies have been
fulfilled, specifically and meticulously, often long
after the prophetic writer had passed away. For example,
Daniel the prophet predicted in about 538 BC (Daniel
9:24-27) that Christ would come as Israel's promised
Savior and Prince 483 years after the Persian emperor
would give the Jews authority to rebuild Jerusalem,
which was then in ruins. This was clearly and definitely
fulfilled, hundreds of years later.
There
are extensive prophecies dealing with individual nations
and cities and with the course of history in general,
all of which have been literally fulfilled. More
than 300 prophecies were fulfilled by Christ Himself at
His first coming. Other prophecies deal with the
spread of Christianity,
as well as various false religions, and many other
subjects. There is no other book, ancient or modern,
like this. The vague, and usually erroneous, prophecies
of people like Jeanne Dixon, Nostradamus, Edgar Cayce,
and others like them are not in the same category at
all, and neither are other religious books such as the
Koran, the Confucian Analects, and similar religious
writings.
Only
the Bible manifests this remarkable prophetic evidence,
and it does so on such a tremendous scale as to render
completely absurd any explanation other than divine
revelation.
Unique Historical Accuracy
The historical accuracy of the Scriptures is
likewise in a class by itself, far superior to the
written records of Egypt, Assyria, and other early
nations. Archeological confirmations of the Biblical
record have been almost innumerable in the last century.
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