A bunch. The Exxon Valdez was the ocean turning into the blood of a dead-man. The depletion of the ozone and global warming is the sun being given the ability to burn men. Herpes is the plague of festering blisters. There are many more.
-about 300 specific prophesies in the Old Testament about the coming Messiah were fulfilled in Jesus Christ.
-The fall of Babylon was predicted before it happened
-The nation of Israel was scattered and reunited as predicted (that was 1947, in fact)
In fact, everything prophesied in the Bible has already come true except for the end times prophesies, found in the Book of Revelation, the end of Daniel, and Matthew chapter 24.
Here's one that is arguably one of the oldest prophecies ever uttered by a Jewish prophet:
"I call heaven and earth to witness against you this day, that you will soon utterly perish from the land which you are going over the Jordan to possess; you will not live long upon it, but will be utterly destroyed. And the Lord will scatter you among the peoples, and you will be left few in number among the nations where the Lord will drive you. And there you will serve gods of wood, and stone, the work of men's hands, that neither see, nor hear, nor eat, nor smell. But from there you will seek the Lord your God, and you will find him, if you search after him with all your heart and with all your soul. When you are in tribulation, and all these things com upon you in the latter days, you will return to the Lord your God and obey his voice, for the Lord your God is a merciful God; he will not fail you or destroy you or forget the covenant with your fathers which he swore to them."
[The specific covenant spoken of here was to give the land of Canaan to the Jews. This was fulfilled in full over a period of 3500 years.]
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The prophecies are so hazy and indefinite that you can apply the context to pretty much anything that happens in the world.
It's like those crap generic horoscopes. And people believe it.
Most definitely!
And, *all* of them have come true, &, on time . . .
In Search of Trustworthy Predictions
- An Inherent Need
- - Why You Can Trust Bible Prophecy
- - - Points of Contrast
- - - - Will You Trust Bible Prophecy?
http://watchtower.org/e/19990715/article_01.htm
“We Have Found the Messiah”
- Messianic Credentials
- - A Composite Picture
- - - Geneology and Messiah's Identification
- - - - A Chance Fulfillment in Jesus?
- - - - - Messiah's "Coming"
http://watchtower.org/e/20060215/article_02.htm
Do You Recognize the Sign of Jesus’ Presence?
- Identifying Marks of the Last Days
http://watchtower.org/e/20051001/article_02.htm
A bunch. The Exxon Valdez was the ocean turning into the blood of a dead-man. The depletion of the ozone and global warming is the sun being given the ability to burn men. Herpes is the plague of festering blisters. There are many more.
I've heard talk of Bible prophecies coming true. I heard Hitler and Bush were two of the horsemen in Revelation.
Um, I'd say so:
-about 300 specific prophesies in the Old Testament about the coming Messiah were fulfilled in Jesus Christ.
-The fall of Babylon was predicted before it happened
-The nation of Israel was scattered and reunited as predicted (that was 1947, in fact)
In fact, everything prophesied in the Bible has already come true except for the end times prophesies, found in the Book of Revelation, the end of Daniel, and Matthew chapter 24.
Yes, several hundred.
It is not counted as a "prophecy" unless it is exactly and perfectly what the Bible said, no deviations
Quite a few.
Here's one that is arguably one of the oldest prophecies ever uttered by a Jewish prophet:
"I call heaven and earth to witness against you this day, that you will soon utterly perish from the land which you are going over the Jordan to possess; you will not live long upon it, but will be utterly destroyed. And the Lord will scatter you among the peoples, and you will be left few in number among the nations where the Lord will drive you. And there you will serve gods of wood, and stone, the work of men's hands, that neither see, nor hear, nor eat, nor smell. But from there you will seek the Lord your God, and you will find him, if you search after him with all your heart and with all your soul. When you are in tribulation, and all these things com upon you in the latter days, you will return to the Lord your God and obey his voice, for the Lord your God is a merciful God; he will not fail you or destroy you or forget the covenant with your fathers which he swore to them."
[The specific covenant spoken of here was to give the land of Canaan to the Jews. This was fulfilled in full over a period of 3500 years.]
Israel now exists, although that is a self-fulfilling prophecy.
All of the "prophecies" met in the New Testament cannot be verified. They could very easily just have been written in.
Most are too vague to mean anything.
And lo it came to pass that cars were enabled with reverse gear
Only the self fulfilling ones.