Questions not answered well will not go away
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Questions not answered well will not go away. “How can I be sure the Bible really is God’s Word? ”
EVIDENCES FOR BELIEVING THE BIBLE IS GOD’S WORD
LOOKING FOR THE FINGERPRINTS OF GOD Man cannot predict future events with 100% accuracy, but God can! Deuteronomy 18: 20 -22 Isaiah 41: 22 -23 If the Bible predicts events beyond the lives of the writers, and those events come to pass with 100% accuracy What should we conclude about the Bible?
Prophecies Concerning Israel • Deuteronomy 28 (1520 – 1400 BC) – A “king, ” and Saul came 300 years later – Jerusalem • Josiah (1 Kings 13: 2) • Cyrus (Isaiah 44: 28; 45: 1)
Prophecies of the Nations
TYRE (Ezekiel 26: 3 -21) 1. Nebuchadnezzar would attack the city (vs. 7 -11) 2. The city would be destroyed (vs. 8 -12) 3. Rocks would be scraped into the sea (v. 4) 4. Many nations will fight against Tyre (v. 3) 5. A bare rock, fishermen will spread their nets there (vs. 5, 14)
! E R O M Petra and Edom (Isaiah 34; Jeremiah 49; Ezekiel 25 and 35) Nineveh (Nahum 1, 2 and 3) Babylon (Isaiah 13 and 14; Jeremiah 51) Jerusalem (Jeremiah 31) Samaria (Hosea 13; Micah 1) Thebes –Memphis (Ezekiel 30)
Messianic Prophecies 333 prophecies, 500 to 1, 000 years before the birth of Jesus. . . and all perfectly fulfilled! • Time of birth • Virgin • Bethlehem • 30 pieces of silver • Isaiah 53
THE ODDS OF JUST 8 PROPHECIES BEING ACCIDENTLY FULFILLED: 1 in 10 17 “Suppose we take 1017 silver dollars and lay them on the face of Texas. They will cover all of the state 2 feet deep. Now mark one of these silver dollars and stir the whole mass thoroughly, all over the state. Blindfold a man and tell him that he can travel as far as he wishes, but he must pick up one silver dollar and say that this is the right one. What chance would he have of getting the right one? ” Peter Stoner, Science Speaks. pp. 106 -107
