Proof from Prophecy

The reliability of the Bible is seen in the amazing fulfillment of the Old Testament prophecy in the New Testament. It is one undeniable proof that the Bible can stand the test of time. It has been 100% accurate.

Modern clairvoyants Jeanne Dixon and Edgar Cayce have tentalized many Americans with the thought that their futures can be predicted with a high percent of accuracy. The problem, however, is that although phychics, mediums, and spiritualists boasts of remarkable predictions, they are often wrong. Jeanne Dixon predicted that Richard Nixon would win the 1960 presidential election, but John F. Kennedy did. She also predicted that Russia would beat the United States to the moon, but United States reached there first.

According to the Old Testament, a prophet who speaks for God must be 100% accurate. The Bible records the acid test for a prophet: ''You may wonder, 'How will we know whether the prophecy is from the Lord or not?' If the prophet predicts something in the Lord's name and it does not happen,  the Lord did not give this message. The prophet has spoken on his own and need not to be feared'' (Deuteronomy 18:21-22) What becomes of prophets who if they ever go wrong? They are to die (ouch!!so much for lying) (Deuteronomy 18:20)

Scholars estimated we can find approximately twenty-five hundred prophecies in the Bible. Roughly two thousand of those have been fulfilled with remarkable precision. Since we are living in the the last days before Christ's second coming, those other five hundred prophecies are yet to come true in the very near future.

But the odds that all two thousand prophesies could have been fulfilled by chance is less than 1 in 10...2000 (that is 1 with 2000 zeros after it!) Biblical scholar Dr. Charles C. Ryie has pointed out that, by the law of chance, it would require 200 billion earths, populated with 4 billion people each,  to come up with 1 person who would achieve 100 accurate prophecies without any errors in the sequence. But the Bible records not 100, but nearly 2500 prophecies!!

So, yeah,who else but God Almighty can achieve this? God is so AWESOME!!!

*Sources: Discover the Book - Bible, by Bill Bright