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- What did God say about Himself and prophecy in Isaiah 46?
- He knows everything, including the end from the beginning. When He says something will happen, it will happen.
- Does God prophesy what will come to pass in the future?
- Yes
- How does fulfilled prophecy confirm that the Bible is God’s book?
- Men could not predict so many details and make them come to pass. Only God could have done it.
- What are three examples of some of the more modern false prophets?
- Edgar Cayce
- Jeane Dixon
- Nostradamus
- What are three kinds of prophecies that are given by modern false prophets?
- General and vague–that could be claimed to be fulfilled in many different circumstances
- Specific and detailed–that are rarely, if ever, fulfilled
- Predictions involving demonic activity in which demons can try to cause an apparent fulfillment
- What did God say about false prophets in Deuteronomy 18?
- If it doesn’t come to pass, ignore him. (v. 22: “When a prophet speaks in the name of the LORD, if the word does not come to pass or come true, that is a word that the LORD has not spoken; the prophet has spoken it presumptuously. You need not be afraid of him.”)
- What did J. Barton Payne contribute to the study of Prophecy?
- (The Encyclopedia of Bible Prophecy)
- How many prophecies did Payne find in the Bible?
- (1817)
- How many prophecies do some other scholars estimate are in the Bible?
- (2500)
- Approximately how many of them have already been fulfilled?
- (2000)
- What do mathematicians conclude about the possibility that these prophecies could have been fulfilled by chance?
- (The probability is infinitesimally small)
- Describe the probability of 48 of the Bible prophecies being fulfilled by chance in comparison to the number of atoms in the universe.
- (1 in 10157… … if number of universes were equal to the number of atoms in our universe… pick the correct single atom)
- Describe the probability of 8 prophecies being fulfilled by chance in terms of the size of the state of Texas.
- (1 in 1019… Cover Texas with silver dollars 2 feet deep. Pick right silver dollar.
- What is the significance of Isaiah’s prophecies about Cyrus in Isaiah 44 and 45?
- In what year (approximately) did Isaiah write these prophecies?
- (711 BC)
- How many years later were the prophecies fulfilled?
- (174 years)
- How many years later did the Jews go into the Babylonian captivity?
- (106 years)
- How many years later was Cyrus born?
- (150 years)
- What do secularists usually conclude when prophecies are this specific?
- “They must have been written AFTER the event took place”
- What evidence can secularists produce that points to a “prophecy” being written after the events had already happened?
- None
- Are there any copies of Isaiah that don’t have the prophecy?
- No
- What did the Dead Sea Scrolls demonstrate about Isaiah?
- The entire book, including the incredible prophecies of Jesus, was together hundreds of years before Jesus was born in Bethlehem.
- Have any manuscripts ever been found that showed that part of Isaiah was written much later (after the time of Cyrus)?
- No