Q&A: Veritas 2020 #10 Fulfilled Prophecy (1 of 3)

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