Subject: Prophecy
DON’T QUESTION BIBLICAL PROPHECY

We live in an ominous time; a time of questionable leadership; a time of dwindling morality and a time of economic chaos. Governmental control is ever increasing and people fret over their tomorrows. Questions abound!

Is socialism knocking at the door? Is a one-world government shaping up in the shadows? With Iran rattling the sabers of nuclear warfare, will there be a mass destruction?

The truth is … God, not man is in control! Therefore, to find calm and understanding in today’s world of frightening confusion and growing unrest we must turn to Scripture and place complete trust in God’s Divine Word, His entire Word! This includes Bible prophecy which encompasses approximately one third of the Bible.

Yes, Bible prophecy! If it were not pertinent, God would not have provided us with 16 prophetic books in the Old Testament and four such books in the New Testament. Nor would He have given us prophetic passages such as the Olivet Discourse (Matthew 24 and 25).

Do not allow skepticism to taint sane reasoning concerning biblical prophecy. Examine prophecies such as the Messianic (Jesus’ birth, life and death) prophecies or the wonderful fulfillment of Jesus’ resurrection as foretold in Psalm 16:10, or the fulfillment of Ezekiel 37:21-22. “Behold, I (the Lord) will take the children of Israel (Jews) from among the heather…and gather them on every side and will bring them to their own land (Israel).” This prophecy recorded in 570 B.C. was fulfilled in 1948 when Israel became a nation! Each of these above listed prophecies is 100 percent accurate in its fulfillment and is unconditionally validated by history!

Unlike man’s catastrophic scenarios such as the 1999 Y2K fiasco, the so-called looming 2012 apocalypse with its hypothesis based solely on the Mayan calendar or Nostradamus’s vague doomsday quatrains (with only an estimated seven percent accuracy rate), only Scripture is a hundred percent precise and exact in its fulfillment!

Since Almighty God divinely inspired the Bible, be assured that when the Bible declares that the believers in Christ will be caught up to meet him in the air (the Rapture), this event will transpire. This prophecy, like every other prophecy, will be fulfilled! “Then we which are alive and remain shall be caught up together with the in the clouds, to meet the Lord in the air.” (I Thessalonians 4:13-18)

When the Book of Revelation explicitly details the impending horrors facing the inhabitants of earth during the Tribulation Period (after the Rapture), remember past prophecies and their 100 percent accuracy rate.

Where Revelation informs that one man, the Antichrist, will establish complete tyrannical control over the world’s economy, religion and government, be completely convinced that a one-world government will happen (Matthew 24:9-31; Revelation chapter 6-19).

Peruse the Books of Daniel, Ezekiel and Jeremiah and discover the nations’ end-time events currently unfolding especially in the Middle East! Bible prophecy is real and exact! “For the prophecy came not in old time by the will of man: but holy men of God spake as they were moved by the Holy Ghost.” (II Peter 1:21)

The study of the Bible and its prophecies instructs us to look away from the corrupt world and to eagerly anticipate the prophesied Second Coming of Christ. “Looking for that blessed hope, and the glorious appearing of the great God and our Savior Jesus Christ.” (Titus 2:13, 14; Revelation 19) Is it any wonder that believers exhibit hope and excited anticipation in tandem with inner peace in a wicked world rife with apostasy? (II Timothy 3:1-5,7)

Without knowledge of God’s Word, without Jesus Christ as Lord and Savior, unbelievers have NO comfort, no rest, and no hope from the worries of today or from God’s wrath of tomorrow!

Sadly, they have no hope of escaping the prophesied Great White Throne Judgment that awaits those who choose to live without the Lord in this life! This is prophesied judgment will cast the rejecters of Christ into eternal separation from God and into everlasting damnation. (Revelation 14:9-11; 20:11-15)

As the fulfillment of prophecy steadily moves toward completion, are we looking up, eagerly awaiting a joyous reunion with our Savior, or looking down at an eternity of fiery damnation? We can dismiss Bible prophecy as silly Armageddon babble, or readily and sincerely accept every word ! It is our individual choice!

“Behold, I am coming quickly. Blessed is he who takes to heart the words (every word) of the prophecy of this book (Bible).” (Revelation 22:7)