Question by IZANAGI: What is the most convincing full filled prophecy in the bible?
I’m an atheists and I constantly hear christians say that the bible has to be god’s word because of all the fulfilled prophecies, so please show me a convincing prophecy.
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Answer by Fever Ray
Jesus.
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Psalm 22 tells of Jesus being pierced.This prophecy was written over 1,000 years before crucifixions were invented.
Matthew 24:6 – And ye shall hear of wars and rumours of wars
They could have really gone out on a limb and added a prophecy about the sun coming up tomorrow.
There are many, but they are complex and very difficult for a novice to understand. Here I give two simple ones,
1st one) In the book of the Bible bearing his name the prophet Daniel uses symbolic language to predict a succession of world powers who would fight each other for supremacy over a period of hundreds and thousands of years, culminating in the coming of the Jewish Messiah and his eventual supplanting of human governments with the Kingdom of God. An adequate discussion of these prophecies and the world events that have fulfilled them, so far, would fill books — and has, indeed, proved to be the subject of many books. So, we won’t even start to look at them here.
2nd one) Prophecy Fullfilled
The first of these is the prediction that the God of Israel would eventually be worshiped all over the whole planet earth.
The Bible’s prophecies on this matter were written during an era when each nation had its own gods and goddesses. The Ammonites worshipped Molech, and sacrificed their children as part of that worship. The people of Phoenicia and Canaan bowed down to Baal and Ashtoreth. The nation of Moab served their god Chemosh. The Philistines prostrated themselves before Dagon. The Greeks in Ephesus shouted praise to their goddess Artemis. The Egyptians, Greeks and Romans all worshipped whole pantheons of gods, including Zeus, Mercury, deified emperors and pharaohs, and many, many others. But the people of Israel worshipped the unseen Creator of the universe, who revealed himself to Abraham and Abraham’s offspring by the name Yahweh or Jehovah — the Hebrew tetragrammaton or word of four letters, YHWH.
How many people today still worship Molech, Chemosh or Dagon? A better question might be, How many have even heard of these long-lost ‘gods’? The names of Zeus and Mercury are still recognized today as gods of classical antiquity, but how many cities throughout the world can boast of temples where throngs of people assemble to pray to these Greek and Roman deities? But the God of Abraham has worshipers today in Jewish synagogues throughout the earth. Catholic, Protestant and Orthodox churches devoted to this same God are found on every continent. And a billion Muslims spread across the earth identify Allah of the Koran with the God of Abraham.
The Holy Bible also speaks of many false prophets and teachers, so one must test the spirits, if they don’t accept the sacrament of JC … then they should be dismissed.
Jesus dear.
When David was at his lowest point, he cried out to the Lord. That was 1000-years before Jesus came to this Earth in the flesh. He spoke of the crucifiction of Jesus. Read Psalms 22, it will enlighten you.
The prophesy of the birth of a child by a virgin & His Name Immanuel, God with us! Isaiah 7:14
golly sakes–every one of them!!!
there is no short answer here, friend. but if you are serious about finding out if Bible prophecy is true, it will require some study on your part.
here are a couple of websites that explain the prophecies in Daniel.
http://www.tagnet.org/anotherviewpoint/
also, what is below is from the following website: from http://www.who-is-the-antichrist.org/. you will actually need to go there and read the whole thing if you desire to learn how the prophecies encompass 2500 years.
In Daniel 2, we find a king who dreamed of world events that spanned over 2,500 years. Those events have come to pass with such precision that only the hand of God could have been involved. It is a prophecy that’s almost been totally fulfilled. Daniel 2:1 says: “In the second year of Nebuchadnezzar’s reign, Nebuchadnezzar had dreams; and his spirit was so troubled that his sleep left him.”
i pray you read these things and come to understanding.
Prophecies of the Messiah (Jesus Christ) Just a few here.
•He was the “seed of a woman” — prophecy: Genesis 3:15 and fulfilled: Galatians 4:4.
•He was a descendent of Abraham — prophecy: Genesis 12:3 and fulfilled Matthew 1:1.
•He was from the tribe of Judah – prophecy: Genesis 49:10 and fulfilled: Luke 3:33.
•He was the heir to the throne of David – prophecy: Isaiah 9:7 and fulfilled Luke 1:32-33.
•His birth place in Bethlehem – prophecy: Micah 5:2 and fulfilled: John 1:2, Luke 2:4-5, 7.
•Born of a virgin – prophecy: Isaiah 7:14 and fulfilled: Luke 1:26-27, 30-31.
This is just a few, there are hundreds about the Messiah alone not to mention the multitude of historical prophecies.
They are so many. Hard to pick one in particular. Micah 5:2 predicted where Jesus would be born: Bethlehem (means house of bread- Jesus was the Bread of Life). Psalm 22 mentions that His and and feet would be pierced (before crucifixion was invented). There are over 50 prophecies about Jesus first coming that were fulfilled. Daniel 9 indicates that He would be baptized in the year 27 AD and killed in the middle of the last week (A week is 7 years- see below). Jesus was crucified in the year 31 AD, exactly 3-1/2 years after He was baptized). And 3-1/2 years later, the nation of Israel determined their future by stoning Stephen to death, thus finishing the 70 prophetic weeks given by Daniel (Started in 457 BC). From then on, the Gospel would openly go to the gentiles.
One very impressive is that of the dominion of the power that pretended to represent God and persecuted His people. The prophecy indicates that this persecuting/oppressing/killing power would have an uninterrupted dominion for 1,260 days, 42 months or 3-1/2 years. The Jewish calendar was 30 days long. So 1,260 days = 42 months = 3-1/2 years. In Numbers 14:34 & Ezekiel 4:6 we learn that in prophecy, one day equals one year, so 1,260 days is the same as 1,260 years. What power had dominion for that period of time and also persecuted peaceful people that just wanted to worship God according to the dictates of their conscience? Through trickery and falsification of a document (the legacy of Constantine) the Catholic church came to power in 538 AD and was deposed in 1798 AD (Exactly 1,260 years!) when General Berthier under Napoleon orders march into Rome and kidnapped the pope, taking him to France where he died the following year. For 1,260 years Papal Rome persecuted, dismembered, burned at the stake, poisoned or killed by the sword people in their sleep an estimated 60 million people. That is not all, Revelation 13 says that it would receive a mortal wound and would heal- then all the earth would follow the beast. In 1929, Benito Mussolini signed the Lateran treaty, restoring property to the Vatican. An American newspaper’s headline read: ” Wound has healed.” The funeral of John Paul II was attended by over 200 heads of state and the most powerful nations of the earth have ambassadors in the Vatican. The wound has certainly healed as the prophecy indicated. Now the church is trying to control the government trying to destabilize our society. The church controls the movements of the bankers (the adjustable interest rate issue), the Federal Reserve and even the drug cartels. The goal is to bring this nation to its knees so the only way out would be to do what the church wants. Did you hear about separation of church and state? We want that because whenever the church and the state join, the innocent are persecuted like during the inquisition. See also Daniel 3. There is also a pseudo prophecy. Jesus said that if these (the disciples) shut their mouths, the stones will speak loud. Do you know that God used unlikely instruments in the past such as Nebuchadnezzar and Cyrus, both pagan kings? In the same way He is using atheist today to stop the non-sense of unity between church and state. Atheist are like stones because they have their hearts closed to Jesus, but they are at the forefront of the battle- sent by God to stop the government from doing what the church wants (See Revelation 13:15-17). I am thankful for atheists. What they do not know is that the God that they are not willing to recognize is using them for the protection of real Christians. But very soon we will not be able to buy or sell unless we get the mark of allegiance to the church.