1. On the Coming and Death of Christ
http://goo.gl/hVOR3 It is astonishing when we examine only the following 8 prophecies concerning Jesus Christ.
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The First Prediction: (Birth in Bethlehem)
Old Testament Prophecy: "But you, Bethlehem Ephrathah, though you are little among the thousands of Judah, yet out of you shall come forth to Me the One to be ruler in Israel, whose going forth have been from of old from everlasting." (Micah 5:2).
New Testament Fulfillment: "Now after Jesus was born in Bethlehem of Judea in the days of Herod the king, behold wise men from the east came to Jerusalem" (Matthew 2:1).
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The Second Prediction: (preceded by a messenger)
Old Testament Prediction: "The voice of one crying in the wilderness: `Prepare the way of the Lord; make straight in the desert a highway for our God;'" (Isaiah 40:3).
The New Testament Fulfillment: "In those days John the Baptist came preaching in the wilderness of Judea saying, "Repent, for the kingdom of heaven is at hand!;" (Matthew 3:1,2).
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The Third Prediction: (He would enter Jerusalem on a colt)
The Old Testament Prediction: "Rejoice greatly, O daughter of Zion! Shout, O daughter of Jerusalem! Behold your King is coming to you; He is just and having salvation, lowly and riding on a donkey, a colt, the foal of a donkey" (Zechariah 9:9).
The New Testament Fulfillment: "Then they brought him to Jesus. And they threw their own garments on the colt, and they set Jesus on him. And as he went, they spread their clothes on the road" (Luke 19:35-36).
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The Fourth Prediction: (He would be betrayed by a friend)
The Old Testament Prediction: "Even my own familiar friend in whom I trusted, who ate my bread, Has lifted up his heel against me" (Psalm 41:9).
The New Testament Fulfillment: "And while He was still speaking, behold Judas, one of the twelve, with great multitude with swords and clubs, came from the chief priests and elders of the people. Now His betrayer had given them a sign saying, "Whomever I kiss, He is the One; seize Him; " (Matthew 26:47,48).
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The Fifth Prediction: (His hand and feet pierced)
The Old Testament Prediction: "For dogs have surrounded Me; The assembly of the wicked has enclosed Me. They pierced My hands and My feet." (Psalm 22:16).
The New Testament Fulfillment: "And when they had come to the place called Calvary, there they crucified Him, and the criminals, one on the right hand and the other on the left." (Luke 23:33).
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The Sixth Prediction: (Be wounded by His enemies)
The Old Testament Prediction: "But He was wounded for our transgressions, He was bruised for our iniquities" (Isaiah 53:5).
The New Testament Fulfillment: "Then he released Barabbas to them; and when he had scourged Jesus, he delivered [Him] to be crucified" (Matthew 27:26).
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The Seventh Prediction: (His betrayal for 30 pieces of silver)
The Old Testament Prediction: "Then I said to them, `If it is agreeable to you, give me my wages; and if not, refrain.' So they weighed out for my wages thirty pieces of silver'" (Zechariah 11:12).
The New Testament Fulfillment: "What are you willing to give me if I deliver Him to you? And they counted out to him thirty pieces of silver" (Matthew 26:15). Note: This was predicted 500 years in advance when silver was not used for money but gold.
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The Eighth Prediction: (He will be spat on and beaten)
The Old Testament Prediction: "I gave My back to those who struck Me, and My cheeks to those who plucked out the beard; I did not hide My face from shame and spitting" (Isaiah 50:6).
The New Testament Fulfillment: "Then they spat in His face and beat Him; and others struck Him with the palm of their hands" (Matthew 26:67).
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Other prophecies like these we can quote like:
Silent in front of accusers, prophecy in Isaiah 53:7; fulfilled in Matthew 27:12-14.
Crucified with thieves, prophecy in Isaiah 53:12; fulfilled in Matthew 27:38.
People gamble with His garments, prophecy in Psalm 22:18; fulfilled in John 19:23, 24.
His side would be pierced, prophesied in Zechariah 12:10; fulfilled in John 19:34.
None of His bones would be broken, prophesied in Psalm 34:20; fulfilled in John 19:33.
His body would not decay, prophecy in Psalm 16:10; fulfilled in Acts 2:31.
His burial in a rich man's tomb, prophecy in Isaiah 53:9; fulfilled in Matthew 27:57-60.
The darkness covering the earth, prophecy Amos 8:9, fulfilled in Matthew 27:45. For more on this read the Historical Evidence section.
Note: There are 456 prophecies fulfilled in Jesus alone written in the Bible.
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2. The Law of Probability
After examining only eight different prophecies even though we could use 456, professor Emeritus of Science at Westmont College and Peter Stoner, has calculated the probability of one man fulfilling the major prophecies made concerning the Messiah. The estimates were worked out by twelve different classes of 600 college students. The students carefully weighed all the factors, discussed each prophecy at length, and examined the various circumstances which might indicate that men had conspired together to fulfill a particular prophecy. They made their estimates conservative enough so that there was finally unanimous agreement even among the most skeptical students. But when professor Stoner took their estimates and made them even more conservative. He also encouraged other skeptics or scientist to make their own estimates to see if his conclusions were more than fair.
Finally, he submitted his figures for review to a Committee of the American Scientific Affiliation. Upon examination, they verified that his calculations were dependable and accurate in regard to the scientific material presented. For example, concerning Micah 5:2, where it states the Messiah would be born in Bethlehem, Stoner and his students determined the average population of Bethlehem from the time of Micah to the present; then they divided it by the average population of the earth during the same period. They concluded that the chance of one man being born in Bethlehem was one in 2.8 x 10 to the 5th power - or rounded, one in 300,000.
After examining eight different prophecies, they conservatively estimated that the chance of one man fulfilling all eight prophecies was one in 10 to the 17th power. To illustrate how large the number 10 to the 17th power is (a figure with 17 zeros), Stoner gave this illustration. Imagine covering the entire state of Texas with silver dollars to a level of two feet deep. The total number of silver dollars needed to cover the whole state would be 10 to the 17th power. Now, choose just one of those silver dollars, mark it and drop it from an airplane. Then thoroughly stir all the silver dollars all over the state. When that has been done, blindfold one man, tell him he can travel wherever he wishes in the state of Texas. But something he must do, stop and reach down into the two feet of silver dollars and try to pull up that one specific silver dollar that has been marked. Now, the chance of his finding that one silver dollar in the state of Texas would be the chance the prophets had for eight of their prophecies coming true in any one man in the future.
In financial terms, is there anyone who would not invest in a financial venture if the chance of failure were only one in 10 to the 17th power? This kind of sure investment we are offered by God for belief in Christ His Messiah. Professor Stoner concludes: "The fulfillment of these eight prophecies alone proves that God inspired the writing of those prophecies to a definiteness which lacks only one chance in 10 to the 17th power of being absolute".
Another way of saying this is that any person who minimizes or ignores the significance of the biblical identifying signs concerning the Messiah would be foolish. But, of course, there are many more than eight prophecies. In another calculation Stoner used 48 prophecies (even though he could have used 456) and arrived at the extremely conservative estimate that the probability of 48 prophecies being fulfilled in one person is 10 to 157th power. How large is the number on in 10 to the 157th power? 10 to the 157th power contains 157 zeros !
Let us try to illustrate this number using electrons. Electrons are very small objects. They are smaller than atoms. It would take 2.5 times 10 to the 15 power of them, laid side by side, to make one inch. Even if we counted four electrons every second and counted day and night, it would still take us 19 million years just to count a line of electrons one-inch long.
But how many electrons would it take if we were dealing with 10 to the 157th power of electrons?
Imagine building a solid ball of electrons that would extend in all directions from the earth of 6 billion light years. The distance in miles of just one light year is 6.4 trillion miles. That would be a big ball! But not big enough to measure 10 to the 157th power of electrons. In order to do that, you must take that big ball of electrons reaching the length of 6 billion light years long in all directions and multiply it by 6 x 10 to the 28th power! How big is that? It's the length of the space required to store trillions and trillions and trillions of the same gigantic balls and more. In fact the space required to store all of these balls combined together would just start to "scratch the surface" of the number of electrons we would need to really accurately speak about 10 to the 157th power.
But assuming you have some idea of the number of electrons we are talking about, now imagine marking just one of those electrons in that huge number. Stir them all up. Then appoint one person to travel in a rocket for as long as he wants, anywhere he wants to go. Tell him to stop and segment a part of space, then take a high-powered microscope and find that one marked electron in that segment. What do you think his chances of being successful would be? It would be one in 10 to the 157th power. Remember, this number represents the chances of only 48 prophecies coming true in one person.
All this illustrates why it is absolutely impossible for anyone to have fulfilled the Messianic prophecies by chance. In fact, a leading authority on the probability theory, Emile Borel, states in his book Probabilities and Life, that once we go past one chance in 10 to the 50th power, the probabilities are so small it's impossible to think they will ever occur. Here is one last illustration of the immensity of the number 10 to the 157th power and why the science of probability shows we are dealing with the miraculous.
Imagine one ant traveling at the speed of only one inch every 15 billion years. If he could only carry one atom at a time, how many atoms could he move in 10 to the 157th power of years? He could even at that incredibly slow speed, be ale to move all the atoms in 600,000 trillion trillion trillion trillion universes the size for our universe, a distance of 30 billion light years! Again, all of this means it is impossible for 48 prophecies to be fulfilled by chance.
This is the kind of proof that there must be a God who supernaturally gave this information. Let's keep in mind that's only 48 out of over 456 Messianic prophecies out of over 8000 total verses in Bible prophecy, of which thousands of verses have been fulfilled already. God reveals the truth!
Question: "Is God real? How can I know for sure that God is real?"
http://www.gotquestions.org/is-God-real.html Question: "What is the right religion for me?"
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3. The Judgment of the Coming Russian and Islamic Invasion on Israel
http://goo.gl/ybZyX The additional detail is quite astonishing;
Ezekiel 38
1. And the word of the LORD came unto me, saying,
2. Son of man, set thy face against Gog, the land of Magog, the chief prince of Meshech and Tubal, and prophesy against him,
3. And say, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I am against thee, O Gog, the chief prince of Meshech and Tubal:
4. And I will turn thee back, and put hooks into thy jaws, and I will bring thee forth, and all thine army, horses and horsemen, all of them clothed with all sorts of armour, even a great company with bucklers and shields, all of them handling swords:
5. Persia, Ethiopia, and Libya with them; all of them with shield and helmet:
6. Gomer, and all his bands; the house of Togarmah of the north quarters, and all his bands: and many people with thee.
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15. And thou shalt come from thy place out of the north parts, thou, and many people with thee, all of them riding upon horses, a great company, and a mighty army
The majority of the scholars on Bible prophecy identify Russia with these names before Russia became a super power.
In 1909, under the rule of the Czars, before Russia had any significance in world power, C. I. Scofield commented; "That the primary reference is to the northern (European) powers, headed up by Russia, all agree....The reference to Meshech and Tubal (Moscow and Tobolsk) is a clear mark of identification. Russia and the northern powers have been the latest persecutors of dispersed Israel.". In Genesis 10 these names are given to sons and descendants of Noah. Josephus, one of history's great historians notes that Magog is called the Scythians by the Greeks. Gesenius' Hebrew and Chaldee Lexicon, a major authority on the precise meaning of Hebrew and Chaldee words regard Magog as a real country to the extreme north of the Holy Land.
Professor G. Rawlinson also identifies them with modern Russia. Secular history also traces the Scythians, who lived in the northern regions above the Caucasus Mountains, as forerunners of modern Russia. The Bible confirms this conclusion by giving the location three times calling it "the uttermost north" (Ezekiel 38:6, 15, 39:2 KJV). Drawing a straight line north of Jerusalem on the map almost hits Moscow.
The Hebrew Lexicon of Brown, Driver, and Briggs indicates that Rosh here is the proper name of a people, and a country "Russia" "Russians". Arabic writers confirm that the Great Wall of China is called the wall of Magog (Hait Al-Ma'ajooj), to protect China from the invading Russians. Certain Muslims might disagree that Magog refers to Russia, but China. This disagrees with many Arabic historians. The following will give the nations ancient names and the modern nation that now occupies that territory.
The Ancient Nations --- The Modern Nations
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Rosh, Magog ------- Russia and allies from the former soviet republics.
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Meshech ------- Turkey
Ancient Muschki and Musku in Cilicia and Cappadocia.
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Tubal ------- Turkey (also southern Russia and Iran)
Ancient Tubalu in Cappadocia.
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Persia ------- Iran
Name changed from Persia to Iran in 1935.
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Cush ------- North Sudan (and possibly Ethiopia)
Ancient Cush, south of Egypt.
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Libya ------- Libya (and possibly Algeria)
Ancient Put, west of Egypt.
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Gomer ------- Turkey
Ancient Cimmerians - from the seventh century to first
century B.C. in central/western Anatolia.
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Beth-Togarmah ------- Turkey
Til-garimmu - between ancient Carchemish and Haran.
This is the Turkic-speaking peoples in south Russia, that spread out from Turkey,
across the Caucasus until across Central Asia.
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Many nations with you ------- Other nations allied to Russia
Possibly Iraq, Syria, Jordan and other islamic countries.
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(year 500 BC) - prophecy about the return of Lord Jesus Christ:
Zechariah 12
1. The burden of the word of the YHWH for Israel, saith the YHWH, which stretcheth forth the heavens, and layeth the foundation of the earth, and formeth the spirit of man within him.
2. Behold, I will make Jerusalem a cup of trembling unto all the people round about, when they shall be in the siege both against Judah and against Jerusalem.
3. And in that day will I make Jerusalem a burdensome stone for all people: all that burden themselves with it shall be cut in pieces, though all the people of the earth be gathered together against it.
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8. In that day shall the YHWH defend the inhabitants of Jerusalem; and he that is feeble among them at that day shall be as David; and the house of David shall be as God, as the angel of the YHWH before them.
9. And it shall come to pass in that day, that I will seek to destroy ALL the NATIONS that come against Jerusalem.
10. And I will pour upon the house of David, and upon the inhabitants of Jerusalem, the spirit of grace and of supplications: and they shall look upon ME whom they have PIERCED, and they shall mourn for him, as one mourneth for his only son, and shall be in bitterness for him, as one that is in bitterness for his firstborn.
(year 835 BC) - prophecy about the return of Lord Jesus Christ
Joel 3
2. I will also gather all nations, and will bring them down into the valley of Jehoshaphat, and will plead with them there for my people and for my heritage Israel, whom they have scattered among the nations, and parted my land.
(Question: "What is the land that God promised to Israel?"
http://www.gotquestions.org/Israel-land.html Now understand that Satan is using his men to divide the territory of Israel?)
4. Yea, and what have ye to do with me, O Tyre, and Zidon, and all the coasts of Philistia? will ye render me a recompence? and if ye recompense me, swiftly and speedily will I return your recompence upon your own head;
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9. Proclaim ye this among the Gentiles; Prepare war, wake up the mighty men, let all the men of war draw near; let them come up:
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11. Assemble yourselves, and come, all ye heathen, and gather yourselves together round about: thither cause thy mighty ones to come down, O YHWH.
12. Let the heathen be wakened, and come up to the valley of Jehoshaphat: for there will I sit to judge all the heathen round about.
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14. Multitudes, multitudes in the valley of decision: for the day of the YHWH is near in the valley of decision.
15. The sun and the moon shall be darkened, and the stars shall withdraw their shining.
16. The YHWH also shall roar out of Zion, and utter his voice from Jerusalem; and the heavens and the earth shall shake: but the YHWH will be the hope of his people, and the strength of the children of Israel.
17. So shall ye know that I am the YHWH your God dwelling in Zion, my holy mountain: then shall Jerusalem be holy, and there shall no strangers pass through her any more.
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19. Egypt shall be a desolation, and Edom shall be a desolate wilderness, for the violence against the children of Judah, because they have shed innocent blood in their land.
20. But Judah shall dwell for ever, and Jerusalem from generation to generation.
21. For I will cleanse their blood that I have not cleansed: for the YHWH dwelleth in Zion.
(year 593 BC)
Russia, Iran, Lybia, Etiopia...war against Israel
http://www.wordpocket.com/kj/26/38.htm ______________________
4. The Real War
From the beginning of Christianity, and the spreading of the "Good News" message, all out spiritual war broke loose. The satanic attacks of all man made religions and deceptive messages began, and the transmission of false messages and accusations against the Holy Bible never ceased. The real war is not for land and man's political gains, but for the souls of men and women. Until this battle is won, peace will not be achieved. The Bible on God's side, and all the satanic world religions on the other, warring to gain the souls of Man.
Satan on one hand, appealing to man's way of thinking provided a false way of salvation by man's works, which is evident in Satan's false religions, and God on the other hand presented His way of salvation by God's work through Christ. Since then, it was Satan's religions against the Bible, and the Bible against all Satan's religions. It is by no coincidence, that all the religions after Christianity, use and miss-quote the Bible.
All these world religions present a new way for salvation by man's works. Islam, Bahai Faith, Mormons, Jehovah's Witness, Christian Science, Freemasonry, Sun Yung Moon, Prosperity Theology, Roman Catholicism (which promotes many mediators as in Hinduism teaches people to worship objects, worship the deads, the bones of the dead, to worship the worship icons, carved faces (statues), Orthodoxy (which promotes many mediators as in Hinduism teaches people to worship objects, worship the deads, the bones of the dead, to worship the icons), Satanism, and The New Age Movement, all claim to believe in Christ in one form or another. Yet all teach a different salvation message than what Christ gave, which is no salvation at all. All these religions criticize the Christian claim of Christ's blood for atonement, while Christianity stands alone against all.
This war of the "all against Christianity, and Christianity against all" did not start by coincidence. Satan began the war against God for rulership over the world, he never ceased to introduce false theology to man. Why should we wonder why we have so many religions? And that is the real battle.
Stay away from the Catholics, they don't listen and don't follow the Lord Jesus Christ.
Catholicism hate the words of Christ, The Gospel.
They are enemies against all real christians (followers of Lord Jesus Christ).
Catholicism hate what is not Catholicism.
Catholicism is a demonic way.
Catholicism killed millions of people, including many true Christians (evangelicals).
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Come to Me
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Index (full book)
Answering islam: Why i believed?!
http://goo.gl/8e1Af Walid's Testimony:
http://goo.gl/RZchW __________
ISRAEL - and the WORLD'S mock trial
THE SHAME
http://goo.gl/bFYD5 __________
ISLAM - and the FINAL BEAST
http://goo.gl/v9N1z __________
The Holy Bible - KJV - (read online + download)
http://ge.tt/4u5wWwU/v/0?c
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