bible prophecy

mee · 10-13-2007, 12:54 PM

The Bible is filled with predictions or prophecies, its record as documented by history, is clear. Bible prophecy is always right.Imagine a weather forcaster who has a long record of being right.......everytime......... if he predicted rain would you carry an umbrella?

I, Brian · 10-13-2007, 02:06 PM

I think you'll find prophecy in general to be more contentious than that.

As for Bible prophecy - I think the JW's standalone in being obsessed with Bible prophecy, and to be honest, after a few failed attempts to predict the end of the world, they seem to have settled in claiming prophecies as fulfilled without any actual indicators of doing so.

For example, the triumphant return of Jesus in 1914 becomes an abstract "return to Heaven".

Which is kind of like the weather forecasting the weather than no one actually sees, which doesn't really inspire faith in the weatherman.

pattimax · 10-14-2007, 05:15 AM

The second coming is nearer than it has ever been.

(Don't know if it's on the Doppler, though.)

bob x · 10-14-2007, 05:20 AM

Well yes, if it was 10 billion years away when it was predicted, then it's only 9 billion, 999 million, 998 thousand years away now, which is closer than it's ever been. (I am assuming, only for the sake of argument, that it will ever happen.)

pattimax · 10-14-2007, 05:38 AM

I wouldn't put much faith in that time table.

bob x · 10-14-2007, 06:18 AM

You really think that the laws of the universe are going to be suspended because the hairless apes have gotten into a jam on one little rockball?

mee · 10-14-2007, 10:02 AM

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As for Bible prophecy - I think the JW's standalone in being obsessed with Bible prophecy,

or even that they stand alone in recognising fullfilled bible prophecy. because they did not lose their focus, and now great understanding is with them in these last days Daniel 12;4

mee · 10-14-2007, 10:05 AM

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Which is kind of like the weather forecasting the weather than no one actually sees, which doesn't really inspire faith in the weatherman.

[/quote] recognising the signs and acting on them, keeps us out of the storm and leads to protection.

mee · 10-14-2007, 10:21 AM

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You really think that the laws of the universe are going to be suspended because the hairless apes have gotten into a jam on one little rockball?

Laws of the universe ........... who was it that put them into place ? As the book of JOB 38;4 says, Where did you happen to be when I founded the earth? Tell [me], if you do know understanding.
(Genesis 1:1) In [the] beginning God created the heavens and the earth.

(Nehemiah 9:6) “You are Jehovah alone; you yourself have made the heavens, [even] the heaven of the heavens, and all their army, the earth and all that is upon it, the seas and all that is in them; and you are preserving all of them alive; and the army of the heavens are bowing down to you.

(Psalm 104:5) He has founded the earth upon its established places; It will not be made to totter to time indefinite, or forever.

(Psalm 136:6) To the One laying out the earth above the waters: For his loving-kindness is to time indefinite;

(Proverbs 8:29) when he set for the sea his decree that the waters themselves should not pass beyond his order, when he decreed the foundations of the earth,

(Hebrews 1:10) And: “You at [the] beginning, O Lord, laid the foundations of the earth itself, and the heavens are [the] works of your hands.

The Bible centers attention on Jehovah as the fundamental Lawgiver of the universe.

mee · 10-14-2007, 10:29 AM

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I wouldn't put much faith in that time table.

Gods timetable is always bang on , according to his way of doing things.Jehovah has always had an appointed time for expressing his will and judgment.
True, God has overlooked the times of such ignorance, yet now he is telling mankind that they should all everywhere repent. Because he has set a day in which he purposes to judge the inhabited earth in righteousness by a man whom he has appointed, (JESUS)and he has furnished a guarantee to all men in that he has resurrected him from the dead.”ACTS 17; 30-31

mee · 10-14-2007, 10:35 AM

Distinguishing features of Bible prophecies ,are often specific and have been fullfilled down to the smallest of details, they usuasly involve matters of great importance and predict the opposite of what those living at the time of writing might have been expecting.

China Cat Sunflower · 10-14-2007, 10:49 AM

Can you cite an example?

Chris

mee · 10-14-2007, 11:45 AM

MANY persons have gone through high schools and colleges thinking that they know the story of Alexander the Great. But often such persons are entirely unaware of the most important fact concerning Alexander: His career of speedy conquest was foretold in Bible prophecy.

China Cat Sunflower · 10-14-2007, 08:01 PM

Do you have a text reference handy for that Mee?

Chris

I, Brian · 10-14-2007, 09:59 PM

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MANY persons have gone through high schools and colleges thinking that they know the story of Alexander the Great. But often such persons are entirely unaware of the most important fact concerning Alexander: His career of speedy conquest was foretold in Bible prophecy.

Funnily enough, my readings on the Book of Daniel have it written after the event. This is one subject Bob x used to love deconstructing.