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Prophecy and the Jews:

A line of evidence that the Bible is true.

Mark Twain in 1899 asked the following question about the Jews:

If the statistics are right, the Jews constitute but one quarter of one percent of the human race. It suggests a nebulous dim puff of stardust lost in the blaze of the Milky Way. Properly, the Jew ought hardly to be heard of, but he is heard of, has always been heard of. He is as prominent on the planet as any other people, and his importance is extravagantly out of proportion to the smallness of his bulk. 

His contributions to the world's list of great names in literature, science, art, music, finance, medicine and abstruse learning are also way out of proportion to the weakness of his numbers.... The Egyptian, the Babylonians, and the Persians rose, filled the planet with sound and splendor, then faded to dream-stuff and passed away; the Greek and the Roman followed, and made a vast noise, and they were gone; ... The Jew saw them all, survived them all, and is now what he always was.... All things are mortal but the Jew; all other forces pass, but he remains. What is the secret of his immortality?

What is the secret of his immortality?

Probably one of the most compelling evidences that the Bible is true is the specific fulfillment of prophetic events that were written over two thousand years ago regarding the Jewish nation. This is proof that the Bible is not of human origin. Listed here are seven such prophetic events that have been or are now being fulfilled and these within the last sixty years!

1) Re-gathering - The Jews would be re-gathered in Palestine from all over the earth (see Isaiah 11:11-12 and Ezekiel 36:22-28).

2) Nationhood - The prophets stated that when the people were re-gathered, the nation of Israel would be re-established. This occurred on May 14, 1948 (see Isaiah 66:7-8; Zechariah 12:3-6).

3) Reclamation - God promised that with the re-establishment of the nation, the land would bloom again (Isaiah 35:1-7; Joel 2:21-26). This has occurred.

4) Language - The prophet Zephaniah implied a time would come when the Hebrew language would be revived (Zephaniah 3:9). This seemingly impossible event has occurred.      

5) Jerusalem - Jesus said that one of the surest signs of His Imminent return would be the re­occupation of Jerusalem by the Jews (Luke 21:24). This occurred in 1967.

6) Military Strength - Zechariah prophesied that when the Jews were re-established in the land, their military strength would be overwhelming - like "a flaming torch among sheaves" - and that they would "consume" all the peoples around them (Zechariah 12:6).  Israel has the third strongest military in the world.

7) Focal Point - Israel is always pictured as the focal point of world politics in the end times (Zechariah 12:3; 14:1-9). This is certainly true today.

Please thoughtfully consider the truthfulness of the fulfillment of these events in the lifetime of many alive today, of things written over two thousand years ago. The secret of the Jew’s immortality is that God’s purpose for them will be fulfilled (Genesis 12:1-3)

For more detailed information about these seven events please contact me through my e-mail address: siloam144@yahoo.com

   The Law of Probability, Biblical Prophecies,

   and the Reality of their becoming fulfilled

What is the chance that such prophetic predictions could happen by chance? Let us consider the probability of just eight happening by chance.

“Someone did the math and figured out that the probability of just eight prophecies being fulfilled is one chance in one hundred million billion. That number is millions of times greater than the total number of people who've ever walked the planet!

"He calculated that if you took this number of silver dollars, they would cover the state of Texas to a depth of two feet. If you marked one silver dollar among them and then had a blindfolded person wander the whole state and bend down to pick up one coin, what would be the odds he'd choose the one that had been marked?"  

With that he answered his own question: "The same odds that anybody in history could have fulfilled just eight of the prophecies." [1]

Theorists believe that any number above 10 to the 50th power will never happen. The fact that the seven examples of predicted events have recently been fulfilled (or are in the process of being fulfilled) in the last sixty years is much greater than this number. It would be analogous to expecting a great golfer to hit seven straight holes-in-one on a par three golf course. Such things just do not happen. Yet these things have happened. How could these events be coming true in your lifetime unless the God of the Bible who wrote these prophecies is actually in control of history?  It means that all of the things the Bible says about the Jews in their future and also concerning you will be literally fulfilled.

There are many more prophecies that are now being set in place to be fulfilled that were written over two-three thousand years ago. All of these things are observable historical proof that the Bible is not just a book of interesting knowledge but the book of true truth about God, nature, you, and history. This also means that all the words of God in the Bible can be fully trusted including what it says about science, heaven, judgment, hell, eternal life, history, salvation, etc.

I have some pages on the future judgments described in the Bible that if you would like to see them I will e-mail them to you (siloam144@yahoo.com).