Many
people attack the Bible because they think it isn’t true, but what if it can
predict the future?
In the movie Back
to the Future part 2, Marty McFly
gets in his time machine and travels 30 years into the future. As Marty walks
down the street, he sees a sports almanac in an antique store window, which
lists all the scores from the year 1950 to 2000. Marty buys the book and takes it
back to 1985 so he can bet on all the games. Since the outcome of every game
has already been determined in history future, he would win every time. The
plan backfires when his enemy, Biff Tannen, steals the book and places the sure
bets, making himself rich instead of Marty.
The prophecies of
the Bible can be compared to the sports almanac that Marty bought. Just as
the scores of future games were recorded in his almanac, God’s predictions of
future events are recorded in the Scriptures. We’re not talking about the
end-of-the-world prophecies that are still waiting to be fulfilled, but the hundreds
of predictions by the Old Testament prophets that have already come to pass.
How
is it possible to predict the future when it hasn’t occurred? The prophets received
specific information directly from God, who told them to record in the
Scriptures what would happen in the future. The prophets would die long
before most of their predictions would come to pass.
Time has proven the
prophets to be correct. The prophet Micah (5:2) predicted the Messiah would be
born in Bethlehem over 700 years before Christ was born. Zechariah (11:12)
looked over 500 years into the future and foresaw the Messiah would be
betrayed for 30 pieces of silver. Psalm 22 describes the crucifixion of Jesus
1,000 years into the future, prophesying His hands and feet would be pierced
and lots would be cast for His garments.
God
made sure these prophecies were recorded in Scripture so that we would
be able to verify them after they came to pass. Jesus said, "I am
telling you before it comes to pass, so
that when it does occur, you may believe that I am He" (John 13:19,
14:29).
Jesus
fulfilled more than 300 prophecies made hundreds of years before He was born. The probability of
one man fulfilling just 48 prophecies is one in 10 to the 157th power. This gives us indisputable
proof God controls earthly events and the Bible is true.
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