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Now this video is very, very important, because it's the
first in a series of videos where I'm gonna talk about;
and I think most of you
probably asked this question yourself before;
"Is the Bible really true?",
"Can I trust it?";
and it's very important because if the Bible is not true,
then Christianity has no meaning at all.
But if it is true, we need to read it and
understand it in order to know where we come from, what the meaning is of life,
and where we are going when we die!
This will have an effect on your whole life,
...right?
Right!
Well...so, there's a few videos that I'm gonna make.
I'm gonna explain to you why I believe the Bible is 100% from God,
why it is still relevant today
and why you can still trust it.
So I'm gonna start off today with this
video and we're gonna talk about the testimony of fulfilled prophecies.
It's gonna be very interesting and in the other videos we're gonna talk about a few
things like the testimony of science,
of non-biblical writers,
of archaeological proof
and a few other things as well;
but...let's get into this video right now!
Alright...now let's talk about the testimony of fulfilled prophecy.
You know, there's no other book out there,
a religious book,
with these many prophecies that came true.
I mean, just in the Old Testament it gives you around 300
prophecies just about Jesus.
In Isaiah 42:9 God says:
"I will tell you the future before it happens,"
so we clearly see that God shows us a little bit of
the prophecies,
also just to show us hey, I am God, I know what the future holds...
I am not limited by time;
and it's also good for us to prepare and to see these
things as well.
Now I'm not gonna go into all of the prophecies
because then we'll probably sit here the whole day,
but I need to mention a few to you.
So let's start with the first one!
The Bible prophecy of Ezekiel 26:7 - 9 was
written between 587 to 586 BC and it was fulfilled in 573 BC.
The prophet Ezekiel said that the Babylonian Kingdom of Nebuchadnezzar would destroy the
mainland of Tyre,
four years later the Babylonian began a thirteen year siege
of Tyre and it ended in 573 BC.
Now Alexander the Great then destroyed the
island portion of entire in 332 BC and at the time Ezekiel also prophesized
that the building material would be thrown into the sea and they thought he
was crazy;
so Nebuchadnezzar only fulfilled half of
the prophecy when he destroyed the city.
But the whole prophecy then came
together when a lot later Alexander the Great then threw the building material
into the sea, as it was prophesized!
Another prophecy in Isaiah 45 written
around 701 to 781 BC said that Babylon's gates will be opened to Cyrus.
The prophecy was fulfilled hundreds of years later in around 539 BC.
Now if you look at Isaiah 45, you'll see that the Prophet said that Babylon will open
its gates for Cyrus and his attacking army;
even though Babylon had amazing defenses
that included motes and also walls that are 70 feet thick.
That's 300 feet high, with 250 watchtowers;
and then Cyrus was of course able to enter the city because the gates were open to him.
Now I also said that there's over 300 prophecies just about Jesus himself;
so I'm just gonna mention a few of them.
Just a few, even within the 24 hours of his crucifixion.
In Zechariah 13:7 it's prophesized that Jesus would be deserted by his disciples and
you see that that happened in Mark 14:50
and then with Psalm 35:11
prophesized that he would be falsely accused which we can see clearly in
Matthew 26:60.
Then in Isaiah 50:6 we see that he would be brutally
beaten and you can see that in Matthew 26:67 as well.
In Isaiah 53:7 it says he would not retaliate,
and you can read that in Matthew 27:14;
and then in Isaiah 33:12 he would be executed with criminals,
and we see that he was executed with criminals in Matthew 27:38
and also in Luke 23:32.
Then in Psalm 22:66 and also Zechariah 12:10 it's
prophesized that his hands and feet would be pierced;
which is interesting because this was a time before crucifixion even existed;
and we can read that this happened hundreds of years later.
In Psalm 34:20 it's prophesized "yet his bones would not be broken"
and in John 19:33 we read it.
And then in Psalm 22:18 it's prophesized that they would gamble for
his clothes and we read that in John 19:23 - 24.
There's also other prophecies for example, His birth, where his mother would be a virgin which
we read in Isaiah 7:14;
the exact place of his birth in Micah 5:2;
and the journey into Jerusalem in Zechariah 9:9;
and all of them came true even though they were written centuries before it happened and there's
so much more that I haven't even mentioned!
Now all of them are like signposts pointing towards the authority of the Bible as God's Word.
Another one for example;
Jesus himself predicts the siege of Jerusalem in Luke 21:20
which happened later in around 70 AC.
He also predicted in Matthew 24:2 that the temple will be destroyed which also happened in
around 70 AC.
Jesus also predicted in Luke 21:24 that
Jerusalem would be trampled by the nation's until before the second coming
of Christ draws near or the end of the world.
This came true of course because the Jews never owned Jerusalem again until
1948.
This means that you and I are living in the end times.
Now I think you get the picture,
that all of these prophecies points towards the truth of
the Bible, so you can trust it!
Don't miss the second video were we're gonna continue
some of this.
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