ACCURATE
BIBLE
KNOWLEDGE!
QUESTION: “SO … YOU
LIKE TO
HAVE A BET?”
(Part
1 of
2)
ANSWER: “ABSOLUTELY … I
DON’T MIND A FLUTTER!”
Five dollars?
Ten dollars?
Your soul?
A flutter denotes
instability,
nervousness and uncertainty.
In the early days of
Australia’s gold
rushes, miners had little entertainment, and so they invented a game
called “Two
Up”, whereby the master of ceremonies in the ring would place TWO
coins
on a small paddle of wood and toss them UP into the air so that
the
gamblers could place their money on the probability of ‘Two Heads’,
‘Two Tails’
or ‘Head and Tail’ turning up.
It’s called prophecy.
Behold, the
former things are come to pass, and new things do I declare (this not
just tell or perhaps I’ve had a thought
bubble): BEFORE they spring forth I tell you of them. Isaiah
42:9
And that
prophet, or that dreamer of dreams, shall be put to death; …Deut
13:1, 3, 5.
Just as
metal component manufacturing factories have templates and molds
into which the molten lead/metal is poured, then prophecy is the hot
liquid
that God uses to form and bring about the future in exact detail. Truly
“Prophecy is the TEMPLATE OF HISTORY”.
1. Two
thirds of the Scriptures is prophecy either in type, symbol or
direct
statement
2. More
than one-half of the Old Testament prophecies, and nearly all
of
the New Testament prophecies, point to events in the future.
3. Men and
women need the sure word of prophecy to light their way in this
Dark
World (2Pet 1:19)
4. When
people see that God has a plan and purpose they can take heart
that
their faith is not in vain.
5. The
religious leaders of Christ’s day were not students of prophecy
so they
failed to recognize Christ when he came.
6. Like
today, many religious people have given up saying “Where is the promise
of his
coming” (2Peter 3:4)
1. Past
– these have already been
fulfilled
2. Present
– these refer to the current
state of the Jews, the other Nations and the moral and religious
characteristics of today
3. Future
– these are yet to be
fulfilled
1. It must
have been made, stated and made known PRIOR to its being
fulfilled.
This time
lapse excludes the prophet, and or any interested party, from bringing
about
the fulfilment of the prophecy … like several hundreds of years.
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