I don’t have to tell you that this has been about the strangest year we’ve ever had just about every way you can imagine we have been reminded that life is uncertain in fact if you go back over these last days not just this year but these last two or three years you stop to think about it for a moment it’s not that we’ve just had one thing crossed the stage but that many things have crossed the stage all at the same time we barely get over one thing and something else happens never have there been such stressful headlines I’ve had more people say to me
in recent days I’ve given up on the news I don’t even watch it anymore it’s too discouraging too depressing and it seems as if those who give us the news are absolutely committed never to give us any good news even if there is good news serious people are asking everywhere you go if these things are happening today what will be the future for my children and my grandchildren well there’s only one reliable source of information about the future only one that has an astounding record of accuracy and that’s the Bible if you want to know about the future there’s only one
place you can go and find any good information don’t read the futurists read the prophets the Bible is filled with information to help us navigate the uncertain course that is before us but there are many people today who strangely enough even in our good evangelical churches have decided that Bible prophecy is irrelevant that it shouldn’t be taught I’ve had more than one preacher say I never touch prophecy because it has nothing to do with the day-to-day lives of my people and when they say that I am reminded that they haven’t read any prophecy because
almost every passage that tells us about the return of the Lord Jesus has within the major context of that prophecy and admonition given to us so that we know what to do people say I don’t believe in prophecy but they do it wasn’t so long ago was it that you could hardly turn on your television turn one channel to the next in every every time you turn the channel here was some psychic person willing to tell you your future they even had a network called the psychic network and that they went out of business you would have thought they would have known
one pastor I know said that he doesn’t ever preach on prophecy because he said prophecy distracts people from the present and astute colleague definitely responded well then there’s an awful lot of distractions in the Bible one of the most convincing evidences that the Bible is God’s Word and that is inspired is the staggering number of prophecies that have been fulfilled in the past with pinpoint accuracy for instance take the coming of the Lord Jesus Christ born of a virgin born in Bethlehem to be our Savior take that event did you know that in the Old Testament there are
300 prophecies concerning the first coming of Jesus Christ and now we have lived past that and we can look back in the annals of history we can examine the prophetic word and we can compare it to what we know to be true and we will discover as we do that that every single one of these 300 prophecies was fulfilled to the minutest detail in ways that defy explanation apart from Almighty God there are 300 prophecies in the Bible concerning the first coming of Christ but there are three times that many prophecies in the Bible concerning the second coming of Christ if Almighty
God prophesied his first coming over here and now time has passed and we can trace what happened and we say you know everything he said what happened happened and now he’s prophesying another coming with the same kind of verbiage in the same prophets what do you think he will do I think he’ll fulfill them don’t you I think the things that he says will happen will happen and all my friends how many truths there are in the Word of God about the days in which we are living and the time what is yet to come if you want to know what in the world is going on you have to turn to the
