Prophetic Witness
The Apostle John's Book of Revelation is remarkable on many levels. Within it's pages John, the disciple whom Jesus loved, reveals the greatest time of suffering and death Earth has ever known. Just two of his sixty predictions will take the lives of half of humanity!
Prophetic Witness
Our generation has been given unprecedented and tremendous gifts and would do well to remember Christ's warning, "to whom much is given much is required." Besides reaping the answers to the prayers of all generations we also have 2,000 fulfilled Bible prophecies and the pages of the scriptures's final Book of Revelation coming alive as a prophetic witness of Biblical authenticity.
The Apostle John, perhaps well educated in the knowledge of his time, still knew far less about the world than today's average elementary school student. Even so, he was able to look ahead into the future and describe in detail what were then unimaginable events. Two thousand years later the honest reader of his words can see the stage being set for the last chapter of human history as many of of his prophecies begin to unfold!
The nation of Israel is a key player in Revelation's drama, yet in John's day Israel was being ground under the boot of Rome, a global power showing no signs of weakening. For John to suggest Israel would be the center of world wide attention was ludicrous. All the more so when after 70 A.D. when the Romans literally wiped it off the map.
Yet in 1947 A.D. Israel reappeared in the same location. Never before or since has a nation having vanished for two centuries, much less two millennia, suddenly reemerged so. Israel's becoming as a nation, not to mention it's global status, is unprecedented in human history.
Adding to Israel's miraculous modern history is the unbridled hostility of billions of Muslims, hundreds of millions of which all but surround the tiny spec of land Israel resides on. About the size of San Bernardino County in the Los Angles basin, Israel's population has been as little as 3 million. The Muslim nations nearby occupy as much area as the United States, with over 300 million and yet in every war and conflict Israel has not only survived but conquered it's attackers.
The odds of just this one fulfillment of Biblical prophecy are millions if not billions to one. And there are many others arising to testify to the validity of John's awesome and awe-full and predictions...
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