Evidences Class

1. Evidences Class Prophecy as Evidence

2. Fortune Teller Sooth Sayer Prophet Medium

3. What is a prophet? The general Heb. word for prophet is nabî’, from the verb naba’; cf. Akkad. nabu, “to announce, call a declarer, announcer.” The primary idea of a prophet, therefore, is a declarer, announcer, one who utters a communication. New Unger's Bible Dictionary

4. Who was the first prophet? Jude 1:14-16 (ESV) It was also about these that Enoch, the seventh from Adam, prophesied, saying, "Behold, the Lord came with ten thousands of his holy ones, to execute judgment on all and to convict all the ungodly of all their deeds of ungodliness that they have committed in such an ungodly way, and of all the harsh things that ungodly sinners have spoken against him." These are grumblers, malcontents, following their own sinful desires; they are loud-mouthed boasters, showing favoritism to gain advantage.

5. And Abraham? Genesis 20:6-7 (ESV)Then God said to him in the dream, "Yes, I know that you have done this in the integrity of your heart, and it was I who kept you from sinning against me. Therefore I did not let you touch her. Now then, return the man's wife, for he is a prophet, so that he will pray for you, and you shall live. But if you do not return her, know that you shall surely die, you, and all who are yours."

6. Who was the “prototype” prophet? Deuteronomy 34:10-12 (ESV)And there has not arisen a prophet since in Israel like Moses, whom the Lord knew face to face, none like him for all the signs and the wonders that the Lord sent him to do in the land of Egypt, to Pharaoh and to all his servants and to all his land, and for all the mighty power and all the great deeds of terror that Moses did in the sight of all Israel.

7. Saint Catherine’s Monastery

8. Our Oldest Bibles (AD 300-450) Codex Vaticanus Codex Sinaiticus

9. True or False??? "God gave the prophecies, not to gratify men's curiosity by enabling them to foreknow things, but that after they were fulfilled they might be interpreted by the event … " Sir Isaac Newton

10. Were the Prophets Successful? • Moses? • Elijah? • Hosea? • Ezekiel? • Jeremiah? • Jonah? • John the Baptist? Mount Carmel

11. Jeremiah 36:4-8 (ESV)Then Jeremiah called Baruch the son of Neriah, and Baruch wrote on a scroll at the dictation of Jeremiah all the words of the Lord that he had spoken to him. And Jeremiah ordered Baruch, saying, "I am banned from going to the house of the Lord, so you are to go, and on a day of fasting in the hearing of all the people in the Lord's house you shall read the words of the Lord from the scroll that you have written at my dictation. You shall read them also in the hearing of all the men of Judah who come out of their cities. It may be that their plea for mercy will come before the Lord, and that every one will turn from his evil way, for great is the anger and wrath that the Lord has pronounced against this people." And Baruch the son of Neriah did all that Jeremiah the prophet ordered him about reading from the scroll the words of the Lord in the Lord's house.

12. Jeremiah 36:21-24 (ESV) Then the king sent Jehudi to get the scroll, and he took it from the chamber of Elishama the secretary. And Jehudi read it to the king and all the officials who stood beside the king. It was the ninth month, and the king was sitting in the winter house, and there was a fire burning in the fire pot before him. As Jehudi read three or four columns, the king would cut them off with a knife and throw them into the fire in the fire pot, until the entire scroll was consumed in the fire that was in the fire pot. Yet neither the king nor any of his servants who heard all these words was afraid, nor did they tear their garments.

13. What was the test for a prophet? Deuteronomy 18:19-22 (ESV) And whoever will not listen to my words that he shall speak in my name, I myself will require it of him. But the prophet who presumes to speak a word in my name that I have not commanded him to speak, or who speaks in the name of other gods, that same prophet shall die.' And if you say in your heart, 'How may we know the word that the Lord has not spoken?'— when a prophet speaks in the name of the Lord, if the word does not come to pass or come true, that is a word that the Lord has not spoken; the prophet has spoken it presumptuously. You need not be afraid of him.

14. Can we put the prophets to the test?

15. Let’s Put Jeremiah to the Test !!! Jeremiah 29:10 (ESV)"For thus says the Lord: When seventy years are completed for Babylon, I will visit you, and I will fulfill to you my promise and bring you back to this place. 605 B.C. – First captives taken 538 B.C. – Return of first group of exiles

17. What do the skeptics say???

18. Baruch Bulla Bullae are lumps of clay which were attached to documents and impressed with a seal.  From the shape of its Hebrew characters (which vary throughout history) scholars date the collection to the 6th century BC, the time of Jeremiah. 

19. Let’s Put Jeremiah to the Test !!! Jeremiah 49:17-18 (ESV) "Edom shall become a horror. Everyone who passes by it will be horrified and will hiss because of all its disasters. As when Sodom and Gomorrah and their neighboring cities were overthrown, says the Lord, no man shall dwell there, no man shall sojourn in her.

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21. Ezekiel 25:14 (ESV) And I will lay my vengeance upon Edom by the hand of my people Israel, and they shall do in Edom according to my anger and according to my wrath, and they shall know my vengeance, declares the Lord God. Who is a famous Idumaean?

22. Petra - The Oldest Ghost Town

23. Let’s Put Isaiah to the Test !!! Isaiah 44:28 (ESV)who says of Cyrus, 'He is my shepherd, and he shall fulfill all my purpose'; saying of Jerusalem, 'She shall be built,' and of the temple, 'Your foundation shall be laid.' " 740-700 B.C. – Isaiah prophesies 605 B.C. – First captives taken 538 B.C. – Return of first group of exiles What do the skeptics say???

24. The Dead Sea Scrolls

25. Cave 4 Cave 1 Cave 3 – Copper Scroll

27. The Isaiah Scroll – 100 B.C. Fragment of a very old Daniel scroll

28. Let’s Put Daniel to the Test !!! Daniel 11:2-4 (ESV) "And now I will show you the truth. Behold, three more kings shall arise in Persia, and a fourth shall be far richer than all of them. And when he has become strong through his riches, he shall stir up all against the kingdom of Greece. Then a mighty king shall arise, who shall rule with great dominion and do as he wills. And as soon as he has arisen, his kingdom shall be broken and divided toward the four winds of heaven, but not to his posterity, nor according to the authority with which he ruled, for his kingdom shall be plucked up and go to others besides these. 600-550 B.C.

29. Cambyses - 530 B.C. Pseudo-Smerdis - 522 B.C. Darius I Hystaspes - 521-486 B.C. Not Darius the Mede Xerxes (Ahasuerus) - 485 to 465 B.C. Tomb of Xerxes in modern day Iran

30. Let’s Put Daniel to the Test !!! Daniel 11:2-4 (ESV) "And now I will show you the truth. Behold, three more kings shall arise in Persia, and a fourth shall be far richer than all of them. And when he has become strong through his riches, he shall stir up all against the kingdom of Greece. Then a mighty king shall arise, who shall rule with great dominion and do as he wills. And as soon as he has arisen, his kingdom shall be broken and divided toward the four winds of heaven, but not to his posterity, nor according to the authority with which he ruled, for his kingdom shall be plucked up and go to others besides these. 600-550 B.C.

31. Alexander the Great (356-323 B.C.)

33. Let’s Put Daniel to the Test !!! Daniel 11:2-4 (ESV) "And now I will show you the truth. Behold, three more kings shall arise in Persia, and a fourth shall be far richer than all of them. And when he has become strong through his riches, he shall stir up all against the kingdom of Greece. Then a mighty king shall arise, who shall rule with great dominion and do as he wills. And as soon as he has arisen, his kingdom shall be broken and divided toward the four winds of heaven, but not to his posterity, nor according to the authority with which he ruled, for his kingdom shall be plucked up and go to others besides these. 600-550 B.C.

34. Ptolemy - Egypt and parts of Asia Minor. • Cassander - Macedonia and Greece. • Lysimachus - Thrace and parts of Asia Minor (western Bithynia, Phrygia, Mycia, and Lydia). • Seleucus - The remainder of Alexander’s empire which included Syria, Israel, and Mesopotamia.

35. Ezekiel 26:7-14 (ESV) "For thus says the Lord God: Behold, I will bring against Tyre from the north Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, king of kings, with horses and chariots, and with horsemen and a host of many soldiers. He will kill with the sword your daughters on the mainland. He will set up a siege wall against you and throw up a mound against you, and raise a roof of shields against you. He will direct the shock of his battering rams against your walls, and with his axes he will break down your towers. His horses will be so many that their dust will cover you. Your walls will shake at the noise of the horsemen and wagons and chariots, when he enters your gates as men enter a city that has been breached. With the hoofs of his horses he will trample all your streets. He will kill your people with the sword, and your mighty pillars will fall to the ground. 586-572 B.C.

36. Let’s Put Ezekiel to the Test !!! Ezekiel 26:12-14 (ESV)They will plunder your riches and loot your merchandise. They will break down your walls and destroy your pleasant houses. Your stones and timber and soil they will cast into the midst of the waters. And I will stop the music of your songs, and the sound of your lyres shall be heard no more. I will make you a bare rock. You shall be a place for the spreading of nets. You shall never be rebuilt, for I am the Lord; I have spoken, declares the Lord God.

38. Alexander’s Road