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09/19/10. 1. Fulfilled Prophecy Proves The Bible is God’s Word. The Bible Proves To Be From God. Our faith is under attack In general, the world hates the truth John 7:7 The world cannot hate you, but it hates Me because I testify of it that its works are evil.

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09/19/10

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  2. Fulfilled Prophecy Proves The Bible is God’s Word

  3. The Bible Proves To Be From God • Our faith is under attack • In general, the world hates the truth • John 7:7 The world cannot hate you, but it hates Me because I testify of it that its works are evil. • John 3:19 And this is the condemnation, that the light has come into the world, and men loved darkness rather than light, because their deeds were evil. • Example – An article last week by the Associate Press • Basic message of the article – The Old Testament has been corrupted and is therefore unreliable. Bible prophecies added after the fact. You are naive and superstitious if you believe otherwise.

  4. The Bible Proves To Be From God • Prophecy - Only God can declare the future • Isaiah 46:9-10 • “Remember the former things of old, For I am God, and there is no other; I am God, and there is none like Me, 10Declaring the end from the beginning, And from ancient times things that are not yet done, Saying, 'My counsel shall stand, And I will do all My pleasure,’ 11 Calling a bird of prey from the east, The man who executes My counsel, from a far country. Indeed I have spoken it; I will also bring it to pass. I have purposed it; I will also do it.”

  5. The Bible Proves To Be From God • Prophecies could not have been added after the fact • Daniel 2:36-45 - Four Kingdoms • Babylonian • Medo-Persian • Grecian • Old Testament translated into Greek (Septuagint) and spread throughout the world ~200BC • Roman • Fulfilled on Pentecost ~ 30AD

  6. The Bible Proves To Be From God • Prophecies could not have been added after the fact • Isaiah 53 • Written ~700 BC • Old Testament translated into Greek and spread throughout the world ~200BC • Dead Sea Scrolls – Isaiah scroll dated as early as 350 years before Christ • Fulfilled at Christ’s death ~ 30AD

  7. The Bible Proves To Be From God • Babylon the Great • Tremendous walls • “While such is its size, in magnificence there is no other city that approaches to it. It is surrounded, in the first place, by a broad and deep moat, full of water, behind which rises a wall fifty royal cubits in width, and two hundred in height.” – Herodotus • Jeremiah 51:8 “Thus says the Lord of hosts: "The broad walls of Babylon shall be utterly broken, And her high gates shall be burned with fire.” • Towers built on walls reached to 300 feet • Great temple of Marduk

  8. The Bible Proves To Be From God • Doom pronounced against Babylon • Isaiah 13:19-20 • “And Babylon, the glory of kingdoms, The beauty of the Chaldeans' pride, Will be as when God overthrew Sodom and Gomorrah. 20 It will never be inhabited, Nor will it be settled from generation to generation; Nor will the Arabian pitch tents there, Nor will the shepherds make their sheepfolds there.” 

  9. The Bible Proves To Be From God • Doom pronounced against Babylon • Jeremiah 51:58 • “Thus says the Lord of hosts: "The broad walls of Babylon shall be utterly broken, And her high gates shall be burned with fire;”

  10. The Bible Proves To Be From God • Why was Babylon doomed? • Jeremiah 51 • 24 "And I will repay Babylon and all the inhabitants of Chaldea For all the evil they have done In Zion in your sight," says the Lord.  • 11 “Because it is the vengeance of the Lord, the vengeance for His temple.” • 13 “Your end has come, the measure of your covetousness.” 

  11. The Bible Proves To Be From God • Destruction began by Darius the Mede • Daniel 5 • Medo-Persians overthrew Babylon in one night • Babylonians engaged in a great feast • Diverted the Euphrates river • Marched under the walls

  12. The Bible Proves To Be From God • Alexander the Great • Conquered and further ruined Babylon • The Temple of Marduk Utterly Destroyed • “In 331 BC, Alexander the Great captured Babylon and ordered repairs to the Etemenanki; when he returned to the ancient city in 323 BC, he noted that no progress had been made, and ordered his army to demolish the entire building, to prepare a final rebuilding.[5] His death, however, prevented the reconstruction. The Babylonian Chronicles and Astronomical Diaries record several attempts to rebuild the Etemenanki, which were always preceded by removing the last debris of the original ziggurat. The Ruin of Esagila Chronicle mentions that the Seleucid crown prince Antiochus I decided to finally rebuild it, while offering a sacrifice, he stumbled and fell, then angrily ordered his elephant drivers to destroy the last remains. There are no later references to the Etemenanki from antiquity.” - Wikipedia

  13. The Bible Proves To Be From God • Babylon’s Walls Finally Destroyed • Julian the Apostate – 363 AD • Tried to destroy Christianity • Fought against the Persians at the abandoned walls of Babylon • After the battle, had the walls completely leveled to prevent any further defensive use by the Persians

  14. The Bible Proves To Be From God • Details from the prophets • Jeremiah 51:42-43 • “The sea has come up over Babylon; She is covered with the multitude of its waves.43 Her cities are a desolation, A dry land and a wilderness, A land where no one dwells, Through which no son of man passes.”

  15. The Bible Proves To Be From God • Confirmation in modern times • Wikipedia - Babylon • “The site at Babylon consists of a number of mounds covering an oblong area roughly 2 kilometers by 1 kilometer, oriented north to south. • Originally, the Euphrates roughly bisected the city, as is common in the region, but the river has since shifted its course so that much of the remains on the former western part of the city are now inundated.”

  16. The Bible Proves To Be From God • Prophecy Fulfilled • Claudius James Rich • “For the space of two months throughout the year the ruins of Babylon are inundated by the overflowing of the Euphrates…” • D. James Kennedy • “After the subsiding of the waters, even the low heaps again become sunburned ruins…”

  17. The Bible Proves To Be From God • These are just a few of the two-thousand Old Testament prophecies that have been fulfilled • God’s word is true! • It tells of His great love and plan of salvation • Will you believe and obey?

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