Is Bible prophecy reliable?

Question

Ezekiel predicted Babylon would conquer Egypt and was wrong.

Ezekiel predicts that Nebuchadrezzar of Babylon will conquer Egypt utterly destroying it, slaying and scattering it’s people, and that it will stay uninhabited for 40 years.

In 568 BCE Nebuchadrezzar tried to conquer Egypt and Egypt survived with no apparent damage.

Aahmes ruled for another generation over a prosperous Egypt and lived to see Nebuchadrezzar die. No Egyptians were scattered or dispersed.

(Ezek 29:10 NRSV) therefore, I am against you, and against your channels, and I will make the land of Egypt an utter waste and desolation, from Migdol to Syene, as far as the border of Ethiopia.

(Ezek 29:11 NRSV) No human foot shall pass through it, and no animal foot shall pass through it; it shall be uninhabited forty years.

(Ezek 29:12 NRSV) I will make the land of Egypt a desolation among desolated countries; and her cities shall be a desolation forty years among cities that are laid waste. I will scatter the Egyptians among the nations, and disperse them among the countries.

(Ezek 30:10 NRSV) Thus says the Lord GOD: I will put an end to the hordes of Egypt, by the hand of King Nebuchadrezzar of Babylon.

(Ezek 30:11 NRSV) He and his people with him, the most terrible of the nations, shall be brought in to destroy the land; and they shall draw their swords against Egypt, and fill the
land with the slain.

Answer 1

no

"But just imagine how breathtakingly specific a work of prophecy would be, if it were actually the product of omniscience. If the Bible were such a book, it would make perfectly accurate predictions about human events.You would expect it to contain a passage such as "In the latter half of the the twentieth century, humankind will develop a globally linked system of computers - the principals of which I set forth in Leviticus - and this system shall be called the Internet." The Bible contains nothing like this. In fact, it does not contain a single sentence that could not have been written by a man or woman living in the first century. This should trouble you.
Sam Harris, Letter to a Christian Nation

Answer 2

I am not a great scholar of Babylonian History but I do recall that the empire did expand to include Egypt for several years. Since Babylon was the greatest power of the time 40 years wouldn't have been out of the question.

Just quoting the scripture and saying that it is false doesn't cut it.. The Babylonian empire lasted a LONG time and since that empire was summonses with the name of Nebuchadnezzar you'll have to include the whole history of the empire to disprove the prophecy.... Jim

Answer 3

What does a certain person like you interested concerning Bible prophecy? Well, Keep watching Jerusalem.

(Psalm 83.1-8)
"O God, do not remain quiet; do not be silent and, O God, do not be still. For, behold, Thine enemies make an uproar; and those who hate Thee have exalted themselves. They make shrewd plans against Thy people, and conspire together against Thy treasured ones. They have said, 'Come, and let us wipe them out as a nation, that the name of Israel be remembered no more.' For they have conspired together with one mind; against Thee do they make a covenant: the tents of Edom and the Ishmaelites; Moab, and the Hagrites; Gebal, and Ammon, and Amalek; Philistia with the inhabitants of Tyre; Assyria also has joined with them; they have become a help to the children of Lot"

Note: The Purpose of the Bible is to keeps us from Sin, Lights our Way, Enlightens Us, Instructs Us, Purifies Us, Frees Us and Saves Us mention in II Peter 1:21.

Answer 4

prophesy is fine for justifying and proving the presence of God in the aftermath of the fulfillment but as for a predictor of the future well think about it why would prophesy be difficult to understand if it was meant to tell the future. It is not made with that intention in mind thus to use it for that purpose shows ones lack of trust. Live every day as if it was your last, keep oil in your lamp and build up your treasures in heaven.

Answer 5

Your passages are generally considered to be future, end times prophecies, rather than for the original people in their present day.

The reference to Nebuchadnezzar is a bit obtuse, but I'll leave that one up to God.

Answer 6

Nope

Answer 7

Anymore?

Answer 8

i am sorry you do not believe, the bible is the same then , today and alwasys, until the end of this world. all revelations in the bible will come true. all of it.

Answer 9

Yes, the Interpretation's get distorted though.

Answer 10

it's an excercise in wishful thinking--nice to know we have always been expected to accept gawd's teachings on faith