Does anyone believe in biblical prophecy?

Question

You will hear of wars and rumors of wars, but see to it that you are not alarmed. Such things must happen, but the end is still to come. Nation will rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom. There will be famines and earthquakes in various places. All these are the beginning of birth pains. Matthew 24:6-8

Answer 1

Yes but that doesn't actually say these things are happening now. Just the rumours of them. The end times will come but for now, keep speaking the truth of God and help everyone that can be saved to be saved and don't worry about what is going to heppen. God sorts it all out in the end.

Answer 2

Jesus in this passage warns us that many will be deceived as they anticipate His return. There have been times in the history of the church when rash predictions were made and relied on, and resulted in tremendous disappointment! Though none of those events are the specific sign of the end of the age, collectively they are. When Jesus described these calamities as the beginning of birth pains, we should expect that the things mentioned - famines, earthquakes, and so on - would become more frequent and more intense before the return of Jesus.

Answer 3

There have been wars and rumors of wars, nations have risen against nations, kingdoms againsts kingdoms and there have been hundreds of famines and thousands of earthquakes in various places since the time Jesus spoke these words. If this is a prophesy it had to be a easy one to fulfill since it is lacking in detail.

Answer 4

Has there ever been a time in history when there were not wars, famine or earthquakes?

I don't think so.

There is nothing different happening now than there ever has been. Right down to the people predicting the end times. They have been doing it for 2000 years and they are still doing it.

Love and blessings Don

Answer 5

Unmatched Fulfillment of Prophecies

The Bible stands alone among literature. Prophecies written hundreds of years before an event have been fulfilled with 100% accuracy. There are approximately 2500 prophecies in the Bible, 2000 of which already have been completely fulfilled -- the remaining 500 speak of future events.

The chance of any one man fulfilling just eight prophecies has been calculated by Peter W. Stoner in Science Speaks at 1 in 100,000,000,000,000,000 -- yet 60 major Old Testament prophecies, having 270 ramifications were fulfilled by the life of Jesus. An example of the precisely fulfilled prophecies include the place of His birth, Bethlehem (prophesied in Micah 5:2, fulfilled in Luke 2:4-7); that He would be born of a virgin (prophesied in Isaiah 4:17, fulfilled in Luke 1:26-31); that He would be despised and rejected by Jews (prophesied in Isaiah 53:3, fulfilled in John 1:1, Luke 23:18); that He would be betrayed by a friend (Judas) for thirty pieces of silver cast on the floor of the Temple and used to buy a potter's field (prophesied in Zechariah 11:11-13, fulfilled in Matthew 27:3-10).

Fulfilled prophecy extends to the present day -- consider the people of Israel. In Genesis 12:2,3 and 13:13-15, God promised Abraham a great nation, a great name and a land that will belong to his descendants forever and through Abraham, that all families of the earth will be blessed. At the time, Abraham was 75 years old and his wife was barren. The prophecy was fulfilled when Abraham was 90 years old (Genesis 21:2) when his wife Sarah miraculously bore him a son. Over the next several hundred years, the nation promised to Abraham appeared (Exodus 1:7).
Later, through Moses (Deut. 28-33), God warned Israel that He will use other nations to remove them from their land if they are unfaithful to Him. He predicted that they would eventually be scattered across the whole earth and would find no rest. He also promised to bring them back to their land. Israel was unfaithful. King Nebuchadnezzar took people captive to Babylon, then burned the city and the Temple. God then allowed the Israelites to return to the land (Ezra 1). Later, in AD 70, Titus the Roman also destroyed the city of Jerusalem, scattering the people. In AD 1948, Israel became a nation and the people began to return to their homeland. They have since survived several conflicts. We think of the United States as having a long history, yet it has been in existence for only 200 years. Israel has been a people for more than 4,000 years.

2 Peter 1:20-21 describes how Bible prophecy can be so accurate: "Above all, you must understand that no prophecy of Scripture came about by the prophet's own interpretation. For prophecy never had its origin in the will of man, but men spoke from God as they were carried along by the Holy Spirit."

Being a Hebrew prophet in ancient times was a serious and unenviable position. The prophet was purporting to speak for God and the penalty for any error was death. "But a prophet who presumes to speak in my name anything I have not commanded him to say, or a prophet who speaks in the name of other gods, must be put to death." -- Deut. 18:20. Prophets had to be 100% accurate. Deuteronomy 18:21-22 gives a test to determine whether the prophet is speaking for God: "You may say to yourselves, "How can we know when a message has not been spoken by the LORD?" If what a prophet proclaims in the name of the LORD does not take place or come true, that is a message the LORD has not spoken. That prophet has spoken presumptuously."

Answer 6

My momma's momma's uncle (Uncle Grant), back in who knows when, prophecied that there would come a time when a sandwich would cost a dollar. I know for a fact that Uncle Grant was sent from God and was a prophet of God cause of that one prophecy alone, not to mention others he might have made that went unquoted.
So, yes, I sympathize with your biblical prophecies and I concur.

Answer 7

Absolutely. Studied, read, and written much on it. Believe. See Old Testament Books about people being warned by Prophets and ignoring them. It will be the same thing all over again. See the Book of Amos for a good example.

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Answer 8

I believe in it. Jesus fulfilled prophecy and is our Savior. Praise be to God. Prophecy is being fulfilled as we speak. God's Church is being prepared.

God Bless you and Merry Christmas.

Answer 9

http://www.skepticsannotatedbible.com/proph/long.html

Edit: Um, hello people! The site I posted lists numerous biblical prophecies which did not come true (and no they do not speak of future events). Seriously, how uneducated are you fundies?

Answer 10

I believe in biblical prophecy and i also believe that we are seeing prophecy fulfilled before our very eyes.