Christians, can you give us a precise and detailed example of fulfilled prophesy?

Question

And is there evidence outside the bible that supports it? Please provide tangible evidence only.

Answer 1

1948 Israel became a nation.
1967 Jews captured Israel.
Jews returning to Israel by the thousands.
(PROPHESY FULFILLED) Just to name ONE example.....

Answer 2

Sure.

Christ (the various accounts are in Mt. 24, Lk. 21, and Mk. 13) predicted the fall of the Temple in AD 70. Tatian recorded in the second century that the Jewish people there looked on the Christians as traitors. The signs in the sky Christ described are corroborated in Josephus' account also from the second century. You can find these in his "Antiquities of the Jewish People."

However, I'll move on to the extrabiblical guys, and let others answer on the biblical.

St. Kosmas/Cosmas the Aitolian (or Aitolos, or of Aitolia) affords a number of good prophecies.

Some good examples are:

"That which is longed for will take place in the third generation. It will be seen by your grandchildren." He said this to Greeks of his day, prophecying their revolution and the abolition of Turkish rule in their land, and it came to pass thus.

"He child will be educated. He will go abroad. He will become a famous man. And he will die ruler of Greece." The child, John Kloites did die while Prime Minister of Greece, but at that time, they were a poor family under Turkish domination.

Our church has two books on him. The one I got the information from, I believe, was "Father Kosmas, Apostle to the Poor." I am, naturally, quoting from memory, so my quotes may be a little off, but the jist is the same.

Another, still more recent, prophet was St. John the Wonderworker. My favorite story, recounted in "Blessed John the Wonderworker" is that once, when blessing a house, he kept going back to a chikenshed, and he repeatedly blessed it. He kept going back, and it puzzled the couple who owned it, but later, after St. John did (late 20th century), they remembered it, and they had turned it into a chapel. Now this doesn't fit prophecy in a very tangible fashion, because the test is quite schewed, but it does fit with the spirit of the matter and the man in question (and I like the story).

St. Seraphim of Sarov knew beforehand about the Soviet oppression of Russia, predicted its length, that the Diviyevo Monastery (well, Nunnery) would be turned to ungodly purposes (nuclear weapons research), and that afterwards, it would be returned to pious uses and the bodies of unknown saints found in its basement.

In fact, if you look up (or Google) the lives of the saints, you'll find *many* such stories (and you'll find quite a few that aren't true, sadly), and not all of them will be fake. You'll even find ones where the saints knew their own date of death and told their friends and relatives (St. John the Wonderworker being one of those).

I would dare say those constitute tangible evidence. Given the nature of prophecy, however, once the event is fulfilled, it can never be repeated. If this sort of information (with the one exception I listed as just that) cannot fulfill the criteria, then you need not ask, because all prophecy is either fulfilled or not fulfilled, and if it is fulfilled, then it can only be researched historically. If it isn't fulfilled, then it doesn't constitute evidence, and God doesn't jump through hoops for men.

Answer 3

How do you expect people to provide tangible evidence on the internet? Nothing on the internet is tangible. All we can give you is words.

Now let's see. In Jeremiah, there's a prophecy in chapter 25 saying that Babylon will cause the nations around Israel to serve Babylon for 70 years. At the end of the 70 years, that kingdom would come to an end.

It turns out that's exactly what happened. In 609 BCE, the Babylonians crushed the Assyrians and began to subject the surrounding nations. In 539 BCE, 70 years later, the Persians destroyed the Babylonian empire. There's a ton of archaeological evidence to support this (which is how we know the precise dates).

The question is whether Jeremiah's prophecy was written before or after the events.

Answer 4

The fulfillment of the prophecies of Daniel are the easiest ones to prove. The first of Daniel's prohecies is the interpretation of the King Nebuchednezar's dream of a statue made of many different materials. This showed the progression of kingdoms that there would be down to the last days. Babylon (head of gold - greatest kingdom there ever was), Assyrians (body of silver), Greeks (belly of brass), Romans (iron, from waist down - split in two [for legs], just like the Romans did), European nations of today (feet of mingled clay and iron).

Daniels 70 weeks prophecy (a very time specific prophecy, once all the maths was done) was fulfilled when Jesus came and the Jews rejected him and were destroyed (in 70AD, according to archeological evidence and history).

Here's another one to think upon, from Paul (2 Timothy 3):

In the last days...

2...men shall be lovers of their own selves, covetous, boasters, proud, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy,
3 Without natural affection, trucebreakers, false accusers, incontinent, fierce, despisers of those that are good,
4 Traitors, heady, highminded, lovers of pleasures more than lovers of God...
...7 Ever learning, and never able to come to the knowledge of the truth.

Just look at the state of some of the people in the world today for evidence for the fulfillment of this prophecy.

Answer 5

Well the Book of Daniel is filled with fullfilled prophecy. I am listing one from Daniel 8 verses 19-22. Uh unless you are clueless about ancient world history you can easily see that reference to the Persian/Median Empire and the prophecy undoubtedly pertaining to Alexander of Greece and the splitting of the 4 kingdoms after his death.


19 And he said, “Look, I am making known to you what shall happen in the latter time of the indignation; for at the appointed time the end shall be. 20 The ram which you saw, having the two horns—they are the kings of Media and Persia. 21 And the male goat is the kingdom[b] of Greece. The large horn that is between its eyes is the first king. 22 As for the broken horn and the four that stood up in its place, four kingdoms shall arise out of that nation, but not with its power.

Answer 6

In the Gospels Jesus says Jerusalem will be destroyed within his generation. That is 40 years.

Luke 17:21-34
http://www.drbo.org/chapter/49017.htm

Most folks tend to think he was talking about the "rapture" when he said this. The whole, run for the hills and do not look back bit.

But infact less than 40 years after his execution Jeruslam was destroyed by the Romans. You can still see evidence of that destruction today. All that is left of the temple is the Wailing Wall.

http://eyewitnesstohistory.com/jewishtemple.htm

The Christians survived because they remembered what Jesus said and fled to the hills without looking back.

Answer 7

Well, Jesus prophesied that Jerusalem would be destroyed and the temple veil rent in twain. That is precisely what happened in 70AD, if you've read your history books.

How about in the last day, "the earth shall burn as an oven".... global warming was prophesied.

Here's another one (can't remember the reference): There will be "wormwood" in the ocean and everywhere. Guess what Chernobyl means? Wormwood.

I'm sure I should get my husband to answer this question. He is studying anthropology at Uni and history has been a hobby of his for years.

I'll just go get him.

Answer 8

In the Book of Ezekiel, God declared to the Israelites, “I will gather you from the nations and bring you back from the countries where you have been scattered, and I will give you back the land of Israel again.” This prophecy was amazingly fulfilled as Israel, having been scattered in 585 BC, once again became a nation in 1948, and as it reclaimed all of its original land through the miraculous “Six Day War” in 1967 (during which it also retook Jerusalem as its capital). Remarkably, there has never been any nation that was abolished from the face of the earth and then later restored as was Israel!

Furthermore, the prophecies of Christ have proven to be flawless...In fact, a professor at Westmont College used 48 of the 456 prophecies in a mathematical experiment with his class and arrived at the extremely conservative estimate that the probability of 48 prophecies being fulfilled in one person is the incredible number 10^157. To put this in perspective, there are only 10 to the 80th power electrons in the whole universe, and any statistical odds greater than 10 to the 50th power are absolute impossible, per Dr. Emil Borel, the inventor of the Law of Probability.

Christ loves you. God Bless!!

Answer 9

wow these answers are quite a stretch. For every fulfilled prophesy, there are 50 unfulfilled. The death of the true prophet was suppose to usher in the end time. Paul expected it to happen within his life time, since Jesus had just died, as did all the early Christan's. When this didn't happen, he changed his mind to expect it to come within 50 years or so of his death. Well it has been about 1900 years, and still no rapture. Hmmmmmm. Interesting. Maybe it will happen tomorrow? I better go to church and pray. Oh wait, Jesus said prayer should be a private matter and shouldn't be performed in public. But when has the church ever followed what Jesus said/did.

Answer 10

The Fatima child predicted World War 2 and Russia's coming away victorious. In the year 1917. There is controversy that it was not actually written until later, though at the time it was released Russia seemed doomed for defeat.

This was after Marian apparitions

Answer 11

The fall of Babylon to the Medes and Persians in October of 539 BCE (sorry, I got my years crossed!) by Darius the Mede and Cyrus the Persian. Daniel foretold it in his writings.

Evidently, even Cyrus, who was not a Jew, was aware of the prophecy that specifically named him as the conquerer of Babylon.

The waters of the Euphrates were diverted, allowing the soldiers to cross the water, and the Babylonians were drunk and left their gates open, just as Daniel promised.

www.watchtower.org for more info.