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Israel as Proof of God’s Existence: Fulfilled Bible Prophecy

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One of the most decisive evidences of God’s existence can be found in Bible prophecy. I’m speaking of the fact that the Bible is full of hundreds of precise prophecies that have been fulfilled in detail in history.

In fulfilled Bible prophecy we find what I would call “conclusive evidence” that God exists and that the Bible is the Word of God.

Just consider for a moment the fact that no other book in the world contains fulfilled prophecies. There is not a single fulfilled prophecy in the Koran, the Hindu Vedras, the book of Mormon or the nonsensical, obfuscated ramblings of Nostradamus.

In contrast, the Bible contains hundreds of fulfilled prophecies concerning persons, cities, nations and empires.

Daniel’s Prophecy

Take for example the incredible prophecy of Daniel that is recorded in Daniel chapter two. As most of you well know, in that chapter we are told about Daniel interpreting a dream of the Babylonian king, Nebuchadnezzar.

Nebuchadnezzar dreamed of a great statue of a man with a golden head, a chest of silver, thighs of bronze and legs of iron.

Daniel explained that Nebuchadnezzar’s dream represented a succession of world empires, beginning with the Babylonian that was represented by the head of gold. It would be succeeded by the Medo-Persian Empire represented by the chest of silver. Next would come the Grecian Empire represented by the thighs of bronze.

Daniel did not specifically identify the fourth empire, but it was obviously the empire of Rome which followed the Grecian Empire and which split into two parts, represented by the two legs.

As one wag has put it, “Daniel wrote history in advance better than historians have done so after the fact.”

Messianic Prophecy

And then, of course, there are the Messianic prophecies that Jesus fulfilled — a total of 109 separate and distinct prophecies.

It has been calculated that the odds of just 8 of those prophecies being fulfilled accidentally in the life of one person are 1 in 10 to the 17th power. That’s the number 1 with 17 zeros after it. So, the odds are one in 100 quadrillion! And that’s beyond the realm of probability.

The scientist who made these calculations was Peter Stoner. He illustrated the meaning of 1 in 1017 by using the state of Texas.

He said to fill the state knee deep with silver dollars. Then fly over and drop out one silver dollar with a check mark on it. Next, let 10,000 bulldozers rampage around the state for ten years, getting the silver dollars mixed up real well. Then, turn a blind-folded man loose in this sea of silver dollars. The odds that the first coin he would pick up would be the one with the check mark on it is 1 in 1017.

In the fifth segment of our study of how Israel proves the existence of God, we’ll look at the fulfilled prophecies that concern Israel’s worldwide despersion, persecution, and the desolation of the land.

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Dr. David Reagan

Dr. David Reagan is the Founder and Evangelist Emeritus of Lamb & Lion Ministries. He is a life-long Bible student, teacher, and preacher and he led over 45 pilgrimages to Israel. Dr. Reagan was the host of the radio then television program Christ in Prophecy for nearly 40 years.

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  • Dr Reagan, i don't need Israel as any kind of proof of God's existence. All i have to do is remember back, when at the age of 31 (im now 66) God wonderfully saved me and turned my life around. I was a horrible sinner, lost, and with nothing to look forward to, but an eternity without God in hell. God, through his Holy Spirit, did a miraculous work in me that day and has continued to take me from 'grace to grace', ever since. The person i once was died that day sir, and a brand new 'me' was born. All my family and friends knew it too–before even telling them they knew i was not the same person. That is my proof sir–as im sure every born again Christian, who has had a similar experience, would agree. Changed lives is the true proof of there being a God…nothing more.

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