Prophecy makes up about 20 percent of the Bible. Though that small number seems to suggest that biblical prophecy is insignificant, it plays a vital role in validating Christianity as a genuine faith.
What's so significant about biblical prophecy? Several things.
Evidential, historical prophecy contained in the Bible sets Christianity above and beyond the religions of the world because it proves the faith. No world religion, no matter how long it's been around contains any historical prophecy that validates its claim to truth.
For example, Muhammad, who is Islam's founding prophet, never recorded a single prophecy in the Koran that foretold of a future event hundreds and thousands of years before it happened. And yet he's esteemed--even by many Christians--as a prophet of God.
However, the Bible contains hundreds of historic, evidential prophecies that foretold the birth of the nation of Israel (Genesis 15:12-16), the virgin birth of the Messiah Jesus Christ (Isaiah 7:14), his ministry, crucifixion and resurrection from the dead (Isaiah 53), the diaspora of Israel and the subsequent restoration of the Jewish nation (Zephaniah 3:20, Micah 7:8-20, Ezekiel 37).
Biblical prophecy is also important because it alerts us to future events that will take place in the end time world. It allows those who are willing to pay attention to be ready for these events.
Such as? Such as the rise in moral depravity and lawlessness (Matthew 24:12, Romans 1:18-32, 2 Timothy 3:1-5), the global persecution of true Christians (John 15-16), the increase in famines and earthquakes (Luke 21:11), the increase in wars and rumors of wars (Mark 13:7-8), the rise of intellectual and spiritual deception (Matthew 24:23-25, 1 Timothy 4:1, 2 Timothy 4:3-4) and the rise of an evil world government (Daniel 7:7, Daniel 8:23-24, Revelation 13, Revelation 17).
All the events concerning the last days on earth as foretold in biblical prophecy are now occurring. Why is it important for Christians to pay attention to these events? Because the prophetic fulfillment of these events signals that the return of Jesus Christ is getting close.
Christ Himself said this: "Now learn this lesson from the fig tree: As soon as its twigs get tender and its leaves come out, you know that summer is near. Even so, when you see all these things, you know that it is near, right at the door. Truly I tell you, this generation will certainly not pass away until all these things have happened. Heaven and earth will pass away, but my words will never pass away." (Matthew 24:32-35)
This is why biblical prophecy is important to us. It's historically factual and accurate. It has a flawless track record. And it proves God's existence and His divine intervention with His human creation.
There is a God, He is alive, and he is now, according to his word of bible prophecy intervening so as to reclaim planet earth from Adam 's fall.
ReplyDeleteUnder the dispensation of Christ, that is the administration of Jesus Christ in all things economic, a concept provided by the Apostle Paul in Ephesians 1:10, wholesale changes are coming to Europe's financial and monetary architecture.
Fiat wealth deflation, that is investment deflation, seen in the chart of Water Resources, PHO, French company, Veolia, VE, on December 2, 2013, coming on the rise of the Benchmark Interest Rate, ^TNX, to rise above 2.74%, at the debt deflationary hands of the bond vigilantes and competitive currency deflation hands of the currency traders, evidences that the world has pivoted out of the age and paradigm of liberalism and into that of authoritarianism.
Debt deflation is destroying the sovereignty of nations. Out of sovereign insolvency, banking insolvency and corporate insolvency, the beast regime of regional governance and totalitarian collectivism will come to rule in the world’s ten regions and occupy in mankind’s seven institutions, as foretold in Bible prophecy of Revelation 13:1-4, replacing the banker regime ruling in democratic nation state governance and crony capitalism, European socialism, and Greek socialism.
Under liberalism, globalism, commercialism, socialism, and corporatism were the dynamos of economic action. Arnold King writes in EconLibOrg Corporatism is a state of being “Corporatism satisfies a desire for security. People want security of consumption, security of jobs, and security of their economic status. Corporatism replaces the decentralized competition of the market with political control over the economy. The forms of protection people obtain include occupational license restrictions, labor unions, and entitlement programs.”
The singular dynamo of regionalism, coming through regional framework agreements, which provide regional security, regional stability, and regional sustainability, is replacing globalism, commercialism, socialism, and corporatism as the driver of economic action, on the failure of money growth, that is failure of both credit growth, and currency growth.
There has been a death, both credit, and currencies died on October 23, 2013, when the bond vigilantes called the Interest Rate on the US Ten Year Note, ^TNX, higher from 2.48%.
Authoritarianism is rising to replace liberalism. Nannycrat rule will make claim of personal property, establishing regional property and regional property rights, as superior to personal property rights, and regional economic activity superior to national economic activity, as regional governance replaces democratic nation state rule.
Under liberalism one had economic life in the banker regime’s policies of investment choice and schemes of credit, which provided a moral hazard based life experience of prosperity. Dynamos such as corporatism, socialism, and globalism will be failing.
Now under authoritarianism, there is only a singular dynamo of regionalism, one has economic life in the beast’s regime’s policies of diktat of regional governance and schemes of totalitarian collectivism debt servitude establishing crushing austerity, as the world comes to cope with economic deflation. Destiny is at work, fate cannot be altered; the new normal is a life experience of austerity.
There will be no opportunity for Austrian economics designed work rule reform, easier standards to fire people, fewer government workers, lower minimum wages, less regulation, and less taxation. Nope, no way, and never, as a whole new economic age and paradigm has commenced; it is called authoritarianism, and it is coming regionally, first in the EU, and it is coming to provide the experience of totalitarian collectivism, this being foretold in Revelation 13:1-4.