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A MOMENT OF PRAYER…

IS IT POSSIBLE TO KNOW THE FUTURE?

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Horoscopes, Seers, Tarot cards, Shamans.�Are they telling the truth?

Man has always yearned to know the future!

Knowledge of the future is an exclusive attribute of the true God!

“Remember the former things of old: for I am God, and there is none else; �I am God, and there is none like me, Declaring the end from the beginning, and from ancient times the things that are not yet done, saying, My counsel shall stand, and �I will do all my pleasure."

Isaiah 46:9-10

“Behold, the former things are come to pass, and new things do I declare: before they spring forth I tell you of them."

Isaiah 42:9

CONDEMNED CITIES

The City of Tyre

What prophecy was given concerning �this city?

“Therefore thus says the Lord God: �Behold, I am against you, O Tyre, and will bring up many nations against you, as the sea brings up its waves. They shall destroy the walls of Tyre and break down her towers, and I will scrape her soil from her and make her a bare rock.  She shall be in the midst of the sea a place for the spreading of nets, for I have spoken, declares the Lord God. And she shall become plunder for the nations."

Ezekiel 26:3-5

“For thus says the Lord God: Behold, I will bring against Tyre from the north Nebuchadnezzar[a] king of Babylon, king of kings, with horses and chariots, and with horsemen and a host of many soldiers.  He will kill with the sword your daughters on the mainland. He will set up a siege wall against you and throw up a mound against you, and raise a roof of shields against you. He will direct the shock of his battering rams against your walls, and with his axes he will break down your towers."

Ezekiel 26:7-9

Ezekiel 26:12-14

 ”They will plunder your riches and loot your merchandise. They will break down your walls and destroy your pleasant houses. Your stones and timber and soil they will cast into the midst of the waters.  And I will stop the music of your songs, and the sound of your lyres shall be heard no more. I will make you a bare rock. You shall be a place for the spreading of nets. You shall never be rebuilt, for I am the Lord; I have spoken, declares the Lord God."

Fulfillment of the Prophecy

• Nebuchadnezzar �laid siege on Tyre �for 13 years.

Tyre

• The inhabitants fled to the insular part of the city

Fulfillment of the Prophecy

• After 200 years, Alexander the Great built an embankment using the rubble of Tyre, and even its dust was cast into the sea. In 7 months he achieved the conquest of the island of Tyre

Fulfillment of the Prophecy

• They would demolish the walls
• They would destroy their towers
• It would never be built-up again

1. Nebuchadnezzar would go against Tyre.
2. Nebuchadnezzar would come from the North.
3. With horsemen, chariots and many people.
4. They would kill their children with the sword.
5. They would demolish their walls.
6. They would place siege towers.
7. They would demolish their towers.
8. They would sweep them to the dust.
9. It would turn out to be like smooth rock.
10. It would be looted.

11. It would be a place for the spreading of nets.
12. They would kill their children.
13. They would place siege towers.
14. They would place battering rams against the walls.
15. The towers would be destroyed with axes.
16. Their precious houses would be destroyed.
17. They would steal their wealth.
18. It would never be built-up again.
19. They would put its stones and wood in the sea.
20. They would put its dust in the midst of the waters.

20 Fulfilled Details

What was foretold about Jerusalem?

“O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, �thou that killest the prophets, �and stonest them which are �sent unto thee…!”

Behold, your house is left �unto you desolate.

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…I say unto you, There shall �not be left here one stone upon another, that shall not be �thrown down."

Matthew 23:37-38; 24:2

Fulfillment of the Prophecy

In the year 70 A.D., the city of Jerusalem was besieged by the Romans. General Titus ordered that the temple not be destroyed because it contained valuable treasures.

Fulfillment of the Prophecy

However, in the fury of the conflict, a Roman soldier threw a lighted torch that lit-up the Temple in terrible flames.

How would Egypt, a powerful kingdom for thousands of years, be in comparison to other nations?

“And the land of Egypt shall be desolate and waste; and they shall know that I am the Lord: because he hath said, The river is mine, and I have made it."

Ezekiel 29: 9

“It shall be the basest of the kingdoms; neither shall it exalt itself any more above the nations: for I will diminish them, that they shall no more rule over the nations."

Ezekiel 29:15

What punishment was foretold toward the Jews due to their disobedience �to God?

Deuteronomy 28:15

“But it shall come to pass, if thou wilt not hearken unto the voice of the Lord thy God, to observe to do all his commandments and his statutes which I command thee this day; that all these curses shall come upon thee, and overtake thee.”

”The Lord shall cause thee to be smitten before thine enemies: thou shalt go out one way against them, and flee seven ways before them: and shalt be removed into all the kingdoms of the earth.”

Deuteronomy 28:25

“And thou shalt become an astonishment, a proverb, and a byword, among all nations whither the Lord shall �lead thee.”

Deuteronomy 28:37

MODERN DISCOVERIES

AND INVENTIONS

^{FORETOLD 3,500 YEARS AGO}

What did the Bible say about the earth, when people thought it was upheld by giant elephants?

“He stretcheth out the north over the empty place, and hangeth the earth upon nothing.”

Job 26:7

In Job 28:25, �we read about the weight �of the air. �What is written about wind currents and the water cycle?

Ecclesiastes 1:6-7

“The wind goeth toward the south, and turneth about unto the north; it whirleth about continually, and the wind returneth again according to his circuits. All the rivers run into the sea; yet the sea is not full; unto the place from whence the rivers come, thither they return again.”

What did the Bible say about the number of stars at a time when stars were only counted?

Jeremiah 33:22

“As the host of heaven cannot be numbered, neither the sand of the sea measured…”

THE BIBLE AND HEALTH

Antiseptic Methods

Hand washing after touching a dead person.

“Whosoever toucheth the dead body of any man that is dead, and purifieth not himself, defileth the tabernacle of the Lord… because the water of separation was not sprinkled upon him, he shall be unclean… shall wash his clothes, and he shall bathe his flesh in water, …” Numbers 19:13.7

Ignaz Philipp

Circumcision on the 8th Day

“And he that is eight days old shall be circumcised among you, every man child in your generations;…” Genesis 17:12

It has been found that vitamin K and prothrombin, which are blood clotting elements, have their maximum level the 8th day of life.

Psychosomatic Diseases

What is a joyful heart?

Proverbs 17:22

“A merry heart doeth good like a medicine: �but a broken spirit drieth the bones.”

Proverbs 14:30

“A sound heart is the life of the flesh: �but envy the rottenness of the bones.”

What modern inventions do these two texts refer to?

Isaiah 60:8

Nahum 2:4

THE 333 PROPHECIES CONCERNING CHRIST

^{WRITTEN 600 - 1600 YEARS BEFORE HIS BIRTH}

Where was Christ to be born?

Micah 5:2

“But thou, Bethlehem Ephratah, though thou be little among the thousands of Judah, yet out of thee shall he come forth unto me that is to be ruler in Israel; whose goings forth have been from of old, from everlasting.”

PRE-EXISTENCE

EXISTENCE

ETERNAL REIGN

ETERNITY

Christ

JESUS TOOK THE FORM OF HUMAN NATURE

Jesus Christ

He would be a descendant of DAVID

Jeremiah 23:5-6

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of ABRAHAM

Genesis 22:18

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of the tribe of JUDAH

Genesis 49:10

What kind of woman would give birth to the Son of God?

Isaiah 7:14

“Therefore the Lord himself shall give you a sign; Behold, a virgin shall conceive, and bear a son, and shall call his name Immanuel.”

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Characteristics of his Character and his Ministry

Isaiah 42:1-2

“Behold my servant, whom I uphold; mine elect, in whom my soul delighteth; I have put my spirit upon him: he shall bring forth judgment to the Gentiles.

He shall not cry, nor lift up, nor cause his voice to be heard in the street.”

Isaiah 42:3-4

“A bruised reed shall he not break, and the smoking flax shall he not quench: he shall bring forth judgment unto truth.

He shall not fail nor be discouraged, till he have set judgment in the earth: and the isles shall wait for his law.”

Isaiah 42:6-7

 ”I the Lord have called thee in righteousness, and will hold thine hand, and will keep thee, and give thee for a covenant of the people, for a light of the Gentiles;

To open the blind eyes, to bring out the prisoners from the prison, and them that sit in darkness out of the prison house.”

Traits of His Character �and His Ministry

According to prophecy, what price was paid for Christ's betrayal?

Zechariah 11:12

“And I said unto them, If ye think good, give me my price; and if not, forbear. So they weighed for my price thirty pieces of silver.”

What did Isaiah’s prophecy, written 700 years before �its fulfillment, �say about Jesus’ life, suffering, �and death?

Isaiah 53:1-12

• Who hath believed our report? and to whom is the arm of the Lord revealed?
• For he shall grow up before him as a tender plant, and as a root out of a dry ground: he hath no form nor comeliness; and when we shall see him, there is no beauty that we should desire him.
• He is despised and rejected of men; a man of sorrows, and acquainted with grief: and we hid as it were our faces from him; he was despised, and we esteemed him not.
• Surely he hath borne our griefs, and carried our sorrows: yet we did esteem him stricken, smitten of God, and afflicted.

Isaiah 53:1-12

• But he was wounded for our transgressions, he was bruised for our iniquities: the chastisement of our peace was upon him; and with his stripes we are healed.
• All we like sheep have gone astray; we have turned every one to his own way; and the Lord hath laid on him the iniquity of us all.
• He was oppressed, and he was afflicted, yet he opened not his mouth: he is brought as a lamb to the slaughter, and as a sheep before her shearers is dumb, so he openeth not his mouth.
• He was taken from prison and from judgment: and who shall declare his generation? for he was cut off out of the land of the living: for the transgression of my people was he stricken.

Isaiah 53:1-12

• And he made his grave with the wicked, and with the rich in his death; because he had done no violence, neither was any deceit in his mouth.
• Yet it pleased the Lord to bruise him; he hath put him to grief: when thou shalt make his soul an offering for sin, he shall see his seed, he shall prolong his days, and the pleasure of the Lord shall prosper in his hand.
• He shall see of the travail of his soul, and shall be satisfied: by his knowledge shall my righteous servant justify many; for he shall bear their iniquities.
• Therefore will I divide him a portion with the great, and he shall divide the spoil with the strong; because he hath poured out his soul unto death: and he was numbered with the transgressors; and he bare the sin of many, and made intercession for the transgressors.

CONCLUSION

JESUS CHRIST IS THE SON OF GOD

THE BIBLE IS THE WORD OF GOD

After speaking about this topic, what conclusion have you come �to regarding the divine origin �of the Bible?

�We can conclude that the Bible is the Word of God and that Jesus Christ is the eternal Son of God.

Thank you God, �for revealing

the future!

• The next topic: �What is the cause of so much suffering? �A question that many have asked, but have not found �the answer to.
• Why do the innocent suffer?
• Did God create an evil world?
• What is our true origin and destiny?
• Where do we come from and where are we going?
• Is there a solution or a way to escape from so much suffering?

All of these questions will be analyzed and a true solution to the problems we live with will be presented.

May the Lord bless you!

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