Divine Prophecy Provides Overwhelming Evidence!

Prophecy is the foretelling of an event in such detail before it happens, so as to necessarily require divine guidance. The Bible is a book containing hundreds of detailed prophecies. For example, there are well over sixty distinct predictions in regard to our divine Savior Jesus Christ.

Not only were some these predictions made one thousand years before Christ came from heaven to earth, but with regard to His crucifixion, they were made over five hundred years before crucifixion was first used anywhere in the world as a form of capital punishment!

A scientist once picked out forty-eight such prophecies and determined that the probability of one man randomly fulfilling them all is one in ten to the exponent of one hundred fifty-seven. That is “one” followed by one hundred fifty-seven zeros!

Yet, Jesus fulfilled all the prophecies! (Luke 24:44; cf. Luke 18:31-34).

There's absolutely no question in this writer's mind that the fulfillment of divine prophecy provides us with overwhelming evidence that Jesus Christ is truly "The Lamb of God who takes away the sin of the world" (John 1:29).

Here are sixty prophecies of Christ by subject categories and their subsequent fulfillment.

—Mike Riley, Gospel Snippets