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What is the Message?

What in your opinion is bible prophecy, what is it based on, where should it appear and why, for what reason?

Public Comments

1. Bible prophecy is nonsense, just like all prophecy.

2. All prophecy has been fulfilled except for the destruction of the physical and Judgment at the coming of Christ.

3. If you study prophecy in the Bible, it has some common themes:

It is always about the Kingdom of God and its future.
It is always delivered to or interpreted by Jewish people.
It is almost always delivered to Jews within the Jewish nation (though there are some notable exceptions to this.)
It always comes in the form of short term predictions (which, when they come true, validate the prophetic credibility of the prophet) and long term predictions that come to pass much further in the future.
Its specificity varies, depending upon the time until the events predicted. Events to occur soon are very specific, events to come much later are much less specific.
Very often, events are predicted on multiple occasions (and sometimes by multiple prophets) with multiple details.
Looking at prophecy from a distance is often like looking at a distant mountain range, and it is difficult to determine the distance between predicted events.

4. Bible prophecy is a set of predictions of contemporary and end-time events. These predictions can be found in many different places. In the book of Daniel you will find prediction of contemporary events such as Nebuchadnezzar taking temporary leave of his throne to wander in the wilderness in a state of insanity in ch. 4.

Daniel also predicted the succession of Nebuchadnezzar's kingdom by the Medes and the Persians (Dan. 2; 5:24-31). In fact, his prediction takes us beyond the Medes and Persians reign, but it tell about the succession of world kingdoms leading up to the Second Coming of Christ (Dan. 2 and 7).

In the book of Revelation mainly focuses on last-day events such as the coming of the Antichrist in chapter 13, the outpouring of the seven last plagues in ch. 16, and the Second Coming of Christ in chapter 19.