Can you please show me the most convincing bible prophecy in the bible?
one that was fulfilled outside the bible and is not self fulfilling or vague?
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1. The Messiah ben David must:
1. have the correct genealogy by being descended from King David and King Solomon,
2. be anointed King of Israel,
3. return the Jewish People to Israel,
4. rebuild the Temple in Jerusalem,
5. bring peace to the world and end all war,
6. bring knowledge of God to the world.
Non of this prophecy was fulfilled. I'm convinced the bible is crap.
2. There are so many. One of my favorites is the one in Daniel chapter 2 that reveals the world's kingdoms from 603BC, down to our time, and beyond.
3. Isaiah 7:14:
"Therefore the Lord himself will give you a sign: The virgin will be with child and will give birth to a son, and will call him Immanuel"
He was 700 years late, was never called "Immanuel" and the "virgin will be with child" part was added through mistranslation, but Christians say "Close enough, another prophecy fulfilled, praise Jesus!"
4. >There are so many. One of my favorites is the one in Daniel chapter 2 that reveals the world's kingdoms from 603BC, down to our time, and beyond.
Except that Daniel was written after the events depicted.
5. See, that's a part of the problem, I' m supposed to figure out what is convincing to you, when I'm not you. If I told you prophesies from Daniel that have already happened, you might have no intellectual connection to history, and so wouldn't appreciate it. I could try to convince you of the gap theory of Isaiah 61:1 - 2 and your attention span could be next to zero.
So do it yourself. Your question suggests to me that you want a quick answer. I have to study, if you want to know stuff like that, study.
6. A few generations back, Sir Robert Anderson, head of the investigative division of Scotland Yard, and the London Royal Observatory confirmed one of the biblical prophesies concerning Jesus Christ. The accuracy of this prophecy is dead on as you'll soon discover.
Know and understand this: From the issuing of the decree to restore and rebuild Jerusalem until The Anointed One the Ruler comes there will be seven weeks and sixty two weeks. It will be rebuilt with streets and a trench but in times of trouble. (Daniel 9:25).
This prophecy speaks of a time period called a "week" which is a span of seven years much like our decade equals 10 years. When this message was given to Daniel by the Angel Gabriel, Jerusalem had lain in ruin for nearly 70 years and the Jews were being held captive in Babylon.
Counting forward for 62 + 7 periods of 7 years each from a future decree giving the Jews permission to restore and rebuild Jerusalem, they should expect the Messiah. That’s a total of 483 years after the decree is issued.
When he conquered Babylon in 535BC Cyrus the Persian immediately freed the Jews. This event had been prophesied 150 years earlier in Isaiah 44:24-45:6 and was fulfilled in Ezra 1:1-4. And according to Nehemiah 2:1-6 the decree to rebuild Jerusalem was given by King Artaxerxes Longimanus of Persia in the first month of the 20th year of his reign (March 15, 445 BC on our calendar, about 90 years later).
By plotting the times of all the full moons in ancient history the investigators determined that by adding 483 years to the March 14, 445 BC date, you arrive at April 6, 32AD, the first Palm Sunday, the date Jesus rode into Jerusalem as the Anointed Son of God. Using the Hebrew calendar better explains the accuracy of this prophecy. The decree was issued 10 Nisan 445BC and fulfilled on 10 Nisan 32AD –– 483 years to the day.
How they did the calculations ...
According to Sir Robert Anderson of Scotland Yard, and the London Royal Observatory, there were exactly 173,880 days from the issuing of the decree by Artaxerxes on March 14, 445 BC to the first Palm Sunday on April 6, 32AD. You have to know some bits of esoteric information to arrive at this number. First you have to add a day for every four years but subtract one for every hundred. Second there’s no year zero. It goes from 1BC to 1AD. Then you have to subtract the days from Jan 1 to Mar 14 of the year 445 and the days from April 6 to Dec. 31 in the year 32. Finally, there’s strong evidence that God’s way of counting years never varied from the original 360 days, the way he created them. When you divide 173,880 by 360 you get exactly 483 years. You can find all the math in Anderson’s book, The Coming Prince, a commentary on Daniel 9:24-27.
There were over 300 prophecies related to the First Coming. All were fulfilled within the span of one generation (about 70 years according to Psalm 90:10 and Isaiah 23:15). There are over 500 prophecies relating to the Second Coming, and again all will be fulfilled within the span of one generation (Matt 24:34). Many scholars believe that generation began with the first of the so-called End Times signs, the establishment of a nation Israel on May 15, 1948. No other prophesies can be fulfilled without a nation Israel in place. And just as with the First Coming our leaders no longer take the Bible literally and the validity of predictive prophecy is being denied. But just as before the Lord holds us accountable to “recognize the time of God’s coming.”
7. The work that Jehovah’s servants are to do was foretold as part of the composite sign indicating that we are in the last days of this present wicked system of things. Jesus described this global work when he enumerated various things that would happen in the time of the end. Included in his prophecy was this meaningful statement: “This good news of the kingdom will be preached in all the inhabited earth for a witness to all the nations; and then the end will come.”—Matt. 24:14.
7 Think of some facts related to that detail of Jesus’ prophecy. The number of people proclaiming the good news was very small when the last days began in 1914. By now that number has grown to huge proportions. There are more than 7,000,000 Witnesses of Jehovah preaching throughout the earth, organized into more than 100,000 congregations. An additional 10,000,000 people gathered with Jehovah’s Witnesses in 2008 on the occasion of the Memorial of Christ’s death. That was a significant increase in attendance over the preceding year.
8 What a mighty witness about God’s Kingdom is being given in all nations before this system’s end comes! That is despite the fact that Satan is “the god of this system of things.” (2 Cor. 4:4) All political, religious, and commercial elements of this world as well as its propaganda channels are being influenced by him. What, then, accounts for the amazing success of the witness work? It has to be Jehovah’s backing. Thus, the Kingdom-preaching work proceeds marvelously despite Satan’s attempts to stop it.
9 The success of the Kingdom-preaching work and the growth and spiritual prosperity of Jehovah’s people can be described as a miracle. Without God’s support, which includes his guidance and protection of his people, the preaching work would not be possible. (Read Matthew 19:26.) We can be sure that with God’s holy spirit working on the hearts of vigilant people who are willing to serve, this preaching work will be carried on to a successful conclusion, “and then the end will come.” That time is rapidly approaching.
8. The Abrahamic Covenant:
God promised to make of Ishmael a great nation, but Isaac a greater nation...
It actually happened, that's why Christians are a lot more and powerful than muslims today
I'm sorry if I've offended anyone, its not my wish!
Search for it in the book of Genesis, you have to study the Bible to know all these things...
Stay Blessed!