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THE GOSPEL TRUTH thing which the LORD has not spoken; the prophet has spoken it presumptuously; you shall not be afraid of him.” God alone knows the future, “which turns on many slippery and very tricky ball-bearings” as one historian said. God alone can prophesy the future. The Scriptures are unique in that in the Old Testament alone, there are over 2,000 prophecies that have already come to pass. You will look in vain for anything like this in the world. If we consider all the other religions of the world, there are twenty-six books which the followers of these religions claim to be divinely inspired—the books themselves make no such claim— and the books contain no specific prophecies. Of the more than 2,000 prophecies found in the Bible, 333 deal with the coming of the Messiah. There is no other individual in the history of mankind whose entire life has been so prophetically and predictively detailed. Frederich Meldau points out that as few as five simple points of identification can single out any individual from all of the 6 billion other people that live on this planet, and yet with Christ we have 333 points of identification. For example, suppose your name is Lester B. Smith, and somewhere in the world an envelope with that name and the address 4143 Madison Avenue, Chicago, Illinois, U.S.A. is mailed. It doesn’t matter in what country that letter is mailed, it will ultimately come to you, because it has the five key points of identification: the country, the state, the city, the street, 91
THE DA VINCI MYTH VS THE GOSPEL TRUTH and your name. Note that one point alone is not sufficient for identification. A Christian once showed an educated unbeliever one of the 333 Old Testament prophecies concerning Christ. After reading it, the skeptic said that he thought that for purposes of identifying Christ it was very weak and unsatisfactory. To which the young Christian replied, “I agree with you.” “What?” The skeptic exclaimed. “You agree with me?” “Yes,” said the Christian, “I think it is weak and unsatisfactory in the same way that I think a single thread is weak and unsatisfactory to handle any great weight and can be easily snapped. And yet if we take 333 such threads and wind them together, no man, not even the two strongest men we could find, would be able to break the cord produced by the combined threads. So it is with these prophecies. Though any of them may appear to be weak and unsatisfactory in identifying the Messiah, when all 333 of them come together, they present a case which is unbreakable.” Similarly, if I were to take one piece from a box containing a large jigsaw puzzle, which, when assembled, pictured the face of a famous individual, and I were to say to you, “Oh, I recognize this. It’s Abraham Lincoln.” You would not be easily convinced. But when all the pieces of the puzzle were in place, the features of our sixteenth President would be clearly delineated and it would be easy for you to recognize him. Here are some of the prophecies Jesus fulfilled: 92
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