In the ongoing Lebanon War/Prophecy thread Sidelined proposed the following challenge. Since an adequate response would have been too off topic for that thread, I've opened this thread for the purpose of accomodating Sideline's challenge with not just one but several of many which could be used.
sidelined writes:
Prophecies that have been fuliiled are debatable at best and piles of shit at worst. But what would be really , really, really significant would be if someone could take one of the prophecies and tell us exactly what and how something is going to occur before the fact rather than interpret the "prophecy" to fit after the fact.
Are you willing to do this or not buz? Is anyone you know willing to do this or not?
1. I've been doing this for 50 years since I first got interested in studying the Biblical prophecies. For example, the weekend before the Israeli/Arab block 6 day war, everyone knew it was going to happen.......20 million enemy against 2 million Jews involving all the surrounding nations of tiny Israel. Russia, quite powerful then supplied these nations with arms including mig fighters. Nasser of Egypt headlined that Israel was going to be "driven into the sea." My athiest friend/neighbor was quite confident that Israel was going to be soundly defeated. I assured him that Israel would win the war based on Bible prophecy. Well in six days, there the air forces of these nations were obliterated on the ground and burned out tanks littered the Sinai between Egypt and Israel. Things were about as bad on every front as Israel pre-empted on them.
2. I've been prophecying ever increasing global warming and catastrophic weather via it for decades based on Bible prophecies while most of my conservative friends in and out of church have been debunking it. Global warming and all that comes with it is ongoing with the effects of it causing more serious and frequent global disasters.
Young members and possibly some of the older as well will live to see a significant ever increasing incidence of drout, polution of the waters likely both by missile poisoning and natural phenomena , drying up of streams and rivers, et al. Every five years should register a noticeable worsening of drout and other effects of global warming if I am correct in assumption that we are indeed in the apocalyptic end times which these things are prophesied for.
For some global warming/drout prophecies check out the following references:
A. Revelation 16:3-8. Verse 8 says men will suffer greatly from the heat and the other verses imply stagnation of the waters.
B. Revelation 7:1 prophesies a time when the winds don't blow. No wind, no rain.
C. A number of references to a partial darkening of the sun and a blood red moon imply ever increasing cloudy and stagnant skies with much evaporation and little rain. This, imo, will be a factor in preparing the atmosphere for perfect weather for the messianic millenium. Two examples of references to this are Rev. 6:12 for the NT and Joel 3:15. There are others in both the OT and NT. Jesus in the accounts of the famous Olivet Discourse also mentions as happening before the
rapture i.e. the gathering of his elect from earth to heaven.
3. I am prophecying on the basis of Biblical prophecy that the Western powers including the US will diminish in power and influence. Russia and the Islamic fundy nations of the Mid East and North Africa will emerge to be the predominant world influence and military powers of the world with the blessings and support of the UN. Western nations will be reduced to whining and complaining about what these powers are doing around the world.
4. I have already predicted the likely nuking of Vatican City by either a communist nation or a radical Islamic nation here at EvC and I hold to that on the basis of my understanding of Revelation 18 and 19.
5. As for truce in Lebanon and the region around Israel, as I understand the prophecies, there will be one eventually established which will last about 3 1/2 years before Armageddon and then break down with an invasion of Jerusalem by Israel's enemies with the blessings and resolution of the UN. This is when the 2nd advent of Jesus occurs and the Armageddon happens with the Jerusalem defended but not before the city is invaded and with part of the city ravished and many killed or taken captive. At this time the Euphrates will be dried up and a huge army from the East, likely including China will move into the war. The enemies of Israel will become all be competing for dominance with them turing against one another. The slaughter will be greater of all these armies than anything in human history with the region littered with the dead of many nations.
There you have it and likely the non-Christian younger folks here who survive all the terrible latter day catastrophies will live to see the end. That's how near I see the end time prophecies play out. I could be mistaken, but I don't think so. The Christians who survive the tribulation, i.e. global holocaust of Christ's elect/saved will be sometime before Armageddon caught up out of the world by his angels as per the Olivet discourse recorded in Matthew 24, Luke 21 and Mark 13.
I will try to furnish Biblical references upon request for those who want any others than given.
I would like for this to go in The Bible: Accuracy and Inerrancy forum if another admin wishes to promote it. Thanks.
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