In the "Ancient ice shelf breaks free in Arctic - Signs of the end?"
I noted corroborating prophecies to bolster Lysimachus's suggestion that the ice melt was a sign of the latter days predicted by Jesus and the prophets of the Bible. I was challenged by some to substantiate my claims of corroborating fulfilled prophecies as evidence of the credence of the Biblical account.
So lets in this thread discuss some of those prophecies. We'll begin with the prophecies implying the emergence in the latter days of the industrial revolution.
1. Travel will increase. Of course, the horse was the fast road for humans for all the milleniums until the emergence of the industrial revolution. Prophecies implying increase of and faster travel:
Daniel 12:4 (about 530BC) Daniel says: "But thou, O Daniel, shut up the words, and seal the book, even to the time of the end: many shall run to and fro, and knowledge shall be increased."
Item: increase of knowledge and travel.
Fast chariots/wheeled vehicles, auto wrecks, torches equate combustion, et al. Nah. 2:3, 4 --"The shield of his mighty men is made red, the valiant men are in scarlet: the chariots shall be with flaming torches in the day of his preparation, and the fir trees shall be terribly shaken. The chariots shall rage in the streets, they shall justle one against another in the broad ways: they shall seem like torches, they shall run like the lightnings."
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In 1927 in Signs of the Times, John Lewis Shuler wrote: "Sir Isaac Newton made a most daring forecast two hundred years ago regarding a future development in rapid transit, which at that time seemed absolutely beyond the possibility of ever seeing realization. Newton declared that he was convinced from a study of Bible prophecy that there was destined to be a marvelous increase in the speed of transportation on the earth.
“”I believe,’ Newton said, ”that in the providence of God, though the method now be entirely hidden, men will yet travel on the earth at the rate of fifty miles an hour.’ Newton lived from 1642-1727. In his day the most rapid travel by land was by horse. Stagecoaches drawn about eight miles an hour by horses held the record on land."
I imagine that many would have thought that Newton was crazy when he based such a wild prophecy for his day on what he had read in the Bible. He was certainly right, even if he grossly underestimated the speed at which people would travel in the future. Imagine if he could have seen our day when thousands of people are flying daily across the world at speeds more like 500 mph., not to mention the incredible speed that astronauts travel when circling the earth and/or fly to the moon.
Signs of the Times
Computer tech and cashless money and TV et al:
Revelation 13:14 to 17
Rev writes:
14And he deceiveth them that dwell on the earth by reason of the signs which it was given him to do in the sight of the beast; saying to them that dwell on the earth, that they should make an image to the beast who hath the stroke of the sword and lived. 15And it was given unto him to give breath to it, even to the image to the breast, that the image of the beast should both speak, and cause that as many as should not worship the image of the beast should be killed. 16And he causeth all, the small and the great, and the rich and the poor, and the free and the bond, that there be given them a mark on their right hand, or upon their forehead; 17and that no man should be able to buy or to sell, save he that hath the mark, even the name of the beast or the number of his name.
The below cited scriptural prophecy also implies world government where all nations are imposed upon by the events cited.
Revelation 13:7-10 writes:
And it was given unto him to make war with the saints, and to overcome them: and apower was given him over all kindreds, and tongues, and nations.
8 And all that dwell upon the earth shall worship him, whose names are not written in the abook of life of the bLamb slain from the cfoundation of the world.
9 If any man have an ear, let him hear.
10 He that leadeth into captivity shall go into captivity: he that akilleth with the sword must be killed with the sword. Here is the bpatience and the faith of the csaints.
There are other scriptural prophecies implying world government.
There are scores of prophecies in the OT and others in the NT indicating Israels rebirth as as nation in the latter days, including the Olivet Discourse in Luke 21.
These are starters. Other members may cite other examples in this thread. It's open to discussion on the prophecies in general.
Biblical Accuracy and Inerrancy please.
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