The Bible and Prophecy]
The Bible
and Prophecy
Bible prophecy has foretold a number of
circumstances that have been realized
or
made possible only in modern times.
Among
these are:
Mass transportation and
knowledge explosion.
Daniel 12:4 says that in “the time of
the
end .. many shall run to and fro, and
knowledge shall increase.” This obviously does not
refer to the pace of travel and
learning in
Daniel’s day. It denotes a marked
departure
from what the world at that time was
accustomed to. This did not come until modern
science and industrialization gave
birth to
rapid mass transportation and the
knowledge
explosion of our current information
age.
Instant mass
communications.
Revelation 11:8-9 says of God’s
end-time
two witnesses: “And their dead bodies
will lie
in the street of the great city
[Jerusalem] .Then those from the peoples, tribes, tongues,
and nations will see their dead bodies
three-
and-a-half days.” For all the earth’s
peoples to
witness this requires such modern
technologies as satellite television, the Internet or some
other electronic communication medium,
all
unimaginable in the first century when
this
prophecy was written.
The population explosion.
Revelation 9:16 mentions a massive army
of 200 million. This is a staggering
figure even
today—though possible given the world
population. Yet when this prophecy was written in
the first century, the entire global
population
was “about 300 million. For a very long
time
the world population did not grow
significantly It took more than 1600 years for the world
population to double to 600 million”
(United
Nations,
The World at Six Billion,
1998). So
the idea of a 200-million-man army was
inconceivable—except to Bible prophecy, which
foresaw it.
Mass destruction and the
possibility
of human extinction.
The army mentioned above is influenced
by demonic powers “to kill a third of
mankind” (Revelation 9:15). Jesus Christ said
that in the last days there “will be a
time of
great distress, such as there has never
been
before since the beginning of the
world, and
will never be again. If that time of
troubles
were not cut short, no living thing
could
survive; but for the sake of God’s
chosen it
will be cut short” (Matthew 24:21-22,
REB).
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