KneEmail - a devotional by Mike Benson associated with Forthright Magazine
Fulfilled
MATHEMATICIAN PETER W. Stoner, calculated the odds of one man's accidentally fulfilling eight Old Testament prophecies (Mic. 5:2; Mal. 3:1; Zec. 11:12, 13; 13:6; Isa. 53:7; Psa. 22:16...)
In his book, Science Speaks, he describes the method and formula. His conclusion is that the odds of one man's accidentally fulfilling eight Old Testament prophecies are 1 in 1032, which would be equal to 1 in 100,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000. To illustrate the probability, he said imagine the earth covered 120 feet deep in silver dollars; that would take 1021, or 1,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 silver dollars. Having painted one silver dollar red, blindfold a man, and let him walk until he wants to stop, have him reach down, choose one silver dollar, remove the blindfold, and in his hand is the one painted red. Those are the odds of one man's accidentally fulfilling eight Old Testament prophecies. Jesus fulfilled over 300 prophecies. (W. Timothy Wilkes, Sr.)
THOUGHT: Jesus is the Son of the living God.
KneEmail: "And he came and dwelt in a city called Nazareth, that it might be fulfilled which was spoken by the prophets, 'He shall be called a Nazarene" (Matt. 2:23).