KneEmail - a devotional by Mike Benson associated with Forthright Magazine
Time
TIME-PROPHECIES WERE to serve as cumulative proofs from age to age, of the inspiration of the Bible...
They were to take the place of living prophets and miracle workers, in the ages after those ceased. Miracles could be seen only by a few any time. Fulfilled prophecy is a miracle of mind that may be seen by all, as age after age adds that measure of fulfillment then due (A.M. Morris, The Prophecies Unveiled, Preface, vii).
Thus, fulfilled prophecy serves to strengthen our faith in God's holy Word, but it can also be an effective tool in converting those outside of Christ; especially in strengthening their belief in the Bible as being of divine origin.
Prophecies are found throughout the Bible, and concern many people and events. Bible prophecies often consist of minute details of events far in the future. Their fulfillment is clear, not equivocal or ambiguous. Since many were fulfilled hundreds of years after they were given, no one can deny that they could not have been of human origin, and therefore must come from God.
There are said to be 333 such prophecies in the Old Testament, which tell of the coming Messiah. (Walter Swain)
KneEmail: "But those things which God foretold by the mouth of all His prophets, that the Christ would suffer, He has thus fulfilled. Repent therefore and be converted, that your sins may be blotted out, so that times of refreshing may come from the presence of the Lord" ( Acts 3:18-19).