Bible Prophecy Proves the Bible True Agenda • Some of the Prophecies that have come true in the past – Israel - Duet 28-30, Jer.30-31 • Proving the age of the Bible – The dead sea scrolls • Prophecies in modern times – Daniel – Revelation • What this means to us today Fulfilled Prophecy Babylon - shall become heaps - Jer. 5137 Fulfilled Prophecy Nineveh - empty, void & waste - Nah.2:10 Fulfilled Prophecy Egypt - basest of kingdoms Ezekiel 29: 15; 30 :13 Cairo today Old Egypt Fulfilled Prophecy Tyre - place to spread nets Ezekiel 26: 4,5,12,14 Replica - 600 B.C. Today Proving the Age of the Bible •First of the Dead Sea Scrolls were found by Bedouin shepherds in 1948 •They were found in these caves by the Dead Sea •The DSS date to approximately the time of Christ and earlier •Almost every book of the Hebrew Bible (the Old Testament) was among the collection •Oh, by the way, the scrolls survived for thousands of years because of the dry climate Proving the Age of the Bible • The Prophecies of Daniel were ALL found at Qumran Daniels Prophecies - BC611 Babylon 610 - 542 Medo-Persia 542-334 Grecian 334-30 Roman BC30 - 1860 Divided 1860 - Today RevelationSeljuks, Mongols, Tärtrz & Ottomans “Loose the four messengers which are bound by the great river Euphrates” Revelation 9:15 •Seljuk Empire 1055-1243 Tugrul Bey •Mongolian Empire 1206-1405 Genghis Khan •Timurid Dynasty 1166-1490 Tamerlane •Ottoman Empire 1307 - 1683 Osman RevelationSeljuks Empire 1055-1243 RevelationMongolian Empire 1206-1405 RevelationTimurid Dynasty 1405-1490 RevelationOttoman Empire 1307 - 1683 RevelationSeljuks, Mongols, Tärtrz & Ottomans “Hair of women, and their teeth were as the teeth of lions” Rev.9:8 • Mosaic, Archeology Museum RevelationSeljuks, Mongols, Tärtrz & Ottomans “the sound of chariots many horses running to battle” Rev.9:9 • Inaugeration of Genghis Khan, founder of the Mongol empire • May 7, 1253 • Tughril Beg- 40,000 • Genghis Khan - 500,000 • Osmän I - 300,000 • Tamerlane- 100,000 RevelationSeljuks, Mongols, Tärtrz & Ottomans • “They had tails like scorpions, and there were stings in their tails” Rev.9:10 • 300 Kg stone, 1 mile, making hole 6ft deep, felt 12½ miles away What’s it matter to me? • Daniel predicts a stone about now • Revelation predicts Armageddon about now • The Bible has been right in the past with unerring accuracy • The Bible will get the future right The End “And take heed to yourselves, lest at any time your hearts be overcharged with surfeiting, and drunkenness, and the cares of this life, and so that day comes unawares. For as a snare shall it come on all them that dwell on the face of the whole earth. Watch ye therefore and pray always that ye may be accounted worthy to escape all things that shall come to pass” - Luke 21:34-36