Psychics make predictions, but:

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• Psychics make predictions, but
• 1. rarely more than 60 accurate
• 2. based on informed guesses
• Their messages are from Satan
• They do not call to repentance
• Bible prophecies are different

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I Only God Can Prophecy

1. Is.414, 22, Gods challenge to idols (1 K.18)
2. Is.429, former prophesies produce trust
   (Jn.1319)
3. Is.446-7, former prophecies prove a point
4. Is.4426, the order

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II Prophecy Is Not Mere Prediction

• Dt.131-5. God allowed guesses
• 2 Th.210-12
• Dt.1818, 21-22
• God's prophets are 100 accurate no room for
  error

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III The Test Of Prophecy

1. Must be beyond our ability to see
2. Must be written before the event
3. Must describe the event prophesied
4. Language must be explicit, unequivocal
5. Fulfillment must be clear

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IV A Few Prophecies Fulfilled In Christ

• 1. Gn.315, the first promise
• 1. Serpent 2. Woman
• 1a. Offspring 2a Offspring 3. Male
• But how do I know this?
• Early Targums Messianic
• LXX broke rules of grammar to show
  masculine gender
• Ga.44 Ro.1620 Hb.214 Rv.12

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2. Gn.498-10, narrowed to one tribe Judah

• Scepter. Targum Pseudo Jonathanon (v.11) How
  noble is the King, Mes-siah, who is going to rise
  from the house of Judah
• Shiloh title of Messiah
• When He comes, authority will pass from Judah
  to Messiah. Ezk.2126f.
• By AD 70, Judah had disappeared

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3. 2 Sm.7, lineage of David

• 5, prophetic formula
• 11, house
• not a dwelling place
• a dynasty (royal family lineage)
• 12, kingdom (16, 19)
• 1000 B.C. Mt.11

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4. Is.714, virgin. 700 BC

• 1-6, son of Tabeel vs promises of God
• 10-12, Ahaz
• 13-14, sign for house of David
• Immanuel
• El in Isaiah is always a name of God the
  prophet was ever strongly con- scious of the
  antithesis between El and Adam, as ch.313
  clearly shows
• Mt.118-25, genealogy

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5. Mic. 52, Bethlehem Ephratah

• Small village 5 m. south of Jerusalem
• Joseph and Mary lived in Nazareth (Lk.226-27
  239)
• Mt.21-6, Jews knew the prophecy
• They didnt realize Jesus fulfilled it

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6. Is.403-4, messenger of Lord

• 7. Is.53, His death
• 20 prophecies in 24 hour period
• 8. Is.1610, His resurrection
• Ac.229-31

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Summary

1. Prophecies were made hundreds of years before
   fulfillment
2. Could not have been made by intelligent guesses
   or signs of the times
3. Jesus could not manipulate them
4. OT canon closed about 400 B.C