Prophecy: Related Studies
These portions of Scripture are key to the theme of Prophecy in the Bible and might be included in a complete study of the subject.
Prophecy
What determines the future is what God has done in the past and what He has promised to do in the future. So don't look horizontally at current events.
Studies in Prophecy
| The Coming Time of Trouble |
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Zephaniah 1:14-18 |
| The Coming Man of Sin |
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Revelation 13 |
| The Coming King of Kings |
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Matthew 24:15-27 |
| The New Earth |
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Revelation 20-22 |
The poet James Russell Lowell once spoke of ... one far-off, divine event toward which the whole creation moves.
He meant by that the second coming of Jesus Christ to earth, the reappearance of the historic person of Jesus of Nazareth, not as he came the first time, in humiliation and weakness, as a man among men, but coming, as he himself declared, as the Son of God in power and great glory to establish a kingdom that will include the whole earth, and to rule over the nations.
From time to time it happens in human history that the events which are recorded moment by moment on television and radio, and day by day in our newspapers, are most sharply and clearly commented upon in the pages of the Bible. When this happens interest in the biblical account always revives, and we are grateful for this. But we always need to keep the following notion in mind: What determines the future is what God has done in the past and what He has promised to do in the future. So don't look horizontally at current events.
2 Peter 1:19-21 -- And we have the word of the prophets made more certain, and you will do well to pay attention to it, as to a light shining in a dark place, until the day dawns and the morning star rises in your hearts. Above all, you must understand that no prophecy of Scripture came about by the prophet's own interpretation. For prophecy never had its origin in the will of man, but men spoke from God as they were carried along by the Holy Spirit.
