Prophecy

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Fulfilled Prophecies

Old Testament texts Christians have read as pointing to the first coming of Christ, plus a few claims people say He did not fulfill. Look one up by title or verse, or read a whole group. Each one shows how it was first stated, then how it was fulfilled. Debated and claimed texts are marked.

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Feasts of the First Coming

The appointments the apostles treat as filled. Passover, unleavened bread, firstfruits, and Pentecost are named. Atonement is autumn on the calendar and still a work Hebrews puts on the cross.

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From Daniel to Christ

Daniel wrote in the sixth century BC. His visions trace four empires, a cruel king, and a countdown that lands on the week Jesus rode into Jerusalem. Part 1 of The God Who Keeps Time.

Underneath The Book and Its Four Visions, Babylon: The Head of Gold, Medo-Persia: Silver, a Bear, and a Ram, Greece: Bronze, a Leopard, and a Goat, The Kings of the North and the South, Antiochus IV Epiphanes, Rome: Iron, Clay, and the Little Horn, How Skeptics Answer Daniel, The Sixty-Nine Weeks, The Time of Your Visitation

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The Covenants

The covenants God made, one at a time. See where each one was made and what God bound Himself to. Adam is marked debated, because readers disagree whether the word covenant belongs there.

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Feasts of Israel

The appointed feasts God gave Israel, and a few later ones. “These are My appointed feasts, the feasts of the LORD.” Several of them point to Christ: “Christ, our Passover lamb, has been sacrificed.”

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The Second Coming

History is not a circle. Christ will return. This sitting is the short door. The texts are on the reference shelves.

Underneath The Promise of His Coming, The Tribulation

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Watching Wisely

Understanding the signs with discernment and hope. Test every claim against Scripture, understand the major views fairly, watch the stage being set, and never set a date. Part 2 of The God Who Keeps Time.

Underneath False Predictions and the Hype, How Literally? Hermeneutics, The Three Major Views, The Seventieth Week, Ezekiel 38 and the Stage, Watching Without a Date

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The Seven Churches

Seven letters, seven cities, one skeleton. Where they stood, what is the same in every letter, and what Jesus actually says to each.

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The Four Horsemen

The Lamb opens four seals. A white horse, a red horse, a black horse, and a pale green horse. The text is more specific than the charts, and less specific than the preachers.

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Feasts and the Second Coming

Trumpets, the Day of Atonement, and Booths are the appointments people try to lay on a day still ahead. The suspicion is old. It is not a date, and the texts do not make it one.

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Marriage and Union

Jesus said that in the resurrection people will neither marry nor be given in marriage. Most Christians take that to mean the bond between a man and a woman ends. I read it a little more narrowly: marriage as an institution ends, but God's first design, man and woman made for each other, is not thrown away. Here is why, and where I could be wrong.

Underneath The Likeness of the Angels, The First Union, The Objections

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The Appearing of Christ

The hope of His return, by what is promised: He comes, the dead rise, the judgment, and the new earth. “This same Jesus… will come back in the same way you have seen Him go into heaven.”

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Prophecies of the Second Coming

Texts still ahead: His return, the trouble before the day, the dead raised, the judgment, Israel and the nations, His reign, and the new earth. Each entry holds one text with the verses that say the same thing. Debated texts are marked, and so are a few where some readers see a beginning already. This is a separate list from the first coming, and it does not argue for one end-times system.