Acts 1 verse 11
"This same Jesus, who was taken up from you into heaven, will so come in like manner as you saw Him go into heaven."
This was a prophecy given to the gathering who watched Jesus ascend back up into heaven; it was a prophecy that the Lord Jesus Christ was going to come back some day from Heaven to this old earth of ours.
Some people might say … what’s a Prophecy? — and why should I care?
Do you know that of all the prophecies written in the Bible about events that were supposed to have taken place by now, every one has been fulfilled with 100% accuracy.
In the Old Testament there are 300 prophecies of the first coming of the Messiah, all of them made hundreds of years before the birth of Jesus, and all fulfilled exactly in Jesus Christ, the Messiah.
George Heron, a French mathematician, calculated that the odds of one man fulfilling just 40 of those prophecies are 1 in 10 to the power of 157. That is a 1 followed by 157 zeros.
Compare it to this; your odds on winning the lottery are 14 million to 1 … that’s 14 followed by 6 zeros.
Another mathematician, Dr. Peter S. Ruckman, claims the odds of just 60 of them being fulfilled by the only person who claimed to be the Son of God, and who died on a "cross" on Calvary, and who rose the 3rd day are astronomical!... not just one in one trillion, but one out of ten to the 895th power. That is a one over a one followed by 895 zeros.
Every single one of those 300 prophecies in the O.T., written hundreds of years before Mary gave birth to the Lord Jesus, were fulfilled exactly as described in the birth, life, death, resurrection and ascension of Christ.
Now if that doesn’t give us confidence in the accuracy of the Bible - I don’t know what will!
And if those 300 prophecies about Christ’s first coming all came true – then I think it’s reasonable to assume that every single one of the 700+ prophecies in the Bible about His return – otherwise known as the Second Coming of Christ - will also come true exactly as predicted.
Are YOU READY for that day when Christ will burst through the clouds? …or will you leave it too late?
Perhaps you read this blog and up to now, you haven't accepted Jesus Christ as your Saviour.
God LOVES YOU
His Son JESUS died to pay the penalty for YOUR SINS
Why not put your trust in Jesus TODAY - before it's too late?
God loves us all so much that He doesn’t want anyone of us to perish.
2 Peter 3 verse 9
"The Lord is not slack concerning His promise, as some count slackness, but is longsuffering toward us, not willing that any should perish but that all should come to repentance."
