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The Old Testament was written over a period of 1000 years. During that time God gave his prophets over 300 prophecies concerning the messiah’s coming. In the Old Testament there are 60 major messianic prophecies and 270 minor prophecies or conditions that was fulfilled by one person. That person was Jesus Christ.

Mathematician professor Peter Stoner and his class done the calculations in reference to eight major prophecies and found that the chance that any man might have lived to the present time and fulfilled all eight prophecies is 1 in 100,000,000,000,000,000. Or to put it in perspective, Stoner determined that would be like covering the state of Texas 2 ft. deep in quarters, mark one quarter, bury it somewhere in Texas, blindfold a person and tell him to go find it on the 1st try. They determined that the odds for someone to fulfill 48 of the prophecies was 1 in 13 trillion. Amazing isn't it that Jesus not only fulfilled those 48 prophecies but he also fulfilled all 330 prophecies. God did not intend that there be any mistake about who the Messiah was.

Lets look at some of the major prophecies that God gave us through his prophets in the Old Testament. We can track the lineage of Jesus in Genesis from Adam to his birth. Genesis and Jeremiah both specified his ancestry; he would be a descendant of Shem, Abraham, Isaac and Jacob, from the tribe of Judah, the house of David. In Isaiah 7:14, we're told that the Messiah will be born of a virgin. In Micah 5:2 we're told that he would be born in Bethlehem. Isaiah 53 pictures a messiah who would suffer and die for the sins of Israel and the World. This was 700 years before Jesus. Isaiah predicted the Jews would reject him and the Gentiles would believe in him. Psalms 22 foretold the crucifixion of Jesus 800 years before crucifixion was invented by the Romans.

Psalms tells us that the Messiah would be betrayed by a friend for 30 pieces of silver and that it would cast on the floor of the temple and used to buy a potters field, and that's exactingly what happened.

Malachi 3:1 tells us that the Messiah would come while the Temple of Jerusalem is still standing. The temple was destroyed about 37 years after Jesus Ascension and has never been rebuilt since.

Isaiah 40:3 and Malachi 3:1 states that there will be a forerunner for the Messiah, a voice in the wilderness, one preparing the way before the Lord, John the Baptist fulfilled that prediction.

God thru the Old Testament predicted the precise lineage of Jesus, the time of his coming, the details of his birth, the place of his birth, his betrayal by a friend, (Judas), and the betrayal price. The manner of his death, the people’s reaction, the casting of dice for his clothes, the non-tearing of his garments, his resurrection and hundreds of other prophecies and details.

END TIME EVENTS

If you think that Jesus’s first coming was a big event, well hold on because,the second coming is mentioned three times as often in the Bible as His first coming. Does that mean that its three times as likely to happen? That its three times as big an event. The first time Christ came as a baby. The second time He will come as a King and Conqueror.

Actually there are two parts to the second coming. The first part is the rapture, when all true believers will meet Jesus in the sky and be transported back to Heaven with Him. This is a event only for the believers. The unbeliever will not see it happen. They will suddenly realize that people are missing, maybe right before their eyes.

In the New Testament book of Revelation, and the Old Testament book of Daniel we can follow the events of the Tribulation. There will be those that turn to God during this time, however as the Tribulation continues the devil and his demons will be more and more in control until at last it ends at Armageddon. At this time the great Lord Jesus, the King of kings and Lord of lords will descend with the armies of Heaven and put an end once and for all to the evils of the devil and Antichrist.

Ezekiel's prophecy 2600 years ago of the alignment of nations for and against Israel squares very closely with what is happening in the world right now. Ezekiel foretold a time when Russia would attack Israel along with Iran, Ethiopia, Libya, and others. Never once in history has Russia formed a military connection with Iran, (formerly Persia–name changed in 1935), until now. This is an end time alliance that was prophesied 2600 years ago. The new European power structure will fulfill the prophetic predictions which tell us that a one world system will be implemented. When established it will fall into the hands of the Antichrist.

The events are now shaping up for the start of the tribulation that will lead to Armageddon. The only event that needs to happen first is the disappearance of the true believers, known as the rapture. There is nothing else that is predicted that needs to happen before Christ returns to take the believers home. All the Biblical predictions that are yet unfulfilled take place after the rapture. We can see the world shaping up now, leading to the fulfillment of those prophecies. The antichrist will appear after the rapture. Everything is in place. Christ is surely returning soon.

Prelude To The Antichrist

The Bible tells that most of the end time events will be centered around Israel and the middle east and because of oil, the world’s attention is already focused on that area.

Twenty-six hundred years God gave king Nebuchadnezzar a vision in a dream. In this dream, which the prophet Daniel interpreted:

“ there is a God in heaven who reveals mysteries. He has shown King Nebuchadnezzar what will happen in the days to come.” (Daniel 2:28) God said that from then until the end, there would be four Gentile kingdoms that would rule over Israel. Later God gave Daniel much more detailed visions of what would occur before the end would take place. God was very specific about the kingdoms that would rule over Israel.

The first would be King Nebuchadnezzar and his kingdom of Babylon (Daniel 2:37-38). The second kingdom would be the Medo Persian empire (Daniel 2:39, 5:28, 8:20). The third kingdom would be Greece, with Alexander the Great (Daniel 2:39, 8:21). The fourth kingdom will be the (revived) Roman empire (Daniel 2:40).

God said that out of the fourth kingdom, ten kings would rise up. We know that this is still in the future, as never in the history of Rome has there been ten different kingdoms or even ten different leaders. God also said that the fourth kingdom would be in place at the end and would be suddenly destroyed. This too will be in the future since history tells us the the Roman empire slowly declined over many centuries on its own.

Today we can see Daniel’s prophecy being fulfilled in the form of the European Union, which occupies the same territory that the Roman empire occupied. The European Union now has 27 member nations and has set up their own government, with a parliament, council of the European Union, and the European Commission. In 1999 they created their own currency in the form of the euro to replace their different currencies with just one. If countries start refusing to take the dollar as Iran has done for oil payments, Iran will now accept only the euro for oil payments, this could force countries to convert to the euro. The European Union is moving closer to a one world government.

Out of the European Union we can expect ten nations to rise to prominence. From one of these Gentile nations the antichrist will emerge.