God’s Own Challenge to Disbelievers
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Consider the following extraordinary challenge—or dare—from the One purporting to be the God of the Bible. It is quoted from the Moffat translation of the Bible:
“Now, the Eternal cries, bring your case forward, now, Jacob’s King (God) cries, state your proofs. Let us hear what happened in the past, that we may ponder it, or show me what is yet to be, that we may watch how it turns out; yes, let us hear what is coming, that we may be sure you are gods; come, do something or other that we may marvel at the sight!—why, you are things of naught, you can do nothing at all!” (Isa. 41:21-24).
Who dares to take God’s challenge?
Fulfilled prophecy proves the divine authority of the Bible. No human can foretell events, let alone in great detail, to occur hundreds or thousands of years beyond his own lifetime. No person can affect the course of cities, states or kingdoms for centuries to come. For this reason, it has been said that prophecy is the challenge that the skeptics dare not accept! How true!
God taunts all such skeptics in the above verses.
The One who authored the Bible states in Isaiah 46:9-10: “I am God, and there is none else; I am God, and there is none like Me, declaring the end from the beginning, and from ancient times the things that are not yet done, saying, My counsel shall stand…”
Only an Omnipotent Being has the power to actually carry out events that span centuries or millennia of time. Only God can create or destroy nations or pronounce sentence on an entire civilization and bring it to pass!
Yes, prophecy is an enormous proof of God. We will now examine the longest single prophecy in the Bible.