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How Prophecies are Fulfilled
God reveals to his servants the prophets what is to come. That much is plain from the pages of the old testament. But prophecies were not always fulfilled in the way their recipients expected. God's ways are higher than our ways, and this is particularly true in the fulfilment of prophecy. Let us look then at how some ancient prophecies were fulfilled.
From the book of Genesis on there are prophecies of the coming Messiah. God told Eve that her offspring would bruise the serpent's head. Eve was greatly consoled and encouraged with this word from God, but she had no idea how it would happen. Probably she imagined some physical conflict. Perhaps she envisaged dead snakes lying around on the ground. With hindsight we can look back on events enormously greater and more significant than anything she could have imagined. Her far off descendant defeated all the powers of darkness, not by force of physical arms, but by offering himself as a sacrifice for the sins of the world.
God told Abraham that his descendants would be as numerous as the stars in the sky and as the sand on the seashore, and that through his offspring all nations on earth would be blessed. Millions of people today claim Abraham as their physical ancestor, and probably this is what Abraham understood the promise to mean. Four thousand years on we know that God's eye rested primarily on the multitudes of spiritual descendants that would be followers of Abraham's faith. The true fulfilment of the prophecy was better and higher than Abraham could have seen at the time.
God told Moses to tell the people that he would raise up a prophet like him from among their brothers. Jesus was like Moses in ways that a spiritual mind would understand. In other ways he was very different and many people would have totally failed to recognise the similarity. Moses delivered his people from the yoke of slavery in Egypt. Jesus did not deliver his people from their hated Roman overlords. Instead he delivered them from a far worse tyranny. He broke the yoke of sin and Satan from their backs.
God told David that he would establish the throne of his kingdom for ever. I imagine David was wonderfully happy to think of his descendants for hundreds and thousands of years sitting on his throne in Jerusalem. The fulfilment was very different, but much better than he had imagined. His throne was occupied for several hundred years by his descendants, but not for ever. A tragic day came when after a long siege the Babylonians breached the walls of Jerusalem. They put out king Zedekiah's eyes and led him captive to Babylon. They set fire to the royal palace and every important building in the city. What had happened to the prophecy God gave to David? The physical throne of David became desolate, but the spiritual throne of David will be occupied for all eternity. Jesus will reign, and his saints will reign with him, till he has put all enemies beneath his feet. The earthly Jerusalem has been trodden down by the gentiles for centuries and its throne left vacant, but the heavenly Jerusalem has Jesus on its throne. The fulfilment of the prophecy was better than David could have ever dreamt.
We can learn from these past fulfilments of prophecy. Before events take place we may know that wonderful things are coming, and we must prepare ourselves as best we can to play our part in God's purposes. Only with hindsight if ever will we fully understand God's plans, and, like the faithful of old, we will find they are far greater and more wonderful than we have ever imagined.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Rwy8zLjc2Y
What about Hell part3
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The Imminent Psalm 83 War Against Israel & Ezekiel 38-39 by Bill Salus
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aX02KR3wIF4
NEVILLE JOHNSON - Psa. 83 is a prophetic psalm predicting a future war in Israel by Islamic nations, and the nations that make an attack against Israel are actually named. In Psa. 83:4, 'They have said, Come, and let us cut them off from being a nation;' isn't that exactly what is being said today by many of the Islamic nations? '
The Psalm 83 Prophecy
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oQ1Oo4vGOJY
Psalm 83 reveals an alliance of nations that will come against Israel--including America, Britain and the small nation of Israel in the Middle East. Such an alliance never happened anciently. This alliance is forming today!
Psalm 83 Is Being Fulfilled
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8PlavrC9nbE
A great prophecy has begun to be fulfilled, and it's almost totally unnoticed in this world, and yet before long this world is going to be totally shocked and in wonder at the development of this prophecy in your Bible. When that's completely fulfilled, it's going to change everybody's mind.The first visible sign of this prophecy has now been manifested in the little Mediterranean country of Lebanon in the Middle East.
The Psalms 83 war
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Lj7PZT4j3Q
Published on 21 Nov 2012
The upcoming war in Israel is coming and it is mentioned in Psalms 83. Written over 2500 years ago, by Asaph, the high priest of David, this Psalms describes the conspiracy between nations to destroy Israel by its neighboring nations which consist of Lebanon, Saudi Arabia, Jordan, Hamas in Gaza, Arab muslims in West Bank, Egypt, Syria, etc and in this Psalm Asaph asks the LORD to look at His nation and people Israel and to protect her from her enemies. This war results in Israel's supernatural victory by the hand of God and Israel takes over its original land boundaries in Genesis.
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