JAN 31

Deuteronomy 18:21-22
Memorise Deuteronomy 18:21-22
“How shall we know the word which the LORD hath not spoken?“

If the Bible is the inerrant and infallible Word of God, as it claims (2 Timothy 3:16, 2 Peter 1:21), we would expect there to be evidence supporting this. After all, just because something claims to be the Word of God does not make it true. The truth is that the Bible itself is full of evidence of prophecy – over 600 of them – that have been fulfilled. In Deuteronomy 18:21-22, God evidently knows that there would be people who would doubt His prophets, or try to seek assurance that the words that the prophets speak or pen are indeed the very words of God. One method which God suggests, is to see if the prophecy given actually comes to pass or not.

As we study the Bible in our present day and age, we see beyond a shadow of doubt that the Bible is indeed true! If we just consider the prophecies concerning the Lord Jesus Christ, we know that so many predictions made concerning the birth of the Messiah have definitely come true, and were even corroborated by facts in secular history. No other book on the earth has such a consistent and inerrant claim to having the truth. Some mathematicians have actually calculated that the odds of Jesus fulfilling just 8 of the prophecies from the OT concerning him would be in the region of one in 10 to the power of 17 (1 in 100,000,000,000,000,000)!

Dear teen, it would be good if you do a study of some of the prophecies of the Bible that have been fulfilled with such amazing accuracy. Indeed a study of the prophecies concerning the first coming of the Lord Jesus Christ would do much to strengthen your faith in the living and true God that we worship. The entire Old Testament predicted Christ’s life, His ministry, death and resurrection. For example, Micah 5:2 foretold seven hundred years before it happened – that Jesus would be born in Bethlehem.

Thought: God let none of His words fall to the ground.
Prayer: Our gracious heavenly Father, thank You for all the evidences that You have shown us that the Bible is the Word of God that endures to this day and forever.