The Purpose of Prophecy

I have people ask me all of the time if the teaching of Bible Prophecy is really that important.

Perhaps as you perused the available Amazon Kindle Blogs that are currently available and you came upon “Bible Prophecy Update” you thought to your self; “Why would I want to subscribe to a Blog like that?”

The purpose of prophecy is not to predict the future or to inflame our emotions to fear what may be ahead. The purpose of Bible Prophecy is to reveal who Jesus really is. To bring the human population into an awareness of God’s plan for mankind and how much He loves us all. In the last book of the Bible, the Book of Revelation, John wrote that the entire purpose of Prophecy is to reveal Jesus.

Revelation 19:10… For the testimony of Jesus is the spirit of prophecy.”

As you hopefully read my blog here each week, you find that there are many Bible Studies, a Daily Devotional and other studies Perhaps you have thought that these studies seem to have nothing whatsoever to do with Bible Prophecy. The reason that there are these kinds of resources on this web site is that absolutely everything is of a prophetic nature even if at first we do not realize it.

When you begin to go through the Psalms you read of the trials, travails, joys and jubilations of David in all of his life experiences. Then suddenly in the midst of the worship and praise there is Psalm 22, a vivid prophetic advanced look at the Cross Jesus will endure 1,000 years later.

We can read through the entire book of Ruth and find not a single implication of anything Prophetic until we discover that by use of today’s computer technology, men have discovered that hidden in the text of Ruth in code, is the Name of “Jesus the Messiah”.

It has been said that if a person is really paying attention, they can find Jesus on every single page in the Bible. Either in a type, a symbol, and example or in the story itself. John was told that the entire purpose of prophecy is Jesus. Jesus Himself said that “In the volume of the book is written of me.” If we understand the Bible correctly, Jesus intended that we know that everything in the Bible is of a prophetic nature and that the entire Bible itself has the sole purpose of revealing Jesus to the world.

This means that every devotional, and every Bible study should encourage to find Jesus in it and how He being in that story or message has importance in our life and how we live.

Bible Prophecy has never been about predicting the future. It has has always maintained as it core message, that because these things have already happened in recorded history just as God said they would in the Bible, that we can know that the Bible is from God and is reliable. That if all 2,500 prophecies in the Bible have already been perfectly fulfilled, then it is logical and reliable that the remaining 1,000 will also come to pass exactly as the Lord said they would.

And what are the remaining 1,000 prophecies? That at the end of the age, Jesus will remove from the earth His church just before He pours out His wrath for 7 years on the world who has rejected Him as their Savior. That the world will be united by one man in a single government, economic, military and religious system, and that this man will make peace for Israel and allow them to rebuild their temple. Evil will increase, the hearts of men will grow colder and the earth will begin to travail in natural disasters of earthquakes, floods, famine, and disease unparalleled in human history.

Hey that sounds very much like what is happening right now…. hmm maybe we should pay more attention to this book, the Bible.

Rob Robinson

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