CHAPTER IV FULFILLED PROPHECY A POTENT ARGUMENT FOR THE BIBLE BY ARNO C. GAEBELEIN, EDITOR “OUR hope / ' ’ NEW YORK CITY. “Produce your cause, saith the Lord ; bring forth your strong reasons, saith the King of Jacob. Let them bring them forth, and show us what shall happen; let them show the former things, what they be, that we may consider them, and know the latter end of them, or declare us things to come. Show the things that are to come hereafter, that we may know, that ye are gods” (Isa. 41:21-23). “I declare the end from the beginning, and from ancient times the things that are not yet done, saying, My counsel shall stand, and I will do all my pleasure” (Isa. 46:10). This is Jehovah’s challenge to the idol-gods of Babylon to predict future events. He alone can do that. The Lord can déclare the end from the beginning, and make known things that are not yet done. The dumb idols of the heathen know nothing concerning the future. They cannot predict what is going to happen. And man himself is powerless to know future events and cannot find out things to cOme. Jehovah, who has made this challenge and declaration, has also fully demonstrated His power to do so. He has done it in His holy Word, the Bible. Other nations possess books of a religious character, called “sacred books.” Not one of them contains any predictions concerning the future. If the authors of these writings had attempted to foretell the future, they would have thereby furnished the strongest evidence of their deceptions. The Bible is the only book in the world which con tains predictions. It is pre-eminently that, which no other 55
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