Fulfilled Prophecy a Potent Argument for the Bible 63 still. Here are arguments for the Divine, the supernatural origin of this book which no infidel has ever been able to answer; nor will there ever be found an answer. I t would take many pages to follow the different predic tions and _show their literal fulfillment in the nation which turned away from Jehovah and disobeyed His Word. Apart from such general predictions as are found in verses 64-66 and fulfilled in the dispersion of Israel, there are others which are more minute. The Roman power, which was used to break the Jews, is clearly predicted by Moses, and that in a time when no such power existed. Read verses 49-50: “The Lord shall bring a nation against thee from far, from the end of the earth, as swift as the eagle flieth, a hation, whose lan guage thou shalt not understand.” The eagle was the standard of the Roman armies; the Jews understood many oriental lan guages, but were ignorant of Latin. “Which shall not regard the person of the old, nor show favor to the young.” Rome killed the old people and the children. “And he shall besiege thee in all thy gates, until thy high and fenced walls come down, wherein thou trustedst, throughout all thy land” (verse 52). Fulfilled in the siege and overthrow off Jerusalem by the Roman legions. “The. tender and delicate woman among you, which would not adventure to set the sole of her foot upon the ground for delicateness and tenderness, shall eat her chil dren, for want of all things in the siege and straitness where with thine enemy shall distress thee in thy gates” (54-57). Fulfilled in the dreadful sieges of Jerusalem, perhaps the most terrible events in the history of blood and tears of this poor earth. Every verse, beginning with the fifteenth, to the end of this chapter has found its oft repeated fulfillment. It does not surprise us that the enemy hates this book, which bears such a testimony, and would have it classed with legends. Of much interest is the last verse of this great prophetic chapter. “And Jehovah will bring thee into Egypt again with ships, by the way whereof I said unto thee, Thou shalt see it
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