7. The last major piece of evidence is prophecy. Since God lives outside of time, prophecy is God’s ability to see history before it happens and to accurately record it hundreds or thousands of years in advance. One book states: “. . . new discoveries have confirmed [the Bible] as the only book on planet Earth that bears a message provably orchestrated from outside our space- time.” [ Alien Encounters by Chuck Missler.] The Bible records over 200 specific prophecies foretelling the first coming of Christ. Humanly speaking, most of these prophecies were outside Jesus’s ability to control or manipulate. For example, out of the tens of thousands of cities and villages in our world, the Old Testament predicted that the Jewish Messiah would be born in the tiny town of Bethlehem, a town that may have had a population of only around 1,000 people [Micah 5:2]. It was foretold that the Messiah would die having His hands and feet pierced [Psalm
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