having his hands and feet pierced, exactly 483 years from when Artaxerxes gave his decree, and all before the Jewish temple was destroyed in 70 A.D.? There is only one historical person who qualifies: Jesus! How could the Bible predict such astounding events, hundreds of years in advance if the Bible weren’t true and if Christ weren’ t who He claimed to be? Out of the billions of people who have lived on earth, it is a virtual mathematical impossibility that any one man could fulfill even a hand full of these exact prophecies by chance, yet Jesus fulfilled them all. It was God’s way to be sure we wouldn’t mistake His coming. Others, such as Muhammad, have no provable prophecies foretelling their coming. Jesus stands in a category by Himself. Did you know that computers now provide amazing proof that the Bible must be true? For example, in the Hebrew language the number “7” is the number for God. The first five books of the Bible were written by Moses
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