“So then they are without excuse…” Romans 1:20
“All things must be fulfilled which were written in the Law of Moses and the prophets and the Psalms concerning me” — Jesus, Luke 24:44.
There were more than three hundred predictive prophecies in the Old Testament Scriptures concerning Jesus that were recorded centuries before He was ever born. Each was accurately fulfilled. Unlike the Dixon-style predictions, NOT ONE of the predictions concerning Jesus missed the mark. Have you ever seriously analyzed the implications of those signs?
Peter Stoner, a renowned mathematician, calculated the odds of just EIGHT of the three hundred predictive prophecies concerning Jesus having been fulfilled ACCIDENTALLY in the life of one man. The odds are one in ten to the seventeenth power (a one with seventeen zeros following it)!
I used my computer to do a few calculations in order to make that huge number sink in a little more sensibly. A dollar bill is six inches long. It would take 10,560 dollar bills laid end-to-end to extend one mile. The moon is about 239,000 miles from the earth. Thus, it would take 2,523,840,000 dollar bills laid end to end to extend from the earth to the moon. That’s a little over two and a half BILLION. But as incredibly large a number as a billion may appear to be, the number that Peter Stoner calculated (ten to the seventeenth power) is simply mind-boggling. If one possessed that many dollar bills, he could lay them end to end and stretch them from the earth to the moon nearly forty million times (39,622,163). Looking at it a little differently, those bills could add up to about twenty million ROUND TRIPS to the moon! And that is only 8 of 300 predictive prophecies!
We have very little excuse to disbelieve the claims of the Word of God concerning Jesus Christ.
—Garell Forehand
