One third of the Bible is prophecy.  The word of prophecy is the method God uses to tell us about the future. In the first place it is Gods own domain, but through the gift of prophecy human beings may have the opportunity to know something about the hidden secrets.
Some people say they have this gift without the help of God, but that is a fraud and a dangerous  experiment.

When it comes to the Old Testament the prophecies point forward to the events that are going to happen in New Testament times.  So many prophecies about the birth of Christ, his life, death and resurrection were fulfilled in every detail.  The prophets of the Old Testament pointed out the birthplace of Christ, the town he should grow up and work out from.

In the psalms and in the books of the prophets there are detailed descriptions of his suffering, how  His body was mistreated when he  was scourged and hanged up on the cruel cross.
In one word,  God is behind every biblical prophecy and you can rely on every one of them.  This is very important  to know, because so many try to deceive us and make us doubt the truths of God in the Bible.

The New Testament has many prophecies about our own time and our future.  That fact makes prophecy very exciting and special far above human literature.  Over and over again the New Testament points forward to the fact that Jesus shall come back to this world the second time.

                 Endtime prophecies.

When Jesus was taken home from the Mount of Olives, two angels appeared and said to the disciples:  "Why do you  look up toward heaven.  Jesus, who is now taken from you to heaven, in the same way he will come down.
This prophecy points  forward to the moment when Jesus will come back to this same mountain.

                The rapture.

Before that time, "the Lord himself will come down from heaven with a great shout and with the voice of the archangel.  Then  all the christians  who are in paradise, will be changed .getting their resurrection bodies.  After that "we who are alive. will receive our new bodies, and together with the resurrected saints we will be caught up in the clouds, up in the air  to meet the Lord.  From that moment we will be with the Lord for evermore.  "Comfort each other with those words." Paul writes.

               Prophecy about the great tribulation.

In  the gospel of Matthew , chapter 24, Jesus prophecies about times of war and rumours of war, extreme hunger, earthquakes a.s.f. During this terrible time in this  world. the church of Christ, also called the bride of Christ is in heaven celebrating the wedding feast.

A person which John the apostle calls the Antichrist will arise and deceive many.  He will blaspheme the  godhead and kill all who are not obedient to his stern orders.   The only way to be saved in this tribulation time is to refuse receiving the  number of Antichrist, which is 666, on forehead and the back of the hand..  This number is a token of a eternal covenant with Satan himself.

The prophecies of the New Testament point also forward to great and terrible wars in this time.  The last is the great battle in the field of Armageddon.  In the middle of this battle, where millions are killed, Jesus comes to set his  feet on the Mount of Olives, judge the nations in the valley of Joshafat and  open up for the Millennium, the thousand years of peace.

       Millennium and the new heaven and the new earth.

Then the kingdom of heaven will be established on this earth for thousand years, foretold in many books of the Old Testament. In the end of this wonderful time for our world, the great, white throne will be erected.  Before that throne every human being not having their names written in the Book of Life, will be thrown into the Lake of Fire.

              That is the final judgment.

So comes the event when God the great creator shall make a new heaven and  a new earth.  We will not forget that He has already, before that time. created the New Jerusalem, coming down from heaven during the Millennium.

              Come to Jesus today.

The most important thing just now is to receive Jesus as your personal Saviour.  Believe in your heart that Jesus died just for you, confess Him with  your mouth, and you will be saved, the Bible says.

The books of prophecy will soon be closed for ever.  When it is still open, kneel down before your Saviour.  Do it now, because one day, the Bible says, all knees shall bow before him, and every tongue  shall confess that He is the Saviour of this universe.  The sad thing  is however, that the possibility to be saved  is forever gone.  Come to Jesus now, before it is eternally too late.

 

Oddvar Tegnander

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