Lesson 17: Never by Chance

Now for one person to specifically fulfill all those prophecies is pretty amazing but I still do not think we can catch just how amazing it really is until we take a look at the odds of this taking place:

"By using the modern science of probability, we find that the chance that any man might have lived down to the present time and fulfilled just eight prophecies is 1 in 1077.

 In order to help us comprehend this staggering probability, it can be illustrated by taking silver dollars and laying them on the face of Texas (the largest state in the US), which would be enough to cover the state 2 feet deep.

Now mark one of these silver dollars with a red “X" and stir the whole mass thoroughly, all over the state. Blindfold a man and let him travel as far as he wishes, but he must pick up only one silver dollar and say that this is the right one. What chance would he have of getting the right one? That would be just the same chance that the prophets would have had of writing just 8 prophecies and having them all come true in any one man."

I say it is obvious that there is no way that Jesus fulfilled 8 prophecies by accident. By the way, He did not fulfill just 8 but over 300. That cannot happen by chance. In fact, the only way it could happen is if somebody was above and beyond time and knew the beginning from the end and orchestrated the whole thing. I wonder who that might be? A Wise God maybe?


But you might be asking, “Does knowing something as basic that God is Wise really make a difference in lives of people worldwide?" You tell me if it would not save us from a whole lot of trouble. For instance, if you realize that God is Wise, the first thing it will save you from is being led astray. One of the biggest trends today is for people to go to a so-called psychic and pay them to tell them their supposed future. Little do people realize they are not only being cheated, they are being led astray. How do I know? We examine their track record:

"Amid hundreds of prophecies, Biblical prophets are not known to have made a single error. However, a study of the prophecies made by psychics showed that of the 72 predictions, only 6 were fulfilled in any way. However, 2 of these were vague and 2 others were hardly surprising, that the U.S. and Russia would remain leading world powers. Another study of the top 25 psychics and their predictions revealed that 92% were totally wrong. And the remaining 8 percent could easily be explained by chance and general knowledge of circumstances. In fact, in 1993 the psychics missed every single unexpected news story in the US.”

 If you realize that God is Wise it will not only save you from being led astray, it will also save you from being a blasphemer of God.

* Memorize: John 14:6 – Jesus said to him, ‘I am the Way, and the Truth, and the Life. No one comes to the Father except through Me.’