Signs Of The Coming Of Christ
Who knows what the future holds?
In 1956, self-proclaimed prophetess
Jeanne Dixon contacted Parade magazine writer
Jack Anderson. She told him that a Democrat would
be elected president in 1960, but that he would
die in office. That was the first inkling of her
so-called famous prophecy. According to John Nebel,
who hosted a radio talk show on WMCA in New York
City, Jeanne Dixon was on his show January 23,
1963. She predicted on the radio before an audience
of as many as 100,000 listeners that the president
would be assassinated before the end of 1963.
This "prophecy" called international
attention to Ms. Dixon.
Yet the other prophecies Jeanne
Dixon made in 1966 now look ridiculous. She foresaw
that in the 1980s Red China would turn Africa
and Asia against the United States, and this would
lead to a world war. She prophesied that Russia
would be the first nation to put a man on the
moon. She also prophesied that Pope Paul VI would
be the greatest Pope in Catholic history, and
that Richard M. Nixon would serve the country
well. She further predicted the two-party system
would vanish from the United States political
scene.
Jeanne Dixon was wrong on every
count!
Where do we find prophecy
that is always and at all times accurate?
In the teens of the last century,
young Edgar Cayce, already thinking he possessed
marvelous gifts, decided that in dreams he could
diagnose ailments that orthodox doctors missed,
and also prescribe treatments. He cured the daughter
of the local school superintendent, who over the
course of a year had become a vegetable. This
event catapulted him toward worldwide fame.
Edgar Cayce had an uncanny knack
for prediction. He not only foresaw the two world
wars, but also picked the years they would begin
and end. He saw the crash of the stock market
in 1929 and the coming of the Great Depression.
He also predicted its end in 1933. Before he died,
he saw the collapse of communism in Russia and
predicted in 1939 the deaths of two presidents
while in office.
Yet Edgar Cayce also had colossal
misses. He predicted that Hitler's motives were
good. He further predicted that Los Angeles, San
Francisco, and New York would be destroyed within
a period beginning in 1958 and ending with the
millennium. Obviously he was wrong!
Yet where are the prophecies
that without question are true and that give us
firm ground in this new millennium?
In popular books and on television,
the world has been virtually assaulted with the
writings of Michel de Nostradame, who was born
in 1503 in Saint Remi, France. We know him as
Nostradamus. He wrote a series of four-line stanzas,
collectively called the Centuries. There
is virtually no major event of the last 100 years
plus that has not been claimed to have been predicted
by Nostradamus. In the days immediately following
September 11, 2001 I received numerous emails
from friends informing me that even this event
had been foretold. Supposedly Nostradamus wrote
the following in 1654:
"In the year of the
new century and nine months, From the sky will
come a great King of Terror... The sky will
burn at forty-five degrees. Fire approaches
the great new city... In the city of York there
will be a great collapse, 2 twin brothers torn
apart by chaos While the fortress falls the
great leader will succumb. "
This prediction points to the
fact that 2001 is the first year of the new century
and the attack of course was in the ninth month.
In addition New York is located at the 41st degree
Latitude.
Here's the problem with supposed
prophecies of this type. First, Nostradamus died
in 1566, 88 years before this was supposed to
have been written. Secondly, he wrote in four
line verses. This prophecy contains more than
that. Lastly, no such lines can be found in any
of Nostradamus' published works. We recently learned
that Nostradamus did not write this, rather this
came from an essay written about Nostradamus and
published on the Internet in 1997 by a student
at Brock University in Canada. He wrote this to
reveal how easily an important-sounding prophecy
can be crafted through the use of abstract imagery.
He pointed out how the terms he used were so deliberately
vague that they could be interpreted to fit any
number of cataclysmic events.
The fact is when you read the
prophecies he did write, they are uniformly vague
and could be predictions of multiple events taking
place in various centuries. Nostradamus leaves
nothing but a puzzle.
In our world today, we are assaulted
by voices from virtually every direction that
seemingly know about our future. One need only
turn on the television to hear the self-proclaimed
psychics spewing their offers of knowledge of
the future.
One New Years Eve Dr. D. James
Kennedy, Senior Pastor of Coral Ridge Presbyterian
Church went to the supermarket with his wife.
While waiting in the checkout line he began reading
the headlines of the newest edition of The
Enquirer magazine. The cover caught his eye
because the magazine contained the predictions
for the coming new year. Dr. Kennedy bought the
magazine and without bothering to read it asked
his secretary to file it. Ten years went by and
while preparing a message on prophecy ran across
the magazine. Dr. Kennedy thought it would be
interesting to see how many of the predictions
came to pass. The answer: 0 out of 61! By the
way, you may have heard that the Psychic Channel
went bankrupt. You would have thought they would
have known this was going to happen!
Prognosticators of the future
have always been with us, even in ancient times.
The only difference was that when a prophet of
old prophesied, he was either 100% right or he
was 100% dead. If he uttered a prophecy and that
event did not occur, he was stoned to death. How
times have changed! Today many accept a self-proclaimed
prophet if he or she is lucky and sometimes makes
the right guess.
Thousands of people are and seemingly
will continue to be deceived by those who claim
to have these special powers. How sad!
As I write these words, I am
very near the site of one of the most significant
and accurate prophecies in history. The apostle
Peter wrote of this compellingly:
And we have the word of
the prophets made more certain, and you will
do well to pay attention to it, as to a light
shining in a dark place, until the day dawns
and the morning star rises in your hearts.
2 Peter 1:19
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