God Alone Knows All

God alone knows all and foretells things happening before the actual event occurs. Enclosed here are but a few proofs of this statement. A man named Ezekiel was being held captive with Jewish exiles in Babylon. Ezekiel was a prophet of God and initially not liked by the Jewish people. Anyway, Ezekiel predicted the destruction of Jerusalem which eventually occurred in 586 BC. From then on his prophetic writings were held in high regard by the Jewish people (they finally believed what he was saying). He wrote many other prophecies, one of which was Eze 37 in the bible. This prophecy shows that the Jewish people would be dispersed over the whole world and be beaten down to the point where they felt they would never be a nation again. Then God would join the lands of "old Judah" and "old Israel" into the present day land of Israel. That this final land of Israel would be one land in God's hand. Then that the Jewish people would return from over the whole world back to their own land, and God would make them one nation. The remainder of the passage deals with future events yet to come. This prophecy has come to pass just as God said it would. The prophecy is marked by the characteristics of proof you'd expect from God (grand scale events). Simply put: the Jews being dispersed over the whole world, the land being joined from 2 separate nations, an approximate 1900 year time frame for the Jews to return to the land (Israel became a nation again in 1948), and the prophet Ezekiel giving credit to God. But God didn't just stop there. In the 6th century BC, God further described this same historic procession to a prophet named Jeremiah (Jer 16:10-21 in the bible). Specifically God said that because the Jew's have forgotten him and not kept his law, God would cast them out of the land into a land they knew not. That they would then be shown no favor from God. Further that people would no longer refer to the Jews as the ones taken out of Egypt by God, but instead would refer to the Jews as those who were returned to the land of their fathers from the land of the north and from all the lands where ever God had driven them. God gives further predictions in Jeremiah: Jer 16:19 "O LORD, my strength, and my fortress, and my refuge in the day of affliction, the Gentiles shall come unto thee from the ends of the earth, and shall say, Surely our fathers have inherited lies, vanity, and things wherein there is no profit. Jer 16:20 "Shall a man make gods unto himself, and they are no gods?" Jer 16:21 "Therefore, behold, I will this once cause them to know, I will cause them to know mine hand and my might; and they shall know that my name is The LORD." These last lines describe the non-Jews seeking Israel (God enfleshed). Though apparently many will worship false gods which sets them against God and thus they will know his wrath. This agrees with the "great tribulation" described by Jesus in the New Testament, and other prophets predictions of God's end time wrath. Another easy to verify proof from God. In the bible, the section written by Isaiah contains a prophecy concerning a person who would tell them to rebuild Jerusalem and the temple. This was odd at the time since both Jerusalem and the temple were still intact. Not only that, but the person's name was actually given by God in the verses. In Isaiah 44:28 written 125 years BEFORE Cyrus king of Persia was born, is the initial verse saying that Cyrus would tell them to rebuild the temple and Jerusalem (they did this 190 years AFTER Isaiah wrote the prophecy). The Jews hadn't even been taken captive to Babylon before Isaiah wrote the prophecy and were still under Egyptian control. From MS Encarta 1996 and the King James AV bible: Isaiah (a prophet of God) writes Isaiah 44:28 ......... ~725 BC Jerusalem and the temple are intact. Israel under Egyptian control ............... prior to 606 BC Israel under Babylonian control ........................ 606 BC Cyrus the Great is born (Persian empire) ............... 600 BC Israel under Persian control, captives set free ..... 537 BC Cyrus the Great of Persia tells them to rebuild Jerusalem and the temple.

Here's what Isaiah wrote in 725 BC, before Cyrus was born: Isa 44:28 "That saith of Cyrus, He is my shepherd, and shall perform all my pleasure: even saying to Jerusalem, Thou shalt be built; and to the temple, Thy foundations shall be laid. Note that God tells Isaiah specific things only God could know 190 years before they happen: * Cyrus is actually named, he was the one who freed them in 537 BC from the Babylonians. * Jerusalem is specifically said to be rebuilt. * The temple is specifically said to be rebuilt. God talks of and to Cyrus the Great of Persia in the verses contained in Isaiah 44:28 to 45:13. Particularly God actually speaks directly to Cyrus in: Isa 45:1 "Thus saith the LORD to his anointed, to Cyrus, whose right hand I have holden, to subdue nations before him ...." Isa 45:4 "For Jacob my servant's sake, and Israel mine elect, I have called thee by thy name; I have surnamed thee, though thou hast not known me." Isa 44:5 "I am the LORD, and there is none else, there is no God beside me: I girded thee, though thou hast not known me." In those verses penned 190 years before, Isaiah wrote what God wanted to say to Cyrus, knowing that Cyrus would eventually read it, and when he'd read it. Isaiah also wrote of Jesus in Isaiah 53, 750 years before Jesus showed up. The prophets of the bible say that they are writing what God wants written. They are not writing things they claim, but are giving the credit to God. Another prophecy valid during our time: In Zec 12:3 in the bible, God says Jerusalem would become a burdensome stone to all the nations. 3 major world religions hold Jerusalem as their capital. Right now the Palestinians may go to war over Jerusalem building on the remaining tract of land surrounding their hoped for capital. Israel has said that it will keep the city as it's capital and will hold the rights to it. Watch what happens. Only God knew the whole world history before it happened. There are quite a few other predictions made by the prophets of God in both the Old and New Testament. If you have time, research them for yourselves. May God grant all a good day.