Bible Prophecy | AdventAI

Pacific Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Oakland, California · Feb 21, 1878

Bible Prophecy.

The Bible contains many lines of prophecy, that is history of events before they transpire. Jeremiah, in the 25 chapter of his book, prophesies of the overthrow of Jerusalem, by the king of Babylon, and the captivity of her people for seventy years, all of which was fulfilled. Nebuchadnezzar taking them prisoners B. C. 606, and king Cyrus proclaimed their freedom, to a great extent, by allowing them to return to Jerusalem at the end of the 70 years B. C. 536, see Ezra 1 : 1. Again, the prophecy in regard to the scattering of the Jews made nearly 1500 years B. C., Leviticus 26 : 21–29, has been completely fulfilled, and the Jews to-day are scattered in all parts of the earth, and in them is fulfilled that which was predicted of them in Deut. 28 : 37 : “And thou shalt become an astonishment, a proverb, and a by-word, among all nations whither the Lord shall lead thee.” Who has not heard the proverb of “Jewing,” or the by-word of “Stingy as a Jew?” Reader, did you ever think that all this, and much more, was prophesied of this people over three thousand years ago, and is now being fulfilled?