PROPHECY PROVES INSPIRATION.
By Arthur Tappan Pierson
As WE examine the Old Testament, we find six hundred predictions, more than three hundred of which center upon the person, character, and career of Jesus Christ as the Messiah. These prophecies cover the line of His descent, the time of His birth and manifestations, the place of His nativity, and all the great leading circumstances of His life, death, resurrection, and ascension, with many subordinate details. These prophecies were in their complete form at least four centuries before His birth, inasmuch as both the Hebrew Scriptures and the Septuagint, or Greek translation, were in the hands of the Jews, one about two, and the other five centuries, at least, before Christ was born. The circumstances which these prophecies describe are not only unprecedented in character, but there was no possibility, humanly speaking, of these predictions being fulfilled. In fact, they were largely couched in paradoxes or seeming contradictions. God has designed to present a mystery wholly inexplicable until history proves itself the key fitted to the lock.—A. T. Pierson.