BIBLE Prophecies THAT CAME TO PASS(Part One)
As no power is known to be capable of stopping any of the prophecies of the bible from coming to pass, the whole of Creation holds its breath as it awaits the fulfilment of those that are yet to come to pass. To past earth dwellers, several of the prophecies that were fulfilled must, no doubt, have sounded quite improbable when they were first uttered. The fact, therefore, that these prophecies came to pass before their very eyes must have filled them with awe and wonder.
For example, when it was prophesied by Noah in the book of Genesis that the world of old would be destroyed with flood water, it must have sounded most improbable to those who lived at the time. Many, in those days, must have considered such a prophecy laughable.
'How could the world be destroyed with water?' they must have asked, shaking their heads with nonchalance and an unbelieving disdain. At the end of it all, believing the prophecy or not proved to be irrelevant. The flood came and the rest, as they say, was history. Also, when Jeremiah prophesied that, because of her many sins, Judah would go into captivity in Babylon, many people thought that he was mad. This prophecy too came to pass.
It is hardly surprising that our times have been compared to the time of Noah, an era of cynicism and unbelief. Noah's time was a time when man considered himself to be self-sufficient and therefore could be independent of God. The people thought that they had no need of God, that they could do without God. This comparison was made in the gospels by no less a person than the Master Himself, Jesus of Nazareth. Ordinarily, this simply implies that most of the things we witness today also took place in the days of Noah. One could think of a host of things. For instance, social life was bustling relentlessly just as it is today. Also, considerable progress was being made in practically all areas of human endeavour. The people of the time considered themselves to be too busy to hearken to the warnings of Noah. In Luke 17 verses 26 and 27, the Lord Jesus recalls the time, ''And as it was in the days of Noah, so it will be also in the days of the Son Of Man: They ate, they drank, they married wives, they were given in marriage, until the day that Noah entered the Ark, and the flood came and destroyed them all.'' In the days of Noah, iniquity and sin multiplied greatly among the world's inhabitants to the extent that God actually regretted that He made man.
