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Bible prophecy, or "biblical prophecy" is the belief that the exegesis and hermeneutics that relate to those scriptures containing various prophecies regarding global politics, natural disasters, the future of the nation of Israel, the coming of a Messiah and a Messianic Kingdom, and the ultimate destiny of humankind are true. Various passages are claimed by premillennialists writers to foretell future events, while amillennialist writers believe such passages to be only figuratively relevant in foretelling events. These passages are widely distributed throughout the Bible, but those most often cited are from Ezekiel, Daniel, and Revelation. Image File history File links Emblem-important. ... Image File history File links Question_book-3. ... For other uses, see Bible (disambiguation). ... Image File history File links Download high resolution version (1993x1300, 432 KB) A Bible handwritten in Latin, on display in Malmesbury Abbey, Wiltshire, England. ... 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Instances of claimed bible prophecy include the supposed prediction of events that have already happened as well predictions of future events. Some prophetic passages are depicted as direct statements from God while other statements are expressed as the privileged perspective of the biblical author considered to be a prophet. The Biblical prophets are usually considered to have received revelations from God, subsequently recording them in the relevant writings. Postdiction, post-shadowing, retroactive clairvoyance, and prediction after the fact are terms used by critics to refer to those who use hindsight to claim to have predicted a significant event such as a plane crash or natural disaster. ... The three so-called Abrahamic religions of Judaism, Christianity and Islam have in common many beliefs about God. ... Authors of the Bible are listed by book of the Bible, comparing the writer according to Christian tradition with what current scholarship proposes. ... For other senses of this word, see Prophet (disambiguation). ...

Overview

In the books of Hebrew Bible prophets, one prophetic theme is that of God warning the Israelites to repent of their sins and idolatries, with the threat of punishment as a consequence or promises of rewards upon their return to faith. There are many actions attributed to the deity that are documented as happening to specific Biblical regions and peoples: blessings, ruinations, or amalgams of both. According to believers in bible prophecy, many of these prophecies are viewed as having been fulfilled within later passages. However, the possibility of midrash leaves open the question as to whether the predictions were not added at a later date to confer the appearance of prophecy on an (apparently) older passage. This article is about the term Hebrew Bible. For the Jewish scriptures see Tanakh. ... This article is about the term God in the context of monotheism and henotheism. ... Look up Israelite in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ... For other uses, see Sin (disambiguation). ... The Adoration of the Golden Calf by Nicolas Poussin Idolatry is a major sin in the Abrahamic religions regarding image. ... For other uses, see Faith (disambiguation). ... Look up blessing in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ... Look up Curse in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ... Midrash (Hebrew: מדרש; plural midrashim) is a Hebrew word referring to a method of exegesis of a Biblical text. ...

A second prophetic theme is the coming of a Messiah or Messianic Age. Most Christians believe that these Messianic prophecies are fulfilled by Jesus either through his life of through the Second Coming. Jews await the initial arrival of a Messiah of the Davidic line, or a Messianic age. In Judaism, the Messiah (Hebrew: , Standard  Tiberian ; Aramaic: , ; Arabic: , ; the Anointed One) at first meant any person who was anointed with oil on rising to a certain position among the ancient Israelites, at first that of High priest, later that of King and also that of a prophet. ... Messianic Age is a theological term referring to a future time of peace and brotherhood on the earth, without crime, war and poverty. ... This article is about the religous people known as Christians. ... Messianic prophecies in the Jewish Tanach (also known as the Christian Old Testament) foretell the coming of the Messiah. ... This article is about Jesus of Nazareth. ... For other uses, see Second Coming (disambiguation). ... Davidic line, (also House of David or Davidic Dynasty, sometimes referred to as Royal House of Israel), known in Hebrew as Malkhut Beit David (Monarchy of the House of David) refers to the tracing of royal lineage by kings and major leaders in Jewish history to the Biblical King David...

Some Evangelical Christians believe that the Messiah will not arrive until the era in which the Temple in Jerusalem is rebuilt for its third standing. One other major theme in the Christian perspective on bible prophecy concerns a period Christians refer to as the "End Times", or "Last Days". Some major themes in this regard include a world-wide ruler (the antichrist) and a battle between good and evil (alternatively God/Jesus and Satan) at the battle of Armageddon to be followed by the Messianic Age. Evangelicalism, in a strictly lexical, but rarely used sense, refers to all things that are implied in belief that Jesus is the savior. ... The Temple in Jerusalem or Holy Temple (Hebrew: בית המקדש, transliterated Bet HaMikdash and meaning literally The Holy House) was located on the Temple Mount (Har HaBayit) in the old city of Jerusalem. ... A drawing of Ezekiels Visionary Temple from the Book of Ezekiel 40-47 Since the destruction of the Second Temple in 70 CE, religious Jews have prayed that God will allow for the rebuilding of a Third Temple. ... // In the three Abrahamic Religions (Islam, Judaism, and Christianity), the End Times are depicted as a time of tribulation that precede the predicted coming of a Messiah figure. ... In Christian eschatology, the Antichrist or anti-Christ means a person, office, or group recognized as fulfilling the Biblical prophecies about one who will oppose Christ and substitute himself in Christs place. ... This article is about the concept of Satan. ... For other uses, see Armageddon (disambiguation). ...

Claimed instances of biblical prophecy

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Genesis

• Cain says "...I will be a restless wanderer on the earth, and whoever finds me will kill me."^[1] God then proceeds to offer Cain protection "...Not so; if anyone kills Cain, he will suffer vengeance seven times over. Then the Lord put a mark on Cain so that no one who found him would kill him."^[2] Cain then impregnates his wife and she gave birth to a son named Enoch, while he built a city.^[3]
• In Genesis 6, God is quoted as saying "My Spirit will not contend with man forever, for he is mortal; his days will be a hundred and twenty years."^[4] The oldest recognized people to have lived are a 122 year old female and a 119 year old male.^[5]
• Noah prophesised that Hamites will be enslaved by Japhetithes.^[6] These passages were used by Abrahamic religions to justify enslavement of black African people who were believed to be descendants of Ham.^[6]
• God promises Abraham and his Jewish descendants the land of Canaan from the Nile to the Euphrates.^[7]Genesis 17:3-8 states,"The whole land of Canaan, where you are now an alien, I will give as an everlasting possession to you and your descendants after you; and I will be their God." They never owned all that land. According to Acts 7:5 and Hebrews 11:13, God's promises to Abraham were not realized during his lifetime.

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Joshua and Judges

• God promises that he will drive out the Amorites, Canaanites, Hittites, Perizzites, Hivites and Jebusites,^[8] not because of Israel's righteousness but because of the wickedness of the mentioned nations,^[9] but the Israelites fail to do so.^[10]
• Joshua tells Manasseh that he will be able to drive out the Canaanites,^[11] but Manasseh did not. ^[12]

The Davidic dynasty

• "David shall never want a man to sit upon the throne of the house of Israel.",^[13] but the Davidic line's rule seems to have ended with Zedekiah. God also says that Solomon's kingdom will last forever,^[14] but the kingdom was destroyed about 400 years after Solomon's death. The placement of Jehoiachin, however, in a position of authority during Babylonian exile at the end of 2 Kings seems to indicate the survival of the Davidic kingship on some level.^[15] He was even called king under exile in several Babylonian food-rationing lists.^[16]

Jeconiah (also known as Jehoiachin, Joachin, and Coniah) was king of Judah. ...

2 Kings

• Jeremiah prophesies that Jehoiakim will have no successor to the throne.^[17] His son Jehoiachin succeeded him at the age of eighteen^[18] reigned three months before being taken captive along with his mother, wives, servants, princes, and officers.^[19]
• God tells Zedekiah that he will die in peace and be buried with his fathers.^[20] His eyes were put out before he was taken to Babylon and remained a prisoner there until death.^[21]
• God promises Josiah that he would be "buried in peace" and then goes on to describe him not seeing all the disaster to come on Judah.^[22] Josiah was later killed in battle with the Egyptians.^[23]

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Isaiah

For more details on this topic, see Isaiah 7:14.

• God told Isaiah to tell Ahaz, the King of Judah, not to be concerned about Rezin (the king of Syria) or Pekah (the king of Israel).

According to 2 Chr.28:5-6 "God delivered him [Ahaz] into the hand of the king of Syria; and they smote him, and carried away a great multitude of them captives, and brought them to Damascus. And he was also delivered into the hand of the king of Israel, who smote him with a great slaughter." This entry incorporates text from Eastons Bible Dictionary, 1897, with some modernisation. ... Remaliah is a figure in the Bible. ...

• Babylonian palaces will be taken over by wild animals.^[25]
• Damascus will be completely destroyed and no longer be inhabited.^[26] Damascus has never been completely destroyed and is one of the oldest continuously inhabited cities.
• The river of Ancient Egypt (identified as the Nile in RSV) shall dry up.^[27]. There is no historical evidence that the this has ever happened.^{[citation needed]}
• "The land of Judah shall be a terror unto Egypt."^[28] Ancient Judah never invaded Egypt and was never a military threat to Egypt.
• A prediction is made that there shall be five cities in Ancient Egypt that speak the Canaanite language.^[29] There's no historical evidence that this has ever happened.^{[citation needed]}
• These verses predict that there will be an alliance between Egypt, Israel, and Assyria, but there has never been any such alliance.^[30]
• God says he is going to punish Nebuchadnezzar and the Babylonians for what they have done to his people. As part of the punishment, God will destroy the land of the Babylonians and will make it perpetual desolations. However, Babylon is still standing today.^[31]

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Deutero-Isaiah

See also: Book_of_Isaiah#Authorship

'Second Isaiah' or 'Deutero-Isaiah' is the name of the chapters 40-55 of the Book of Isaiah, which are believed to have been added to the words of the pre-exilic Isaiah. The unknown second prophet predicts the coming of Cyrus^[32], who will liberate the Jews from their Babylonian Exile and will bring them to the Promised Land.^[33] The second Isaiah, 40-55, comes from the late exilic period which dates to about 540-539 BC^[34]. Biblical scholars believe that the reference to Cyrus is a vaticinium ex eventu or "prophecy from the event".^{[citation needed]} This article is about the Book of Isaiah. ... This article is about the Book of Isaiah. ... Isaiah the Prophet in Hebrew Scriptures was depicted on the Sistine Chapel ceiling by Michelangelo. ... The name Cyrus (or Kourosh in Persian) may refer to: [[Cyrus I of Anshan]], King of Persia around 650 BC [[Cyrus II of Persia | Cyrus the Great]], King of Persia 559 BC - 529 BC — See also Cyrus in the Judeo-Christian tradition Cyrus the Younger, brother to the Persian king... Vaticinium ex eventu (Prophecy from the event) is a technical theological or historiographical term referring to a prophecy written after the author already had information about the events he was foretelling. The text is written so as to appear that the prophecy had taken place before the event. ...

Jeremiah

• Jeremiah prophesies that "...all nations will gather in Jerusalem to honor the name of the Lord.".^[35]
• Jeremiah predicts that Hazor will be desolated.^[36]
• Jeremiah 29:10 predicted that the Babylonian captivity would end when the "70 years" ended. It lasted 60 years if counting from the deportation of the elite (597-537 BCE) and 49 years (586-537 BCE) if counting from the exile of the majority of Judah.^[37]
• Jeremiah prophesised that Babylon would be destroyed at the end of the seventy years.^[38] Babylon fell to the Persians under Cyrus in 537 BCE, 59 or 49 years after the Babylonian exile depending on how you count. According to Daniel 5:31, it was the currently unidentified "Darius the Mede" who captured Babylon.
• Jeremiah prophesies that Babylon will never again be inhabited.^[39] It was reconstructed in 1985 by Saddam Hussein. An article published in April 2006 states that UN officials and Iraqi leaders have big plans for restoring Babylon, making it a gem of a new Iraq as a cultural center complete with shopping malls, hotels, and perhaps a theme park: "One day millions of people will visit Babylon."^[40][41]
• Jeremiah 33:18 prophesised that "the Levitical priests shall never lack a man in my presence to offer burnt offerings, to burn cereal offerings, and to make sacrifices for ever", but the destruction of temple in 70 CE brought an end to the Jewish sacrificial system.^[42]
• Jeremiah 9:11 states "I will make Jerusalem a heap of ruins, a haunt of jackals; and I will lay waste the towns of Judah so no one can live there."

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Daniel

For more details on this topic, see Statue vision, The writing on the wall, Daniel's Vision of Chapter 7, Daniel's Vision of Chapter 8, Abomination of Desolation, Prophecy of Seventy Weeks.

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Ezekiel

• Ezekiel prophesies that Tyre will be completely destroyed by Nebuchadrezzar and will never be built again, but it wasn't destroyed, as evidenced by the visits to Tyre by Jesus^[43] and Paul^[44].^[45]
• Ezekiel prophesized that Egypt would be uninhabited by humans or animals for forty years after being destroyed by Nebuchadrezzar, but Egyptologists dispute this ever occurred.^[46]
• The rivers of Ancient Egypt (identified as the Nile in NIV, NASB, and RSV) shall dry up.^[47] There is no historical evidence that this has ever happened.^{[citation needed]}

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Amos

• Amos prophesies that when Israel is restored they will possess the remnant of Edom.^[48]

Obadiah

• Obadiah prophesies that Israel will destroy the house of Esau in the day of the Lord.^[49]

Jonah

• Jonah prophesies that in forty days Nineveh shall be overthrown, but Nineveh was spared for turning from their evil ways.^[50]

Zechariah

• The river of Ancient Egypt (identified as the Nile in NIV, NASB, and RSV) shall dry up.^[51] There is no historical evidence that this has ever happened.^{[citation needed]}
• Zechariah prophesies a day when "...Never again will an oppressor overrun my people, for now I am keeping watch."^[52]

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Haggai

• "In a little while God will shake the heavens, and the earth, and the sea, and the dry land."^[53]

Malachi

• Malachi prophesies that God will send Elijah before "the great and dreadful day of the LORD" in which the world will be consumed by fire.^[54] The gospel of Mark claims that John the Baptist fulfilled the prophecy given in Malachi.^[55] Yet John the Baptist flatly denied that he was Elijah in John 1:21 and the earth was not literally consumed by fire after John's appearance.

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Gospels

For more details on this topic, see Abomination of Desolation, Olivet Discourse, Second Coming.

• Jesus prophesies in Matthew 10:5-7:

• Jesus prophesies in Matthew 10:23:

• Jesus prophesised in Matthew 12:40 "For as Jonas was three days and three nights in the whale's belly; so shall the Son of man be three days and three nights in the heart of the earth."^[56] Jesus spent only one day and two nights in the grave. According to Mark 15:42-46, Jesus was buried in Friday night and according to Matthew 28:1-6 and John 20:1, Jesus' tomb was found empty on Sunday dawn. Christian explanations to the discrepancy are found in advocating a non literal 3 days and 3 nights Friday crucifixion^[57] and in advocating a literal 3 days and 3 nights Wednesday crucifixion^[58].
• Jesus prophesies in Matthew 16:27-28:

• He also prophesies to Caiaphas:

• Jesus prophesies in Matthew 26:34 and John 13:38 that the cock shall not crow till' Peter hast denied him three times. The cock crowed after the first denial as well as after the third denial.^[61]
• The author of Matthew in Matthew 27:9 quotes from Zechariah 11:12 and 13 in relation to buying a field for 30 pieces of silver, but attributes it to Jeremiah. Jeremiah is desribed as buying a field in Jeremiah 32:6-9 for seventeen shekels of silver.
• Matthew 2:23 refers to a prophecy being fulfilled by Jesus living in Nazareth which is not found in the Old Testament.
• The author of Mark quotes from both Malachi 3:1 and Isaiah 40:3 but attributes only to Isaiah.^[62]

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1 & 2 Thessalonians

• Paul the apostle prophesised about the Second Coming "...we tell you that we who are still alive, who are left till the coming of the Lord, will certainly not precede those who have fallen asleep. For the Lord himself will come down from heaven, with a loud command, with the voice of the archangel and with the trumpet call of God, and the dead in Christ will rise first. After that, we who are still alive and are left will be caught up together with them in the clouds to meet the Lord in the air. And so we will be with the Lord forever."^[63]
• Paul prophesies in 1 Thessalonians 5:2-11:

• In 2 Thes. 2:3-4, Paul prophesised that the Man of sin would sit in the Temple in Jerusalem declaring himself as God. This has not happened as the temple was destroyed in 70 CE. Christians speculate that Paul was referring to the Third Temple that is yet to be built.

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Romans

• Paul prophesies in Romans 13:11-12

Jude

• Epistle of Jude quotes a prophecy from the pseudepigraphal Book of Enoch.^[64]

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Revelation

• see Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse, Two Witnesses, Woman of the Apocalypse, The Beast, Whore of Babylon, Millennialism
• Jesus told the Seven churches of Asia in the first century that he will come soon.^[65]

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Messianic prophecies in Judaism

Main article: Jewish messianism

Scriptural requirements concerning the Messiah, what he will do, and what will be done during his reign. Jewish sources show that the Messiah will fulfill the prophecies outright. Jewish scholars state there is no concept of a second coming in the Hebrew Bible.^[66] In Jewish messianism and eschatology, the Messiah (Hebrew: משיח; Mashiah, Mashiach, or Moshiach, anointed [one]) is a term traditionally referring to a future Jewish king from the Davidic line who will be anointed (the meaning of the Hebrew word משיח) with holy anointing oil and inducted to rule the Jewish people during... For other uses, see Second Coming (disambiguation). ...

• The Sanhedrin will be re-established^[67][68]
• Once he is King, leaders of other nations will look to him for guidance.^[69][68]
• The whole world will worship the One God of Israel^[70][68][71]
• Jews will return to full Torah observance and practice it.^[68]
• He will be descended from King David^[72] via Solomon^[73][74]
• The Moshiach will be a man of this world, an observant Jew with "fear of God"^[75][68]
• Evil and tyranny will not be able to stand before his leadership^[76][68]
• Knowledge of God will fill the world^[77][68]
• He will include and attract people from all cultures and nations^[78][68]
• All Israelites will be returned to their homeland^[79][68]
• Death will be swallowed up forever^[80][68]
• There will be no more hunger or illness, and death will cease^[81][68]
• All of the dead will rise again. According to the Zohar, the resurrection will take place forty years after the arrival of Moshiach^[82][68]
• The Jewish people will experience eternal joy and gladness^[83][68]
• He will be a messenger of peace^[84][68]
• Nations will end up recognizing the wrongs they did to Israel^[85][68]
• The peoples of the world will turn to the Jews for spiritual guidance^[86][68]
• The ruined cities of Israel will be restored^[87][68]
• Weapons of war will be destroyed^[88][68]
• The Temple will be rebuilt^[89] resuming many of the suspended 613 mitzvot.^[68]
• He will rebuild the Jewish Temple in Jerusalem.^{[90][74][71][74]}
• He will bring world peace.^[91][74][71]
• He will influence the entire world to acknowledge and serve one God.^[92][74]
• He will then perfect the entire world to serve God together^[93][68] He will give you all the worthy desires of your heart^[94][68]
• He will take the barren land and make it abundant and fruitful^[95][68]

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Claimed prophecies about Jesus

Jewish scholars maintain that these passages are not messianic prophecies and are based on mistranslations/misunderstanding of the Hebrew texts.

• Deuteronomy 18:18
• Isaiah 7:14 - Matthew 1:22-23 states "The virgin will be with child and will give birth to a son, and they will call him Immanuel" — which means, "God with us". However the Jewish translation of that passage reads "Behold, the young woman is with child and will bear a son and she will call his name Immanuel."^[74] Isaiah chapter 7 speaks of a prophecy made to the Jewish King Ahaz to allay his fears of two invading kings (those of Damascus and of Samaria) who were preparing to invade Jerusalem, about 600 years before Jesus’ birth. Isaiah 7:16: "For before the boy will know enough to refuse evil and choose good, the land whose two kings you dread will be forsaken."
• Isaiah 53 - According to the Bible commentator Rashi, the suffering servant described in Isaiah chapter 53 is actually the Jewish people; sometimes Isaiah mentions groups of people as if they were one person.
• Isaiah 9:1
• Daniel 9:24-27 - King James Version puts a definite article before "Messiah the Prince".^[96] The original Hebrew text does not read "the Messiah the Prince," but, having no article, it is to be rendered "a mashiach, a prince". The word mashiach["anointed one," "messiah"] is nowhere used in the Jewish Scriptures as a proper name, but as a title of authority of a king or a high priest. Therefore, a correct rendering of the original Hebrew should be: "an anointed one, a prince." ^[97]
• Hosea 11:1 - Matthew 2:14 states, "So he got up, took the child and his mother during the night and left for Egypt, where he stayed until the death of Herod. And so was fulfilled what the Lord had said through the prophet: 'Out of Egypt I called my son.'" However, that passage reads, "When Israel was a child, I loved him, and out of Egypt I called my son."
• Psalm 22:16 - The NIV renders this verse as "they have pierced my hands and feet". The Septuagint and Syriac manuscripts along with some Hebrew manuscripts would render it as "like the lion, my hands and feet".^{[98][unreliable source?]}
• Psalm 16:10
• Psalm 34:20
• Psalm 69:21
• Isaiah 9:6 - The verse reads: "For unto us a child is born, unto us a son is given: and the government shall be upon his shoulder: and his name shall be called Wonderful, Counsellor, The mighty God, The everlasting Father, The Prince of Peace." A more accurate translation of that phrase would be "A wonderful counselor is the mighty God, the everlasting father ..." Like the name "Immanuel," this name describes God, not the person who carries the name. The two letter word "is", is usually not stated in Hebrew. Rather,"is" is understood. For example, the words "hakelev" (the dog) and "gadol" (big), when joined into a sentence "hakelev gadol" means "the dog is big," even though no Hebrew word in that sentence represents the word "is." ^[99]
• Psalm 110:1 - Matthew 22:44 states "The Lord said to my Lord: Sit at my right hand until I put your enemies under your feet." Although Hebrew has no capital letters, the Hebrew translation of that passage reads "The Lord said to my lord" indicating that it is not speaking of God.^[100]
• Micah 5:2 - Matthew 2:6 quotes this prophesy as fullfillment of the prophesy: "But you, Bethlehem, in the land of Judah, are by no means least among the rulers of Judah; for out of you will come a ruler who will be the shepherd of my people Israel." The verse in the Old Testament reads "But you, Bethlehem Ephrathah, though you are small among the clans of Judah, out of you will come for me one who will be ruler over Israel, whose origins are from of old, from ancient times." It describes the clan of Bethlehem , who was the son of Caleb's second wife, Ephrathah.^[101]
• Zechariah 9:9 - Matthew reads as if Zechariah meant there were two animals: a donkey, and a colt, instead of just a donkey that was a young colt^[102]. Matthew 21:1-5