Prophecies

What was written ahead of time, and what happened later.

Written around 1000 BC A thousand years before Easter, David wrote that God's holy one would not rot in the grave. David wrote that God's holy one would not decay in the grave. David's own body did. Jesus' didn't. Read it → Written around 735 BC Isaiah said a child would be born and called "God the Mighty". 700 years later, Jesus was born. Seven centuries early, Isaiah said a child would be born on David's throne, and called "God the Mighty". Read it → Around 1800 BC Jacob said Judah would keep its ruler until the Messiah came. The sceptre was taken away in Jesus' lifetime. A deathbed blessing set a deadline for the Messiah. Judah's sceptre was taken away in Jesus' lifetime. Read it → Written around 539 BC Daniel said the Messiah would be killed before the Temple was destroyed. The Temple fell in AD 70. A countdown given to Daniel lands on the year Jesus began his ministry, and sets a deadline of AD 70. Read it → Written around 586 BC Ezekiel said Tyre's stones would be thrown into the sea. 250 years later, Alexander the Great did it. A prophet said a city's rubble would end up in the sea. Two and a half centuries later, Alexander put it there. Read it → Written around 700 BC Isaiah named the king who would rebuild Jerusalem, by name, before he was born. A prophet named a king, and the decree he would sign, more than a century before he was born. Read it → Written around 735 BC Isaiah said the sign would be a virgin giving birth to God with us. 700 years later, it happened. Seven centuries early, Isaiah announced a sign no man could fake. A virgin would bear a son called God with us. Read it → Fulfilled in AD 70 Jesus said not one stone of the Temple would be left on another. Forty years later, Rome tore it down. Jesus described the siege and destruction of Jerusalem. Forty years later, the Roman army carried it out. Read it → Written around 700 BC Micah named the town where the Messiah would be born, 700 years before Jesus was born there. Seven centuries early, a prophet named the small village where the Messiah would be born. Read it → Written around 430 BC The last of the prophets promised Elijah would come first. 400 years later, he came, dressed the same. The last prophet promised Elijah would come back first. Four centuries later, a man in Elijah's clothes stepped out of the desert. Read it → Written around 520 BC Zechariah named the betrayal price, thirty pieces of silver, 500 years before Judas took it. The exact betrayal price, and what would happen to the money afterwards, written five centuries early. Read it → Written around 1000 BC David described the crucifixion 1,000 years before it happened. A psalm written a thousand years early describes the crucifixion in detail, from the mocking crowd to the gambled clothes. Read it → As of 2026 For 1,900 years, these prophecies were impossible. Then three came true in 22 years. Three prophecies about the end were impossible for 1,900 years. Then they came true between 1945 and 1967. Read it → Found in 1947 Isaiah foretold the crucifixion. We have a copy from 125 BC that matches ours almost letter perfect. The prophecy of Jesus' death was locked in well over a century before he was born. Read it → Peter Stoner, Science Speaks The odds of one man fulfilling just 8 prophecies by chance are 1 in 100 quadrillion. A professor of mathematics worked out the odds of one man fulfilling just eight prophecies by chance. Read it →
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