Fulfilled non-Messianic Prophecies

Fulfilled Non-Messianic Prophecies

The great majority of non-Messianic prophecies deal with predictions and fulfillments in the Old Testament times. The oldest confirmations of the OT texts are the Septuagint and the Dead Sea Scrolls, so it remains a serious challenge to prove these prophecies were written before their fulfillment. Liberal scholars simply assume each so called prophecy had to be written after its fulfillment. Why? As it is their assumption that genuine prophecy is not possible, they will only support a late date theory. Examples of this approach are the debates over the authorship and date of the books of Moses, Daniel and Isaiah.[4]

Table 24-1 gives a limited overview of prophecies that span long periods of time and which are fulfilled in history and/or confirmed by other texts. We will limit our analysis to only a few of these prophecies.

Selection of non-Messianic Prophecies
Prophecy	Prediction	Fulfillment
Abraham to have numerous descendants	Genesis 12:2	In history
God promised Abraham’s descendants the land of Palestine (the “promised land”)	Genesis 12:7	In history
David anointed as king while still a young boy	1 Samuel 16:1-23	2 Samuel 2:1-4
Prediction that David’s name would be great	2 Samuel 7:9	In history
Prediction that Solomon would built the temple	2 Samuel 7:13	1 Kings 6:37-38
Because of its many sins, Israel will be judged by God	Isaiah 1:1-25	2 Chronicles 36
Assyria will invade and desolate the land	Isaiah 7:18-25	2 Kings 17:1-18
Prediction of judgment on Babylon	Isaiah 13:1-22	Daniel 5
Prediction that Cyrus would authorize the rebuilding of the temple in Jerusalem	Isaiah 44:28-45:4	Ezra 1:1-4
The captivity of Israel in Babylon would last 40 years	Jeremiah 25:1-11	Ezra 1, history
Detailed description of the destruction of Tyre	Ezekiel 26:3-14	In 332 BC
Nebuchadnezzar’s vision of the four world empires	Daniel 2:1-44	In history
Babylon ’s fall: the writing on the wall	Daniel 5:25-28	In history
The four beasts predicting the world empires	Daniel 7:1-7	In history
The vision prophesying the future of Persia and Greece	Daniel 8:1-22	In history
Prophecy that the city of Nineveh would be destroyed	Jonah 1:1	612 BC
Jesus predicts the complete destruction of the temple	Mark 13:1-2	70 AD
Jesus predicts Peter’s denial	All gospels	All gospels
Jesus predicts Peter’s crucifixion	John 21:18-19	67 AD in Rome

Table 24- 1 : Selection of Non-Messianic Prophecies

In the next pages we will discuss in detail the following prophecies:

Exhibit #9: Isaiah's prophecy about Cyrus, King of Persia
Exhibit #10: Daniel's three prophecies about the coming world empires
Exhibit #11: Ezekiel's detailed prophecy about the destruction of Tyre
Exhibit #12: Jesus' prophecy about the destruction of Jerusalem and the temple

Read on about: (3) Exhibit #9: Isaiah's Cyrus prophecy

[4] As discussed and refuted in Exhibits #4, #5 and #6 (chapter 10).

Go back: 2. Scientific observations

(1) What is a fulfilled prophecy?	(2) Fulfilled non-Messianic prophecies
(3) Exhibit #9: Isaiah's Cyrus prophecy	(4) Exhibit #10: Daniel's world empire prophecies
(5) Exhibit #11: Ezekiel's Tyre prophecy	(6) Exhibit #12: Jesus' Jerusalem prophecy
(7) Fulfilled Messianic prophecies	(8) Exhibit #13: Daniel's "seventy sevens"
(9) Exhibit #14: other Messianic prophecies
	Read on about: 5. The Plan of Redemption

3. Fulfilled Prophecies (2)

Fulfilled Non-Messianic Prophecies