What on Earth is Happening? - Why I Believe What I Believe

Obviously this blog represents one man's opinion, but it is an opinion shared by many who have made the same journey as I have. Whether I knew it or not, the first half of my life was devoted to searching for truth and meaning. Eighteen years of formal education, serving in the military during the Cold/Vietnam War era, two decades plus in my own business and even more decades of organized religion were all part of this quest. It all started to come together the day I

yielded to the authority of Scripture, 34 years ago. Since then the journey has been more of truth being revealed rather than sought.

That may sound presumptuous, but I am actually humbled as I see the Bible proving itself to be a supernatural book whose writing was inspired by an all-seeing, all-knowing, all-powerful God. The Bible is full of history written in advance (prophecies) that were later fulfilled, some in great detail. Dr. Peter Stoner (Science Speaks, 1958) estimated the odds against just 48 of the 300 or so Old Testament prophecies about the Messiah being fulfilled in one person, such as Jesus of Nazareth. He calculated the odds at 1 in 10 to the 157th power. Since already fulfilled prophecy speaks so loudly about the veracity of the Bible, it stands to reason that prophecy concerning still future events will be fulfilled just as accurately as it always has. To believe otherwise would be betting against the odds.

A wrap-up here will serve as a segue to the next blog. The Bible gives us a macro-view of the future, plus it fills in many of the details. On a macro-scale, the Bible says that concerning the last days of history as we know it, there will be a movement towards world unity in three major areas: government, economics and religion. In the middle of all this there is the Middle East, Israel, Jerusalem and finally the Temple Mount - as though we were moving in on the epicenter of a major earthquake (by the way, earthquakes increasing in intensity and frequency factor heavily in end-times prophecy). Suffice it to say here that from A.D. 1948, national Israel did not exist; then in one day it burst forth as a nation, in fulfillment of a prophecy in Isaiah 66:8.