Unless you have just recently arrived from outer space, you have probably heard of Nostradamus. The odds are you don’t know very much about him; you may have heard that he made a lot of …
Real Prophets #2
Is God a time traveler? How does God know the future? I know the question sounds a little silly. After all, God is God and he knows everything, right? But hold on a second; let’s …
Real Prophets #3
We were eating in a Chinese restaurant some time ago, and I noticed something funny about my fortune cookie. On the back of the fortune (which, I think, said I was going to have a …
Real Prophets #4
I suspect the months leading up to the year 2000 saw more prophecies than any comparable period since, well, the last time they moved into a new millennium. But they weren’t really prophecies; they were …
Real Prophets #5
Real prophets do not read tea leaves. They do not tell the future by looking at your palm. And you’ll never catch a real prophet studying astrological charts for insight. Well, then, how do they …
Real Prophets #6
They say that history repeats itself; and I’ll have to admit it seems to be true. Actually, there are two perfectly good reasons why history would repeat. Number one: human nature doesn’t change. Number two: …
Real Prophets #7
Real prophets are not always nice people. As I read the Bible, I sometimes think that the prophets are like tools in God’s toolbox—when he wants a hammer, he picks up a prophet that’s sort …
Real Prophets #8
How can you tell when an Old Testament prophet is writing about the end time? You know, there’s so much stuff in those prophecies, as you read through them, and a lot of it seems …
Real Prophets #9
Real prophets are not always bad news. Oh, they have the unpleasant task of telling it like it is, telling us where we’re wrong, calling upon us to change, and telling us what is going …
Real Prophets #10
When you sit down to read an Old Testament prophet—like Isaiah or Jeremiah; Hosea or Amos—and as you read along you get a distinct impression that, Hey, this guy is writing about the end time, …
Real Prophets #11
If you’ve ever settled down to read the Old Testament prophets, and as you read you haven’t found anything that affects the way you live your life, you’re reading the prophets all wrong. I have …
Real Prophets #12
Jesus Christ was no fortune-teller. He didn’t go around giving people the answers to future Trivial Pursuit questions. Like all real prophets, he gave knowledge of the future for two reasons. One: so you could …