One of the great products of its revelation is prediction that came to pass

years afterward with such amazing accuracy that was humanly impossible

that it must be authored by God. Welcome to Grace to you with John MacArthur. I'm your host Phil Johnson. It's been

said that if you take a hundred million silver dollars and lay them on the

face of Texas, they will cover the entire state dollars and if one of those dollars were marked with an X and if you had a

blindfolded man pick up a dollar at random. The chance that he would grab the marked one

would be about the same chance as if eight biblical prophecies about Jesus would come true.

And yet, keep in mind, more than eight prophecies about Jesus were fulfilled in the

New Testament.

So what should those incredible odds tell you about the trustworthy nature of God's word and how can

that give you hope today? Consider those questions with John MacArthur as

he continues his study titled Is Is the Bible Reliable?

And here's John with today's lesson.

One of the great marks of divine revelation

is the fact that God has written down in this book events events in history, people and places, and the

conflicts of both, with such absolute accuracy that there is no way that the human mind could have ever known these things, only the divine

mind of God could have foreseen them.

And then one of the great proofs of scripture, one of the great products of its revelation is just that, that there is in the Bible

prediction that came to pass years afterward was such amazing accuracy that was humanly impossible

that it must be authored by God.

This is essentially, if you will, the argument from omniscience.

Since the Bible knows everything, it must be the product of a being who knows everything and that being is none other than God.

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