When you start talking about fulfilled prophecy, you begin to see that God wrote this book.

And you know as you look around today, prophecy is still coming to pass, isn't it?

Why, we see the things that are forming in the world around us as we anticipate the coming of our blessed

Lord Christ and I see God being vindicated in the past the present and yet to be in the

future I praise him for pre-written history because it proves that he wrote this book. Welcome to Grace to you with John MacArthur. I'm your host Phil Johnson.

We've harnessed the power of raging rivers. We've turned sand into computer chips.

We've made space travel almost commonplace.

We're the captains of our destiny, one might say.

That's certainly what many of the ancient rulers of the Old Testament thought.

And their downfalls serve as warnings to you and me about the dangers of

spiritual pride. But that's not all you can learn from those examples. They also

demonstrate the trustworthiness of the word of God.

And how is that so?

Find out as John MacArthur continues his series,

Is the Bible Reliable?

Take your Bible now if you're able and follow along as John begins today's lesson.

The following passage is an interesting thing to read.

I want to read it to you.

It's included in the book entitled They Wrote on Clay by Edward Chiera, University of Chicago

Press 1966.

This particular individual is writing a letter to his wife.

This is a man who was excavating the ancient site of Babylon.

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