TNDL: “THE OLD TESTAMENT SEER PROPHETS PROPHECY ABOUT THE HEBREW MESSIAH’S COMING AS ONE WHO WOULD FULFILLED THE PROPHECIES OF HIS MESSIAHSHIP.”

It is the peculiar glory of the Almighty, the all-knowing God, who is “the Lord, the Creator” (Isa. 40:28) to declare “new things…before they spring forth” (Isa. 42:9). He will not give that glory to another, for as He stated, “I am the LORD: that is My name: and My glory will I not give to another” (Isa. 42:8). The true God alone foreknows and foretells the future. He has chosen to confine His foretelling to the pages of Scripture.3 Though there are many other subjects of divine prophecy in the Bible, such as the Jews, the Gentile nations that surrounded Israel, the ancient cities, the church, and the last days, the divine perfections of foreknowledge and fulfillment can be better seen in the realm of prophecies concerning Christ than in any other sphere.


Here is the clear statement that shows God alone, in the Bible alone, gave true prophecies: “I am God, and there is none else; I am God, and there is none like Me, DECLARING THE END FROM THE BEGINNING, and from ancient times the things that are not yet done, saying, MY COUNSEL SHALL STAND, AND I WILL DO ALL MY PLEASURE” (Isa. 46:9-10). (The statement by God that He alone can give and fulfill prophecy, which can only be found in the Bible, is restated many times in the Bible. See Isa. 45:1-7, II Tim. 3:16, II Pet. 1:19-21, Deut. 18:21-22, Isa. 41:21-23, Jer. 28:9, and John 13:19.)


Note the tremendous force of this fact: To declare a thing shall come to pass long before it is in being, and to bring it to pass, this or nothing is the work of God.