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“I am God, and there is no other… I make known the end from the beginning.”
Isaiah 46:9–10

Have you ever tried to guess what will happen in the future?

Maybe you guessed what you would get for your birthday.
Or who would win a game.
Or what tomorrow would be like.

Sometimes we guess right.
Most of the time, we do not.

That is because people cannot see the future.

Only God can.

This is one of the reasons the Bible is so special.

The Bible did not just talk about things after they happened.

It told us what would happen before it happened.

These promises are called prophecies.

A prophecy is when God tells something that will happen in the future.

Hundreds of years before Jesus was born, God gave prophecies about Him.

Long before Bethlehem existed as a famous town, the Bible said the Savior would be born there.

Long before Jesus lived, Scripture said the Messiah would come from the family line of King David.

Long before the cross, the Bible said the Savior would suffer for others.

Long before the resurrection, the Bible said God’s Holy One would not stay dead.

These were not lucky guesses.

No human could plan all of this.

Only God knows the future.

The prophets did not invent these ideas.

They spoke what God revealed to them.

Many of them did not fully understand what they were writing.

But God did.

Then Jesus came.

And what was promised long before began to happen in real life.

Jesus was born where the Bible said He would be born.

He lived the kind of life the Bible described.

He suffered just as Scripture said the Messiah would suffer.

And He rose again, just as God promised.

The Bible shows that God keeps His promises.

God does not forget what He says.

He does not change His mind.

When God makes a promise, He keeps it.

That is why prophecy matters.

It shows us that the Bible is not just written by people.

It shows a God who stands outside time.

A God who sees the beginning, the middle, and the end all at once.

And that same God knows you.

The prophecies about Jesus were not written so people could win arguments.

They were written so people could recognize the Savior when He came.

God wanted people to know that Jesus was not an accident.

He was God’s plan.

So how does prophecy help us trust the Bible?

Because the Bible told the future before it happened.
Because only God can do that.
And because Jesus fulfilled what God promised.

That is one more reason the Bible is God’s Word.

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Think About It

• Why do you think only God can truly know the future?

• How does fulfilled prophecy help us trust the Bible?

• Why do you think God planned Jesus long before He came?

• What does it tell you about God that He always keeps His promises?

• How does knowing this make you feel about trusting God today?