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Post Falls SDA Church

Willard Santee

Introduction to Prophetic Principles

It is nice to see you here tonight and it is absolutely scary isn't it?

Some of you are in a Seventh-day Adventist church for the first time in your life.

I understand we even had to pay some of you to get here but that's okay.

I've never had to do that, Elder Dean, but it's nice that you've come tonight, and I really hope that you'll get your money's worth.

I know you're going to be a little frustrated at first and maybe even a little anxious at first wondering what in the world are these folks going to tell you with all these charts surrounding you.

I'm interested in seeing some of them too.

Some of them have been around for a long time.

But tonight we're going to get into some exciting things and I just can hardly wait to get in and share some of these things.

In fact, tonight's presentation, I've never given like this in my life.

And the ink is still a little wet, so I'm interested to see how it turns out myself.

Before we get into this, as a pastor, you would expect me to have a little prayer, so I'm going to do that for you.

And I want to invite you, those of you that pray, and have a walk with the Lord Jesus Christ to pray for me tonight, that I'll be able to make it plain what I want to share with you tonight, okay?

Because we do want to really get into our lecture tonight and learn some things, be challenged by some things that we hear tonight as well.

So just pray with me if you would right where you are.

Father, tonight we want to thank you for every 1 of your children who are here.

Old and young alike, we just thank you, Father, for the privilege we have of life and of living it.

And I pray as we go through this presentation tonight that your spirit that Michael talked about tonight will touch our hearts, give us minds to understand, and also give the speaker the ability to make it plain.

Thank you, Father, for the privilege we have of spending these few moments together.

Tonight, our presentation is entitled, Introduction to Prophetic Principles.

There's something about this old book we call the Bible that has withstood the test of time, and that is, may I suggest, 1 word, and that's why we're here tonight, prophecy.

We're going to take a look at that strange little word prophecy the book's ability to reveal future events humanistic philosophers along with the skeptics and unbelievers come and go, but the Bible is still here.

There's something about this book that's different than any book that's ever been written by a human being.

What you're going to discover over the next few weeks is that this book we call the Bible is different from all other books.

The reason I can say that is because the source that inspired it to be written still impresses minds and hearts of those who are serious and want to take a look at what it really has to say.

1 of the greatest proofs that this book is no ordinary book is because it has been proven to be flawless.

I'm suggesting tonight this book, the Word of God that we refer to as the Holy Bible, has been proven to be flawless in its revelation and predicted events.

In other words, once we understand the keys for unlocking the prophetic principles of biblical prophecy, we will not only be able to understand the events of our past, but will understand where we are today in biblical time, and also what we can expect in the future.

And before I share with you some of the keys of these principles that we're talking about for understanding prophetic interpretation, let me give you some simple biblical facts.

If you have a little sheet of paper, you want to write some things down, it might be interesting as we take a look at this little book we call the Bible.

The Protestant Bible, which I have here with me, I left my Jewish 1 at home and I have had a little Catholic 1 from time to time, but the 1 I'm here with tonight is the Protestant Bible, which most Christians have, has 66 books in it.

In fact, the word Bible simply means books.

So it has 66 little books inside the big book.

If you happen to have a Douay-Rheims or a Catholic Bible, then it has 73 books in it because it includes the apocrypha or some added fictional books.

The Protestant Bible left the fictional books out because they just kind of wanted to stick with true things.

If you happen to have a Jewish Bible, it has 39 books in it, for obvious reasons.

The entire New Testament is left out because Jews today are still looking for their Messiah to come, and the New Testament that identifies Jesus as the Messiah, obviously is something they are not willing to accept at this point in their life.

So during our prophetic college lectures, we're going to be using this little book right here, the Protestant Bible.

And I don't care which particular updated version you choose to use, the New International Version, the Revised Standard Version, American Standard Version, the Amplified Version, just bring a Bible, okay?

And if you happen to have a Catholic Bible, bring it.

That's okay, not prejudiced against that.

If you have a Jewish Bible, bring that at least.

We'll add the others as we get into the presentations.

So anyway, during our lectures, we're gonna be taking a look at the Protestant Bible.

And the reason for that is because it's the most accurate and the most complete, I'm suggesting, of all biblical texts.

The Protestant Bible had as many as 40, another interesting little point, had as many as 40 writers And they wrote over a period of 1, 500 years, or from 1, 500 BC to about AD 100.

John, the last writer of the New Testament, who wrote the book of the Revelation, wrote it about somewhere around 97, 98 A.D.

As some of the scholars refer to it today.

So 1, 500 years of writing, 40 writers, writing 66 different books.

And the amazing thing to me is that with all of these writers over this long period of time from totally different cultures are still writing a general theme consistently over that 1500 year time period.

Of the 66 books they wrote, 39 make up what we call the Old Testament or the First Testament.

And the 27 remaining books make up the New Testament or what we would call the Second Testament.

In short, we could say that the Second Testament, or the New Testament, is a validation or confirmation of the First Testament.

For the prophecies written in the Old Testament are documented or fulfilled in the New Testament.

And I would like to give you 3 examples, and you can jot these little thoughts down if you'd like, because they're kind of cool, they're kind of neat to me, I appreciate them.

First we'll take a look at the Old Testament prophecy that was written 700 years in advance of the event that it predicted.

And then we'll do the same with a 500-year-old prophecy.

And finally, we'll take a look at a thousand year old prophecy written in advance of its fulfillment.

700 years before Jesus, the person, the historical Jesus Christ was born.

The Bible predicted that he would be born in a town, and some of you know what that is, called Bethlehem.

History reveals that his mother, however, lived in Nazareth.

That was about 90 miles north of that little town of Bethlehem.

It was not until she was pregnant in the ninth month, full term, that Joseph and Mary took the five-day journey down to Bethlehem where she gave birth the very first night that she arrived.

What woman in her ninth month of pregnancy would leave the security of her family and friends and ride a donkey for 5 days to a place where she didn't even know a single soul.

However, the only reason that we have recorded as to why she made the trip was because they were being taxed and had to report in Bethlehem.

In other words, 700 years before that event, the prophet Micah in chapter 5 and verse 2 of his book, prophesied that God would bring forth a ruler of Israel and he would be born in the town of Bethlehem.

The question that you and I are faced with today is how did the prophet Micah know that Mary and Joseph would be in Bethlehem for Jesus' birth.

The rest of the story we probably know or have at least heard about it.

How the wise men followed the star and how the shepherds left their sheep in the fields and came and worshipped the Christ child in the manger of Bethlehem." We've heard that.

But did you know that Zechariah the prophet, another Old Testament prophet, also made a prediction.

He prophesied that Jesus would be sold, this is good, that Jesus Christ Himself would be sold into the hands of His enemies for 30 pieces of, does anybody know historically?

Prophesied 500 years in advance that Jesus would be sold for 30 pieces of silver, not 25 pieces, not 35 pieces, 30 pieces.

And how did he know that the exchange would be in silver 500 years in the future?

The price of a slave would be 30 pieces of silver.

How did he know 500 years in advance what the price of a slave was going to be and know there would be in silver not gold not bronze.

King David, the writer of the 23rd Psalm, wrote a lot of things, but did you know this?

That he also wrote about the Messiah's hands and feet being pierced in death How did David know 1000 years in advance What kind of death Jesus would suffer?

Now folks, I could get really excited about this because have any of you ever heard about the Jewish system of the sacrificial offerings and sacrificing animals?

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