The Bible is full of stories about men God used to predict the future. They were
called prophets, and almost all of them worked and lived in Old Testament times.
Thus, we know that God can supernaturally empower men to predict the future.
Does He still work that way today? For the most part,
no. Christians believe that God’s Word is His complete message to us. He no longer needs prophets
to communicate to us what He’s thinking. However, that doesn’t
mean He couldn’t do that.
So how would you know if a message about the future
was from God or not? For one, according to the rules for prophets in the
Old Testament, the person making the prediction would have to be 100 percent
right about their predictions all the time. God told the Israelites to put
to death any prophet who claimed to speak for God if his prediction didn’t
come true (Deuteronomy 18:20-22).
The other important thing about prophets of God is that
they will never proclaim anything that contradicts God’s Word, the
Bible. If they do, they are false prophets.
How about on the other side? Can Satan or demons work
through men to make predictions about the future? Nothing in the Bible indicates
that Satan or demons know specific things about the future (other than their
own fate). Even if they do, what is Satan’s goal? To deceive. To lie.
To mislead.
Therefore, any prediction made by anyone not from God
isn’t worth hearing.
Again, it’s either a hoax or a supernatural message designed to trip
us up. There’s no good reason to look for predictions of the future outside
of the Bible.
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