Prophecy
Prophecies Literally Fulfilled
Blackwood’s Comprehensive Aids to the Study of the Bible · Vol. I, p. 41
Begins on Vol. I, p. 41
| Text | The Fulfilment |
|---|---|
| Gen. ix.25, 27. | The descendants of Shem and Japheth are "ruling" and "enlarged," but the descendants of Ham are still "the servants of servants." |
| Gen. xvi. 10, 12. Gen. xvii. 20. |
The posterity of Ishmael have "multiplied exceedingly," living like "wild men," "their hand against every man," free in "the presence of all their brethren" and of all their enemies. |
| Gen. xlix. 10. | "The sceptre has departed from Judah." |
| Lev. xxvi. 38, 39. Deut. xxviii. 62, 67. Ezek. v. 10, 15. Hos. iii. 4. |
The Jews have been "led away into all nations," "Jerusalem has been trodden down by the Gentiles," the people have been "plucked from off their own land," "removed into all the kingdoms of the earth," "scattered among the heathen," "among all people," "sifted among all nations," have "become a proverb," have found "among these nations no ease, and the sole of their foot had no rest," have "been many days without a king and without a sacrifice." |
| Num. xxiii. 9. | The Jews "dwell alone," and are not "reckoned among the nations." |
| Num. xxiv. 20. | "The remembrance of Amalek" is "utterly put out from under heaven." |
| Ps. ii. 8. Mal. i. 11. |
The Lord has given to the Messiah "the heathen for his inheritance," and the progress of the Gospel is hastening the time when "from the rising of the sun, even to the going down of the same, his name shall be great among the Gentiles." |
| Jer. xlix. 17, etc. Ezek. xxv. 12, etc. Joel iii. 19. Amos i. 11, etc. Obad. x. 18, etc. |
The family of Esau has become extinct, "cut off for ever," so that there is "none remaining of the house of Esau." The "palaces of Bozrah" have been "devoured by fire." Fire was "kindled in Rabbah and in the palaces thereof," and Ammon was destroyed as in "the day of the whirlwind." |
| Nah. i., iii. | Ninevah is completely destroyed, and for ages its locality was unknown. |
| Isa. xiii., xiv. | Babylon has been swept with "the besom of destruction," is made "a desolation for ever," "a possession for the bittern and pools of water," "a dwelling-place for dragons, an astonishment and hissing, without an inhabitant." |
| Ezek. xxvi. 4, 5. | Tyre has become "like the top of a rock, a place for fishers to spread their nets upon." |
| Ezek. xxix. 14, 15. | Egypt became "a base kingdom," tributary to strangers, and never able to "exalt itself above the nations." |
| Dan. xi. 37, 39. | The fourth and last of the four great kingdoms was divided into ten kingdoms, and among them has arisen a power with a triple crown, "diverse from the first," "with a mouth speaking very great things," "wearing out the saints of the Most High," "changing times and laws," ruling "over many and dividing the land for gain." |
| Luke xxi. 24. | The Jews have been led into all nations, and Jerusalem has been trodden down of the Gentiles. |
| 1 Tim. iv. 1-3. | The apostasy here predicted has taken place. The Roman Church has forbidden the priesthood "to marry," and "commanded to abstain from meats." |
| Rev. ii., iii. | The decay of the seven Asiatic churches and their fate have been literally foretold. |
| Rev. xiii.-xvii. | The rise, power and fury of the mystical Babylon are here set forth, and Rome built on seven hills is pointed out as the seat of this tyranny. |
| The Omniscient Lord of all, who seeth the end from the beginning, could alone have foretold these events, which have already come to pass. |