This is funny, because God said the same thing after I had prayed for about 30 minutes and then he reminded me that I had not prayed for the doctors, nor the babies, nor the innocent people that would be injured the most.
So your right … me Mr nice guy forgot to pray, but what I meant was that after it happens it will be too late to pray for it not to happen, not that you can change God’s mind anyway.
I hope it doesn’t happen for North Dakota or Israel either … I wish nothing bad would happen.
We live in changing times for sure … the weather for example.
God said, “He that controls the weather controls what men think”
He is a big God and I know he is talking someone in here … someone will change his mind it’s just a matter of time.
So if no star falls on North Dakota in the next 10 years will you conclude that your prophecy was false? 20 years? Ever? And if so, does it mean that you were deluded or that your god deceived you?
Is there anything that could happen that would ever lead you to question your beliefs?
Can someone please explain to me how it is obvious that Psalm 34:20
“he protects all his bones,
not one of them will be broken.”
is a prophecy specifically about Jesus? I know John refers to its fulfillment as a prophecy. Some Jehovah’s witnesses were at my home today & I threw a bunch of stuff at them to explain, one of which was my question about “post-recorded” prophecy. They didn’t even get it I think, I mean my question.
As I recall, the idea is that when a criminal was crucified, there was a little shelf for his feet. This actually prolonged the torture, because the longer he could keep some weight on his feet, the longer he would last, eventually dying from thirst or exposure. It might take several days.
The Gospels were full of Roman customs that the Romans never heard of, like a census that required everyone to return to the town where his ancestors lived 1000 years before, or the governor freeing whatever condemned criminal the crowd wanted freed. The relevant “custom” here was that the Romans agreed to observe the Jewish Sabbath, and not allow a man to die on that day, or something.
So John says that the Roman guards came around to break the legs of the crucified men on Friday afternoon. With broken legs, they couldn’t support their weight, so it would all hang from their arms, so they would quickly suffocate, before the Sabbath began. I’m not sure that’s medically correct, but I don’t want to test it.
John says that they broke the legs of the men crucified with Jesus, but when they came to Jesus, they were surprised to see that he was already dead, after just a few hours on the cross. Apparently he could just will himself to die, which is fine if you’re a God, but gives ammo to the people who say he didn’t really suffer that much. Presumably, he could also control pain.
But that’s it. The guards didn’t break his legs, therefore a verse in the Hebrew Bible about unbroken bones simply has to be a prophecy of Jesus. It seems to me that having unbroken bones loses some of its efficacy if you’re already dead, but I’m not a theologian.