The Bible is a wonderful 2 part story. Part 1 - the Old Testament (OT) is the Story of a Nation - Israel (or the Jewish people). Part 2 - the New Testament (NT) is the Story of a Man - Jesus - who came from Heaven and claimed to be the Son of God! The amazing thing is how the man in the NT, Jesus - the long promised Messiah - is featured in patterns & shadows all through the OT. God, spoke through his prophets in the OT, showing us what would happen hundreds and even thousands of years ahead of time. With hindsight we can now see how things did indeed unfold, exactly as foretold, against all the odds, or laws of probability. This proves the authenticity of their writings, and the supernatural origin of the information!

Supernatural authentication

In fact there is a further supernatural level of authentication contained within the text of these historic writings in the Bible. Now that we have computers we can search for hidden messages using 'equidistant letter spacing'. And many significant messages have been revealed 'beneath the text'. For instance, you start with a letter, then skip to the 7th letter from there - in the ancient Hebrew text - then choose the following 7th letters to find a word, name or message. In this way, in the famous passage of Isaiah ch 53, which foretells many things about the coming Messiah - Jesus, are found the names of all Jesus' friends who gathered at the cross as He died! All these names are hidden from normal view, and were written hundreds of years in advance, encoded beneath the text. Talk about the supernatural mysteries in the Bible! So Jesus was put to death on a wooden cross, but 3 days later His body disappeared from the sealed tomb and He was alive again, witnessed by many people. See how this amazing event is recorded by Matthew

Some days later, after his resurrection Jesus walked with 2 Disciples along the road to Emmaus, explaining to them all the ancient scriptures (which they would be familiar with), which all pointed to Him, and to this event. They really should have known to expect Jesus at that time, and not be surprised, but tragically no one did. See how Luke records this

Just as Jesus' first coming as a baby in Bethlehem was fully detailed ahead of time throughout the scriptures of the OT, amazingly there are 7 times as many references to his coming back a second time - His Return! So we can have confidence in what is written, and what is about to happen. The Door is still open for people to turn to Jesus, to be saved from the penalty of their sin (rebellion against God), and the terrible chaos, lawlessness and destruction that is fast approaching on the earth. See '3 Choice's page But time is running out, the door is closing. Things are about to get much uglier. All this turmoil and uncertainty we see now was predicted in the Bible. The inflation we now see, the wars, and food shortages were all warned about! Christians are not surprised, they are getting ready! See what Jesus said as recorded by Matthew

And again in Luke's Gospel

Jesus is about to activate His amazing escape plan for those that love and follow Him. This is the most exciting of all the mysteries. Read on.