Jesus wants us to believe in prophecy.

Paul used the old testament (scriptures) to reason with the Jews and I'm sure many others.  When you want to bring truth to all you meet you will repeat yourself over and over because the truth won't change. You may alter your way of presenting the gospel and you may vary in which parts you preach, but ultimately you will always go back to the basics of the truth.

Sharing the good news of the gospel, bringing the knowledge of salvation through Jesus Christ our Lord is something we must do as the Holy Spirit leads us. We must use the scriptures just as Paul and Silas used them.

Yesterday we listed a lot of old testament scriptures about Jesus, the same scriptures the disciples used, and some of the same scriptures JESUS HIMSELF used.  Prophecies predicting Jesus were unveiled, all of them coming to pass, every single one! The Bible prophecy is true. I can't help but stress this point because so many just don't realize how we exist in prophecy, how our lives are affected by Biblical prophecies.  When our Savior tells us to watch and pray throughout His word we are watching for prophecy to be fulfilled. Jesus predicting the end of this world. Jesus predicted His return. Do you believe in Jesus? If you do believe in Jesus you have to believe in prophecy and its fulfillment. You have to believe in the return of Jesus Christ. You have to believe in the end of this world. So why do we shy away from prophecy? We say it's too confusing to really study or even believe. We say if God wanted us to comprehend it then He would have made it easy to understand. We say we don't really need to study any more prophecy, just the prophecy of our Savior returning.  To shun any prophecy is to run the risk of closing our minds to truth and when we close our minds to truth we are turning away from God and He will allow our spiritual sight to grow dim and even allow us to go spiritually blind if that is was our actions are revealing what we truly desire.  Truth isn't always easy, sometimes it is extremely difficult to accept truth, but if God knows that truth is what we really want, then we will come to know that truth no matter how hard it is to believe.

Those Paul and Silas were talking to reacted in the following way--

Act 17:4  And some of them believed, and consorted with Paul and Silas; and of the devout Greeks a great multitude, and of the chief women not a few. 

Act 17:5  But the Jews which believed not…

SOME believed.

Devout Greeks a GREAT MULTITUDE.

Chief women a lot.

Jews believed not.

Even though they were given all they needed, all the truth revealed through prophecy, not all believed.

I like to hope that I would have been among the believers but I'll never know. However, I can be among the believers today, in my time.  I can read the scriptures old and new, I can pray, I can watch and all through the grace and mercy of our Savior I will believe.

What will you do? Would you choose to know ALL truth as it is in Christ, or just some of it?

God bless and keep us all!