Mathematical Odds

      There are over three hundred prophecies concerning the Messiah interwoven throughout the Old Testament. Some of them are repetitions of the same prophecy. For example, the prophecy concerning Jesus being from the line of David is repeated about fourteen times. The prophecy that tells us that the Messiah is to be born in Bethlehem is repeated five times. The number of non-repeating distinct prophecies is about one hundred and ninety.
      M.B. Bleecker is an engineer who took one hundred and fifty of the remarkable prophecies that Jesus fulfilled and calculated the odds of His fulfilling those prophecies. The odds of one man fulfilling one hundred and fifty prophecies in one lifetime are one in –

1,039,851,278,722,473,896,502,516,467,047,788,121,009,514,090,594,304

The odds of Jesus fulfilling just eight of them in His lifetime are one in -

100, 000, 000,000,000,000

God, The Ultimate Mathematician, has given us the numbers that point the way to the miracle of Messiah Jesus.

Copyright 2009 by H.D. Shively

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