"SPOILER-ALERT"

Don't you just hate it when your are reading a book, or beginning a movie, or even when a re-run comes on TV, and someone blurts out the ending?!  Even if they are kind enough to yell "spoiler-alert" before revealing the outcome, it just makes me feel like I am the last to learn of something;  sadly, I must be "totally out of the loop!"  I can only think of one exception:  Bible Prophecy!  In the case of "real life," it is very comforting to know how it is all going to end.

Understanding Bible Prophecy helps man in at least three areas:

1)  The literal fulfillment of Bible Prophecies affirms that God is not only Omniscient, but because He is also Omnipotent, He is at work making sure that what He said would happen, actually comes to pass (Rom. 8:28-29; Phil. 1:6; etc.)!  Take, for an example, the birth, death, burial, and resurrection of Jesus.  God said He would be born in Bethlehem (Mic. 5:2; Mt. 2:6) to a descendant of King David (Ps. 132:11; Mt. 1:1), a virgin (Isa. 7:14; Mt. 1:20-25); He would be crucified (Ps. 22; Isa. 53; Mt. 26:2; 27:35); He would be buried in a rich man's tomb (Isa. 53:9; Mt. 27:57-60); and He would be raised from the grave the third day (Jon. 1:17; Mt. 12:39-41; Lk. 24:19-27)!  God knows all, and ultimately, controls all!

2)  The literal fulfillment of Bible Prophecies serves to verify and validate God's Word as truth.  The Bible is both the Word of God, and it is truth (Ps. 33:4; Eccl.12:10; Jn. 17:17; 2 Cor. 6:7; Eph. 1:13; Col. 1:15; 2 Tim. 2:15; Jam. 1:18; etc.)!

3)  Knowing that the Lord is in control, and that regardless of what we experience in this life, we are comforted in knowing that in the end, WE WIN!

"Let not your heart be troubled: ye believe in God, believe also in Me.  In My Father's house are many mansions: if it were not so, I would have told you.  I go to prepare a place for you.  And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again, and receive you unto Myself; that where I am, there ye may be also" (Jn. 14:1-3).

"For whatsoever things were written aforetime were written for our learning, that we through patience and comfort of the Scriptures might have hope" (Rom. 15:4).

"But he that prophesieth speaketh unto men to edification, and exhortation, and comfort" (1 Cor. 14:3).

"But I would not have you to be ignorant, brethren, concerning them which are asleep, that ye sorrow not, even as others which have no hope.  For if we believe that Jesus died and rose again, even so them also which sleep in Jesus will God bring with Him.  For this we say unto you by the Word of the Lord, that we which are alive and remain unto the coming of the Lord shall not prevent them which are asleep.  For the Lord Himself shall descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of the archangel, and with the trump of God: and the dead in Christ shall rise first:  then we which are alive and remain shall be caught up together with them in the clouds, to meet the Lord in the air: and so shall we ever be with the Lord.  Wherefore comfort one another with these words" (1 Th. 4:13-18).

"Behold, I come quickly:

Blessed is he that keepeth the sayings of the Prophecy of this Book"

(Rev. 22:7)!