How can we Trust these Bible Predictions?

The Jews return to their land

Hosea 3 v 4-5 “For the children of Israel shall abide many days without a king, and without a prince, and without a sacrifice. Afterward shall the children of Israel return…in the latter days.”

The latter days in the Bible is the period of years just before Jesus comes back to earth, so this verse tells us that when we see the Jews return to their land, then this is the beginning of the era in which Jesus will return. These verses then tell us that the Jews would be without a proper leader for a long time. And they wouldn't be able to carry out their ritual sacrifices in their temple, because they wouldn't be in their land. And this is what happened when the Jews were scattered among the nations. They couldn't be a proper country with a leader; they couldn't do their ritual sacrifices in their temple. But they would survive as a people, and verse 5 tells us God would bring them back to their land, at the time just before Jesus returns, in those latter days. And of course we've seen that all these prophecies have come true, with the last one being fulfilled in 1948.

Isaiah 43 v 5-7 – God said to Israel (around 700ish BC):

“Do not be afraid, for I am with you; I will bring your children from the east and gather you from the west. I will say to the north, ‘Give them up!' and to the south, ‘Do not hold them back.' Bring my sons from afar and my daughters from the ends of the earth"

So God said he would gather the Jews from the ends of the earth (North, South, East and West). After the collapse of the land of Israel under the Romans between AD66 and AD135, the Jews scattered all over the earth. So now, wherever in the world you may be, from the remotest reaches of Russia to the jungles of Brazil , through Europe and Scandinavia and across Asia and down into Australia, there they will be, often few in number but identifiably Jewish and definitely there. In fact Mark Twain described the race as “the ubiquitous Jew”. (Ubiquitous means “everywhere present”.) But as we've already said, with the reformation of the state of Israel last century, Jews have been returning to the land in droves – just as prophesied.

Now all these prophecies come from the Old Testament, and that was written well before the time when Jesus Christ was on earth, 2000 years ago. And yet it has accurately predicted the unusual history of the Jews. Historians all agree that with all that the Jewish nation has been through, it shouldn't have managed to have survived, yet it has. And the Bible predicted this. And the reason why it could predict it so accurately is that God is in control of what happens in the world – and as it says in Amos 3 V 7 “Surely the Lord God will do nothing, but (unless) he reveals his secret to his servants the prophets.”

In other words, the Bible says to us that it will prove it is a message from God by foretelling the whole history of the Jewish race. And it has done. And that's why we can trust the Bible predictions about the future.