I was reading Psalm 69 earlier today. This Line spoke to my heart, knowing that it actually happened to my Saviour.

“They gave me also gall for my meat; and in my thirst they gave me vinegar to drink.” Psalm 69:21

Matthew records the event, Jesus dying on the old rugged Cross … “They gave him vinegar to drink mingled with gall.” Matthew 27:34

This phenomenon occurs dozens (maybe hundreds) of time in the Bible. Prophecies about Jesus written many years before His (Virgin) Birth … yet fulfilled exactly as prescribed!

Now the enemies of our Lord and skeptics of the Bible discount anything miraculous surrounding these remarkable Verses of Scripture. They say that the New Testament writers merely fashioned the situations they were describing around the “prophecies,” so as to make them “look” fulfilled.

If so (and it is NOT so), the Bible is simply a “made up” Book of fabrications! And we have attended a masquerade party! The writers of Scripture would have become editors instead of reporters. Novelists, producers!

BUT THERE IS AN ALTERNATIVE VIEW!

If the same True Author of the Bible (the Holy Spirit of God) penned both the prophecy (like Psalm 69:21) and the historical fulfilment (like Matthew 27:34) … the Bible is indeed a unique one-of-a-kind Book!

Folks, whole Books are written (by godly men of past ages) numerating and expounding the myriads of MIRACULOUS Bible forecasts that have been literally exacted in the Life of the Lord Jesus Christ!

Not counting the many other (not directly relating to Jesus) precious Predictions of Scripture. (About the anti-Christ or the Tribulation or the Battle of Armageddon, or the Millennium, etc.)

I know of individuals who doubted the Bible, sought to disprove its prophecies, and in the end got saved by the Grace of God. Mostly because these Verses are NOT masquerades! They are indeed … Miracles!

Wow!

THE BILE IS GOD’S INSPIRED, INERRANT WORD!

“For ever, O LORD, thy word is settled in heaven.” Psalm 119:89

— Dr. Mike Bagwell

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