In late 1972, as a new believer, I bought the edition of the National Enquirer's annual prophecy issue, where seers, prophets, fortune tellers, and the like, predicted what was going to happen in 1973.
My plan was to squirrel the issue away until the end of 1973, to see how they did -- particularly in comparison to the Bible.
It turned out to be not much of a contest. It has been widely pointed out that there are approximately 150 prophecies (some say even more) about the first coming of Jesus Christ in the Bible, most of them written 500-1100 years before he was born. And they were all 100% fulfilled. (One such list is in the back of Tim Lahaye's Prophecy Bible, where it lists each old testament prophecy and how it was fulfilled)
How did today's prophets in the National Enquirer do in comparison? They listed 68 prophecies for 1973, and I gave them a score of one and a half correct. Let's see. That would be 2.2% correct. What ones did they get right? One was about Elvis's comeback continuing, and the half one was a prediction that Edward Kennedy would get a divorce in 1973. Actually, he and his wife separated in that year, so I gave that prediction a half-right vote.
So what about the many Biblical prophecies that have not yet been fulfilled? In Future History posts we'll be looking at those prophecies, among other things.
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