Just another reason to take the Bible as God's Sure Word

I was reading the bible yesterday when something in it struck me as a fulfillment of a prophecy.

The reading of the passage taken from Zephaniah 2. Emphasis will be from 3 - 15. It says

3 Seek ye Jehovah, all ye meek of the earth, that have kept his ordinances; seek righteousness, seek meekness: it may be ye will be hid in the day of Jehovah's anger.

4 For Gaza shall be forsaken, and Ashkelon a desolation; they shall drive out Ashdod at noonday, and Ekron shall be rooted up.

5 Woe unto the inhabitants of the sea-coast, the nation of the Cherethites! The word of Jehovah is against you, O Canaan, the land of the Philistines; I will destroy thee, that there shall be no inhabitant.

6 And the sea-coast shall be pastures, with cottages for shepherds and folds for flocks.

7 And the coast shall be for the remnant of the house of Judah; they shall feed their flocks thereupon; in the houses of Ashkelon shall they lie down in the evening; for Jehovah their God will visit them, and bring back their captivity.

8 I have heard the reproach of Moab, and the revilings of the children of Ammon, wherewith they have reproached my people, and magnified themselves against their border.

9 Therefore as I live, saith Jehovah of hosts, the God of Israel, Surely Moab shall be as Sodom, and the children of Ammon as Gomorrah, a possession of nettles, and saltpits, and a perpetual desolation: the residue of my people shall make a prey of them, and the remnant of my nation shall inherit them.

10 This shall they have for their pride, because they have reproached and magnified themselves against the people of Jehovah of hosts.

11 Jehovah will be terrible unto them; for he will famish all the gods of the earth; and men shall worship him, every one from his place, even all the isles of the nations.

12 Ye Ethiopians also, ye shall be slain by my sword.

13 And he will stretch out his hand against the north, and destroy Assyria, and will make Nineveh a desolation, and dry like the wilderness.

14 And herds shall lie down in the midst of her, all the beasts of the nations: both the pelican and the porcupine shall lodge in the capitals thereof; their voice shall sing in the windows; desolation shall be in the thresholds: for he hath laid bare the cedar-work.

15 This is the joyous city that dwelt carelessly, that said in her heart, I am, and there is none besides me: how is she become a desolation, a place for beasts to lie down in! every one that passeth by her shall hiss, and wag his hand.

I quickly remember a new article I read from Associated Press, last week. Please click here to read the new article and appreciate this. Remember the guys who wrote the article were not trying to support the Bible or making any suggestion towards the current-day middle-east land dispute.

First it is worth noting that this prophet Zephaniah made this writing during his ministry which is dated between 640 - 609 B.C. - that is exactly when all this nation had root and never looked like doing down.

But today everybody know that of the five famous philistine cities (Ashdod, Ashkelon, Ekron, Gath and Gaza), Israel totally controls Ashdod where the famous port currently is and Gaza (aka Gaza strip) as homeland to the Palestinian. The Israel control just began in the twentieth century after the various aliyah(s).

Gath is now a National Park.

The philistine are now extinct such that without the bible no man would have known of their previous existence. Report have it "In 604 B.C., Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon invaded and put the Philistines' cities to the sword. There is no remnant of them after that". Source

The Moabites and Ammonities are also very extinct.

Nineveh (one of the greatest trade cities of old) also extinct.

Ethiopian was slain but there are not extinct as they are now the world known country east of Africa.

Which history book of predictions has been this accurate? We must take God's written word as it is. So much history there is about the bible but the contents have proven themselves as true. Therefore we must embrace this book that speaks of any future with so much accuracy because if it has always been accurate, the it revelation of God and his purposes can't be the first fallacy.

Nevertheless, the ultimate reason to believe God is in the book of Hebrews 11:6 - "Without Faith, it is impossible to please God ..."

Photo gallery from Associated Press