V. Historical
confirmation.
A. Prophets
confirmed specific historical events and
persons in the Hebrew Scriptures.
Each book in the Old and
New Testaments
refers to previous historical events and persons as reported in earlier
books
by independent sources. There are
hundreds of examples. Here are just a
few:
1. The Creation of
That man was created, not evolved, is the testimony of the following:
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Moses |
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22Then the rib which the LORD God
had taken from man He made into a woman, and He brought her to the man.
Genesis
5:1 |
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Job |
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Job 10 |
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Jesus Christ |
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Matthew
19:4 |
Genesis
1:27 Genesis
5:2 |
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Paul |
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Romans
5:13
13For Adam was formed first, then
Eve. 14And Adam was not deceived, but the woman being
deceived, fell into transgression. 15Nevertheless she will
be saved in childbearing if they continue in faith, love, and holiness,
with self-control. |
Genesis
2:7
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God |
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Genesis
3:19 |
2.
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Ezekiel
31:9
Ezekiel
36:35
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9And out of the ground the LORD
God made every tree grow that is pleasant to the sight and good for
food. The tree of life was also in the midst of the garden, and the
tree of the knowledge of good and evil. |
3. Adam’s
sin acknowledged.
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Romans
5:12 Romans
5:14
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5For God knows that in the day
you eat of it your eyes will be opened, and you will be like God,
knowing good and evil.”
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4. Noah.
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1 Chronicles 1 8With a little wrath I hid My
face from you for a moment; Ezekiel
14:14 37But as the days of Noah were, so also will the coming of the Son of Man be. 38For as in the days before the flood, they were eating and drinking, marrying and giving in marriage, until the day that Noah entered the ark, 39and did not know until the flood came and took them all away, so also will the coming of the Son of Man be.
Hebrews
11:7 4 For if God did not spare the
angels who sinned, but cast them down to hell and delivered them into
chains of darkness, to be reserved for judgment; 5and did
not spare the ancient world, but saved Noah, one of eight people, a
preacher of righteousness, bringing in the flood on the world of the
ungodly; 6and turning the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah into
ashes, condemned them to destruction, making them an example to those
who afterward would live ungodly; |
8But Noah found grace in the eyes
of the LORD. Genesis
7:11
16The rainbow shall be in the
cloud, and I will look on it to remember the everlasting covenant
between God and every living creature of all flesh that is on the
earth.” 17And God said to Noah, “This is
the sign of the covenant which I have established between Me and all
flesh that is on the earth.” Genesis
9:19
1 Now this is the genealogy of
the sons of Noah: Shem, Ham, and Japheth. And sons were born to them
after the flood. |
5. God grants the
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2And Joshua said to all the
people, “Thus says the LORD God of Israel: “Your fathers, including
Terah, the father of Abraham and the father of Nahor, dwelt on the
other side of the River [Hebrew Nahar,
the Euphrates, and so in verses 3, 14, and 15] in old
times; and they served other gods. 3Then I took your father
Abraham from the other side of the River, led him throughout all the 5Then Jehoshaphat stood in the
assembly of Judah and Jerusalem, in the house of the LORD, before the
new court, 6and said: “O LORD God of our fathers, are You
not God in heaven, and do You not rule over all the kingdoms of the
nations, and in Your hand is there not power and might, so that no one
is able to withstand You? 7Are You not our God, who drove
out the inhabitants of this land before Your people
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8Also I give to you and your
descendants after you the land in which you are a stranger, all the
12Then he dreamed, and behold, a
ladder was set up on the earth, and its top reached to heaven; and
there the angels of God were ascending and descending on it. 11Also God said to him: “I am God Almighty. Be fruitful and multiply; a nation and a company of nations shall proceed from you, and kings shall come from your body. 12The land which I gave Abraham and Isaac I give to you; and to your descendants after you I give this land.” 13Then God went up from him in the place where He talked with him.
Exodus
33:1
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6. Abraham
believed God, and it was accounted to him for righteousness.
7. The
sin and destruction of
8. Jacob wrestles with God.
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2”The
LORD also brings a charge against |
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9. Hosea
refers to Jacob and Rachel and Moses.
Jacob fled to the country of
10. Joshua
refers to Jacob buying land for 100 pieces of silver.
11. The bones of Joseph.
12. Dividing the
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6”Then I brought your fathers out
of
10But they rebelled and grieved
His Holy Spirit;
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Exodus 14:13-31 13And Moses said to the people,
“Do not be afraid. Stand still, and see the salvation of the LORD,
which He will accomplish for you today. For the Egyptians whom you see
today, you shall see again no more forever. 14The LORD will
fight for you, and you shall hold your peace.”
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13. Daniel
refers to Moses.
Daniel
9:11
Yes, all Israel has transgressed Your law, and has departed so
as not to
obey Your voice; therefore the curse and the oath written in the Law
of Moses
the servant of God have been poured out on us, because we have sinned
against
Him.
Daniel
9:13
“As it is written in the Law of Moses, all this
disaster has come
upon us; yet we have not made our prayer before the LORD our God, that
we might
turn from our iniquities and understand Your truth.
14. Micah
refers to Moses, Aaron, Miriam.
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1
Chronicles 6:3 |
15. Micah refers to Balaam, Balak.
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Joshua
24:9 |
16.
Observance of the Passover.
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1 And Hezekiah sent to all
18They assigned the priests to
their divisions and the Levites to their divisions, over the service of
God in
17 Now on the first day of the
Feast of the Unleavened Bread the disciples came to Jesus, saying to
Him, “Where do You want us to prepare for You to eat the Passover?”
13And He sent out two of His disciples and said to them, “Go into the city, and a man will meet you carrying a pitcher of water; follow him. 14Wherever he goes in, say to the master of the house, “The Teacher says, “Where is the guest room in which I may eat the Passover with My disciples?”‘ 15Then he will show you a large upper room, furnished and prepared; there make ready for us.”
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Exodus 12:1-20 1 Now the LORD spoke to Moses and
Aaron in the 1 Now the LORD spoke to Moses in
the Wilderness of Sinai, in the first month of the second year after
they had come out of the 4So Moses told the children of
Leviticus 23 |
17. Mosaic legislation on carrying the Ark
of the Covenant with poles.
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1
Chronicles 15:15 |
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18. Independent references to manna.
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Joshua
5:12
Nehemiah
9:20 Psalm
78:24 John
6:31 John
6:49 John
6:58 Hebrews
9:4 Revelation
2:17 |
Exodus 16:4-16 4Then the LORD said to Moses,
“Behold, I will rain bread from heaven for you. And the people shall go
out and gather a certain quota every day, that I may test them, whether
they will walk in My law or not. 5And it shall be on the
sixth day that they shall prepare what they bring in, and it shall be
twice as much as they gather daily.”
Exodus
16:35 Numbers
11:6 Numbers
11:7 Numbers
11:9 Deuteronomy
8:3
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19.
Samuel recalls the Amakite treachery.
20. Amos
refers to the Israelites wandering in the wilderness and the Amorites.
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8They lie down by every altar on
clothes taken in pledge, |
Deuteronomy 3:8-11 8”And at that time we took the
land from the hand of the two kings of the Amorites who were on this
side of the Jordan, from the River Arnon to Mount Hermon 9(the
Sidonians call Hermon Sirion, and the Amorites call it Senir), 10all
the cities of the plain, all Gilead, and all Bashan, as far as Salcah
and Edrei, cities of the kingdom of Og in Bashan. |
21. The
Bronze Serpent.
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Numbers
21:9 |
22.
Jephthah, a Hebrew judge, recalls the Exodus and the conflict of
Ammon.
Judges 11:13-27
13And the king of the people of Ammon
answered
the messengers of Jephthah, “Because Israel took away my land when they
came up
out of
14So Jephthah again sent messengers to the king of the
people of
Ammon, 15and said to him, “Thus says Jephthah: “Israel did
not take
away the land of Moab, nor the land of the people of Ammon; 16for
when Israel came up from Egypt, they walked through the wilderness as
far as
the Red Sea and came to Kadesh. 17Then
23”And now the LORD God of
23. Rahab
the harlot.
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James
2:25 |
1 Now Joshua the son of Nun sent
out two men from Acacia Grove [Hebrew Shittim] to spy secretly,
saying, “Go, view the land, especially Joshua
2:3 |