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Fulfilled Prophecy

Robert C. Newman
Nostradamus & the Bible
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Prophecy?
 Great interest in the
future these days
 Numerous claims to
be able to predict
 We want to examine
two of the strongest
claims:
 Nostradamus
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 The Bible
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Nostradamus (1503-1566)
 Latinized version of name
Michael de Notre Dame
 Jewish descent
 French physician &
astrologer
 Began to make
prophecies about 1547.
 These published as
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Centuries in 1555, 1558.

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The Bible (1500 BC – 100 AD)

 Various authors
 Claim to be speaking
for the Creator
 Connected with
Moses, David, Jesus
 Prophecies begin in
first book (Genesis)
and continue to last
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book (Revelation).
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The Fire of London

(Centuries 2.51)

The blood of the just will make complaint to London.

Burnt by fireballs in twenty-three the sixes;
The antique dame will fall from the high place,
Of the same sect many will be destroyed.
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The Fire of London Fulfillment

 London's biggest fire – 1666
 City burned from September 2 to 5:
 9 + 2 + 3 + 4 + 5 = 23
 Fireballs?
 Antique dame – St. Paul's cathedral the
traditional site of temple to Diana.
 Same sect – other Anglican churches
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burnt.
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Israel's Future
(Hosea 3:4-5)

For the sons of Israel will remain for many days

without king or prince, without sacrifice or sacred
pillar, and without ephod or household idols.
Afterward the sons of Israel will return and seek the
LORD their God and David their king; they will come
trembling to the LORD and to His goodness in the
last days.
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Israel's Future, Fulfillment

 Six things Israel will lack for many days:
 King/prince – neither revealed government nor their
own leaders
 Sacrifice/pillar – neither Sinai religion nor idolatry
 Ephod/teraphim – ditto
 They have lacked all these from about AD 70 to
1948; still lack five of these.
See an unprecedented turning of Jews to Jesus
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since 1960s.
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Napoleon?
(Centuries 8.1)

Pau.Nay.Loron will be more fire than blood,

To swim in praise, the great one to flee on the
confluence of waters,
He will refuse the Agassas entry,
Great bridge Durance he will hold them imprisoned.
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Napoleon, Fulfillment
 Pau.Nay.Loron an anagram for Roy
Na.Pau.Lon?
 More fire than blood – more soldier than
nobleman?
 Flee on waters – flight from Elba?
 Agassas = magpie = pie = Pius?
 Napoleon imprisoned Popes Pius 6 & 7.
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 He imprisoned them in S France near River Durance.

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Time of the Messiah

(Daniel 9:25-26)

Know and discern that from the issuing of a decree to

restore and rebuild Jerusalem until Messiah the Prince
there will be seven weeks and sixty-two weeks; it will
be built again, with plaza and moat, even in times of
distress. Then after the sixty-two weeks the Messiah
will be cut off and have nothing…
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Time of the Messiah, Fulfillment

 Unit of measurement – Sabbath-year
cycles
 Starting point – 20th year of Artaxerxes
(see Nehemiah 2:1-6) = 445 BC
 Method of counting – inclusive
 69th week is AD 28-35
 Spans ministry of Jesus!
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 Jesus is cut off!

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Hitler?
(Centuries 5.29)

Liberty will not be recovered,

A bold, black, base-born, iniquitous man will
occupy it;
When the material of the bridge is completed,
The republic of Venice will be annoyed by Hister.
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Hitler, Fulfillment
 Hister, old name for River Danube – an
anagram for Hitler?
 Bridge – pontoon bridge over Danube,
February 1941?
 Republic of Venice – Italy?
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Messiah's Burial & Resurrection

(Isaiah 53:8-10)

By oppression and judgment he was taken away; and as

for his generation, who considered that he was cut off out
of the land of the living for the transgression of my people
to whom the stroke was due? His grave was assigned
with wicked men, yet he was with a rich man in his death,
because he had done no violence, nor was there any
deceit in his mouth. But the LORD was pleased to crush
him, putting him to grief; if he would render himself as a
guilt offering, he will see his offspring, he will prolong his
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Messiah, Fulfillment
 Whole context (52:13-53:12) an
impressive picture of Servant-Messiah:
 Put to death by oppression & judgment
 Death a substitute for ours
 Burial with a rich man instead of wicked as
planned
 Brought back to life after becoming a guilt
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Depopulation of World
(Centuries, preface §26)

From the time I am writing this [1 March 1555] before 177

years, 3 months and 11 days, by pestilence, long famine,
and wars, and more still by inundations, the world
between this day and that, before and after, shall be
diminished, and its population so reduced that there will
hardly be hands enough to attend to agriculture, and the
lands will be left as long without culture as they have
been under tillage.
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Depopulation, Fulfillment
Calculating the deadline:
Day Month Year
1 3 1555 – starting point
+ 11 3 177 – interval
= 12 6 1732 = 12 June 1732
Nothing of the sort occurred!
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Regathering of Israel
(Isaiah 11:11)

Then it will happen on that day that the LORD will

again recover the second time with his hand the
remnant of his people who will remain, from
Assyria, Egypt, Pathros, Cush, Elam, Shinar,
Hamath, and from the islands of the sea.
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Regathering, Fulfillment
 2nd regathering – presumably 1st is return from
Babylonian captivity
 Names 7 specific areas:
 Assyria – Iraq & Syria
 Egypt – Egypt
 Pathros – Egypt
 Cush – Sudan
 Elam – Iran
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 Shinar – Iraq
 Hamath - Syria
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Regathering, Fulfillment
 Names one general area:
 Island/coastlands of the sea – Europe and
North Africa
 These are just the areas which have
experienced large changes in Jewish
population since the 1940s.
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Conclusions
 Both the Bible & Nostradamus give some
impressive examples of successful
prediction.
 Both predict events which have not yet
happened.
 Nostradamus has clearly missed, obscure
as he is; the Bible has not, though much
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Conclusions
 Biblical predictions are straight-forward;
Nostradamus mostly riddles; difficult to
guess what Nostradamus' fulfillment will
look like in advance.
 Biblical predictions are intended to
validate its message; what is the purpose
of Nostradamus' predictions?
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 Whom will you trust with your destiny?