Why Study Prophecy?

In these days, when people are searching for meaning and truth, for purpose and hope, I can think of no better source for guidance than the Holy Scriptures. In 2 Timothy 3:16-17, Paul writes that all of God's Word is "profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, and for training in righteousness." That includes God's prophetic Word. God intends that we understand the contents of the prophetic Word and that it will have a bearing upon the practical decisions we Christians make.

Within the pages of the Scriptures, we find the word of God, speaking to us as clearly as He spoke to His 12 original disciples — and we modern-day disciples know that we, too, must hear the Word of God, our Lord Jesus Christ, to be about our calling. To put it simply, we study the Bible because we want and need to know what God is calling us to do.

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