Dictionary of Bible Themes: 1424 predictions

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Dictionary of Bible Themes

Speaking authoritatively of the future. Since God knows the future he is able to reveal it to people beforehand. Predictions, which are often but not necessarily contained in prophecies, should not be confused with promises or expressions of intention.

Genesis 41:15-16,28

God's knowledge of the future

Impossible to predict the future apart from God

Jesus Christ predicted the future

Concerning his death and resurrection

See also

pp Mk 8:31

Matthew 17:22-23

pp Lk 9:22

Matthew 20:18-19

pp Mk 9:31

pp Lk 9:44

John 2:19-21; 12:32-33

pp Mk 10:33-34

pp Lk 18:31-33

Matthew 21:1-3

Concerning the donkey on which he would enter Jerusalem

pp Mk 11:1-3

Matthew 24:1-2

pp Lk 19:29-31

The fall of Jerusalem

Matthew 24:15-25

pp Mk 13:1-2

pp Lk 21:5-6

pp Mk 13:14-23

Matthew 26:21-25

pp Lk 21:20-24

That Judas would betray him

Luke 22:21
John 13:21,26

pp Mk 14:18-20

Matthew 26:34

That Peter would deny him

See also

pp Mk 14:30

John 13:38

pp Lk 22:34

John 21:18-19

Concerning the nature of Peter's death

Genesis 40:9-13,16-19; 41:28-32

The ability to interpret dreams and so predict the future

Daniel 2:45; 8:26; 10:14
1 Samuel 15:28; 28:16-17

Predictions were made through OT prophets

1 Kings 11:29-32
Hebrews 3:5
Acts 11:27-28

Predictions made through some of the first Christians

False predictions

The Messiah predicted

See also

Acts 7:52

Most OT references to the coming of the kingdom of God and his Messiah are not, strictly speaking, predictions but promises made by God in which he expresses his intention to save his people through the Messiah.