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Imagine a house with three hundred doors
and three hundred locks. The locks are so
novel and so complicated that there is not a
locksmith in the world who can make a key to
fit any one of them. Then imagine a man who
arrives on the scene with a master-key that
fits all the baffling locks, and opens all the
three hundred doors. Could you doubt that
his was, indeed, the master-key?
The Old Testament prophecies are like a
series of baffling locks, waiting for the arrival
of the Man with the master-key. One Man -
and only one, in all history – fits these
uncanny predictions, and that Man is Jesus of
Nazareth!
Some of the Old Testament prophecies are
sharply-focused and explicit, almost to the
point of hair-line precision. Some are less-
focused – more like hints, or pointers. Some
are even cryptic. Some, standing alone, can
be argued about. It is their combined