What happens when key events of history have a connection to Bible prophecy? The result is a better appreciation for God's guiding hand in all of history.
by Mario Seiglie
When in school, you are bound to take some history classes. Yet many of us didn't find them very interesting. I remember they weren't for me. I just recall having to memorize a lot of ancient dates and remote places that seemed to have little importance today.
But a time came in my life when history suddenly became fascinating to me.
It was when I understood how history relates to the prophetic events in the Bible. A whole new world opened up to me. It was enthralling. Historical events now became valuable evidence that the Bible was inspired by God—and prophecy provided a framework for history—covering the past, present and even the future!
Now, not all of history relates to Bible prophecy, but you would be surprised to find out how much of it truly does. I found out much of history is simply the result of the best and worst of human nature played out in world events within the framework of biblical prophecy.
What happens when history and prophecy converge? You can then have a new appreciation of what has occurred on the world scene. Events that historians marvel about as seemingly lucky breaks or incredible coincidences turn out to actually be Bible prophecies being fulfilled.
Let me show you some astonishing examples. This was not something I expected when I bought the book What If?: The World's Foremost Military Historians Imagine What Might Have Been, edited by Robert Cowley.
The book contains around 50 key events in world history, with renowned historians asking, What if things had turned out differently? They conclude it would be a vastly different world. If crucial world events had turned out differently, we could easily be practicing the culture, language and religions of the great conqueror nations: Assyria, Babylon, Persia, Russia, Mongolia, Germany or Japan.
Incredibly, of the 50 key events mentioned, I found that 48 of them had to do with biblical prophecy! In other words, God had a hand in it. That's more than 95 percent of the world's most crucial events according to these secular historians!
