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Bible prophecy has foretold a number of circumstances that have been realized or made possible only in modern times. Among these are:
Mass transportation and knowledge explosion.
Daniel 12:4 says that in "the time of the end . . . many shall run to and fro, and knowledge shall increase." This obviously does not refer to the pace of travel and learning in Daniel's day. It denotes a marked departure from what the world at that time was accustomed to. This did not come until modern science and industrialization gave birth to rapid mass transportation and the knowledge explosion of our current information age.
Instant mass communications.
Revelation 11:8-9 says of God's end-time two witnesses: "And their dead bodies will lie in the street of the great city [ Jerusalem] . . . Then those from the peoples, tribes, tongues, and nations will see their dead bodies threeand-a-half days." For all the earth's peoples to witness this requires such modern technologies as satellite television, the Internet or some other electronic communication medium, all unimaginable in the first century when this prophecy was written.
The population explosion.
Revelation 9:16 mentions a massive army of 200 million. This is a staggering figure even today-though possible given the world population. Yet when this prophecy was written in the first century, the entire global population was "about 300 million. For a very long time the world population did not grow significantly . . . It took more than 1600 years for the world population to double to 600 million" (United Nations, The World at Six Billion, 1998). So the idea of a 200-million-man army was inconceivable-except to Bible prophecy, which foresaw it.
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