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us. To us, the parade is clearly a sequence of events. However, to someone who is outside the plane of the parade's existence—say, in a helicopter above the city— the beginning and the end are simultaneously in view (It is amazing how many theological paradoxes evaporate when one recognizes the restrictions of viewing our predicament from within our time dimension.) We are in possession of this collection of 66 books we call the Bible, written by 40 authors over several thousands of years, which we now discover is an integrated message from outside our time domain. The Bible repeatedly authenticates its uniqueness by describing history before it happens, and this discovery totally shatters our concept of reality. There are numerous publications which document the many amazing examples of Biblical predictions that have been fulfilled in history.7*° However, of primary interest in this particular review are some events on our own immediate horizon. In fact, you and I are apparently being plunged into a period of time about which the Bible says more than any other period of time in history—including the time when Jesus walked the shores of the Sea of Galilee and climbed the mountains of Judea. The recognition that we are emerging into a period of history that has been pre- written in the classic pages of the Biblical record shatters the comfort of our preconceptions about time, our universe, and our physical reality. The entire history of Israel is an astonishing testimony to the supernatural origin of the Bible. Israel is the lens through which the Bible presents both the past and the future. One of the greatest miracles in the Bible is before our very eyes: the Jew. The regathering of Israel to their own homeland—the second time**’{s the key to understanding the times in which we live. The libraries are full of volumes which detail the many incredible examples of how God has repeatedly authenticated his messages through fulfilled prophecies regarding the nation Israel. Perhaps even more amazing are the detailed prophecies concerning Jesus Christ. More than 300 prophecies concerning his birth, ministry, and sacrificial death are detailed in the Old Testament and fulfilled in the New Testament. Yet, there are several thousand + een 4 1 . . THE MOST AMAZING PASSAGE IN THE BIBLE 133 A MESSAGE OF EXTRATERRESTRIAL ORIGIN prophecies yet to be fulfilled upon his return!