MILLIONS MISSING FROM THE ROAD (1 OF 8)

MILLIONS MISSING FROM THE ROAD
Matthew 24:36-42
Jerry Vines
1/21/96

Bill Gates, the founder and CEO of Microsoft, has written a book entitled The Road Ahead.
It's a best-seller, number three on the best-seller list. In this book he gives a rather scintillating and
mind-boggling account of the road ahead in terms of where technology is going. By the road ahead he
is referring to the information highway and it is a fascinating study of the trends of the time and the
forecast which he makes concerning the days of the future. I have borrowed his title to give me a title
for a series of messages which I'm going to call also The Road Ahead. I'd be very grateful if Mr. Gates
would want to give us 10% of his profits for advertising his book for him. But I have used his title as
the title for a series of messages I'm bringing on the subject of Bible prophecy. When I use The Road
Ahead I'm thinking in terms of the road of time or the road of human history. Interestingly enough the
Bible has a great deal to say about the road ahead, about prophecy - what is going to come to pass in
the future.
One of the great proofs for the inspiration of the Bible is fulfilled prophecy. The fact that the
Bible has made predictions hundreds of years before the actual fact and all of those predictions were
fulfilled. If the Lord made predictions that have been fulfilled in the Old Testament day, we can believe
today that the further predictions of the Bible about the days ahead will be fulfilled.
There is one great consummating event in the future which the Bible focuses around. Revelation
19:10 says, "the testimony of Jesus is the spirit of prophecy." That statement means that the coming of
the Lord Jesus Christ is the focal point of everything that is ahead. It is that one great event toward
which all history ...

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