Logical History and Prophecy

By Michael Griego on July 25, 2025 • ( 0 )

How we extrapolate the words of Old Testament prophets to apply to our own modern day nations and events is actually dubious logic and worth a reset in thinking. ♦

While rich and deep and dense with recurring themes and patterns that can confuse and overwhelm, the Bible is ultimately structured in logic and sensibility that attracts and comforts us beyond measure.

It is sometimes our biases and desires for meaning, which fit our own frameworks, that can morph and distort what is otherwise straight-forward, clear, and profound. We humans easily can transform truth into something convoluted and beyond belief.

What is on my mind is the macro view of God’s hand displayed in Biblical history and prophecy across the entire Bible – both Old and New Testament – and the wide field of debris of disbelief and missed interpretations over human history. Historic truths and prophetic expectations, and their misses, have led may astray in their belief and trust of the Scriptures.

Maybe what’s been off is our common group-think expectations and interpretations rooted in hearsay, general belief, and mere human assessment.

Here are just a few:

Adam was not created but evolved. (False)
Noah did not build an ark. (False)
There was no worldwide Flood. (False)
c. 2000 BC, Abraham was not the first Hebrew/Jew. (False)
God did not promise a blessing to all people through the line of Abraham. (False)
c. 1450 BC, Moses did not lead the Hebrew people out of Egypt. (False)
c. 1050 BC, David did not kill a giant as a young teen. (False)
c. 740 BC, the prophet Isaiah did not predict the collapse and destruction of the Northern Kingdom of Israel (722 BC) and Southern Kingdom (586 BC). (False)
The prophet Isaiah did not predict the virgin birth of the Child-King (Jesus). (False)
The prophet Isaiah did not predict the Suffering-Servant’s (Jesus) sacrificial death for the redemption of mankind. (False)
c. 620-586 BC, the prophet Jeremiah did not predict the destruction of Jerusalem and the Temple (in his lifetime). (False)
The prophet Jeremiah did not predict that God would make a New Covenant (and write it upon the hearts of the people). (False)
The prophet Jeremiah did not predict that the Jews would be exiled in captivity by the Babylonians for 70 years. (False)
c. 605-530 BC, the prophet Daniel did not predict the successive kingdoms of Babylon, Persia, Greece, and Rome. (False)
The prophet Daniel did not predict an everlasting kingdom arising out of the Roman empire. (False)
The prophet Daniel did not predict an everlasting king (Jesus) arising after 490 years. (False)
c. 593-571 BC, the prophet Ezekiel did not see the glory of the Lord God leave the Temple in Jerusalem. (False)
The prophet Ezekiel did not see a vision of the valley of dry bones being brought to life as a symbol of the restoration of the Jewish people after 70 years of exile. (False)
The prophet Ezekiel did not see the vision of the saving of a scattered people of Israel in exile by a scheming wing of the Persian nation (Gog – Haman in the Book of Esther). (False)
c. 450 BC the prophet Malachi did not predict the coming of the harbinger of the Messiah (John the Baptist). (False)
Jesus, the Son of Man prophesied by Daniel, did not live and die, and was resurrected in glory. (False)
Jesus, the God-Man, did not declare a New Covenant for all mankind, Jews and Gentiles. (False)
Jesus did not predict that the Jewish religious leaders would see Him, the Son of Man, again in glory in their lifetime. (False)
Jesus did not predict that He, the Son of Man, would return in judgment against the entire City of Jerusalem and destruction of the Temple (AD 70) within a generation (40 years) and usher in the end of the Jewish sacrificial era (Revelation). (False)
The Holy Spirit, promised by Jesus, did not come upon the disciples and empowered the new Israel, symbolically the Church of Christ-followers. (False)
The apostle Paul, once a Christ-hating, non-believing Jew, did not become a leading teacher of the Christian Church and documented the teachings of Christianity in the New Testament. (False)
The apostles and Christian Church did not now take the Gospel message to bless all peoples, Jew and Gentiles, all one in Christ. (False)

Makes you think. What do I know? What do I not know? What do I really believe? What do I not believe?

The Old and New Covenant
One must follow the grand narrative of the entire Bible, Old Testament and New Testament to fully see the logical history and context of prophetic utterances or citings of mere men pegged by God to deliver His message to an often disbelieving people.

People not different than many of us in the modern day.

But God loves us and delivered on the plan for fulfilling his original Old Covenant promise to Abraham – that God would bless the nations of the world through him. That line led to the advent of Jesus, the Savior of the world and the presenter of the New Covenant promise – a renewed relationship between God, the Creator, and His people, all people, both Jews and Gentiles.

And that God would live within our hearts spiritually, no more in a temple requiring blood sacrifices. Jesus, the perfect Lamb of God, was the ultimate sacrifice. Our abiding and belief in Him and what He has done, is now what saves us and aligns us with our God.

A Prophetic Twist
When you look at logical history in the Bible, then the strange machinations of modern religious prophecy pundits fall outside clear thinking. The Old Testament prophets fulfilled their duties in their day, with bold prophetic words for the people that God wanted to communicate with at that time.

How we extrapolate the words of Old Testament prophets to apply to our own modern-day nations and events is actually dubious logic and worth a reset in thinking.

Careful reading of the full context of Isaiah, Jeremiah, Ezekiel, and Daniel will leave one with an awesome sense of God’s strong word and purposes for that time. We see and learn the heart and character of God, and the woeful disobedience of people not unlike ourselves.

But see it all in context. God is good, real, and He has a plan. And if we are His, we today are every bit a part of His plan for the redemption of all the peoples of the world, Jews and Gentiles.

And when the final end comes – God’s call only – we will all be ushered into eternity according to our standing with the saving grace of Jesus.

Do you have a logical and historical view of prophecy?
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“Behold, the days are coming, declares the Lord, when I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel and the house of Judah…I will put my law within them, and I will write it on their hearts…I will forgive their iniquity, and I will remember their sin no more.” – Jeremiah 31:31-34