This is one of these "verses" things like America's Funniest Home Videos. I don't know if you're into any of what they call the psychic arts, be it crystal ball reading, tarot cards, tea leave reading, palmistry, or astrology. But if you are perhaps you're a little annoyed at Christians, notibly Jesus Christ of KFI "dissing" your favorite vehicle of choice. These people love to make claims such as "Not one verse of Bible prophecy has ever failed in over two thousand years". Sounds pretty impressive, doesn't it. Jesus of KFI has been so bold as to state "Of all the psychic and prognosticative arts, astrology has the poorest track record of any of them". I can tell you from personal experiance that my own predictive powers are way above those of chance. Sometimes it's important to look for key words- - in this case "Personal Experiance". If I were to make a prediction such as "The stock market has probably made its all time low. We will probably see a downturn in the market the next couple of weeks, but the lows won't take out the lows we saw on Monday" this prediction would be made by your sticking a microphone in my face, and turning on the machine and rolling tape, recording my words. And when I was done with the prediction I wanted on the record I'd say, "This concludes my predictions". Then you would have me on the record. But what about the Bible? How much of the Bible is prophecy? Well, a Christian would say "Well- - all of the major prophets, all of the minor prophets, plus Psalms and Proverbs, I guess". Out of a typical Bible how many pages do you suppose that would take up in the Book. Three hundred? OK, let's go with that. These people will say there are 298 prophecies about Jesus Christ that have come to pass. What they won't say is that there are about 1,800 predictions of Jesus' second coming that haven't come true yet. That already makes them one for six. But then they will point to the odds of even a few incidents being predicted. How many points are you prepared to spot them. What odds will you give them saying "OK, I grant that it's, say 100 to one". How high are you prepared to go? One thousand to one? One million to one? How about ten billion to one? Do you want to concede that the odds may be ten billion to one that the events they say the Bible predicts just happened by chance? I'm going to show you a valuable lesson here so watch and learn. OK now we have to do just one more thing. On any given page of "prophecy" what percent of a "typical page" to they actually quote? We're doing averages now so give me a figure. Ten percent? So on the average they quote ten percent of prophecy they call their own? We'll be generous. We'll grant them ten percent, per page. Now start counting pages, each at ten to one odds. So at three pages in we are already at one thousand to one. Keep multiplying each figure by ten till you come to three hundred or ten to the three hundredth power. Now, take that answer and divide it into the Ten Billion to one figure we mentioned before. Suddenly ten billion doesn't look so big any more, does it? But I'll go you one better. Take their favorite, most prized passages of scripture and just use that, allright? Many say that Isaiah 53 is their nearest and dearest scripture. This has to be predictive of Jesus, doesn't it? Well, these verses say that the Survant was esteemed as worthless and lived a life full or sorrow and that one and all called him worthless and accursed by God, ect. ect. Now, reading the Gospells, how many people in every day called Jesus "worthless" or "Good for nothing" or a "neglegable person"? Where in all the Gospells does it say Jesus didn't have any friends, you know like the classic nerds they always mention in High School that sit in the back row of the band room. You mean Jesus was never called a nerd? Jesus was never ignored or dismissed as a nothing? In the gospells people divided into two classes. Those who thought he was the true Messiah and those who thought it was a misleading false messiah. But nobody but nobody regarded him as unimportant. So to quote an old movie, "See you really did have a Wonderful Life". I just have one more line I want to bring to your attention. The one that states "I (God) will allot him a portion with the great". No, I'm not disputing that Jesus was rewarded for his suffering. I'm making another point. I'd like you to focfus on two words, they are "Allot" and "Portion". If you allot something you Give it, to someone that didn't previously have it. And the word Portion suggests, that Jesus shared this reward he received with Others. What does this do to Jesus' claim of pre existant sovreign Deity? I really don't know! Don't look now but Gordon Gecko is selling the air craft plant. He's reviewed the financial figures again and decided putting in Comdominians would be more profitable. If you don't sleep with whores, you don't wake up with them the next morning.
Now I'd like to turn my attention to Bernie Madoff. Perhaps you've heard how badly the Securies and Exchange comission screwed up in the Bush Administration. Whistle blowers were willing to put everything at risk because they wanted to take this fellow down. For Bernie Madoff it's do not pass go, do not get two hundred dollars, go straight to jail. So far he's in a "Club Fed" type place where he spends an exausting day of ping pong playing and TV watching. And these ogres insist that he get a full night's sleep from eleven PM to 5:30 AM. He's lucky he doesn't have it worse. You know in the movie Wall Street, Buddy Fox not only was willing to sacrifice his vast income, but also his reputation with his father's company not to mention going to jail despite turning State's Evidence. Buddy Fox may never have been even touched by the SEC people. He with his own hand brought the SEC hammer down and blew his own brains out. But just to play Devi's advocate for a moment, do you suppose all those people Bernie Madoff bilked out of money- - were altruistic people totally lacking in any personal greed? I think not. People used to making lots of money are "used to" the idea of fantastic rationalizations of how they got it. And to play Devil's advocate again- - let's talk about Blue Star Airlines in the movie "Wall Street". They said "If Gecko wouldn't have dismantled the company someone else would have and Buddy Fox wouldn't be able to stop it, as he WAS able to stop Gordon Gecko. I see Blue Star Airlines as "My Life". It pretty much sucked before I ever had anything to do with Born Again. It's not dickerong over WHAT happened, but it's only a case of "Do you want to be the one pulling the trigger? Think about it.
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