Fulfilled Prophecy (1 of 3 notes)

Part Two
Bibliology: 9 BIBLE EVIDENCES
A DISPENSATIONAL THEOLOGY

By Charles F Baker

This proof is probably the most demonstrable of all of the internal evidences. Again, destructive higher criticism has tried to discredit the prophetical character of the Bible by placing such late dates upon the books of the Old Testament as to have the prophecies written after the events transpired. As an example of this see the introductions to the Old Testament books in the Short Bible. Amos is said to be the first book to be written, between 765 and 750 B.C. Daniel, which contains many exact prophecies about Babylon, Media-Persia, Greece, and Rome, is said to be “clearly a product of the Maccabean age.’’⁸  Concerning the first five books of the Bible, which Christ declared to have been written by Moses (Mark12:19, 26; Luke 20:28; John 5:46; Luke 24:27), the Short Bible states: “It would be difficult to find in ancient or modern literature any parallel to the stupendous scope of the undertaking into which some great Hebrew of the post-Exilic age toward 350 B.C. wrought the literary inheritance of his people.”⁹ If we are to believe the critics, the books of Moses were written 1200 years after Moses’ death by an unknown Hebrew.

8            Edgar J. Goodspeed and J. M. Powis Smith, The Short Bible (New York: Random House, 1940), p. 241.

9            Ibid., p. 147.

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