Quotes About Prophecy

“For it is written in the book of Psalms: ëMay his place be deserted; let there be no one to dwell in it,í and, ëMay another take his position.í

No, this is what was spoken by the prophet Joel:

ëIn the last days, God says, I will pour out My Spirit on all people. Your sons and daughters will prophesy, your young men will see visions, your old men will dream dreams.

I will show wonders in the heavens above and signs on the earth below, blood and fire and billows of smoke.

The sun will be turned to darkness, and the moon to blood, before the coming of the great and glorious Day of the Lord.

Foreseeing this, David spoke about the resurrection of the Christ, that He was not abandoned to Hades, nor did His body see decay.

For David did not ascend into heaven, but he himself says: ëThe Lord said to my Lord, “Sit at My right hand

But in this way God has fulfilled what He foretold through all the prophets, saying that His Christ would suffer.

You spoke by the Holy Spirit through the mouth of Your servant, our father David: ëWhy do the nations rage and the peoples plot in vain?

In fact, this is the very city where Herod and Pontius Pilate conspired with the Gentiles and the people of Israel against Your holy servant Jesus, whom You anointed.

For we have heard him say that Jesus of Nazareth will destroy this place and change the customs that Moses handed down to us.”

God told him that his descendants would be foreigners in a strange land, and that they would be enslaved and mistreated four hundred years.

The eunuch was reading this passage of Scripture: “He was led like a sheep to the slaughter, and as a lamb before the shearer is silent, so He did not open His mouth.

One of them named Agabus stood up and predicted through the Spirit that a great famine would sweep across the whole world. (This happened under Claudius.)

When they had carried out all that was written about Him, they took Him down from the tree and laid Him in a tomb.

Watch out, then, that what was spoken by the prophets does not happen to you:

ëLook, you scoffers, wonder and perish! For I am doing a work in your days that you would never believe, even if someone told you.í”

One day as we were going to the place of prayer, we were met by a slave girl with a spirit of divination, who earned a large income for her masters by fortune-telling.

He had four unmarried daughters who prophesied.

Coming over to us, he took Paulís belt, bound his own feet and hands, and said, “The Holy Spirit says: ëIn this way the Jews of Jerusalem will bind the owner of this belt and hand him over to the Gentiles.í”

But I have had Godís help to this day, and I stand here to testify to small and great alike. I am saying nothing beyond what the prophets and Moses said would happen:

They disagreed among themselves and began to leave after Paul had made this final statement: “The Holy Spirit was right when He spoke to your fathers through Isaiah the prophet:

regarding His Son, who was a descendant of David according to the flesh,

It is just as Isaiah foretold: “Unless the Lord of Hosts had left us descendants, we would have become like Sodom, we would have resembled Gomorrah.”