Five of God's promises that have been fulfilled
December 29, 2024 - January 4, 2025 | Always Peachy Devotionals | God's Promises Week 1
Welcome to 2025!
Well, almost. The weeks lined up in a weird way, so I’m actually starting the January devotions while it’s still December 2024. But in a few days, we will be facing a brand new year.
Am I alone in feeling that’s a little hard to believe? To me, it seems 2024 has flown faster than even 2023 did. I know time passes; that’s what time does. I am just never ready for the turn of a new year. Well, that’s not entirely true. I’m certainly READY for a new year, even if I’m not ready, if that makes sense.
But no matter how unprepared I feel for 2025, I know that God won’t be taken by surprise no matter how unready I am. He already knew that we’d hit 2025 from the moment He made time. He knew I’d be sitting in my cold office scrambling to get this post ready a few hours before it goes live (because life has been so insanely busy these last six weeks). He even knew that Kansas would have a 60-degree day on Christmas.
Because, as we studied last month, God knows the future. He’s the only One who actually knows what will happen because He has already seen it. So if you think about it, that’s one reason we know all of His promises will come true. He’s already seen it happen!
In conversation with a friend, we got to chatting about God’s promises and how faithful He is. I was confident that I had already written a devotional series on God’s promises, but for the life of me I couldn’t find it. But I figured if I were going to repeat a theme, this was a good one to use. For the next five weeks, we’re going to be talking about God’s promises, focusing specifically on the promises intended for us and trying to distinguish the promises intended for others.
Because (spoiler alert) not every promise in the Bible is for you and me. Likewise, not every promise in the Bible is for Israel. God is always clear in His meaning, and He has provided us with the tools and the resources to understand exactly what He means.
In the next five weeks, we’re going to talk about the promises that have already been fulfilled, the promises God makes specifically to you as an individual, the promises He has made to others, the promises He has made to the Church, and the promises He has made to His enemies.
And this week? You guys, this week is going to be so incredible. We are going to talk about five promises we have seen fulfilled.
Yes, only five. Because honestly there are too many promises that have been fulfilled to count. We’re only going to talk about five of them, but WOW, what an amazing five!
Monday - The Birthplace of Jesus (Micah 5:2)
Tuesday - Cyrus Destroying Babylon (Isaiah 45:1)
Wednesday - The Conquest of Israel by Two Nations (Deuteronomy 31:16)
Thursday - The Date of the Beginning of Jesus’ Ministry (Daniel 9:25-26)
Friday - The Crucifixion of Christ (Psalm 22)
See what I mean? These aren’t foggy, fuzzy, ethereal concepts that you can massage Scripture to sort of indicate the fulfillment of a prophecy. No, these are concrete, factual, historically proven events that the Bible predicted would happen hundreds of years (or more) before they happened.
Why is this important? Why am I taking an entire week to talk about five historically documented events in this devotional series?
Well, for starters, I’ve been amazed at how many people don’t actually know how many prophecies the Bible contains—and likewise how many of them have been fulfilled. If you study Scripture, you will encounter prophecy everywhere. All prophecy in Scripture exists to point to Jesus, to glorify Him, and to legitimize that God is who He says He is.
There are about 2,500 prophecies in the Bible (that’s what I’ve seen, it may be more), and from what I have researched, around 2,000 of those prophecies have been fulfilled. To the letter.
But wait! How do we know that any of this is authentic? We don’t really have time to go into the detail of it. Maybe one of these days we’ll do a study on how we know we can trust the Bible. For the sake of time, let’s just acknowledge that the Bible is 100% true. It’s God’s Word, breathed out for us so we know how to live. And if you’re curious about the concept off prophets and Old Testament prophecies, well, basically if a prophet claimed to have a message from God and it didn’t happen, that prophet was killed. Nobody could claim to speak for God and live to tell about it for long. And none of the prophecies recorded in the Bible came from prophets who were later killed for false prophecy.
These five historical events had less of a chance of happening than can even truly be articulated when the prophets declared that they would take place. And yet, then happened. Because God said they would. And if God can declare something that is deemed impossible will happen and it happens, doesn’t that tell you something about His character? Doesn’t that encourage you that if He’s made you a promise, He will keep it?
This week’s memory verse is one we’ve had before, but it was just too good not to use. And it’s such an important reminder about God’s promises. It’s Joshua 23:14.
Soon I will die, going the way of everything on earth. Deep in your hearts you know that every promise of the Lord your God has come true. Not a single one has failed!
Not a single one of God’s promises has failed. God didn’t fail Joshua. He didn’t fail anyone before Joshua, and He hasn’t failed anyone after Joshua. Not Israel. Not the Church. He is as faithful now as He was then, because He is the same as He was then.
God has demonstrated His faithfulness to His promises throughout history. That tells me I can trust Him to keep the promises He’s made to me.
I can’t wait to dig into this with you guys!
Happy New Year!
Amy
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