Revisit (4 min.): Use the ideas for discussion. Adapt to what interests the person and show him a suitable biblical text (th lec. 12).
PUBLISHER: Good afternoon Raúl, how are you?
STUDENT: Very good Alberto, how are you?
PUBLISHER: Eager to continue with the conversation that we left pending the other day.
STUDENT: Yes, today you were going to tell me why you are so sure that God will fulfill his purpose.
PUBLISHER: Exactly Raúl, and how can it be otherwise we will do it through a text from the Bible, in this case I have prepared the one from Isaiah 55: 1. Do you want to read it?
STUDENT: Sure, this is it, isn't it?… He says… “that's how the word that comes out of my mouth will be. It won't come back to me without results; without fail, she will do what I wish and will successfully accomplish what I have sent her to do. "
PUBLISHER: What do you highlight from this text?
STUDENT: Well… everything he says will have results.
PUBLISHER: Very well, everything that God says in his Word the Bible has been fulfilled just as he has said, and what is about to happen will also be fulfilled.
STUDENT: But Alberto, and exactly what things have been accomplished? Because you have told me about hope and the promise of a better life, but it has not yet been fulfilled… How can we know that we are close to this?
PUBLISHER: Sure, because the Bible doesn't just talk about this hope, even if it's one of the ones we want the most. Many biblical prophecies have been fulfilled that give us the certainty that everything is being fulfilled, with successful results as the text we read says.
STUDENT: Many of these things have come true, yes, but many years ago. Not even we lived, how can we be sure that today God is still with us?
PUBLISHER: Well, we just have to look around us Raúl ... the Bible says that there would be wars, people would have a lot of hatred, natural disasters would be more and more frequent ... they would be truly difficult times to handle.
STUDENT: Yes, I understand all that and we are living it. But what I mean is that all of this is very general and in comparative terms it would have to be analyzed well ... there have always been natural disasters, which now are more continuous could be a coincidence or because now we are more people on earth and we notice it more ...
PUBLISHER: I understand what you mean, Raúl. You are looking more for a concrete example, right?
STUDENT: Yes, a concrete and more topical example, which has not happened thousands of years ago ...
PUBLISHER: Well, look, the Bible tells us that nations would be at odds with each other, and we see this today on both a political and military level. Although it is still an abstract and general example, not Raúl?
STUDENT: Yes, Alberto still is.
PUBLISHER: With this example I want to get to a point ... in this struggle between the current nations, there are some that stand out above and have more power, so they are respected, right?
STUDENT: Yes, it is. The one with the most power will always get what they want or at least a part of it.
PUBLISHER: Well, then we agree that there are people, who can be part of the leadership of very powerful governments that could do anything or almost anything, right? History leaves us characters of great power and political, economic or military influence ... we all know Hitler, Mussolini or Saddam Hussein, right?
STUDENT: Yes, not to know them ...
PUBLISHER: Well, these three people had a very great obsession with Babylon ...
STUDENT: The city that was destroyed in ancient times?
PUBLISHER: Yes, look what the Bible says about her in Isaiah 13: 19,20… it says: “And Babylon, the most glorious of kingdoms, the beauty and pride of the Chaldeans, will be like Sodom and Gomorrah when God He destroyed. It will never be populated and, for all generations, it will be uninhabited. No Arab will pitch his tent there and the shepherds will not take their flocks there to rest. " The Bible says it would never be populated again, do you know how it continues today?
STUDENT: Unpopulated?
PUBLISHER: In ruins just as in ancient times. Even with the effort of these people who had a lot of power in wanting to rebuild it. In fact, Hussein from around 1978 began to rebuild certain things, did he succeed? What happened was the Iraq war in 2003. No matter how many contemporary people's efforts to repopulate Babylon ... Biblical prophecy, written thousands of years ago, continues to be fulfilled ...
STUDENT: Wow, this example if I find it interesting and it is only a few years old ... I may investigate it a little more.
PUBLISHER: Great, if you do we can share feelings in the next conversation and talk about what life will be like when God carries out His purpose.
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