Top Ten Ways To Know If You Are Obsessed With Prophecy

1.  You always leave the top down on your convertible in case the rapture happens.
2.  You never buy green bananas.
3.  You talk your church into adapting the '60s pop song "Up, Up, and Away" as a Christian hymn.
4.  Bar code scanners make you nervous.
5.  You refuse a tax refund check because the amount comes to $666.
6.  You can name more signs of the times than you can commandments.
7.  You believe there is an original Gree and Hebrew text with Scofield's notes.
8.  You believe the term "Church fathers" refers to Hal Lindsey and Tim LaHaye.
9.  You get goose bumps when you hear a trumpet.
10. You use the Left Behind books as devotional reading.

(From the "Lamplighter" September/October 2000).

I'm not obsessed with prophecy...I don't own a convertible...but I certainly am intersted in the end times.  The Bible is a book of prophecy. So much of the Bible is prophecy that I say I love prophecy because I love the Bible.

In Bible Study there's a principle known as the "Law of Proportion."  This law simply states that you can discern the importance of a subject in Scripture by how much attention is devoted to it.  Few people have any idea just how much of the Bible is prophetic in nature.  Consider these statistics:

Number of verses in the Bible...31,124
Number of predictions in the O.T...1,239
Number of O.T. versess that contain predictions...6,641 our of 23,210
Percent of the Old Testament that is Prophecy...28.5%
Number of predictions in the N.T...578
Number of N.T. verses that contain predictions...1,711 out of 7,914
Percent of the N.T. that is Prophecy...21.5%
Percent of the whole Bible that is prophecy...27%

Of the 333 prophecies concerning Christ, 109 were fulfilled by His first coming, leaving 224 yet to be fulfilled in His Second Coming.
Twenty-three of the 27 N.T. books mention the Lord's coming.
People are exhorted to be ready for the return of Jesus Christ over fifty-times.

(These statistics are taken from the book, "The End" by Mark Hitchcock).

Are you ready?