Crisis ConvertedSample

Theme: God is all-knowing.

Crisis Converted Then:

God makes his claim to exclusive divinity in this text by pointing to his all-knowing and predictive nature. He challenges any other god (or foreign prophet) to show their predictions coming true. God’s people are called as witnesses that he sent prophets to specifically predict what has already come to pass.

Crisis Converted Now:

God is the first and last. It might do us well to remember that more often. His predictions always come true. What he foretells always comes to pass. At times we need to listen more intently to what God speaks, not only for us today but for the entire world in eternity. God has spoken words of both hope and destruction for the future. Just as what he said in the past has come true, so what he has predicted for the future will come true as well. How does it change the way we live in the present when we recognize that what God has predicted for the future will come true?