Bible Prophecy?
An article written for The Guardian (May 19, 2018) reports some rather extravagant claims. It claims that Fox News personality Jeanine Pirro recently declared that President Trump had "fulfilled biblical prophecy." While it may be the case that she may like the president, this statement is a definite overreach. No American President has fulfilled any Biblical prophecy. Some have followed the Scriptures to a degree; others have opposed directly the principles of morality taught in the Bible. But none of them were written about in the Book.
The statement was made in connection with the U.S. Embassy being moved from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem. Now what Bible verse would predict that occurrence? One would have to really stretch a passage to get such an application. Even the United States is not found in prophecy. Why aren't we? The reason is that the Bible is not written about the 21st century. Its purpose was to declare the establishment of the church in the first century—after Jesus ascended into Heaven after His crucifixion, burial, and resurrection. The kingdoms being judged by God as set forth by the prophets included those in existence in those days, such as Babylon, Assyria, Moab, Ammon, Tyre, Edom, Medo-Persia, Greece, and Rome. The United States and England don't fit in there, do they?
Whether the moving of the embassy was a good thing or not is not the point—it was not prophesied of in the Bible. Another statement in this article was a quote from Billy Graham: "I pick up the Bible in one hand, and I pick up a newspaper in the other. And I read almost the same words in the newspaper as I read in the Bible. It's being fulfilled every day around us." This is nonsense. The Bible is a relevant book, and therefore some things will always bear a similarity to what is currently happening, but none of them, including talks between North and South Korea, are fulfilling prophecies.
"Oh, but what about the Book of Revelation?" Some believe that the events depicted there are still unfolding, but these do not take into account the context. Christians were suffering persecution at the hands of the Roman Empire, and it is the destruction of that fourth world kingdom (Dan. 2:44-45) that the prophecy describes. People are misled about Israel, thinking God has yet to fulfill a prophecy concerning her, which is false. All of us would do well to use our time to develop the Christian character that God wants us to have rather than getting excited about secular, world events.