Old Testament Promises and Prophecies

God forbids Adam from eating from the tree of knowledge and threatens him with death if he does.

Genesis 2:17
but you must not eat from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, for when you eat of it you will surely die."

Genesis 5:5
Altogether, Adam lived 930 years, and then he died.

God's curse on Cain:

Genesis 4
12 When you work the ground, it will no longer yield its crops for you. You will be a restless wanderer on the earth."

What actually happened:

Genesis 4
16 So Cain went out from the LORD's presence and lived in the land of Nod, east of Eden.
17 Cain lay with his wife, and she became pregnant and gave birth to Enoch. Cain was then building a city, and he named it after his son Enoch.

God promises the Israelites:

Genesis 26
4 I will make your descendants as numerous as the stars in the sky and will give them all these lands, and through your offspring all nations on earth will be blessed,

Clearly this hasn't happened.

God's prophesy to David:

2 Samuel 7
13 He is the one who will build a house for my Name, and I will establish the throne of his kingdom forever.

16 Your house and your kingdom will endure forever before me; your throne will be established forever.

Solomon's Temple was destroyed by Nebuchadnezzar in 587 B.C. The Temple was later rebuilt twice and then destroyed by the Romans who built a pagan temple on its site. Today a splendid Muslim mosque, the Dome of the Rock, covers the site. Not a stone of Solomon's Temple has been found.

Ezekiel 29:10-13
Behold, therefore I am against thee, and against thy rivers, and I will make the land of Egypt utterly waste and desolate, from the tower of Syene even unto the border of Ethiopia.

29:11
No foot of man shall pass through it, nor foot of beast shall pass through it, neither shall it be inhabited forty years.

29:12
And I will make the land of Egypt desolate in the midst of the countries that are desolate, and her cities among the cities that are laid waste shall be desolate forty years: and I will scatter the Egyptians among the nations, and will disperse them through the countries.

29:13
Yet thus saith the Lord GOD; At the end of forty years will I gather the Egyptians from the people whither they were scattered:

The Nile has never dried up and Egypt has never been uninhabited.

Ezekiel 30-12
And I will make the rivers dry, and sell the land into the hand of the wicked: and I will make the land waste, and all that is therein, by the hand of strangers: I the LORD have spoken it.

The Nile still hasn't dried up.

Jeremiah 49:33
" Hazor will become a haunt of jackals*,
A desolation forever;
No one will live there,
Nor will a son of man reside in it."

*The KJV says "dragons" here instead of "jackals".
Hazor is still inhabited today (and free of "dragons").

Jeremiah 50:39
Therefore the wild beasts of the desert with the wild beasts of the islands shall dwell there, and the owls shall dwell therein: and it shall be no more inhabited for ever; neither shall it be dwelt in from generation to generation.

(See also: Jeremiah 51:26, 29, 37, 43, 62, 64)

Babylon is still inhabited today. It is part of present day Iraq.

Isaiah 60:12
For the nation or kingdom that will not serve you will perish;
it will be utterly ruined.

Nations who do not serve Israel are still standing.

Isaiah condemned Babylon, "predicted" its overthrow, and said that it would never be inhabited again ( 13:19-20), but the Persians had already conquered it by the time the final version of Isaiah was actually written.

In Lamentations 4:22, Jeremiah stated that God would no more send his people into captivity. Obviously, he was not prophet enough to foresee the final Diaspora at the hands of the Romans (something the Gospels were able to hint at, after the fact) or the concentration camps in our own century.

 

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