Saturday Song: The Human League, "Seconds"

The music scene of the early eighties was dominated by groups using synthesizers. This was especially so in the United Kingdom. 

One of those groups popular back then was The Human League. They had a hit with their song "Seconds" in November of 1982. Listen to it here.

History has a way of changing without much notice. The song reminds me of Duke Franz Ferdenand being assassinated in August 1914, triggering World War I. Nobody, at least that I know of, anticipated the assassination of John F. Kennedy on November 22, 1963 either. Many other historical events likewise happened without warning.

Even so, there were many events prophesied in the Bible long before they happened. One of many catastrophes was the obliteration of Jerusalem in A. D. 70. Christ prophesied in Luke 19:43 and 44 (Bible in Basic English), "For the time will come when your attackers will put a wall round you, and come all round you and keep you in on every side, And will make you level with the earth, and your children with you; and there will not be one stone resting on another in you, because you did not see that it was your day of mercy."

We also read in the Old Testament of prophecies which came true and in a timely manner too. We read where Belshazzar's kingdom was judged and taken from him after the fingers of a hand wrote on the wall of his throne room. Daniel 5:26-28 (BBE) records the interpretation of those words. "This is the sense of the words: Mene; your kingdom has been numbered by God and ended. Tekel; you have been put in the scales and seen to be under weight. Peres; your kingdom has been cut up and given to the Medes and Persians."

That happened the very night the prophetic warning was given.

We also read of long-range prophecies which couldn't have been faked. Jeremiah 31:15 (BBE) reads, "So has the Lord said: In Ramah there is a sound of crying, weeping and bitter sorrow; Rachel weeping for her children; she will not be comforted for their loss."

After Christ was born, King Ha rod had all the children under two years old killed in Bethlehem in the hope that he would execute his supposed rival.

There are many other places in Scripture where God warned humanity, often long before the events were to take place. Most of the time, few folks listened.

If the prophecy of Christ's return isn't fulfilled by Monday, I hope to publish about the original instigator of all our sorrows.