Imagine… It is a freezing cold morning, with wind between 20 and 27 miles per hour. Puddles of water are frozen. It is December 17, 1903, at the Kill Devil Hills dunes near Kitty Hawk, North Carolina.
The bite of the cold is surpassed only by the excitement and anticipation in the air. A strong headwind from the north helps the machine gain lift at a lower speed over the ground, but makes working outdoors feel more like a punishment than an achievement.
Orville and Wilbur Wright prepare their machine on the windswept sand. Five local witnesses have gathered, including three men from the nearby Kill Devil Hills Life-Saving Station.
At 10:35 a.m., Orville lies prone on the lower wing of the 1903 Wright Flyer. He releases the restraining wire, and the aircraft moves forward along its launch rail. Wilbur runs alongside, steadying the wing. A 12-horsepower engine drives the carved wooden propellers. The machine built by two bicycle-shop owners and mechanics lifts into the air and remains aloft for 12 seconds, covering 120 feet before touching down on the sand.
Human flight under power and control. For thousands of years, people had watched birds and wondered what it would be like to fly. To many, it must have seemed impossible. Even to the dreamers, it could seem implausible. Yet here, on a cold December morning, a long imagined “impossibility” becomes something five witnesses saw with their own eyes.
What if, on that day, after the first flight, Wilbur had stood and proclaimed that within a generation people would build machines capable of flying to the Moon? What if he had boldly predicted that a man would walk on the Moon within seventy years? Imagine… What would those listening in 1903 have thought or said? You can almost hear the laughter and the scoffing, as though he had lost his mind. “Impossible!” they might have exclaimed.
And so we come to dreams, visions, and prophecy. Some things may be only a dream. Some people may have a vision of what could be. And some are given a divine prophecy to declare: “Thus saith the Lord.”
The Bible tells us, “All Scripture is God-breathed” (2 Timothy 3:16, NIV). Biblical prophecies deserve our attention. They ask us to consider what God has said about things that may lie far beyond the experience of the people who first heard them.
Consider the Bible itself. Its books were written thousands of years ago. In the traditional account of its composition, around forty human writers contributed over roughly fifteen hundred years. They came from many walks of life: kings, shepherds, fishermen, scholars, and others called to record what God had given them.
That traditional timeline stretches from around 1400 BC, with the books associated with Moses, to the closing decades of the first century AD, with Revelation. The Scriptures were written in Hebrew, Aramaic, and Greek, in settings spanning Asia, Africa, and Europe.
Imagine hearing those prophecies when they were first spoken. How would someone who traveled on foot picture our world? Today we cross oceans in hours, speak across continents, and watch events in Israel from our homes. What once stretched the imagination has become ordinary life.
I believe a convergence of signs now calls us to open our Bibles and pay attention. My hope rests in Jesus, Yeshua, the Jewish Messiah, who promised to come again.
Whatever your faith or background, you are welcome in this conversation. I invite you to understand what I believe and why. Prophecy speaks to how we live today, how we love one another, and whether we are ready to meet the One who is coming.
As we examine the Bible and its prophecies of judgment and the cleansing of this world, the question becomes deeply personal: Will I be saved, or am I destined for hell? No one else can make your response to God for you. This is a question each of us must face.