The Church Prophesied


From: TFTW Bible College

The church was prophesied about hundreds of years before Jesus came to the Earth. Daniel was interpreting a dream of a king of the Babylonian Empire. The dream involved a statue made of different materials. “This image’s head was of fine gold, his breast and his arms of silver, his belly and his thighs of brass, His legs of iron, his feet part of iron and part of clay.” (Daniel 2:32-33)

God let Daniel know that the different materials represented the different kingdoms that would be on the Earth. The gold was the current Babylonian kingdom. We know from history that after that came the Medo-Persian Empire, then the Greek Empire and the last kingdom was the Roman Empire. Daniel prophesied, “And in the days of these kings shall the God of heaven set up a kingdom, which shall never be destroyed: and the kingdom shall not be left to other people, but it shall break in pieces and consume all these kingdoms, and it shall stand for ever.” (Daniel 2:44) Daniel had narrowed down the time of the coming of the church to sometime during the Roman Empire. 

The prophet Isaiah spoke about the coming church, too. “And it shall come to pass in the last days, that the mountain of the LORD’S house shall be established in the top of the mountains, and shall be exalted above the hills; and all nations shall flow unto it.  And many people shall go and say, Come ye, and let us go up to the mountain of the LORD, to the house of the God of Jacob; and he will teach us of his ways, and we will walk in his paths: for out of Zion shall go forth the law, and the word of the LORD from Jerusalem.” (Isaiah 2:2-3

In this case, Isaiah calls the church “the Lord’s house.” He also says it will be “established in the top of the mountains,” and the word of the Lord would go “from Jerusalem.” Jerusalem is on top of a mountain and would be the beginning place for the Lord’s house, the church. Also, note that “all nations shall flow unto it.” In the Old Testament times, the Jews were God’s chosen people. But, when this new house is established, any member of any nation will be able to enter. We will see the church called the Lord’s house” again later when seeing the names of the church.


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