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We are quick to believe in the prophets of the Bible and many also believe in the predictions set forth by Nostradamus. We appear to be very open to the seers of the past, but are we accepting of the seers of today?
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One modern day seer/prophet was Baba Vanga. Here is a brief look at what this blind prophet has predicted.

She’s been called the Nostradamus of the Balkans because her predictions so far are said to be 85% accurate. Among the many events she is believed to have predicted correctly are the 9/11 attacks in the U.S., the 2004 Indian Ocean earthquake and tsunami, the Fukushima nuclear disaster and the election of Barack Obama. Her prediction of a “great Muslim war” in 2016 has both believers and non-believers worried. Who was Baba Vanga and should we fear her predictions?

Do her prophesies qualify Baba Vanga as a babushka-wearing Nostradamus? Besides those mentioned earlier, she supposedly predicted the break-up of the Soviet Union, the Chernobyl disaster, the date of Stalin’s death, the sinking of the Russian submarine Kursk and , the September 11 attacks and the victory of Bulgarian chess master Veselin Topalov in the FIDE World Chess Championship 2005.

Baba Varga’s predictions about the rise of ISIS include the Arab Spring in 2010 and the conflict in Syria where “Muslims would use chemical warfare against Europeans.” She saw an invasion of Europe by Muslim extremists in 2016 that would cause the continent to become a “wasteland almost entirely devoid of any form of life” and “cease to exist.” She predicted that the end would occur in 2043 with the establishment of a caliphate headquartered in Rome.

On the upside, Baba Vanga’s future predictions include the first manned flight to Mars in 2028, a man-made star in 2100, humans becoming androids in 2111 and Hungary receiving the first communication from aliens in 2125. Oh, and the world will in 5079 when humans leave this universe to look for another one.
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Did the prophets only live in Biblical times or do modern day prophets continue to hook into some unseen force and give us a view of what's to come?

What say you?
 
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From nuclear plant disasters to chess winners. She's got a nice wide range of predictions on her list. Looking at the near future I hope she's wrong. Maybe I'll focus on the more distant future as that seems less doom and gloom. If all these are true, she sounds pretty good.
 
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We are quick to believe in the prophets of the Bible and many also believe in the predictions set forth by Nostradamus. We appear to be very open to the seers of the past, but are we accepting of the seers of today?
Blind Bulgarian Mystic Predicted Rise of ISIS and More | Mysterious Universe

One modern day seer/prophet was Baba Vanga. Here is a brief look at what this blind prophet has predicted.

She’s been called the Nostradamus of the Balkans because her predictions so far are said to be 85% accurate. Among the many events she is believed to have predicted correctly are the 9/11 attacks in the U.S., the 2004 Indian Ocean earthquake and tsunami, the Fukushima nuclear disaster and the election of Barack Obama. Her prediction of a “great Muslim war” in 2016 has both believers and non-believers worried. Who was Baba Vanga and should we fear her predictions?

Do her prophesies qualify Baba Vanga as a babushka-wearing Nostradamus? Besides those mentioned earlier, she supposedly predicted the break-up of the Soviet Union, the Chernobyl disaster, the date of Stalin’s death, the sinking of the Russian submarine Kursk and , the September 11 attacks and the victory of Bulgarian chess master Veselin Topalov in the FIDE World Chess Championship 2005.

Baba Varga’s predictions about the rise of ISIS include the Arab Spring in 2010 and the conflict in Syria where “Muslims would use chemical warfare against Europeans.” She saw an invasion of Europe by Muslim extremists in 2016 that would cause the continent to become a “wasteland almost entirely devoid of any form of life” and “cease to exist.” She predicted that the end would occur in 2043 with the establishment of a caliphate headquartered in Rome.

On the upside, Baba Vanga’s future predictions include the first manned flight to Mars in 2028, a man-made star in 2100, humans becoming androids in 2111 and Hungary receiving the first communication from aliens in 2125. Oh, and the world will in 5079 when humans leave this universe to look for another one.
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Did the prophets only live in Biblical times or do modern day prophets continue to hook into some unseen force and give us a view of what's to come?

What say you?

I heard somewhere that "the words of the prophets are written on the subway walls, and tenement halls..."
 
I believe that we have modern day prophets. I hope that Baba Vanga is wrong about our next few years.
 
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To answer the question:
Did the prophets only live in Biblical times or do modern day prophets continue to hook into some unseen force and give us a view of what's to come?
If in Biblical times there were real prophets with a real miraculous ability to make predictions, then I believe it follows that they would exist into modern times as well. In traditional Christianity, such a belief exists. St. Ignatius talks about "prophets" as including Christians in his own time (early 2nd c. AD), who were given a divine ability to speak by the inspiration of God's Spirit.

I wrote about how prophecy might work on my thread here:
What would make the Tanakh's/Old Testament's prophecies reliable?

I don't have a definite answer, but my impression is that the phenomenon is real.
 
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