Twenty - two years earlier, government search parties,
guided by prophecies and omens, had arrived at the boy's humble peasant home and subjected the two - year - old to a series of tests.
The main reason that I believe that this collection of historically contingent documents is the inerrant revelation of God is because I believe Jesus rose from the dead and I have experienced the power of that event: therefore the
prophecies weren't empty promises, the conquest of Israel wasn't just a powerplay under the masquerade of a divine mission, and the apostles really were
guided by the Holy Spirit to expound further on all matters leading to salvation.