So far, the record of "incredible odds of fulfilled prophecy" is as follows.
1) Fall of Nineveh: Accurately predicted by Nahum at a time when the the Medes and Chaldeans had defeated the Assyrians in the field, had taken most of their cities and were closing in on Nineveh. Thus, the prediction required no divine inspiration. Inaccurate in particulars: the enemies did not enter through the river gate, but broke in through the Halzi Gate. Archaeological excavation of the city found unburied skeletons of those who had fallen defending the city at that gate.
2) Fall of Babylon: Isaiah and Jeremiah inaccurately predicted the city would be violently taken by the Medes. The city surrendered without a fight to Cyrus the Great of Persia. The Babylonians hated the Chaldean rulers, who had not shown proper respect for the city's patron deity, Marduk. Nabonidus, in fact, was considering moving the capitol of the Chaldean Empire to another city. The Babylonians looked at Cyrus as a liberator. Sources: the preserved documents of the Babylonian Chronicle and the Cyrus Cylinder.
3) Tyre: Ezekiel predicted that Nebuchadnezzar would destroy the city. He did not. Alexander the Great did, several generations after the generation of those living in Tyre at the time of Ezekiel had died.
4) Egypt: Jeremiah and Ezekiel predicted the Chaldeans would invade and devastate Egypt. Ezekiel predicted that they would even destroy Thebes in Upper Egypt. Archaeology shows that no such destruction took place. History tells us that Pharaoh Amasis, Nebuchadnezzar's contemporary was still ruling Egypt when the Persians destroyed the Chaldean Empire.
5) The Second Coming of Christ: All four Gospels predicted that Jesus would return during the time of the generation that knew him. This didn't happen. Here are the passages: Mark 8:28 - 9:1; Matthew 16:27, 28; Luke 9:26, 27; John 5:25 - 28.
We've talked about the passages above from the Synoptic Gospels. Here's the passage from John (Jn. 5:25 - 28, emphasis and parenthetical notes added):
Truly, truly I say to you, the hour (Gr. hora, hour or instant season) is coming (Gr. erchomai, present imperfect, therefore, "is coming" is a one-to-one translation implying immediacy) and now is ('Now" is in Gr. nun, meaning "right now," expressing immediacy) when the dead will hear the voice of the Son of God, and those who hear will live. For, as the Father has life in himself, so has he granted the Son also to have life in himself, and has given him authority to exercise judgment, because he is the Son of man. Do not marvel at this; for the hour is coming when all those who are in the tombs will hear his voice and come forth, those who have done good to the resurrection of life and those who have done evil to the resurrection of judgment.
So, in the passage above, John is saying that the very hour is coming, and, in fact, is already here now, when the dead in their tombs will here the voice of Jesus, rise and face judgment.
This did not happen.
