What if someone could 'predict' an event 500 years before its occurrence. If they pulled it off, their credibility would no doubt increase. That's what the prophet Daniel did.

In Daniel 9:24 to 26 he predicts the exact date that Jesus would ride into Jerusalem and then be 'cut off'. He predicted that 483 years after a command to rebuild jerusalem, the messiah would enter jerusalem.

Sir Robert Anderson, commissioner of the Metropolitain Police in London wrote a book about it called 'the coming Prince'. It's worth a read. It's precision like this that tells you that you can trust the other claims of Daniel and the Bible.