Sunday, 1 July 2018

Prophecies About Jesus In The Old Testament

By Shirley Snyder


The Old Testament gives an account of Jesus Christ and what will happen when he comes. These are books that were written before his birth and ministry. The New Testament is a fulfillment of the prophecies about Jesus Christ and his ministry. We are going to look at how they were predicted and captured in New Testament.

Jesus was prophesied to come to the world as the Son of God the most high. His coming was for the salvation of mankind. This prediction is made in Psalms 2,7 where God declares that You are my Son, The one I have begotten. During baptism at River Jordan, the same words are repeated as a dove perches on him. The same message also recurs during transfiguration.

It is prophesied that a virgin would conceive and bring forth a savior. This savior is Christ the Son of God. Isaiah is the prophet who captures Mary in verse 14 of chapter 7. This comes to pass when Mary, a virgin betrothed to Joseph receives the message from an angel and conceives by the power of the Holy Spirit. This is a mystery that comes to be in chapter 1 verse 23 of Matthew and other gospels.

It was prophesied that people will prepare the way of the Lord. Isaiah is still the prophet behind this prediction in chapter 40 and verse 3. The New Testament features this prophecy prominently. John the Baptist is tasked with preparing this way. He tells people to repent and believe as a way of preparing. Even when Christ comes, John announces him as he who comes in the name of the Lord.

Christ was to die a painful death in order to earn human kind salvation. Through the wounds, he would pay for the transgressions of human kind. In fact, Isaiah says that it is through the stripes of Christ that we are healed. This is enacted in the gospels as they narrate how Christ suffered and died in order to redeem human kind. In the desert, it is the golden statue of a snake that saved people who were bitten by snakes. This represented the cross from where the salvation of human kind was to come from.

Chapter 25 of the book of Nephi verse 13 gives an account of how Christ is to die. He is to be crucified and die on the cross. He will then resurrect on the third day as a sign of defeating death. This is what the gospels capture. Salvation is only promised to the people who believe.

The process of dying on the cross and what his crucifiers will do is given in Psalms 22. The chapter says in verse 16 that wicked people have besieged him and are nailing his hands and legs on the cross. It goes on in verse 18 to say that they will ballot for his cloths. This is what happened when Christ was crucified.

There are many prophecies that were given and fulfilled in New Testament. The few above only underline the fact that what was said about Christ years before he was born came to pass. There are many examples such that only an arrogant person can claim that the prophecies were untrue.




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