Emmanuel the Christ
was prophesied
in the Old
Testament over 2000 times. A few are referenced here:
-The first prophecy was 4000
years before His birth, in the first book of the Bible:.Genesis
3:15.
-This one was 740 years
before the turning point of all history would happen, that of this individual
being born of a virgin and even giving His name, Emmanuel:.Matthew
1:22,23.
-He would be born of a virgin:.Luke
1:30-35.
-His birth would be in Bethlehem.(Matthew
2:1,2); wise men from the east
would come:.Matthew
2:1-6.
-He would come out of Galilee:.Matthew
4:12-16.
-Way back in the early times
of humanity, Christ was prophesied
to come:.Genesis
49:10.
-He would come from a line
of descent leading back to Abraham:.Genesis
12:3; 17:19; Matthew
1:1,2,16.
-His crucifixion
with criminals:.Matthew
27:38.
-His garments parted to the
soldiers:.Matthew
27:35.
-No bone of His would be
broken:.John
19:36.
-He would heal infirmities
and illnesses:.Matthew
8:17.
-He would be despised, rejected,
oppressed and afflicted:.Matthew
27:41-44.
-His seemingly
being forsaken by the Father:.Matthew
27:46.
-He would have the spirit
of the Creator-Father:.Matthew
12:18.
-He would speak in parables:.Matthew
13:35.
-He would come riding on
an ass with a colt, the foal of an ass:.Matthew
21:1-11.
Look up in a good encyclopedia
when Isaiah and David
lived, when they made some of the following prophecies about Emmanuel,
fulfilled some 790-800 and 900-1000 years later. Look up in an encyclopedia
to verify the men who made the predictions to verify those involved in
these predictions, about those living so many years later in the time these
prophecies
were fulfilled by Emmanuel.
Examples
are:
-Isaiah
59:20 a redeemer would come.-.fulfilled:.John
1:29.
-Isaiah
53:11 would give His life for many.-.fulfilled:.Matthew
20:28.
-Isaiah
7:14 would be born of a virgin.-.fulfilled:.Matthew
1:18,23; Galatians 4:4.
-Isaiah
53:4-6,12 would suffer for us and be numbered with the transgressors
and make intercession
for those who crucified Him.-.fulfilled:.Luke
23:32-34.
-Isaiah
35:5,6 would work miracles.-.fulfilled:.Matthew
4:23 and many other places.
-Psalms
69:8 would be rejected by the Jews.-.fulfilled:.John
1:11.
-Psalm
41:9 would be betrayed by a friend for 30 pieces of silver.(Zechariah
11:12,13).-.fulfilled:.John
13:18-21; Matthew 26:14,15,48-50.
-Isaiah
50:6; 52:14 would be beaten,
scourged.(skin
shredded from beatings with leather straps holding shards of glass and
clay chips), 39 times.(their
custom:.Deuteronomy
25:3; 2Corinthians 11:24).to
beyond recognition and spit upon.-.fulfilled:.Matthew
27:30; Mark 14:65.
-Isaiah
53:7 what He would be like when oppressed and afflicted.-.fulfilled:.Matthew
27:12-14.
-Isaiah
53:2-5 would not be particularly
attractive.(He
may have been chubby, servant.org/h_cc.htm),
would face rejection and be despised, would meet many sorrows and be around
a lot of grieving people, would alleviate
our griefs and sorrows, would be bruised and wounded; which He was.
-Psalm
22:12-16 would be nailed to a cross.(a
tree in the shape of a cross:.Acts
5:30;
10:39;
13:29;
Galatians
3:13; 1Peter 2:24),
etc..-.fulfilled:.John
19:34; Acts 5:30; 10:39;
13:29;
Galatians
3:13.
-Psalms
22:18 the soldiers would cast lots.(gamble).for
His quality clothes.-.fulfilled:.Matthew
27:35.
-Isaiah
53:8,12 would be cut off early in life.-.fulfilled:.Matthew
27:50.
-Exodus
12:46; Psalms 34:20 and Zechariah
12:10 not a bone was broken. Tradition had the soldiers always break
the legs of those crucified so they could no longer push themselves up
to breathe and would then suffocate.–.but
Emmanuel's legs were not broken.-.fulfilled:.John
19:31,33,37.
-Zechariah
12:10.Prophesied
some 550 years before it happened; Emmanuel's body would be pierced.-.fulfilled:.John
19:34,37.
-Isaiah
53:9 would be buried among the rich.-.fulfilled:.Matthew
27:57-60.
-Psalm
16:10 His resurrection.(legally
and historically verified), His
body wouldn't be left to rot.-.fulfilled:.Luke
24:6,31-34; Acts 2:32.
-Emmanuel even predicted
His death and resurrection:.John
2:19-22. If He knew He was going to die then and how He was going to
die and sure that He was going to, He could have gotten outta there real
fast, but He did not! More
1)
2).
It is easy to see that Christianity
has incredible substance to it because absent from all other religious
writings is any sort of specific predictive prophecy.
Buddha,
Confucius,
etc., nothing! In the case of the Koran,.(scriptures
of the Muslims),
you only find the prophecy
of Mohammed, that he would return to Mecca, a 'self fulfilling prophecy',
that he himself fulfilled.
This is quite
different from the prophecy of Emmanuel, who said that He would rise from
the dead.
Other
religions also refer to Emmanuel as a "great teacher", "prophet" and
a "good man". They put him in the middle of their superstar lineup of 'many
ways to this so-called
place of heaven.
He Himself said that He was
God:."No
man comes to the Father, but by me....I and the Father are
one.".And
what is the Father?.1John
4:16.
If Emmanuel was a phony
'prophet' or a 'teacher', as soon as they were after Him to crucify Him,
He would have changed His tune, quickly. But He did not...Emmanuel was
born to die that way for us. He knew why
it was necessary for Him to come to Earth:.Hebrews
9:23,24 "It was therefore necessary that the patterns of things in
the heavens should be purified with these, but the heavenly things themselves
with better sacrifices than these. For Christ is not entered into the holy
places made with hands, which are the figures of the true, but into heaven
itself now to appear in the presence of God for us."
Legality
proves things about Emmanuel.
