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Christ In Prophecy
Prophecy is the sense of prediction, a foretelling of future events, is a miracle just as much as a walk on water. (John 13:19) A miracle of knowledge is as supernatural as a miracle of power. If old testament writers foretold what would happen in the life of Jesus, then they were supernatural in doubt, II Peter 2:21. Over three hundred predictions all written hundreds of years before Jesus was born have been counted. Here are a few of the outstanding predictions. I am going to list the Old Testament source and give the New Testament fulfillments .
First, it was prophesied that Jesus would be of Abraham's seed, predicted in Genesis 22:18, fulfilled in Galatians 3:16. It was prophesied that Jesus would be of the tribe of Judah, Genesis 49:10, fulfilled in Hebrews 7:14. It was prophesied that he would be of David's seed in Psalms 89:35-36, and fulfilled in Romans 1:3. That he would be born of a virgin in Isaiah 7:14, fulfilled in Matthew 1:22-23; that his birth place would be Bethlehem, Micah 5:2, fulfilled in Matthew 2:1. It was prophesied that stripes would be laid upon him in Isaiah 53:5, fulfilled in I Peter 2:24. That he would become a sin bearer in Isaiah 53:11-12, fulfilled in II Corinthians 5:21. It was prophesied that he would offer no resistance in Isaiah 53:7, fulfilled in I Peter 22:23-24. It was prophesied that the betrayal money would be thirty silver pieces, and would go to a potter in Zechariah 11:12-13. That was fulfilled twice in Matthew, in the twenty-sixth chapter, verses 14 and 15, and the twenty-seventh chapter, verses 5, 6, and 7. That he would be grouped with criminals in Isaiah 53:12, fulfilled in Mark 15:27-28. That his clothing would be divided, Psalms 22:19, fulfilled twice, in Matthew 27:35 and in John 19:34-35. It was prophesied that his feet and hands would be pierced in Psalms 22:16, and Zechariah 12:10, fulfilled in John 19:37. It was prophesied that not a bone would be broken in Psalms 34: 20, fulfilled in John 19:33-36. It was prophesied that he would pray for his crucifiers in Isaiah 53:12, fulfilled in Luke 23:34. It was prophesied that a rich man's tomb would be his burial place in Isaiah 53:9, and fulfilled in Matthew 27:57-60; that his body would not decay, prophesied in Psalms 16:8-10, and fulfilled in Acts 2:31; that he would be anointed as King in Heaven in Psalms 110:1-5, and Psalms 45:6-7. That prophecy was fulfilled in Hebrew 1:8-9.
If only fifty prophecies about Jesus had been made, assuming an equal chance for their happening or not happening, the law of probability against all fifty being fulfilled is that of the fiftieth power of two to unity. That is, the probability is greater than eleven hundred and twenty-five million to one that all of these circumstances would turn up. Then, to assume that the fifty events would happen contemporaneously, surpasses the power of numbers to express correctly the immense improbability of its taking place. If only one hundred prophecies had been made, the chance that they would happen to one man is less than all the drops of water if the world were completely water, but Canon Litton said, "that there were three hundred thirty-two prophecies of Christ. That chance would settle on all these happening to one man, is beyond the power of imagination." Absence of prophecy in other religions as regard to predictiveness only the Bible presents any varified instances of fulfilled prophecy. The books pertaining to Islem, Buddhism, Confucianism, Shintoism, and Zoastrinism, make no attempt to predict. When the heathen Delphic Oracle attempted a prophecy, it was always ambiguous, and when other attempts have been made at prophesying, they have only proved embarrassing to the self-made prophets. The absence of prophecy in other religions, the futile effort in heathen oracles, and the self-defeating prophecy in others, make the word of Biblical prophecy, the more admirable, the more impressive.
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