Sunday, July 16, 2023

God’s prediction of Messiah - Christ Jesus was fulfilled By Rev.Katherine Liu Bruce

God’s prediction of Messiah - Christ Jesus was fulfilled

 By Rev.Katherine Liu Bruce Christian Arts Ministries 7/16/2023


            Historical prophetical scripture about Messiah Christ Jesus was filled and God’s prediction in Old Testament was approved and affirmed in New Testament.  My friends, do you believe Bible? Old Testament 39 books and New Testament 27 books, total 66 books, the central theme and subject is only one- Messiah Christ Jesus. These scriptures will help you to understand God’s predictions about Messiah Christ Jesus were fulfilled.   

Messiah – God predicted a prophet in Deuteronomy 18:15-19

      The Lord your God will raise up for you a prophet like me from among your own brothers. You must listen to him. For this is what you asked of the Lord your God at Horeb on the day of the assembly when you said, “Let us not hear the voice of the Lord our God nor see this great fire anymore, or we will die.”(vv.15-16)

       The Lord said to me: “What they say is good. I will raise up for them a prophet like you from among their brothers; I will put my words in his month, and he will tell them everything I command him. If anyone does not listen to my words that the prophet speaks in my name, I myself will call him to account. (vv.17-19)

  This prophetic scripture about a prophet was fulfilled in Acts 3:20 “ and that He may send Jesus, the Christ appointed for you…” Moses said, “The Lord God shall raise up for you a prophet like me from your brethren; to Him you shall give heed in everything He says to you.  

God’s new covenant predicted and slaughter of children by Jeremiah 31:31-34 and Jer.31:15

·         The time is coming, declares the Lord, “When I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel and with the house of Judah. It will not be like the covenant I made with their forefathers when I took them by the hand to lead them out of Egypt, because they broke my covenant, though I was a husband to them, This is the covenant I will make with the house of Israel after that time” declares the Lord.  “I will put my law in their minds and write it on their hearts I will be their God, and they will be my people. No longer will a man teach his neighbor, or a man his brother, saying , “Know the Lord,” because they will all know me from the least of them to the greatest,” Declares the Lord. For I will forgive their wickedness and will remember their sins no more. (Jer.31: 33-34)

      Thus says the Lord, “A voice is heard in Ramah, Lamentation and bitter weeping. Rachel is weeping for her children; she refuses to be comforted for her children, because they are no more.” (Jer.31:15)

 This prophetic scripture slaughter of children was fulfilled in Matt.2:16-18 “Then when Herod saw that he had been tricked by the magi, he became very enraged, and sent and slew all the male children who were in Bethlehem and in all its environs, from two years old and under, according to the time which he had ascertained from the mage. Then that which was spoken through Jeremiah the prophet was fulfilled, saying “

God predicted Messiah Christ Jesus as seed of a woman in Genesis 3:15

·         And I will put enmity between you and the woman, and between your offspring and hers; he will crush your head, and you will strike his heel.

 “Between your offspring” The spiritual descendants of Satan cf.John8:44; Eph.2:2) and hers (those who are in the family of God) he. An individual from among the woman’s seed, namely, Christ, will deal a death blow to Satan’s head at the cross, while Satan (you) would strike Christ’s heel (cause Him to suffer) .

 This prophetic scripture was fulfilled in Galatians 4:4 “But when the fullness of the time came, God sent forth His Son, born of a woman, born under the Law. “

God predicted Christ Jesus is Passive Lamb in Exodus 12:12-13

      On that same night I will pass through Egypt and strike down every firstborn both men and animals and I will bring judgment on all the gods of Egypt. I am the Lord. The blood will be a sign for you on the houses where you are; and when I see the blood, I will pass over you. No destructive plague will touch you when I strike Egypt. (vv.12-13)

 The event serves as a beautiful illustration of the redemption Christ accomplished at Calvary. The offering was to be without blemish. The Lamb had to be killed. The blood had to be applied.

Predicted Jesus Christ is the Bronze Snake in Numbers21:8-9 & John 3:14-15

      The Lord said to Moses “Make a snake and put it up on a pole; anyone who is bitten can look at it and live.” So Moses made a bronze snake and looked at the bronze snake he lived. (Num.21:8-9)

 This prophetic scripture was approved in John 3:14-15 “Just as Moses lifted up the snake in the desert, so the Son of Man must be lifted up, that everyone who believes in Him may have eternal life.” Only those who believed God and looked on the bronze snake lived. The N.T. uses this incident as an illustration of Christ’s vicarious death on the cross and of the necessity of personal faith for salvation (John3:14-15)

Prophetic scripture predicted Christ Jesus is from the tribe of Judah in Gen.49:10

·         The scepter shall not depart from Judah, nor the ruler’s staff from between his feet, until Shiloh comes, and to him shall be the obedience of the people.(Gen.49:10)

This prophetic scripture was fulfilled in Luke 3:33 “ The son of Amminadab, the son of Admin, the son of Ram, the son of Hezron, the son of Perez, the son of Judah.

Prophetic scripture predicted Christ Jesus is heir to the throne of David in Isaiah 9:7

·         “There will be no end to the increase of His government or of peace, on the throne of David and over his kingdom, to establish it and to uphold it with justice and righteousness from then on and forevermore. The zeal of the Lord of hosts will accomplish this.”( Isa.9:7)

This scripture was fulfilled in Luke 1:32, 33, “ He will be great, and will be called the Son of the Most High; and the Lord God will give Him the throne of His father David; and He will reign over the house of Jacob forever; and His kingdom will have no end.”

Prophetic scripture about Messiah born in Bethlehem and the time for His birth in Mic.5:2 and Dan9:25

·         “But as for you, Bethlehem Ephrathah, too little to be among the clans of Judah, from you One will go forth for Me to be ruler in Israel. His goings forth are from long ago, from the days of eternity.” (Mic.5:2)

  This scripture predicted Messiah was born in Bethlehem was fulfilled in Luke 2:4,5,7 “ And Joseph also went up from Galilee, from the city of Nazareth, to Judea, to the city of David, which is called Bethlehem, because he was of the house and family of David, in order to register, along with Mary, who was engaged to him, and was with child… And she gave birth to her first born son; and she wrapped Him in cloths, and laid Him in a manger, because there was no room for them in the inn.”

·         “So you are to know and discern that from the issuing of a decree to restore and rebuild Jerusalem until Messiah the Prince there will be seven weeks and sixty-two weeks; it will be built again, with plaza and moat, even in times of distress.” (Dan.9:25)

  This scripture predicted the time of Messiah Jesus Christ’s birth in Dan 9:25 was fulfilled in Luke 2:1, 2  “ Now it came about in those days that a decree went out from Caesar Augustus, that a census be taken of all the inhabited earth. This was the first census taken while Quirinius was governor of Syria.   

Predicted Christ Jesus is suffering Savior sneered and mocked in Psalm 22:7-8  

      My God, my God, why have you forsaken me? Why are you so far from saving me, so far from the words of my groaning? (Ps.22:1) All who see me mock me, they hurl insults, shaking their heads: He trusts in the Lord’ let the Lord rescue him. Let him deliver him, since he delights in him.”(Ps.22: 7-8)

Psalm 22: 1 Jesus quoted this first phrase on the cross (Matt.27:46). They divide my garments among them and cast lots for my clothing. (v.18)  King David describes his struggle with death in language that is also appropriate to the suffering Messiah. Verses 14-16 prophetically describe crucifixion, a means of execution not known until Roman times: the pain, the extreme thirst, asphyxiation, and agony to the hands and feet. Verse 18 (also see Matt.27:35) all these details of Jesus’ Crucifixion were carried out by people who had no knowledge of these predictions. The deliverance of the Messiah was accomplished by His resurrection from the dead.

Psalm22:7-8 this prophetic scripture was fulfilled in Luke 23:35 “And the people stood by, looking on, and even the rulers were sneering at Him, saying, “He save others; let Him save Himself if this is the Christ of God, His Chosen One.”

Predicted Christ Jesus is suffering Savior pierced through hands and feet in Zech.12:10

·         “And I will pour out on the house of David and on the inhabitants of Jerusalem, the Spirit of grace and of supplication, so that they will look on Me whom they have pierced; and they will mourn for Him, as one mourns for an only son, and they will weep bitterly over Him, like the bitter weeping over a first-born.” (Zech.12:10)

This scripture was fulfilled and approved in John 20:27 “Then He said to Thomas, “Reach here your finger, and see My hands, and reach here your hand, and put it into My side, and be not unbelieving, but believing.”  

Predicted Christ Jesus is vicarious sacrifice as suffering Savior in Isaiah 53:5-6

      Isaiah 53:5-6 “But he was pierced for our transgressions, he was crushed for our iniquities; the punishment that brought us peace was upon him, and by his wounds we are healed. We all, like sheep, have gone astray. Each of us has turned to his own way; and the Lord has laid on him the iniquity of us all.”

 This scripture was fulfilled and approved in Rom.5:6,8  “ For while we were still helpless, at the right time Christ died for the ungodly… But God demonstrates His own love toward us, in that while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us.” The passion of the Servant, though men would think that God was causing the Servant to suffer for His own sins, the truth was that He suffered vicariously for theirs. Pierced (v.5) A term appropriate to crucifixion, brought us peace, His punishment that obtained peace or well-being for us.

Prophetic scripture predicted Messiah Christ Jesus was betrayed for thirty pieces of silver in Zech.11:12

·         “And I said to them, “If it is good in your sight, give me my wages; but if not, never mind!” So they weighed out thirty shekels of silver as my wages. (Zech11:12)

 This scripture was fulfilled in Matt.26:15 “and said, “When are you willing to give me to deliver Him up to you?” and they weighed out to him thirty pieces of silver.

Prophetic scripture predicted about Messiah Christ Jesus is priest after order of Melchizedek in Psalm110:4

·         “The Lord has sworn and will not change His mind, “Thou art a priest forever according to the order of Melchizedek.”(Ps.110:4)

 This scripture was fulfilled and affirmed  in Heb.5:5,6 “So also Christ did not glorify Himself so as to become a high priest , but He who said to Him, “Thou art My son, today I have begotten Thee”; Just as He says also in another passage, “Thou art a priest forever according to the order of Melchizedek.”

Prophetic scripture predicted about Messiah Christ Jesus’ triumphal entry in Zech.9:9

·         “Rejoice greatly, O daughter of Zion! Shout in triumph, O daughter of Jerusalem! Behold, your king is coming to you; He is just and endowed with salvation, humble, and mounted on a donkey, even on a colt, the foal of a donkey.” (Zech.9:9)

 This scripture was fulfilled in Mark 11:7, 9 “And they brought the colt to Jesus and put their garments on it; and He sat upon it…And those who went before, and those who followed after, were crying out, “Hosanna! Blessed is He who comes in the name of the Lord;”…and He entered Jerusalem and came into the temple; and after looking all around, He departed for Bethany with the twelve, since it was already late.”

 

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