Jesus and the Prophecies
A prophecy is a prediction. The entire Bible is really a book of prophecy. It can be said that the strength of the Bible is its ability to foretell the future. You don’t need a crystal ball — you only need the Bible!
If you study the Bible’s predictions, you will discover that the Bible foretold historical events hundreds or thousands of years before they took place.
If you would like to know what’s coming in the future, don’t waste your money on psychics or fortune tellers. Start digging for the truth in the Bible and you will see what’s coming.
One of the biggest problems with Christianity today is all the different interpretations of the prophecies, especially the Book of Revelation.
I spent twenty years in different churches listening to different versions of the prophecies. One day, God sent a Jewish man to me — a man that was born in Israel, understood the history of the Jewish people, and had spent fifty years of his life studying the prophecies. He began teaching me the Bible in a whole new light. He never gave me his interpretation of the Bible — he only pointed me to passages in the Bible that answered my questions.
“We know what we worship: for salvation is of the Jews.”
Beware of anyone that gives you their interpretation of the Bible. One of the miracles of the Bible is its ability to interpret itself. It’s simply a matter of connecting the dots, meaning all the pieces of information on any given subject. Sure this takes time, but it is the only way to understand the Bible. A good teacher will help you shorten the time you would have to search for this information on your own.
One of the Bible’s most important predictions concerned the Messiah (messiah means anointed one). God ‘anointed’ Jesus to do a very special job on earth: to die for the sin of the world. Can you imagine reading this statement in your job description?
Jesus taught us that everything written in the Old Covenant was foretelling the coming of the Messiah and the ‘work’ the Messiah would do.
“Search the scriptures; for in them you think you have eternal life: and they are they which testify of me.”
When you apply for a job, you are given a job description. If you are hired, you are expected to fulfill all the requirements of that job. It was no different for Jesus. He made a decision to accept the position of ‘Messiah’ and followed the job description perfectly.
“And Jesus said unto them, How is it that you sought me? know you not that I must be about my Father’s business?”
“I have glorified you on the earth: I have finished the work which you gave me to do.”
The Old Covenant provided the entire framework for Jesus’ life and the work that He would do for God. God ‘communicated’ to Jesus through the prophecies, which Jesus continued to teach his disciples after he was resurrected from the dead.
“Then he said unto them, O fools, and slow of heart to believe all that the prophets have spoken: Ought not Christ to have suffered these things, and to enter into his glory?
And beginning at Moses and all the prophets, he expounded unto them in all the scriptures the things concerning himself.”
If you have ears, hear.
-Jo
Bible passages: John 4:22, John 5:39, Luke 2:49, John 17:4, Matthew 12:40, Luke 24:25-27
Tags: anointed one, bible prophecies, christianity, digging for truth, forgiveness of sin, judaism, messiah, prediction, prophecy, religion, savior, sin, working for God
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July 27, 2008 at 4:18 pm
Excellent post
Most people try to prove the Bible wrong and end up proving how great and awesome a work it really is…
August 3, 2008 at 10:19 pm
Thanks David! I wish I could take credit for it, but the information comes from the Bible. I don’t worry about the folks that waste their time trying to prove the Bible wrong — it doesn’t rattle God so why should it rattle me? I’m too occupied with His treasure chest — the Bible!