Prophecies
Fulfilled in the Life of Jesus
"We
have found Him of whom Moses in the law, and also the prophets,
wrote--Jesus of Nazareth, the son of Joseph" (John 1:45,
NKJV).
"O
foolish ones, and slow of heart to believe in all that the
prophets have spoken! Ought not the Christ have suffered these
things and to enter into His glory?" (Luke 24:25, 26,
NKJV).
"There
would be no honest infidel in the world were the Messianic
prophecies studied, nor any doubting disciple if this body
of prediction were understood." Author unknown.
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Prophecy
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Fulfillment
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| Exodus
12:21, 28: The ordinance of the Passover Lamb. The Passover
Lamb represented Jesus, the Lamb of God. |
John
1:29: "Behold, the Lamb of God who takes away the
sin of the world." |
Exodus
12:46: Nor shall you break one of its bones.
Psalms 34:20: He guards all his bones, not one of them
is broken. |
John
19:36: For these things were done that the Scripture should
be fulfilled, "Not one of His bones shall be broken." |
| Deut.
18:17-19: And the Lord said to me:--I will raise up for
them a Prophet like you from among their brethren, and
will put My words in His mouth, and He shall speak to
them all that I command Him. And it shall be that whoever
will not hear My words, which He speaks in My name, I
will require it of him. |
John
14:10-11: Do you not believe that I am in the Father and
the Father is in Me? The words that I speak to you I do
not speak on My own authority; but the Father who dwells
in Me does the works. Believe Me that I am in the Father
and the Father is in Me, or else believe me for the sake
of the works themselves. |
The
Suffering of Christ Foretold:
| Ps.
22:7,8: All those who see Me ridicule Me; They shoot out
the lip, they shake the head, saying, "He trusted
in the Lord, let Him rescue Him; Let Him deliver Him,
since He delights in Him." |
Matt.
27:39-43:
Mark
15:29-31:
Luke
23:35:
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| Ps.
22:16-18: They pierced My hands and My feet, I can count
all my bones. They look and stare at Me. They divide My
garments among them, and for My clothing they cast lots. |
Matt.
27:35:
John
19:24:
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| Ps.
69:21: They also gave me gall for my food, and for my
thirst they gave me vinegar to drink. |
Matt.
27:34: |
| Isa.
50-6: I gave my back to those who struck Me, and My cheeks
to those who plucked out the beard; I did not hide My
face from shame and spitting. |
Matt.
26:67: |
| Isa.
53:7: He was oppressed and He was afflicted, yet He opened
not His mouth; He was led as a lamb to the slaughter,
and as a sheep before its shearers is silent, so He opened
not His mouth. |
Mark
15:4, 5: |
| Isa.
53:8: For He was cut off from the land of the living;
for the transgressions of My people He was stricken. |
Matt.
27:50: |
| Isa.
52:14: His visage was marred more than any man and His
form more than the sons of men. |
Matt.
27:27-31: |
| Isa
53:3: He is despised and rejected by men, a Man of sorrows
and acquainted with grief. And we hid, as it were, our
faces from Him; He was despised, and we did not esteem
Him. |
John
1:11:
Luke
23:18:
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| Isa
53:4: Surely He has borne our griefs and carried our sorrows;
Yet we esteemed Him stricken, smitten by God, and afflicted. |
Matt.
8:16, 17:
Rom.
5:6, 8:
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| Isa
53:5: He was wounded for our transgressions, He was bruised
for our iniquities; The chastisement for our peace was
upon Him, and by His stripes we are healed. |
ROM
5:1, 6-11: |
| Isa
53:12: He poured out His soul unto death and He was numbered
with the transgressors, and He bore the sin of many, and
made intercession for the transgressors. |
Mark
15:27, 28: |
| Isa
54:13: All your children shall be taught by the Lord and
great shall be the peace of your children.. |
John
3:2: Rabbi, we know that You are a teacher come from
God; for no one can do these signs that You do unless
God is with him.
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| Micah
5:1: They will strike the judge of Israel with a rod on
the cheek. |
Matt.
27:30:
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| Zech.
12:10: Then they will look on Me whom they pierced. |
John
19:34:
John
20:27:
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| Zech.
13:7: Strike the Shepherd, and the sheep will be scattered. |
Mark
14:50: |
Christ's
Glory:
| Isa.
7:14: Therefore the Lord Himself will give you a sign:
Behold, the virgin shall conceive and bear a Son, and
shall call His name Immanuel. |
Matt.
1:18-23: |
| Micah
5:2: But you, Bethlehem Ephrathah, though you are little
among the thousands of Judah, yet out of you shall come
forth to Me the One to be Ruler in Israel, Whose goings
forth are from of old, from everlasting. |
Matt.
2:1-6: |
| Gen.
49:10: The scepter shall not depart from Judah, nor a
lawgiver from between his feet until Shiloh comes; and
to Him shall be the obedience of the people. |
Matt.
21:1-9: Check |
| Zechariah
9:9: Behold, your King is coming to you; He is just and
having salvation, lowly and riding on a donkey, a colt,
the foal of a donkey. |
Matt:21:1-9:
Check |
| Ps.
45:6, 7: Your throne, O God, is forever and ever; A scepter
of righteousness is the scepter of Your kingdom. You love
righteousness and hate wickedness; Therefore God, Your
God, has anointed You with the oil of gladness more than
Your companions. |
Heb.
1:8, 9: |
| Isa.
9:6, 7: For unto us a Child is born, unto us a Son is
given; and the government will be upon His shoulder. And
His name will be called Wonderful, Counselor, Mighty God,
Everlasting Father, Prince of Peace. Of the increase of
His government and peace there will be no end, upon the
throne of David and over His kingdom, to order it and
establish it with judgment and justice from that time
forward, even forever. The zeal of the Lord of hosts will
perform this. |
Luke
1:30-33: (final fulfillment following the second coming.) |
| Isa.
42:6-9: I will keep You and give You as a covenant to
the people, as a light to the Gentiles, to open blind
eyes, to bring out prisoners from the prison, those who
sit in darkness from the prison house. I am the Lord,
that is My name, and My glory I will not give to another,
nor My praise to carved images. Behold, the former things
have come to pass, and new things I declare; Before they
spring forth I tell you of them. |
God
gave Christ as a covenant to us for all the reasons given. |
| Isa.
11:1, 2: There shall come forth a Rod from the stem of
Jesse, and a Branch shall grow out of his roots. The Spirit
of the Lord shall rest upon Him, the Spirit of wisdom
and understanding, the Spirit of counsel and might, the
Spirit of knowledge and of the fear of the Lord. |
Matt.
1:5-16: The lineage of Jesse. |
| Isa
42:1-4: Behold! My Servant whom I uphold, My elect One
in whom My soul delights! I have put My Spirit upon Him;
He will bring forth justice to the Gentiles.--- |
Matt
12:16-21: |
| Isa
49:7-9: Thus says the Lord, the Redeemer of Israel, their
Holy One, to Him whom man despises, to Him whom the nation
abhors, to the Servant of rulers: "Kings shall see
and arise, Princes also shall worship, because of the
Lord who is faithful, the Holy One of Israel; And He has
chosen You... |
Matt.
27:1, 2, 20, 22: |
| Isa
49:8: I will preserve You and give You as a covenant to
the people, to restore the earth - |
Rev.
21:1-7: |
Christ's
Mission:
| Isa.
61:1, 2: The Spirit of the Lord God is upon Me, because
the Lord has anointed Me to preach good tidings to the
poor, He has sent Me to heal the brokenhearted, to proclaim
liberty to the captives, and the opening of the prison
to those who are bound, to proclaim the acceptable year
of the Lord. |
Luke
4:16-21: |
| Isa
49:5, 6: And now the Lord says, Who formed Me from the
womb to be His Servant, to bring Jacob back to Him, so
that Israel is gathered to Him -- Indeed He says, It is
too small a thing that You should be My Servant to raise
up the tribes of Jacob, and to restore the preserved ones
of Israel; I will also give You as a light to the Gentiles,
that You should be My salvation to the ends of the earth. |
It
is Jesus who brings God's salvation to the ends of the
earth. |
| Isa.
54:13: All your children shall be taught by the Lord. |
John
6:45: Jesus said, "it is written in the prophets,
'And they shall all be taught by God.' Therefore everyone
who has heard and learned from the Father comes to Me."
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Other
Prophecies Concerning Christ:
| Deut.
18:15-19: "The Lord your God will raise up for you
a Prophet like me from your midst, from your brethren,
Him you shall hear, --- I will raise up for them a Prophet
like you from among their brethren, and will put My
words in His mouth, and He shall speak to them all that
I command Him. And it shall be that whoever will not
hear My words, which He speaks in My name, I will require
it of him." |
John
14:10 (NEB): "I am not myself the source of the words
I speak to You: it is the Father who dwells in me doing
His own work." |
| Ps.
22:1: "My God, My God, why have You forsaken Me?" |
Matt.
27:46:
Mark
15:34:
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| Ps.
16:10: "For You will not leave my soul in Shoel,
nor will You allow Your Holy One to see corruption." |
Mark
16:6, 7: Jesus did not remain to decay in the grave. |
| Ps.
31:5: Into your hand I commit my spirit. |
Luke
23:46: |
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Ps.
34:20: He guards all his bones; not one of them is broken.
Exodus
12:46: "--nor shall you break one of its bones."
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John
19:32, 33, 36: |
| Isa.
54:13: "All your children shall be taught by the
Lord." |
"Rabbi,
we know that You are a teacher come from God; for no one
can do theses signs that You do unless God is with him."
John 3:2. |
| Jer.
23:5: " 'The days are coming' declares the Lord,
'when I will raise up to David a righteous Branch, a King
who will reign wisely and do what is just and right in
the land' " |
A
reference that applies to Jesus as the true Messiah whose
future reign will be characterized by righteousness. Rev.
21:3-7. |
| Hosea
11:1: Out of Egypt I called my Son. |
When
Herod was dead, an angel of the Lord appeared in a dream
to Joseph in Egypt, saying "Arise, take the young
Child and His mother, and go to the land of Israel, for
those who sought the young Child's life are dead."
The he arose, took the young Child and His mother, and
came into the land of Israel. Matt. 2:13-15, 19-21: |
Promise:
"Seek the Lord while He may be found, call upon Him while
He is near. Let the wicked forsake his way, and the unrighteous
man his thoughts; Let him return to the Lord, and He will
have mercy on him; and to our God, for He will abundantly
pardon." Isa. 55:6, 7.
It is
God's desire that we accept Him for who He is! When we come
to know Him for who He really is, a whole new life opens up
for us. John, the disciple, testified to the following, "--
now this is the confidence that we have in Him, that if
we ask anything according to His will, He hears us. And if
we know that He hears us, whatever we ask, we know that we
have the petitions that we have asked of Him."
1 John 5:14, 15.
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