Prophecies About Jesus In The Old Testament

By Shirley Snyder


The coming of Jesus Christ was prophesied in the Old Testament and fulfilled in the New Testament. There is clear evidence of prophecies about Jesus and how they came to be. This is a list of some of interesting ones that are accurately captured in gospels about Christ.

God promised to send his son on earth to redeem mankind. This prophesy is captured in Psalms 2,7. It says that You are my son, it is I who begot you. This is reflected during baptism in all Gospels. When Jesus was baptized, a voice came from heaven and said that This is my son who I am pleased with, Listen to him.

It is prophesied that a virgin would conceive and bring forth a savior. This savior is Christ the Son of God. Isaiah is the prophet who captures Mary in verse 14 of chapter 7. This comes to pass when Mary, a virgin betrothed to Joseph receives the message from an angel and conceives by the power of the Holy Spirit. This is a mystery that comes to be in chapter 1 verse 23 of Matthew and other gospels.

People are told to prepare the way for the Lord by making it straight. This meant denouncing sins and accepting Christ. This announcement was made long before Christ began his ministry by John the Baptist. He calls Christ the blessed one who comes in the name of the Lord. What Isaiah foresees in chapter 40 verse 3 comes to pass. In fact, John says it clearly to his disciples to ensure that he is not mistaken for Christ.

Jesus was to meet his death in a painful way to win salvation for mankind. It is through his passion that human being would find salvation. Isaiah writes that through the Stripes of Christ, human being will find salvation. It is this narrative that is enacted in the gospel as he dies on the cross after a long suffering. There is comparison of salvation through the cross with the snake in the desert.

Chapter 25 of the book of Nephi verse 13 gives an account of how Christ is to die. He is to be crucified and die on the cross. He will then resurrect on the third day as a sign of defeating death. This is what the gospels capture. Salvation is only promised to the people who believe.

Psalms 22 captures the torture and death on the cross. This chapter details what his crucifiers will do to him. Verse 16 is explicit that his enemies have overpowered him and are nailing both his hands and legs on the cross. Verse 18 further states that they are balloting on his cloths. This is a perfect description of what happened to Christ at Calvary during crucifixion.

It is impossible to exhaust the prophecies but only arrogance would deny that these prophecies were not fulfilled. This is the best example of how Christ becomes a fulfillment of what was prophesied. It has been demonstrated in more ways than one.




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