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SPECIFIC PROPHECIES PERTAINING TO THE LIFE OF CHRIST -God can and does announce beforehand
future events because he has the power and ability to bring His purposes to
completion. This is what set God apart from idols, fortune-tellers,
soothsayers, astrologers, and all who are deceived of the Truth, for their
source has not the Power of God. His predictions are precise. What He
promises He does perform and what He says does come to pass.
God is in
charge of History. The fulfilled prophecies of The Bible cannot be denied.
There is an astonishing display of fulfilled prophecies. Prophecy is evidence
of Godly information. The fulfilments of Biblical predictions have given the
utmost verification of Scripture.
Through the
ministry of numerous prophets of God, His plan was being revealed of a King
and a Servant, the Anointed Son of God. Because He was obedient to the Will
of God, His Father He became able to deliver the world from bondage according
to God’s plan.
A prophecy
must be uttered before the event comes to pass, and should correspond
exactly. The predictions of the Life of Christ were given details before hand
to thirty different people over a period of time spanning 4,000 years before
Jesus was born.
There are
well over 300 Old Testament predictions recorded that were fulfilled in the
life of Jesus Christ. The odds of this happening to an ordinary man are
impossible, but to God’s Messiah, it is awe-inspiring!! He Himself said that
the Scriptures pointed to Him specifically. In the last twenty-four hours
leading up to His death twenty-nine prophecies about the event were
overwhelmingly fulfilled.
One chance
of a few predictions being completed in a lifetime would be one in many
hundreds of billions and billions, yet they all were fulfilled. In the Life
of Jesus, just the prophecies of His Betrayal, Trial, Death, Burial and
Resurrection were fulfilled in twenty-four hours.
To reject
the Bible’s declarations that Jesus is The Messiah is to reject a fact that
has more absolute proof than any other fact recognized in the world.
Such a
collection of historical prophecies, divinely given over a long period of
time, fulfilled by one person within approximately thirty-three years (almost
one third of them in one day) is very impressive and hardly can be reckoned
with as coincidences.
The acts of
the Apostles show that they based their preaching and teaching on the writing
of Old Testament Scripture to prove that Jesus was indeed God’s Messiah.
Only God
can declare potential events that could have never been foreseen by human
beings apart from the motivation of God, and fulfilled prophecy is proof that
The Bible was not written and recorded by mankind only.
Throughout
The Bible, God's Word, the future of the human race is told in prophecy and
it also warns of judgement, in fact 25% of The Bible is prophecy of the
future. No other world ordained religion has this amongst their general
statements of humanity. Bible prophecy has the objective to humble the hearts
of humans before God, so they can
receive His
Love and Care and His Salvation.
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