How many prophecies are there in the Old Testament of the Bible about Jesus? Scholars offer differing answers, generally ranging from about 200 to 400. Jesus the Prophet Jesus accurately predicted his death and resurrection, the rise of false prophets, the fall of Jerusalem, the worldwide ...
The New Testament Gospels and the Acts of the apostles record many of the fulfillments of prophecies that were recorded hundreds of years earlier in the Old Testament. In the circumstances of Jesus' birth, life, miracles, death, and resurrection as found in the Gospels, we find t...
Unsurprisingly, the most important Old Testament prophecies about Jesus concern his death and resurrection – and there are plenty of them. We will highlight just a few. For instance, the anointed one would be the Passover Lamb, whose blood once saved the people of Israel from death in Egypt...
The Old Testament contains over 300 references to the Messiah that were fulfilled in Jesus Christ. Computations using the science of probability on just 8 of these prophecies show the chance that someone could have fulfilled all 8 prophecies is 10 (to the 17th power), or 1 in 100 quadrillion...
The conviction about Jesus’ messiahship and resurrection had very little to do with the Old Testament. But once these things became the basis of Christian profession, then the Old Testament was used to demonstrate or to enhance belief. When it comes to the historical question about the ...
In Acts 6 we have the story of Stephen, who was stoned to death for daring to state that the Temple of Jerusalem was no longer needed under the New Covenant. The writings of the Apostle Paul also clearly teach that all the fulfillments of the...
Amazing prophecies of God’s plans for the world can be found embedded in the customs […] Filed under Bible, Books, Interviews, Old Testament Tagged as Bible, Old testament, passoverMarch 28, 2016 Death and Resurrection: Guest Post by Philip Johnston Jonathan Petersen Dr. D.A. Carson ...
What other secrets of feasts does your book unlock? Michael Norten:There are so many prophecies and teachings that are unlocked, but here’s one that I’d like to mention. I was always puzzled about Jesus not wanting Mary at the tomb to touch him, because he hadn’t been ...
A Summary of the Old Testament (St. Jerome) By St. Jerome (Excerpt from Letter 53 to Paulinus of Nola) Genesis, we shall be told, needs no explanation; its topics are too simple — the birth of the world, the origin of the human race, the division of the earth, the confusion of ...
whose fulfillment is accomplished in more than a single event. Thus certain Old Testament prophecies may have conveyed to the original hearers a meaning more restricted than the perspective opened in the New Testament pages. The original understanding was a legitimate interpretation of the prophecy, ...