Jan 3, 2011

Why is Jesus the only Way?

*There are 333 Old Testament predictions about the Messiah's first coming to earth fulfilled by Jesus Christ!
*Isaiah 7:14 -the virgin birth of Immanuel (another name for the Messiah) fulfilled in Matthew 1:22-23, Luke 1:26-35,Luke 2:1-7, John 1:1,2,14
*Micah 5:2 "But thou,Bethlehem Ephratah,though thou be little among the thousands of Judah,yet out of thee shall come forth unto me that is to be ruler in Israel; whose goings forth have been from of old, from everlasting." -born in Bethlehem fulfilled in Luke 2:4-7;Luke 2:15-20
* Hosea 11:1 "Out of Egypt have I called my son." - fulfilled by flight into Egypt Matthew 2:13-15
*Jeremiah 31:15 "Thus saith the LORD; a voice was heard in Ramath,lamentation, and bitter weeping;Rachel weeping for her children refused to be comforted for her children, because they were not." slaughter of the innocents -fulfilled in Matthew 2:16-18;
* Zechariah 9:9 "..Behold,thy King cometh unto thee, he is just,and having salvation;lowly,and riding upon an ass,and upon a colt the foal of an ass." -triumphal entry -fulfilled in Matthew 21:1-9,Mark 11:1-10,Luke 19:28-38,John 12:12-19
*Zechariah 11:12-13 "And I said unto them, If ye think good,give me thy price;and if not, forbear. So they weighed for my price thirty pieces of silver. And the LORD said unto me, Cast it unto the potter:a goodly price that I was priced at of them. And I took the thirty pieces of silver, and cast them to the potter in the house of the LORD." -Betrayed for 30 pieces of silver - fulfilled in Matthew 26:14-16,Matthew 26:47-56,Mark 14:10,11;Luke 22:3-6

*Isaiah 53:3 "He is despised and rejected of men; a man of sorrows,and acquainted with grief;and we hid as it were our faces from him;he was despised and we esteemed him not." -fulfilled in Matthew 27:30-31;Mark 15:19-20;Luke 23:35-36;

*Psalm 22:6 " ..a reproach of men, and despised of the people." Psalm 109:25 "I became also a reproach unto them:when they looked upon me they shaked their heads."-fulfilled in Matthew 27:39-44;Luke 23:35;

*Isaiah 53:7 "He was oppressed, and he was afflicted,yet he opened not his mouth: he is brought as a lamb to the slaughter, and as a sheep before the shearers is dumb, so he openeth not his mouth." -fulfilled in Matthew 26:62-63;Matthew 27:12-14;Mark 15:3-5;Luke 23:9; John 19:9; Acts 8:32-33

*Isaiah 53:12 -fulfilled in Romans 3:25;Matthew 27:38;Mark 15:28; Luke 22:37;Acts 1:9:Luke 23:34

*Psalm 22,Isaiah 53 death by crucifixion -fulfilled in Matthew 27:33-38: Mark 15:22-28;Luke 23:27-38; John 19:17-19

*Psalm 22:16c "..they have pierced my hands and my feet."

*Psalm 22:18 "They part my garments among them, and cast lots upon my vesture." -fulfilled in Matthew 27:35;Mark 15:24;Luke 23:34;John 19:23-24

*Psalm 69:21 given gall to eat, and vinegar to drink -fulfilled in Matthew 27:34;Mark 15:23,36;Luke 23:36;John 19:29-30

*Psalm 22:7-8 "All they that see me shall laugh me to scorn:they shoot out the lip,the shake the head, saying, He trusted on the LORD that he would deliver him: let him deliver him, seeing he delighted in him." -fulfilled in Matthew 27:41-43;Mark 15:29-32;Luke 23:35-37;Luke 23:39

*Isaiah 53:9 -buried with the wicked -fulfilled in Matthew 27:57-61;Mark 15:42-47;Luke 23:50-56;John 19:38-42

*Job 19:25 "For I know that my redeemer liveth, and that he shall stand at the latter day upon the earth;" -fulfilled in Matthew 28:1-6; Mark 5:41; I Corinthians 15:52 **Jesus is alive! Amen!