Christmas 2019 08. Prophecies Fulfilled 1

 

8. Prophecies/ Fulfilled (Part 1)

 

That first Christmas, almost 2,000 years ago, is the time when the invisible becomes visible. When God who is outside of time and space, entered time and space. This Almighty God becomes a weakened baby, in what we call the incarnation. Almighty God has become one of his created beings – a helpless human.

Over the next few days, as part of our Christmas 2019 series, we will look at some of the words given as prophecy in what we call the Old Testament and how they were fulfilled in the New Testament. Some of those things could have been fulfilled by deliberate human intervention (or even Jesus Himself)… However, not all of them. We will look together at how the birth, life, death, resurrection and ascension of Jesus Christ was fulfilment of words and promises spoken about down through the ages, through countless years as people looked to God to rescue them.

John 3:16 sums this up well “For this is how God loved the world: He sent his one and only Son, so that everyone who believes in him will not perish but have eternal life. God sent his Son into the world not to judge the world, but to save the world through him.” One of God’s servants, one of Jesus’ followers said something similar in Romans 8:3 “So God did what the law could not do. He sent his own Son in a body like the bodies we sinners have. And in that body God declared an end to sin’s control over us by giving his Son as a sacrifice for our sins.”

1. Prophecies concerning Jesus’ parents.

a. Prediction: Messiah would be born of a woman.
Predicted: Genesis 3:15 / Fulfilled: Matthew 1:20 & Galatians 4:4-5
b. Prediction: Messiah would be born of a virgin.
Predicted: Isaiah 7:14 / Fulfilled: Matthew 1:22-23 & Luke 1:30-31
c. Prediction: Messiah would be born in Bethlehem.
Predicted: Micah 5:2 / Fulfilled: Matthew 2:1 & Luke 2:4-7

2. Prophecies concerning Jesus’ ancestry. Something very important for the nation of Israel at the time!

a. Prediction: Messiah would come from the line of Abraham.
Predicted: Genesis 12:3; Genesis 22:18/ Fulfilled: Matthew 1:1 & Romans 9:5
b. Prediction: Messiah would be a descendant of Isaac.
Predicted: Genesis 17:19; Genesis 21:12/ Fulfilled: Luke 3:34
c. Prediction: Messiah would be a descendant of Jacob.
Predicted: Numbers 24:17 / Fulfilled: Matthew 1:2
d. Prediction: Messiah would come from the tribe of Judah.
Predicted: Genesis 49:10 / Fulfilled: Luke 3:33; Hebrews 7:14
e. Prediction: Messiah would be heir to King David's throne.
Predicted: 2 Samuel 7:12-13; Isaiah 9:7 / Fulfilled: Luke 1:32-33; Romans 1:3
f. Prediction: Messiah's throne will be anointed and eternal.
Predicted: Psalm 45:6-7; Daniel 2:44 / Fulfilled: Luke 1:30-33; Hebrews 1:8-9
g. Prediction: Messiah would be called Immanuel.
Predicted: Isaiah 7:14 / Fulfilled: Matthew 1:22-3

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