GOD’S WORD FOR JANUARY 14 ~ ~ Isaiah 53:3 ~ ~ “He is despised and rejected by men,

A Man of sorrows and acquainted with grief.  And we hid, as it were, our faces from Him;

He was despised, and we did not esteem Him.”

(Read all of Chapter 53 prayerfully for an experience that’ll change you.

We are looking at Prophesies  of the Coming King, and particularly today, prophecies of His betrayal and execution.

There were between 300 and 400  prophecies  received by the prophets and written down  between 700 and 1000 years before Jesus was born, about His birth, life, death, Resurrection, Ascension, and return as King.   Of those that are past, EVERY ONE was fulfilled perfectly in detail, many in  very small details. Not only that, but there are NO “extra’s” that the were  incorrect. …100% success rate.     Only God could do that.   An expert said that the chances of that number of predictions coming true,  are ~ ~ if you could imagine the entire state of Texas  filled with 50-cent-pieces three feet deep.   You have ONE chance to pick the correct one……  Those are the same odds as ALL of these prophesies coming true perfectly like they did.) 

  Could we possibly have reason to doubt, even a little bit, the perfection of the Bible, and therefore the assurance of the truth of the Book of Revelations, which we are living out right now, that tells of His second coming to punish the evil-doers and collect His true ones to be with Him?  

Doubt will be deadly for eternity if it delays your accepting Him as your Lord and personal Savior, for the forgiveness of your sins.   It’s a free gift………….accept it before it’s too late!  Anyone could die at any time..then it’s too late)

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Isaiah 53:4-6

Surely He has borne our griefs

And carried our sorrows;

Yet we esteemed Him stricken,

Smitten by God, and afflicted.

But He was wounded for our transgressions,

He was bruised for our iniquities;

The chastisement for our peace was upon Him,

And by His stripes we are healed.

All we like sheep have gone astray;

We have turned, every one, to his own way;

And the Lord has laid on Him the iniquity of us all.

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We are looking at Prophesies  of the Coming King, with Dr. Michael Youssef in the book, “How to Read the Bible…..(As if your life depends on it, …….because it does!)

 More than twenty Old Testament prophecies were fulfilled within a mere twenty-four hours at the time of Jesus’s crucifixion.  Here are some of them:

Psalm 31:11 and Zecharia 13:7 predicted that Messiah would be abandoned by His friends; that was fulfilled in Mark 14:50.

Psalm 31:13 predicted that Messiah’s enemies would conspire to kill Him;   That was fulfilled in Matthew 27:1

Isaiah 53:7  (part of that beautiful chapter predicting the details of the crucifixion) predicted that Messiah would not defend Himself before His accusers:  fulfilled in Matthew 27:12-14.

The Passover ceremony described in Exodus 12:21-27 symbolizes the Messiah as our Passover Lamb;  this was fulfilled by Jesus’s death on the cross.  See also 1 Corinthians 5:7.

Genesis 3:15 predicted that the Messiah would destroy Satan’s work, crushing his head while suffering a wound in His heel;   this was fulfilled in the crucifixion of Christ, as related in Matthew 27, Mark 15, Luke 23, and John 19;  See also 1 John 3:8.

Psalm 41:9 predicted that Messiah would be betrayed by a close friend who shared His bread;  fulfilled by Judas in John 13:18 and 26-27. 

Zechariah 11:12 predicted that the Messiah would be betrayed for thirty pieces of silver; this was fulfilled by Judas in Matthew 27:6-10.

Leviticus 17:11 specified blood sacrifices to make atonement for sin, a picture of the sacrifice of the Messiah; fulfilled by Jesus who said, “This is My blood of the covenant, which is poured out for many for the forgiveness of sins”  (Matthew 26:28).

Exodus 12:46 specified that none of the Passover lamb’s bones should be broken, symbolizing the fact that Messiah’s bones would not be broken when He was sacrificed;  this was fulfilled in John 19:31-36.

Psalm 22:1 PREDICTED THAT Messiah would be forsaken;   That was fulfilled in Matthew 27:46 and Mark 15:34.

A thousand years before Roman crucifixion was invented, Psalm 22:16 predicted that Messiah’s hands and feet would be pierced:  That was perfectly fulfilled in Matthew 27:35, Mark 15:24, Luke 23:33, and John 19:18.

Psalm 22:15 predicted that the Messiah would suffer thirst;   that important detail was fulfilled in John 19:28.

Psalm 69:21 predicted that Messiah’s executioners would offer Him vinegar mingled with gall; That telling detail was fulfilled in Matthew 27:34.

Psalm 22:18 predicted that Messiah’s executioners would cast lots for His clothing;   How could anyone know that detail?  But it was perfectly fulfilled, about a thousand years later, in John 19:23-24.

Psalm 31:5 prophesied the Messiah’s last words before His death.  Those words were indeed spoken by Him around a  thousand  years later and recorded in Luke 23:46.

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