How much better is it to get wisdom than gold!
and to get understanding rather to be chosen than silver! Proverbs 16:16
WISDOMABOVEGOLD.COM
It's time you knew what's really going on.
The following text is nowhere near completion & needs to go through a lot of revision. However, I will probably be posting something daily over the next few weeks until it's finished. My apologies.
Since putting up this website 5 months ago, several devout Jewish believers contacted me seeking to understand the Christian acceptance of Yeshua as the Messiah. More recently someone suggested that I line up Old Testament prophesies against scriptural fulfillment in the New Testament gospel. It's my sincere hope that future Jewish visitors to this site will review the prophetic consummations listed on this page with utmost consideration. The evidence is probably going to be far more compelling than you were otherwise led to believe. Moreover, I encourage all visitors to complete the investigation process by reading 'The Messiah's Lineage' located on the 'Letters2' page. Since I'll be listing & commenting on each example as it occurs to me, I can't promise that they will be presented in any particular order.
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MOSES PROPHESIED OF THE MESSIAH:
Old Testament:
Deuteronomy 18:15
The Lord thy God will raise up unto thee a Prophet from the midst of thee, of thy brethren,
like unto me; unto him ye shall hearken.
Moses said the Prophet would be 'like unto him'. So what was Moses like?
Numbers 12:3
Now the man Moses was very meek, above all the men which were upon the face of the earth.
And what about Christ?
New Testament-prophesy fulfilled
Matthew 11:29
Take my yoke upon you, & learn of me;
for I am meek & lowly in heart:
& ye shall find rest for your souls.
Moses: Humble man; leader; guide to salvation
Christ: Humble man; leader; guide to salvation
Of course, most Jews at the time of Christ were expecting a warrior-type Messiah that would crush the Roman stronghold. Please continue reading to understand that what Christ actually accomplished fulfilled a far greater definition of salvation, not just for the Jews, but for all of humanity.
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Ezekiel 36:22-28
Therefore say unto the house of Israel, Thus saith the Lord God;
I do not this for your sakes, O house of Israel,
but for mine holy name’s sake, which ye have profaned among the heathen, whither ye went.
23-And I will sanctify my great name, which was profaned among the heathen,
which ye have profaned in the midst of them;
& the heathen shall know that I am the Lord, saith the Lord God,
when I shall be sanctified in you before their eyes.
24-For I will take you from among the heathen, & gather you out of all countries,
& will bring you into your own land.
25-Then I will sprinkle clean water upon you, & ye shall be clean:
from all your filthiness, & from all your idols, will I cleanse you.
26-A new heart also will I give you, & a new spirit will I put within you:
& I will take away the stony heart out of your flesh,
& I will give you a heart of flesh.
27-And I will put my spirit within you, & cause you to walk in my statutes,
& ye shall keep my judgments, & do them.
28-And ye shall dwell in the land that I gave to your fathers;
& ye shall be my people, & I will be your God.
In this passage God is speaking to the ENTIRE house of Israel. However, according to scripture God reserved only a remnant of 10% of the tribe of Judah for the return to Jerusalem after the Babylonian invasion. These are the people who have preserved their religious identity & continue to call themselves Jews today. The other tribes, as well as the rest of the tribe of Judah, were deeply immersed in pagan practice since millennia ago which is why God caused them to be invaded by Assyria, & later Babylon, in the first place. Since the great scatterings few among the generations that followed have retained their identities & so remain dispersed around the globe, wholly ignorant of their spiritual heritage.
The popular claim that the secular nation of Israel that exists today is the fulfillment of this all-inclusive prophetic promise of restoration is simply illogical. There are large communities of Orthodox Jews around the globe who fully recognize that the state of Israel, known to have been planned by certain Freemason elite since the late 1800's, serves as a contrived Luciferian decoy & could not possibly satisfy the Father's spiritual re-gathering event. What follows is 'the Valley of Dry Bones' passage in its entirety from the book of Ezekiel. Please read through it with an open mind & an open heart, that is, with eyes to 'see'
& ears to 'hear'.
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Ezekiel 37:3,5-26
And he said unto me, Son of man, Can these bones live?
5-Thus saith the Lord God unto these bones;
Behold, I will cause breath to enter into you, & ye shall live:
6-And I will lay sinews upon you, & will bring up flesh upon you
& cover you with skin,& put breath in you,& ye shall live
& ye shall know that I am the Lord.
7-So I prophesied as I was commanded:
& as I prophesied, there was a noise, & behold a shaking
& the bones came together, bone to his bone.
8-And when I beheld, lo, the sinews & the flesh came up upon them & the skin covered them above:
but there was no breath in them.
9-Then said he unto me, Prophesy unto the wind, prophesy, son of man,
& say unto the wind, Thus saith the Lord God;
Come from the four winds, O breath, & breathe upon these slain,
that they may live.
10-So I prophesied as he commanded me, & the breath came into them, & they lived, & stood up upon their feet,
an exceeding great army.
11-Then he said unto me, Son of man,
these bones are the WHOLE HOUSE OF ISRAEL:
behold, they say, Our bones are dried, & our hope is lost:
we are cut off for our parts.
12-Therefore prophesy & say unto them, Thus saith the Lord God;
Behold, O my people,
I will open your graves, & cause you to come up out of your graves,
& bring you into the land of Israel.
13-And ye shall know that I am the Lord, when I have opened your graves,
O my people, & brought you up out of your graves,
14-And shall put my spirit in you, & ye shall live,
& I shall place you in your own land:
then shall ye know that I the Lord have spoken it, & performed it, saith the Lord.
15-The word of the Lord came again unto me, saying,
16-Moreover, thou son of man, take thee one stick,
& write upon it, For Judah, & for the children of Israel his companions:
then take another stick, & write upon it, For Joseph, the stick of Ephraim,
& for all the house of Israel his companions:
17-And join them one to another into one stick;
& they shall become one in thine hand.
18-And when the children of thy people shall speak unto thee, saying,
Wilt thou not shew us what thou meanest by these?
19-Say unto them, Thus saith the Lord God;
Behold, I will take the stick of Joseph, which is in the hand of Ephraim, & the tribes of Israel his fellows,
& will put them with him, even with the stick of Judah, & make them one stick,
& they shall be one in mine hand.
20-And the sticks whereon thou writest shall be in thine hand before their eyes.
21-And say unto them, Thus saith the Lord God;
Behold, I will take the children of Israel from among the heathen, whither they be gone,
& will gather them on every side, & bring them into their own land:
22-And I will make them one nation in the land upon the mountains of Israel;
& ONE KING SHALL BE KING TO THEM ALL: & THEY SHALL NO MORE BE 2 NATIONS,
neither shall they be divided into 2 kingdoms any more at all:
23-Neither shall they defile themselves any more with their idols,
nor with their detestable things, nor with any of their transgressions:
but I will save them out of all their dwelling places, wherein they have sinned,
& will cleanse them: so shall they be my people, & I will be their God.
24-And David my servant shall be king over them; (Christ)
& they shall also walk in my judgments, & observe my statutes, & do them.
25-And they shall dwell in the land that I have given unto Jacob my servant, wherein your fathers have dwelt;
and they shall dwell therein, even they, & their children for ever;
& my servant David shall be their prince for ever.
26-Moreover I will make a covenant of peace with them;
it shall be an everlasting convenant with them:
& I will place them, & multiply them & will set my sanctuary in the midst of them for evermore.
The following is a short list of the promises given in this passage that have by no stretch of the imagination been satisfied by the re-gathering of the Jews into today's nation of Israel:
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The ENTIRE house of Israel will be re-gathered.
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The dead will be resurrected. (& not just metaphorically-remember, this is God!)
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The land will NOT be secular, but wholly devoted to serving God, Jehovah.
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A new spiritual covenant will be established.
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King David shall reign over them forever. (Please refer to 'The Messiah's Lineage' on the Letters2 page.)
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A sanctuary will be established in the midst of the people. (architectural?)
The book of Micah provides further insight into the re-gathered society. Please continue reading.
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Micah 4:1-3
But in the last days it shall come to pass,
that the mountain of the house of the Lord shall be established in the top of the mountains,
& it shall be exalted above the hills;
& people shall flow unto it.
2-And many nations shall come, & say, Come, & let us go up to the mountain of the Lord,
& to the house of the God of Jacob;
& HE WILL TEACH US OF HIS WAYS, & we will walk in his paths:
for the law shall go forth of Zion, & the word of the Lord from Jerusalem.
3-AND HE SHALL JUDGE AMONG MANY PEOPLE,
& rebuke strong nations afar off;
& they shall beat their swords into plowshares, & their spears into pruninghooks:
nation shall not lift up a sword against nation,
NEITHER SHALL THEY LEARN WAR ANYMORE.
No more war-swords into plowshares! No, this definitely does not describe Israel in its current condition. However, it does sound like the government of the future that Christ was trying to explain to his disciples:
Mark 10:42-45
Christ's words:
Ye know that they which are accounted to rule over the Gentiles exercise lordship over them;
& their great ones exercise authority upon them.
43-But so shall it not be among you:
but whosoever will be great among you, shall be your minister.
44-And whosoever of you will be the chiefest, shall be servant of all.
45-For even the Son of man came not to be ministered unto, but to minister,
& to give his life a ransom for many.
Matthew 5:39,41
But I say unto you, That ye resist not evil:
but whosoever shall smite thee on thy right cheek,
turn to him the other also.
41-And whosoever shall compel thee to go a mile,
go with him twain.
As far as the Lord who judges out of Zion & teaches of his ways:
John 5:22-23
FOR THE FATHER JUDGETH NO MAN, BUT HATH COMMITTED ALL JUDGMENT UNTO THE SON:
23-That all men should honour the Son, even as they honour the Father.
He that honoureth not the Son honoureth not the Father which hath sent him.
Until Christ came to earth, humanity was ill equipped to survive Godly perfection. All sinned, all came short of the glory & all died. Christ came to experience the human condition & from his vantage point he now serves humanity as both compassionate advocate as well as judge. THIS is true salvation. Because of his compassionate grace many now have the hope of resurrected, eternal lives.
Hosea explains that this futuristic society of peace is a latter-day event:
Hosea 3:5
Afterward shall the children of Israel return,
& seek the Lord their God, & David their king;
& shall fear the Lord & his goodness in the latter days.
In the meantime, Israel as it stands today satisfies certain prophesies found in the book of Zechariah:
Zechariah 12: 7-8
The Lord also shall save the tents of Judah first,
that the glory of the house of David & the glory of the inhabitants of Jerusalem
do not magnify themselves against Judah.
8-In that day shall the Lord defend the inhabitants of Jerusalem;
& he that is feeble among them at that day shall be as David,
& the house of David shall be as God, as the angel of the Lord before them.
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What follows will be a series of Old Testament scriptures in no particualar order that should nevertheless be very enlightening.
Psalms 22:1-2;6-20
Prophesy of King David 700 years BC:
My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me?
why art thou so far from helping me, & from the words of my roaring?
O my God, I cry in the daytime, but thou hearest not;
& in the night season, & am not silent.
6-But I am a worm, & no man;
a reproach of men, & despised of the people.
7-All they that see me laugh me to scorn:
they shoot out the lip, they shake the head, saying,
8-He trusted on the Lord that he would deliver him:
let hem deliver him, seeing he delighted in him.
9-But thou art he that took me out of the womb:
thou didst make me hope when I was upon my mother's breasts.
10-I was cast upon thee from the womb.:
thou art my God from my mother's belly.
11-Be not far from me; for trouble is near;
for there is none to help.
12-Many bulls have compassed me:
strong bulls of Bashan have beset me round.
13-They gaped upon me with their mouths,
as a ravening & a roaring lion.
14-I am poured out like water, & all my bones are out of joint: my heart is like wax;
it is melted in the midst of my bowels.
15-My strength is dried up like a potsherd; & my tongue cleaveth to my jaws;
& thou hast brought me into the dust of death.
16-For dogs have compassed me: the assembly of the wicked have inclosed me:
they pierced my hands & my feet.
17-I may tell all my bones: they look & stare upon me.
18-They part my garments among them,
& cast lots upon my vesture.
19-But be not thou far from me, O Lord: On my strength,
haste thee to help me.
Compare King David's prophetic vision written about 700 years before Christ's arrival against the New Testament crucifixion event:
Mark 15:29-30
And they that passed by railed on him, wagging their heads, & saying,
Ah, thou that destroyest the temple, & buildest it in three days,
30-Save thyself, & come down from the cross.
Mark 15:24
And when they had crucified him, they parted his garments,
casting lots upon them, what every man should take.
As for David's mention of pierced hands & feet, I'm going to ask you to take the time to listen the 2 videos linked in below. The speaker is a Messianic Rabbi with a VERY important message. Please hear him out:
(Note: If the videos don’t appear immediately, please click on the figure of the man & they will initiate.)
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CHRIST AS THE HUMBLE KING:
Old Testament Prophecy:
Zechariah 9:9
Rejoice greatly, O daughter of Zion; shout, O daughter of Jerusalem:
behold, thy King cometh unto thee: he is just, & having salvation;
lowly, & riding upon as ass, & upon a colt the foal of an ass.
New Testament-prophesy fulfilled:
Luke 19:35-38
....and they cast their garments upon the colt,
and they set Jesus thereon.
36-And as he went, they spread their garments in the way.
37-And when he was come nigh, even now at the descent of the mount of Olives,
the whole multitude of the disciples began to rejoice & praise God with a loud voice
for all the mighty works that they had seen;
38-Saying, Blessed be the King that cometh in the name of the Lord:
peace in heaven, & glory in the highest.
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JOHN THE BAPTIST
Old Testament-prophecy:
Malachi 4:5-6
Behold, I will send you Elijah the prophet before the coming of the great & dreadul day of the Lord:
6-And he shall turn the heart of the fathers to the children, & the heart of the children to their fathers,
lest I come & smite the earth with curse.
Isaiah 40:3
The voice of him that crieth in the wilderness,
Prepare ye the way of the Lord,
make straight in the desert a highway for our God.
2Kings 1:7-8
And he (the king) said unto them,
What manner of man was he which came up to meet you, & told you these words?
8-And they answered him, He was a hairy man, & girt with a girdle of leather about his loins.
And he said, It is Elijah the Tishbite.
New Testament-prophecy fulfilled:
Luke 1: 13;15-17
...and thy wife Elisabeth shall bear thee a son,
and thou shalt call his name John.
15-For he shall be great in the sight of the Lord, & shall drink neither wine nor strong drink;
and he shall be filled with the Holy Ghost, even from the mother's womb.
16-And many of the children of Israel shall he turn to the Lord their God.
17-And he shall go before him (Christ) in the spirit & power of Elias (Elijah),
To turn the hearts of the fathers to the children,
and the disobedient to the wisdom of the just;
to make ready a people prepared for the Lord.
Matthew 3:1-4
In those days came John the Baptist, preaching in the wilderness of Judea,
2-And saying, Repent ye: for the kingdom of heaven is at hand.
3-For this is he that was spoken of by the prophet Esais (Isaiah), saying,
the voice of one crying in the wilderness,
Prepare ye the way of the Lord, make his paths straight.
4-And the same John had his raiment of camel's hair, & a leathern girdle about his lions;
& his meat was locusts & wild honey.
Matthew 11:9-10
(Christ referencing John the Baptist:)
But what went ye out for to see? A prophet?
yea, I say unto you, & more than a prophet.
10-For this is he, of whom it is written,
Behold, I send my messenger before thy face,
which shall prepare thy way before thee.
Matthew 17:10-13
And his disciples asked him (Christ), saying,
Why then say the scribes that Elias (Elijah) must first come?
11-And Jesus answered & said unto them,
Elias truly shall first come, & restore all things.
12-But I say unto you, That Elias is come already & they knew him not,
but have done unto him whatsoever they listed.
13-Then the disciples understood that he spake unto them of John the Baptist.
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JUDAS ISCARIOT
(betrayed Christ, causing his arrest)
Old Testament-prophecy:
Zechariah 11:12-13
And I said unto them
If ye think good, give me my price; and if not, forbear.
So they weighed for my price thirty pieces of silver.
13-And the Lord said unto me,
Cast it unto the potter: a goodly price that I was prised at of them
And I took the thirty pieces of silver, & cast them to the potter in the house of the Lord.
New Testament-Prophecy Fulfilled:
Matthew 27:2-8
And when they had bound him (Christ), they led him away, & delivered him to Pontius Pilate the governor.
3-Then Judas, which had betrayed him when he saw that he was condemned, repented himself,
& brought again the thirty pieces of silver to the chief priests & elders,
4-Saying, I have sinned in that I have betrayed the innocent blood.
And they said, What is that to us? see thou to that.
5-And he cast down the pieces of silver in the temple, & departed, & went & hanged himself.
6-And the chief priests took the silver pieces, & said,
It is not lawful for to put them into the treasury, because it is the price of blood.
7-And they took counsel, & bought with them the potter's field, to bury strangers in.
8-Wherefore that field was called, the field of blood, unto this day.
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Old Testament-prophecy
Isaiah 7:14-15
Therefore the Lord himself shall give you a sign;
Behold, a Virgin shall conceive, & bear a son,
& shall call his name Immanuel.
15-Butter & honey shall be eat,
that he may know to refuse the evil, & choose the good.
New Testament-prophecy fulfilled
Luke 1:26-27,30-31
And...the angel Gabriel was sent....27-to a virgin...
30-and the angel said unto her, Fear not, Mary: for thou hast found favour with God.
31-And behold, thou shalt conceive in thy womb, & bring forth a son,
& shalt call his name JESUS.
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Old Testament prophecy
Isaiah 42:1
Behold my servant, whom I uphold;
mine elect, in whom my soul delighteth;
I have put my spirit upon him:
Isaiah 50:4
The Lord God hath given me the tongue of the learned,
that I should know how to speak a word in season to him that is weary:
Isaiah 61:1
The Spirit of the Lord God is upon me;
because the Lord hath anointed me to preach good tidings unto the meek...
New Testament-prophecy fulfilled:
John 14:7,9,10
If ye had known me, ye should have known my Father also...
9-...he that hath seen me hath seen the Father...
10-I speak not of myself: but the Father that dwelleth in me, he doeth the works.
Luke 4:16-21
And he (Christ) came to Nazareth, where he had been brought up:
and, as his custom was, he went into the synagogue on the sabbath day, & stood up for to read.
17-And there was delivered unto him the book of the prophet Esaias (Isaiah).
And when he had opened the book, he found the place where it was written,
18-"The Spirit of the Lord is upon me,
because he hath anointed me to preach the gospel to the poor;
he hath sent me to heal the broken-hearted, to preach deliverance to the captives,
& recovering of sight to the blind,
to set a liberty them that are bruised,
19-To preach the acceptable year of the Lord."
20-And he closed the book, & he gave it again to the minister, & sat down.
And the eyes of all them that were in the synagogue were fastened on him.
21-And he began to say unto them,
"This day is this scripture fulfilled in your ears."
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Old Testament prophecy:
Isaiah 49:6
....It is a light thing that thou shouldest be my servant
to raise up the tribes of Jacob,
& to restore the preserved of Israel:
I will also give thee for a light to the Gentiles,
that thou mayest be my salvation unto the end of the earth.
Isaiah 42:1,6
...he shall bring forth judgment to the Gentiles.
6-I the Lord have called thee in righteousness, & will keep thee,
give thee for a covenant of the people,
for a light of the Gentiles;
Isaiah 60:3
And the Gentiles shall come to thy light, & kings to the brightness of thy rising.
New Testament-prophecy fulfilled:
John 10:16
And other sheep I have, which are not of this fold:
them also I must bring, & they shall hear my voice;
& there shall be ONE fold, & ONE shepherd.
Romans 5:18
Therefore as by the offence of one (Adam) came upon all men to condemnation;
even so by the righteousness of one the free gift came upon ALL men unto justification of life.
Ephesians 3:3,5-6
How that by revelation he (Christ) made known unto me the mystery...
5-Which in other ages was not made known unto the sons of men,
as it is now revealed unto his holy apostles & prophets by the Spirit;
6-That the Gentiles should be fellowheirs, & of the same body,
& partakers of his promise in Chirst by the gospel...
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Old Testament prophecy
Isaiah 42:2-3
He shall not cry, nor lift up, nor cause his voice to be heard in the street.
3-A bruised reed shall he not break, & the smoking flax shall he not quench:
Isaiah 50:5-6
....I was not rebellious, neither turned away back.
6-I gave my back to the smiters, & my cheeks to them that plucked off the hair:
I hid not my face from shame & spitting.
Isaiah 53:3-7
He is despised & rejected of men; a man of sorrows, & acquainted with grief:
& we hid as it were our faces from him; he was despised, & we esteemed him not.
4-Surely he hath borne our griefs, & carried our sorrows:
yet we did esteem him stricken, smitten of God, & afflicted.
5-But he was wounded for our transgressions, he was bruised for our iniquities:
the chastisement of our peace was upon him; & with his stripes we are healed.
6-All we like sheep have gone astray; we have turned every one to his own way;
& the Lord has laid on him the iniquity of us all.
7-He was oppressed, & he was afflicted, yet he opened not his mouth:
he is brought as a lamb to the slaughter,
& as a sheep before her shearers is dumb,
so he openeth not his mouth.
Luke 23:9
Then he (Herod) questioned with him in many words: but he (Christ) answered him nothing.
John 19:9-11
And (Pilate) went again into the judgment hall, & saith unto Jesus, Whence art thou?
But Jesus gave him no answer.
10-Then saith Pilate unto him, Speakest thou not unto me?
knowest thou not that I have power to crucify thee, & have power to release thee?
11-Jesus answered, Thou couldest have no power at all against me,
except it were given thee from above...
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Old Testament prophecy
Exodus 12:43,46
And the Lord said unto Moses & Aaron, This is the ordinance of the Passover:
(ref: the passover lamb) 46-....neither shall ye break a bone thereof....
Psalms 34:20
He keepeth all his bones: not one of them is broken.
Zechariah 12:10
And I will pour upon the house of David, & upon the inhabitants of Jerusalem,
the spirit of grace & of supplication:
& they shall look upon me whom they have pierced,
& they shall mourn for him, as one mourneth for his only son....
New Testament-prophecy fulfilled
John 19:32-37
Then came the soldiers, & brake the legs of the first, & of the other which was crucified with him.
33-But when they came to Jesus, & saw that he was dead already, they brake not his legs:
34-But one of the soldiers with a spear pierced his side, & forthwith came there out blood & water.
35-And he that saw it bare record, & his record is true: & he knoweth that he saith true, that ye might believe.
36-....For these things were done, that the scripture should be fulfilled,
A bone of him shall not be broken.
37-And again another scripture saidth,
They shall look on him whom they pierced.
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Old Testament prophecy
Psalm 23:5
Thou preparest a table before me in the presence of mine enemies....
New Testament-prophecy fulfilled
Revelation 19:9
And he saith unto me, Write,
Blessed are they which are called unto the marriage supper of the Lamb....
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Old Testament prophecy
Jeremiah 7:25-26
Since the day that your fathers came forth out of the land of Egypt unto this day,
I have even sent unto you all my servants the prophets,
daily rising up early & sending them:
26-Yet they hearkened not unto me,
nor would incline their ear,
but hardened their neck...
Ezekiel 34:2,5,9-10,23
2-Son of man, prophesy against the shepherds of Israel, prophesy, & say unto them,
Thus saith the Lord God unto shepherds;
Woe be to the shepherds of Israel that do feed themselves!
should not the shepherds feed the flocks?
5-And they were scattered, because there is no shepherd:
& they became meat to all the beasts of the field, when they were scattered.
9-Therefore, O ye shepherds, hear the word of the LORD;
10-Thus saith the Lord God;
Behold I am against the shepherds;
& I will require my flock at their hand,
& cause them to cease from feeding the flock;
neither shall the shepherds feed themselves any more;
for I will deliver may flock from their mouth,
that they may not be meat for them.
23-And I will set up one shepherd over them,
& he shall feed them,
even my servant David;
he shall feed them, & he shall be their shepherd.
New Testament-prophecy fulfilled
Mark 12:1-12
And he (Christ) began to speak unto them (chief priests, scribes & elders in the temple) by parables:
'A certain man planted a vineyard, & set a hedge about it, & digged a place for the winefat,
& built a tower, & let it out to husbandmen, & went into a far country.
2-And at the season he sent to the husbandmen a servant,
that he might receive from the husbandmen of the fruit of the vineyard.
3-And they caught him, & beat him, & sent him away empty.
4-And again he sent unto them another servant;
& at him they cast stones, & wounded him in the head, & sent him away shamefully handled.
5-And again he sent another; & him they killed, & many others (God's prophets & watchmen);
beating some, & killing some.
6-Having yet therefore one son, his wellbeloved, he sent him also last unto them, saying,
They will reverence my son.
7-But those husbandmen said amongst themselves,
This is the heir; come, let us kill him, & the inheritance shall be ours.
8-And they took him, & killed him, & cast him out of the vineyard.
(Christ here prophesied his own death.)
9-What shall therefore the lord of the vineyard do?
he will come & destroy the husbandmen, & will give the vineyard unto others.
10-And have ye not read this scripture;
The stone which the builders rejected is become the head of the corner:
11-This was the Lord's doing, & it is marvellous in our eyes?'
12-And they sought to lay hold on him, but feared the people:
for they knew that he had spoken the parable against them:
& they left him, & went their way.
John 10:11-13,17,18 (Christ speaking:)
I am the good shepherd: the good shepherd giveth his life for the sheep.
12-But he that is a hireling, & not the shepherd, whose own the sheep are not, seeth the wolf coming,
& leaveth the sheep, & fleeth: & the wolf catcheth them, & scattereth the sheep.
13-The hireling fleeth, because he is a hireling, & careth not for the sheep.
17......I lay down my life, that I might take it again.
18-No man taketh it from me, but I lay it down of myself.....
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Old Testament Prophecy:
Ezekiel 34:16
(God speaking about the lost House of Israel)
16-I will seek that which was lost,
& bring again that which was driven away,
& will bind up that which was broken,
& will strengthen that which was sick....
New Testament-prophecy fulfilled:
Luke 5:30-32
30....their scribes & Pharisees murmured against his disciples, saying,
Why do ye eat & drink with publicans & sinners?
31-And Jesus answering said unto them,
They that are whole need not a physician; but they that are sick.
32-I came not to call the righteous,
but sinners to repentance.
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Old Testament Prophecy:
Isaiah55:3-4
Incline your ear, & come unto me: hear, & your soul shall live;
& I will make an everlasting convenant with you,
even the sure mercies of David.
4-Behold, I have given him for a witness to the people,
a leader & commander to the people:
Psalms 16:9-10
(King David's words)
Therefore my heart is glad, & my glory rejoiceth: my flesh also shall rest in hope.
10-For thou wilt not leave my soul in hell;
neither wilt thou suffer thine Holy One to see corruption.
New Testament-prophecies fulfilled:
John 5:21
(Christ speaking)
For the Father judgeth no man, but hath committed all judgment unto the Son
(In Revelation 3:14 , Christ is named 'the faithful & true witness')
Acts 13:35-36:
(Paul speaking of David)
Wherefore he saith also in another psalm,
Thou shalt not suffer thine Holy One to see corruption.
36-For David, after he had served his own generation by the will of God, fell on sleep,
& was laid unto his fathers, & saw corruption:
37-But he, whom God raised again (Christ), saw no corruption.
(Again, if you haven't done so, I suggest reading 'The Messiah's Lineage' on the Letters2 page.)
Old Testament prophecy
Isaiah 52:3
For thus saith the LORD,
Ye have sold yourselves for nought;
& ye shall be redeemed without money.
New Testament-prophecy fulfilled
Ephesians 1:5,7
Having predestinated us unto the adoption of children by Jesus Christ to himself,
according to the good pleasure of his will,
7-In whom we have redemption through his blood,
the forgiveness of sins, according to the riches of his grace
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Old Testament prophecy:
Isaiah 50:4
The Lord God hath given me the tongue of the learned,
that I should know how to speak a word in season to him that is weary:
he wakeneth morning by morning,
he wakeneth mine ear to hear as the learned.
New Testament-prophecy fulfilled
Luke 2:42,43,46-47
42-And when he (Christ) was twelve years old,
they (his family) went up to Jerusalem after the custom of the feast.
43-And when they had fulfilled the days, as they returned,
the child Jesus tarried behind in Jerusalem;
& Joseph & his mother knew not of it.
46-And it came to pass, that after three days they found him in the temple,
sitting in the midst of the doctors,
both hearing them & asking them questions.
47-And all that heard him were astonished at his understanding & answers.
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Old Testament prophecy:
Zecharaiah 11:17
Woe to the idol shepherd that leaveth the flock!
the sword shall be upon his arm, & upon his right eye:
his arm shall be clean dried up,
& his right eye shall be utterly darkened.
Isaiah 29:10-11
For the LORD hath poured out upon you the spirit of deep sleep,
& hath closed your eyes:
the prophets & your rulers, the seers hath he covered.
11-And the vision of all is become unto you as the words of a book that is sealed,
which men deliver to one that is learned, saying,
Read this, I pray thee: & he saith, I cannot; for it is sealed
Isaiah 6:9-10
And he said, Go, & tell this people, Hear ye indeed, but understand not:
& see ye indeed, but perceive not.
10-Make the heart of this people fat, & make their ears heavy, & shut their eyes;
lest they see with their eyes, & hear with their ears, & understand with their heart,
& convert, & be healed.
New Testament-prophecy fulfilled:
Luke 19:41-42,44
And when he (Christ) was come near,
He beheld the city (Jerusalem),
& wept over it,
42-Saying, If thou hadst known, even thou,
at least in this thy day,
the things which belong unto thy peace!
But now they are hid from thine eyes.
44-….because thou knewest not the time of thy visitation.
2Corinthians 3:13-15
....Moses....put a vail over his face,
that the children of Israel could not stedfastly look to the end of that which is abolished:
14-But their minds were blinded:
for until this day remaineth the same vail untaken away in the reading of the old testament;
which vail is done away with in Christ
15-But even unto this day, when Moses is read, the vail is upon their heart.
Romans 11:25-26
For I would not, brethren, that ye should be ignorant of this mystery,
lest ye should be wise in your own conceits;
that blindness in part is happened to Israel, until the fulness of the Gentiles be come in.
26-And so all Israel shall be saved: as it is written,
There shall come out of Sion the Deliverer
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Old Testament Prophecy:
But thou, Bethlehem Ephratah,
though thou be little among the thousands of Judah,
yet out of thee shall he come forth unto me that is to be ruler in Israel;
whose goings forth have been from of old,
from everlasting.
Micah 5:2
New Testament-Prophecy Fulfilled:
And it came to pass in those days,
that there went out a decree from Caesar Augustus that all the world should be taxed.
2 (And this taxing was first made when Cyrenius was governor of Syria.)
3 And all went to be taxed, every one into his own city.
4 And Joseph also went up from Galilee,
out of the city of Nazareth, into Judaea,
unto the city of David, which is called Bethlehem;
(because he was of the house and lineage of David:)
5 To be taxed with Mary his espoused wife,
being great with child.
6 And so it was, that, while they were there,
the days were accomplished that she should be delivered.
7 And she brought forth her firstborn son,
and wrapped him in swaddling clothes,
and laid him in a manger;
because there was no room for them in the inn.
Luke 2:1-7