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Prophecies in the Old Testament that Jesus fulfilled?

There are hundreds... so can somebody provide a quote from the Old Testament of a prophecy that Jesus fulfilled?

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  • Aravah
    Lv 7
    1 decade ago
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    answer: NONE

    Isaiah 53: is about ISRAEL. Other intentional mistranslations: Zechariah 12:10 − The Hebrew Tanakh: “and they shall look upon me whom they have stabbed/ thrust through [with swords”) The King James Version of Zechariah changes one word [stabbed] to “pierced.” BUT John 19:37 (New Testament) misquotes Zechariah to change the entire meaning by saying, “They shall look on him (instead of ME) whom they pierced.”

    Isaiah 7:14 − The Hebrew Tanakh says “Therefore, the Lord, of His own, shall give you a sign; behold, the young woman (alma) is with child, and she will bear a son and she shall call his name Immanuel.” **Take note, this was written in the present tense. ** But the Greek Septuagint changed “alma,” saying “Behold, a virgin shall be with child and shall bear a son, and they shall call his name Immanuel” (Matthew 1:22-23). The church changed the entire verse from present to FUTURE tense and then went further to change the Hebrew alma, meaning a young woman to virgin.

    Isaiah 53:10 − The Hebrew Tanakh says “And the Lord wished to crush him, He made him ill; if his soul makes itself restitution (acknowledge guilt) he shall see children, he shall prolong his days and God’s purpose shall prosper in his hand.” But the KJV says:: “Yet it pleased the Lord to bruise him; he had put him to grief: when thou shall make his soul an offering for sin, he shall see his seed, he shall prolong his days and the pleasure of the Lord shall prosper in his hand”

    Isaiah 9:5 − The Hebrew Tanakh reads: “For a child has been born to us, a son has been given us and authority has settled on his shoulders. He has been named “The Mighty God” Isaiah was referring to King Hezekiah, son of Ahaz. Again, in an attempt to insert a Jesus prophecy, the KJV changed the tense from the present to the future, making it, “A child is born, a son is given and the government shall be upon his shoulder and his name shall be called Wonderful Counselor, the Mighty God”. [In Hebrew Hezekiah means “the mighty God.”]

    Matthew 2:23 − “And he (Jesus) came and dwelt in a city called Nazareth: that it might be fulfilled which was spoken by the prophets” Which prophets said that? According to scholars, rabbis and historians, the city of Nazareth did not exist during the writings of Hebrew Scriptures.

    Psalm 22:16 from the Hebrew Tanakh when correctly translated reads “They surrounded my hands and feet like a lion” (the word “ka’ari clearly means like a lion, as evident from its use in Isaiah 38:13 and other writings, even in the KJV). David was pursued by his enemies and often referred to them as “lions” (see Psalms 7 & 17). Yet, when read out of context the KJV mistranslates: “They pierced my hands and feet.” The passage was altered to indicate Jesus.

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  • jen
    Lv 6
    1 decade ago

    Matt.22:42-44, by David as Jesus says.

    Acts 2:27-35[ now the Lord of David is at God's right hand,

    his LORD, his Father and his God, John 20:17, Matt.28:

    18-20; Jesus has been given [ BY THE GIVER], all power,

    but when will his enemies be under his feet and the feet

    of his firstfruit that will be with him at his 2nd coming,

    1Thes.4:15-17; Michael is there to the last so Michael

    of Dan.1:1-13; and Rev.12:3,4,6,7-11,12; is takeing care

    of it, how much time is the short time for Satan, can God

    give all time but the day and the hour? 1Thes.5:1-9,21,22.

    until his enemies are under his feet, when will that be as

    he has not been resurrected for a very long time ye in the

    book of Acts or Heb.1:1-13?

    Source(s): Bible.
  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago

    Micah 5:2 -- prophesied that he would be born in Bethlehem (and even specified which Bethlehem, since there was more than one)

    Zechariah 11:12 -- prophesied that he would be betrayed for 30 pieces of silver

    Psalms 22:18 -- that they would cast lots for his garments after his death

    Psalms 41:9 -- that he would be betrayed by a friend with whom he had eaten

    Psalms 34:20 -- that his bones would not be broken at death (unusual, because normally they were to ensure that the person had truly died)

    Zechariah 12:10 -- that he would be pierced through (speared when he died)

    Psalms 69:21 -- that he would be given gall and vinegar to drink

    Zechariah 9:9 -- that he would enter Jerusalem on a donkey

    Psalms 132:11 -- that he would come through the lineage of David

  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago

    Jesus is provably a false prophet.

    Jesus completely failed the messianic prophecies. Which ones, you ask?

    There are 23 actual prophecies about the Jewish Messiah and none of them are in the Torah (the first five books of the Tanakh):

    * The Sanhedrin will be re-established (Isaiah 1:26)

    * Once he is King, leaders of other nations will look to him for guidance. (Isaiah 2:4)

    * The whole world will worship the One God of Israel (Isaiah 2:17)

    * He will be descended from King David (Isaiah 11:1) via King Solomon (1 Chron. 22:8-10)

    * The Moshiach will be a man of this world, an observant Jew with "fear of God" (Isaiah 11:2)

    *****In other words - this must all be accomplished in a human lifetime*****

    * Evil and tyranny will not be able to stand before his leadership (Isaiah 11:4)

    * Knowledge of God will fill the world (Isaiah 11:9)

    * He will include and attract people from all cultures and nations (Isaiah 11:10)

    * All Israelites will be returned to their homeland (Isaiah 11:12)

    * Death will be swallowed up forever (Isaiah 25:8)

    * There will be no more hunger or illness, and death will cease (Isaiah 25:8)

    * All of the dead will rise again (Isaiah 26:19)

    * The Jewish people will experience eternal joy and gladness (Isaiah 51:11)

    * He will be a messenger of peace (Isaiah 52:7)

    * Nations will end up recognizing the wrongs they did to Israel (Isaiah 52:13-53:5)

    * The peoples of the world will turn to the Jews for spiritual guidance (Zechariah 8:23)

    * The ruined cities of Israel will be restored (Ezekiel 16:55)

    * Weapons of war will be destroyed (Ezekiel 39:9)

    * The Temple will be rebuilt (Ezekiel 40) resuming many of the suspended mitzvot

    * He will then perfect the entire world to serve God together (Zephaniah 3:9)

    * Jews will know the Torah without Study (Jeremiah 31:33)

    * He will give you all the desires of your heart (Psalms 37:4)

    * He will take the barren land and make it abundant and fruitful (Isaiah 51:3, Amos 9:13-15, Ezekiel 36:29-30, Isaiah 11:6-9).

    (Credit: Mark S and Plushy Bear)

    Reasons Jesus wasn’t the Jewish Messiah:

    * divine birth/divinity - (the Jewish Messiah will be human – G-d cannot become human – Deuteronomy 6:4, Isaiah 44:6, Hosea 11:9, Ezekiel 28:2, Numbers 23:19) - strike

    * performing miracles - (JM won't perform miracles) - strike

    * taking on the sins of others - (no one can take on the sins of others – Deuteronomy 24:16, Exodus 32:30-35, Ezekiel 18:1-4; 20-24; 26-27) - strike

    * breaking Sabbath - strike (JM will be observant) - strike

    * sacrificed/rising from the dead - (G-d rejects human sacrifice and blood sacrifice is NOT an absolute requirement – Deuteronomy 12:30-31, Jeremiah 19:4-6, Psalm 106:37-38, Ezekiel 16:20, Leviticus 5:11-13, Jonah 3:10, Leviticus 17, Leviticus 5:11-13, Numbers 16:47, Numbers 31:50, Isaiah 6:6-7, Jeremiah 7:22-23, Psalm 51:16-17) - strike

    * prophecies unfilled - (JM will accomplish them in one life time) - strike

    * being worshiped - Jews worship G-d and only G-d – strike and OUT

    Geneological errors in Christianity:

    1. The Messiah is born of two human parents, as we said. But Jesus, according to Christian theology, was born of a union between a Human woman and God, rather than two HUMAN parents, as was Hercules, and Dionysis, as well as many other pagan gods.

    2. The Messiah can trace his lineage through his human biological father, back to King David (Isaiah 11:1,10; Jeremiah 23:5; Ezekiel 34:23-24; 37:21-28; Jeremiah 30:7-10; 33:14-16; and Hosea 3:4-5). But Jesus's lineage cannot go through his human father, according to Christian theology, as Jesus's father was not Joseph the husband of Mary. According to Christian theology, Jesus's father was God.

    3. The Messiah traces his lineage only through King Solomon (II Samuel 7:12-17; I Chronicles 22:9-10). But according to Luke 3:31, Jesus was a descendant of Nathan, another son of King David, and not a descendant of King David through King Solomon.

    4. The Messiah cannot trace his lineage through Jehoiakim, Jeconiah, or Shealtiel, because this royal line was cursed (I Chronicles 3:15-17; Jeremiah 22:18,30). But according to both Matthew 1:11-12 and Luke 3:27, Jesus was a descendant of Shealtiel.

    (Credit: Unknown, through Convert Ruth)

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  • Gary B
    Lv 7
    1 decade ago

    read Isaiah Chapter 53. this is a description of the Life of the Messiah, ALL of which Jesus fulfilled.

    Remember prophecy is not JUSt about "and he will...." or "and this will come to pass....". Jesus' life and death ALSO fulfills everything in Isaiah Chapter 53.

  • 1 decade ago

    The New Testament writers did a lot of proof-texting to prove that Jesus was the messiah. If you did that in a seminary term paper; you'd flunk the course!

  • ?
    Lv 6
    1 decade ago

    Deuteronomy 18:18

    "I will raise up for them a prophet like you from among their fellow Israelites, and I will put my words in his mouth. He will tell them everything I command him."

    Isaiah 53:5

    "But he was pierced for our transgressions,

    he was crushed for our iniquities;

    the punishment that brought us peace was on him,

    and by his wounds we are healed."

    Zechariah 13:6

    If someone asks, ‘What are these wounds on your body?’ they will answer, ‘The wounds I was given at the house of my friends.’

    Isaiah 42:6

    “I, the LORD, have called you in righteousness;

    I will take hold of your hand.

    I will keep you and will make you

    to be a covenant for the people

    and a light for the Gentiles"

    Isaiah 9:6

    "For to us a child is born,

    to us a son is given,

    and the government will be on his shoulders.

    And he will be called

    Wonderful Counselor, Mighty God,

    Everlasting Father, Prince of Peace."

  • 1 decade ago

    Foretelling the Messiah

    KNOWING what Isaiah and other prophets had written about the Messiah, the Jewish nation long anticipated his arrival. By Jesus’ day, in fact, many Jews “were in expectation” of the Messiah’s imminent appearance. (Luke 3:15) Significantly, Bible prophecies include remarkable details of the Messiah’s life. No mere human could either foretell such events or arrange for Jesus to experience them.

    Details Surrounding the Messiah’s Birth. Isaiah foretold that the Messiah, or Christ, would be born of a virgin. After describing the miraculous circumstances of Jesus’ birth, the apostle Matthew wrote: “All this actually came about for that to be fulfilled which was spoken by Jehovah through his prophet, saying: ‘Look! The virgin will become pregnant and will give birth to a son.’” (Matthew 1:22, 23; Isaiah 7:14) Isaiah also foretold that Christ would be a descendant of David, specifically mentioning Jesse, David’s father. Jesus did indeed directly descend from David. (Matthew 1:6, 16; Luke 3:23, 31, 32) Thus, before the birth of Jesus, the angel Gabriel told Jesus’ mother, Mary: “God will give him the throne of David his father.”—Luke 1:32, 33; Isaiah 11:1-5, 10; Romans 15:12.

    Details of the Messiah’s Life. In the synagogue in Nazareth, the adult Jesus read aloud from Isaiah’s prophecy, including these words: “Jehovah’s spirit is upon me, because he anointed me to declare good news to the poor.” Applying the prophecy to himself, Jesus stated: “Today this scripture that you just heard is fulfilled.” (Luke 4:17-21; Isaiah 61:1, 2) Isaiah also foretold Jesus’ kind, mild, and unassuming way of dealing with those in need of healing. Matthew writes: “Many also followed him, and he cured them all, but he strictly charged them not to make him manifest; that there might be fulfilled what was spoken through Isaiah the prophet . . . ‘He will not wrangle, nor cry aloud . . . No bruised reed will he crush.’”—Matthew 8:16, 17; 12:10-21; Isaiah 42:1-4; 53:4, 5.

    Details of the Messiah’s Suffering. Isaiah prophesied that the Messiah would not be accepted by the majority in Israel but would instead become “a stone of stumbling” to them. (1 Peter 2:6-8; Isaiah 8:14, 15) And indeed, despite Jesus’ many miracles, the people “were not putting faith in him, so that the word of Isaiah the prophet was fulfilled which he said: ‘Jehovah, who has put faith in the thing heard by us?’” (John 12:37, 38; Isaiah 53:1) Contributing to the Jews’ lack of faith was the popular, though mistaken, belief that the Messiah would immediately rid the nation of Roman rule and restore an independent Davidic kingdom on earth. Because Jesus suffered and died, most Jews could not accept him as the Messiah. But, in fact, Isaiah had foretold that the Messiah would experience suffering before becoming King.

    In the book of Isaiah, the Messiah prophetically says: “My back I gave to the strikers . . . My face I did not conceal from humiliating things and spit.” Matthew reports what happened when Jesus was being tried: “They spit into his face and hit him with their fists. Others slapped him in the face.” (Isaiah 50:6; Matthew 26:67) “He was letting himself be afflicted; yet he would not open his mouth,” wrote Isaiah. Thus, when Pilate questioned Jesus about the Jews’ accusations, Jesus “did not answer him, no, not a word, so that the governor wondered very much.”—Isaiah 53:7; Matthew 27:12-14; Acts 8:28, 32-35.

    Details of the Messiah’s Death. Isaiah’s prophecy continued to be fulfilled at Jesus’ death and even afterward. Isaiah foretold: “He will make his burial place even with the wicked ones, and with the rich class in his death.” (Isaiah 53:9) How could this apparently contradictory prophecy be fulfilled? When Jesus died, he was impaled between two robbers. (Matthew 27:38) But later, wealthy Joseph of Arimathea laid Jesus’ body in his own newly quarried tomb. (Matthew 27:57-60) Finally, Jesus’ death fulfilled one of the most important elements of Isaiah’s prophecy. Speaking of the Messiah, Isaiah says: “The righteous one, my servant, will bring a righteous standing to many people; and their errors he himself will bear.” Indeed, Jesus’ death provided the ransom so that the burden of sin can be lifted from all faithful people.—Isaiah 53:8, 11; Romans 4:25.

    Source(s): Fortelling the Messiah WatchTower 10/1/08
  • 1 decade ago

    maybe this website will help you to know that jesus is the messiah for christians.

    http://www.godandscience.org/apologetics/prophchr....

  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago

    "Unto us a child is born, unto us a son is given, and on him shall rest the government of the peoples."

    Isaiah

    "The sceptor shall not depart from Judah, nor the ruling staff from between his feet, until shiloh comes, and to him shall belong the rule of the people."

    Jacob on his deathbed

    "Is it not enough that you should test me, but that you should also test the God of Israel? Therefore I shall give you a sign: a virgin shall conceive, and by the time the child is weaned, he who provokes Israel shall be dead."

    Isaiah to Hezekiah

    "The Lord your God shall raise up a prophet from among you who will resemble me."

    Moses

    "Yea though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil. Thy rod and thy staff, they comfort me."

    David

    "The land that sat in darkness, Naphtali, across the sea, Galilee of the nations. Those who sat in darkness have seen a great light; those who dwelt in the land of death, the dawn has broken upon them."

    Jeremiah (I think)

    "But you, O Bethlehem [meaning "house of bread"] of Ephrathah, you who are counted as small among the clans of Judah, from you shall come forth one who is to be ruler of Israel."

    Micah

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