THE PROPHET'S TESTIMONY: REFERENCES TO JESUS' DEATH
(Message by Tanny Keng)
1. The Prophets’ Testimony
a) When someone expects our trust, we look for credentials. What entitles that person to our trust? What testimony is there that this person should be believed? This applies to our faith in Jesus. He has credentials. He is not without testimony that he is truly whom he claims to be.
b) Over the centuries, prophets had been speaking and writing about the Messiah who was to come. They foresaw many aspects of his life.
2. References To Jesus' Death
a) When considering the books of prophecy, it's amazing to see the coincidence between statements in these books, and in the records of Jesus’s death: His betrayal price, the words used to taunt him, the disposal of his garment by casting lots, the offering of vinegar and gall to drink, the fact that he would be wounded by piercing but not by breaking of bones, his burial in a rich man’s tomb.
b) These and other details link Jesus’s death with the prophetic message of God. What a strongly forged link it is! — too strong to be “forged” in the other sense. The way in which the dying Jesus fulfilled the word of prophecy, adds much weight to his credentials.
The End ...
1. The Prophets’ Testimonya) When someone expects our trust, we look for credentials. What entitles that person to our trust? What testimony is there that this person should be believed? This applies to our faith in Jesus. He has credentials. He is not without testimony that he is truly whom he claims to be.
b) Over the centuries, prophets had been speaking and writing about the Messiah who was to come. They foresaw many aspects of his life.
2. References To Jesus' Death
a) When considering the books of prophecy, it's amazing to see the coincidence between statements in these books, and in the records of Jesus’s death: His betrayal price, the words used to taunt him, the disposal of his garment by casting lots, the offering of vinegar and gall to drink, the fact that he would be wounded by piercing but not by breaking of bones, his burial in a rich man’s tomb.
b) These and other details link Jesus’s death with the prophetic message of God. What a strongly forged link it is! — too strong to be “forged” in the other sense. The way in which the dying Jesus fulfilled the word of prophecy, adds much weight to his credentials.
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