Tuesday, March 13, 2018

There is Only One Answer

In 700BC, the prophet Isaiah wrote about a person who would die for the sins of all. After 2700 years, there is still only one person who has fulfilled this prophecy. After his last meal with his friends, he told them that he would fulfill Isaiah’s prophecy, “For I tell you that this scripture must be fulfilled in me, ‘And he was numbered with transgressors’; for what is written about me has its fulfillment - Luke 22:37.” The only person who has ever fulfilled the prophecy is Jesus. The question you should ask yourself is not who is Jesus. The question that you should ask yourself is how did the prophet Isaiah know how Jesus would die 700 years before it happened? There is only one answer. For a mere human to know the future, that information had to originate from God. The prophecy below from the Book of Isaiah is very specific and matches the details in the gospel accounts of the Passion of Jesus. The reason that Christians believe that Jesus is the Messiah is because he fulfilled over five hundred prophecies in the Old Testament that were written hundreds and thousands of years before the events occurred. Do you have another explanation how Isaiah knew the details concerning Jesus’ death 700 years before it happened? There is only one answer – God exists and knows the future in specific detail. Read it for yourself. The proof of the existence of God is in the verses below – read them if you dare to know the truth about the existence of God.

J. Clontz – Editor of The Comprehensive New Testament

Isaiah 53:1 Who has believed our report? and to whom is the arm of the LORD revealed? 2 For he shall grow up before him as a tender plant, and as a root out of a dry ground: he has no form nor comeliness; and when we shall see him, there is no beauty that we should desire him. 3 He is despised and rejected of men; a man of sorrows, and acquainted with grief: and we hid as it were our faces from him; he was despised, and we esteemed him not. 4 Surely he has borne our griefs, and carried our sorrows: yet we did esteem him stricken, smitten of God, and afflicted. 5 But he was wounded for our transgressions, he was bruised for our iniquities: the chastisement of our peace was upon him; and with his stripes we are healed. 6 All we like sheep have gone astray; we have turned every one to his own way; and the LORD hath laid on him the iniquity of us all. 7 He was oppressed, and he was afflicted, yet he opened not his mouth: he is brought as a lamb to the slaughter, and as a sheep before her shearers is dumb, so he opens not his mouth. 8 He was taken from prison and from judgment: and who shall declare his generation? for he was cut off out of the land of the living: for the transgression of my people was he stricken. 9 And he made his grave with the wicked, and with the rich in his death; because he had done no violence, neither was any deceit in his mouth. 10 Yet it pleased the LORD to bruise him; he has put him to grief: when you 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. 11 He shall see of the travail of his soul, and shall be satisfied: by his knowledge shall my righteous servant justify many; for he shall bear their iniquities. 12 Therefore will I divide him a portion with the great, and he shall divide the spoil with the strong; because he has poured out his soul unto death: and he was numbered with the transgressors; and he bare the sin of many, and made intercession for the transgressors.

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