The Plan of God was Fulfilled by Jesus

He called his brethren to eat bread.

Genesis 31:54/Matthew 26:26

The person who plotted to kill him received something from his hand.

Genesis 33:10-16/John 13:21

As the band of soldiers was on its way led by the person who plotted against him - he became distressed and separated his followers into two groups.

Genesis 32:7/Mark 14:32

He prayed for possible deliverance.

Genesis 32:9-12 / Matthew 26:39

An angel appeared to him and he was in agony while the band of soldiers approached led by the person who plotted to kill him.

Genesis 32:24-30/Luke 22:43

He was met by a crowd led by the person who plotted against him.

Genesis 33:1/Matthew 26:47

He was greeted with a kiss by the person who plotted to kill him.

Genesis 33:4/Matthew 26:48-49

His follower named “Simon” struck someone with a sword. (Note: that the English name “Simon” is translated from the Hebrew name “Simeon”)

Genesis 34:25/Luke 22:10

He upbraided “Simon” concerning the futility of the sword and that the sword leads to destruction.

Genesis 34:30/Luke 22:11

After he was arrested he asked, “what was his trespass?”

Genesis 31:36/John 18:23

He was accused of many things after he was arrested.

Genesis 31:26-28 / Mark 15:3

The person who presided over his trial asked him – “what have you done?”

Genesis 31:26/John 18:35

The person presiding over his trial did not find him guilty of a crime.

Genesis 31:35 / Luke 23:4

The person presiding over his trial stated that it was in their power to do him harm.

Genesis 31:29/John 19:10

The person presiding over his trial was warned through a dream about him.

Genesis 31:29, 31:24/Matthew 27:19

He carried a pole that was placed in the ground and became the sign of a new covenant

Genesis 31:44-45/John 19:17

He yielded up his spirit after he finished talking to his closest followers when he was dying.

Genesis 49:33/John 19:30 

A man named Joseph asked for permission to bury him.

Genesis 50:5/ John 19:38

A man named Joseph prepared his body for burial.

Genesis 50:2/John 19:39-40

A man named Joseph buried him in a tomb.

Genesis 50:5/ John 19:41-42

J. Clontz – Editor of the Comprehensive New Testament

The Question for Good Friday - Was Jesus’ Crucifixion Part of God’s Plan?

While Jesus was dying on the cross He quoted the first line of Psalm 22. Over 500 years before Jesus was crucified, Psalm 22 was written about a person’s death that would cause people around the world to turn to the Lord. The only person who will cause people around the world to turn to the Lord is the Messiah. So Psalm 22 is a prophecy about the Messiah. The details concerning Jesus’ death in the Gospel of Matthew parallel the prophecy in Psalm 22. There is no denying the effect that Jesus’ death has had on people around the globe turning to the Lord. Jesus’ crucifixion fulfilled God’s plan written in Psalm 22. Only God could know the specifics of the death of a single person that would change the world 500 years before it happened. The prophecy from Psalm 22 and the parallels to Jesus’ crucifixion are listed below. The parallels are unmistakable. The important question is - what are you going to do with the unmistakable knowledge that Jesus died according to a prophecy written about the Messiah who would change the world?

J. Clontz – Editor of the Comprehensive New Testament

Psalm 22:1 My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?

Matthew 27:46 And about the ninth hour Jesus cried out with a loud voice, “Eli, Eli, lema sabachthani?” that is, “My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?”

Psalm 22:8 He trusted on the LORD that he would deliver him: let him deliver him, seeing he delighted in him.

Matthew 27:43 He trusts in God? Let him deliver now, if he desires him; for he said, ‘I am the Son of God!’“

Psalm 22:16 They pierced my hands and my feet.

Matthew 27:35 They had crucified him.

Psalm 22:18 They part my garments among them, and cast lots upon my vesture.

Matthew 27:35 … they divided his garments among them by casting lots.

Psalm 22:27 All the ends of the world shall remember and turn unto the LORD: and all the kindreds of the nations shall worship before you.

Matthew 28:19 Go therefore and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit.”

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.

Did you know that Jesus affected what is written in the law in the USA?

In the parable of the Good Samaritan Luke 10:25-37, a lawyer asks Jesus “what shall I do to inherit eternal life?" Jesus asks “what is written in the law?" Two thousand years later, lawyers in the USA have written what are known as “Good Samaritan” laws in the USA. Fittingly enough, anyone who finds themselves deemed to be acting according to the “Good Samaritan” laws - the rest of the law does not apply to them. Hopefully you will find yourself in a similar situation in eternity.

J. Clontz – Editor of The Comprehensive New Testament

There can only be One

There is only one person in all of human history that can fulfill the prophecy in Zechariah 12:10. There is only one person that is of the Jews who was pierced by the house of David and the inhabitants of Jerusalem.

Matthew 27:25 “And all the people answered, “His blood be on us and on our children!” 26 Then he released Barabbas to them. And when he had scourged Jesus, he delivered him to be crucified.” John 19:34 “…one of the soldiers pierced his side with a spear, and immediately blood and water came out.”

Zechariah 12:10 And I will pour upon the house of David, and upon the inhabitants of Jerusalem, the spirit of grace and of supplications: and they shall look upon me whom they have pierced, and they shall mourn for him, as one mourns for his only son, and shall be in bitterness for him, as one that is in bitterness for his firstborn.

If you believe that Zechariah was a prophet then you believe that Jesus will return. Because no matter how you read Zechariah’s prophecy it is obvious that the person that was pierced by the house of David and the inhabitants of Jerusalem returns alive!

J. Clontz – Editor of The Comprehensive New Testament

Are you with God or are you with Someone Else?

Let's see now. God decides to meet humanity as a friend. So he comes here and heals everyone that he meets that is sick, blind, paralyzed, and deaf. While he is here there is no war anywhere on the planet. Peace is everywhere for the first and only time in the history of humanity. Despite our vices, he offers to forgive anything that we may have done. He also foregoes any form of physical retribution to anyone that harms him. So the political authorities decide that his healing of people is out of control and that God should limit his loving miracles of healing to certain days of the week. He continues an outpouring of love that has never been seen before or since and multitudes come to him to be healed. He even raises the dead back to life. Then humanity exerts its right to have its own beliefs and its own political authority. Since he has defied the political authorities and continued to love everyday and not just on certain days as proscribed by the political authorities they have a trial with a foregone conclusion. Then the political authorities have him executed to prevent him from loving humanity on all seven days of the week since the authorities don't condone that kind of behavior. Then he rises from the dead and offers immortality to all that want to follow him in his mission of love. Then starting with a dozen followers those who love him spread hospitals, homeless shelters, food lines across the globe.

Of course, there are a great number of people who want more proof. Only if they find themselves in front of God after they are dead and the world is destroyed - then some of them possibly would be willing to believe in God.

So which group are you with?

1. Are you with the group that believes that God visited the planet and that we should follow his example and heal the sick by creating hospitals, give shelter to the homeless and give food to those who are hungry?

2. Or are you with the group that either doesn’t believe in God or wants more proof by the world being destroyed and standing in front of God after you are dead?

Either you believe in love or you believe in hate, death, and destruction. God is love and he proved it when he came here. Anyone wanting something else doesn’t want:

Peace – like that which existed on the entire globe during his visit.

Love – like he provided by healing all the sick, blind, deaf, and paralyzed that were brought to him

Mercy – like that he which offered with his dying breath for us to be forgiven

It is the hour of decision and your time is growing short,

J. Clontz – Editor of The Comprehensive New Testament