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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