Jul 6

John 5:36-47
Memorise Hebrews 10:7
“Search the scriptures…they are they which testify of me”

When the Lord Jesus Christ came to this Earth, there was a lot of confusion with regards to who He really was, and what His purpose of coming. For example, in Matthew 16:14 his disciples stated that “some say that thou art John the Baptist: some, Elias; and others, Jeremias, or one of the prophets”. They, of course, were certain that He was indeed Christ, the Son of the Living God. But even then, they did not really know what that entailed, for they continually expected that He would be the one to establish a real physical kingdom on Earth.

However, the whole truth can actually be found in the Old Testament. In fact, that was the very purpose of the Old Testament – to testify of Christ! That is what Jesus Himself explained to the Jews in John 5. He told them that there is actually a witness greater than John the Baptist, and that was the very words of God – the Holy Scriptures! He called upon them to search the Scriptures, for in them they would clearly see prophesies, types and foreshadows concerning Jesus. He told them that if they really did understand and believe the writings of Moses, then they would certainly recognize Jesus for who He was, and believe in His words as well!

This was the very reason why God recorded so many great details in the whole of the Old Testament, for in the whole volume of the book it is written of Jesus (Hebrews 10:7). It was for the Jews to understand and realize that Jesus was indeed the Messiah, their saviour who had come to cleanse them from their sins. Sadly, few Jews today recognize and acknowledge Jesus as such.

If you were to examine the Old Testament in the light of what has been revealed of Jesus in the Gospels, you would truly be amazed by the number of prophecies that have been fulfilled exactly in Him, of His birth, life, death and resurrection. Remember that these were written hundreds of years, some even more than a thousand years before Jesus came to Earth. God, in His infinite and perfect wisdom, saw fit to write all of them down, preserved for us in the Bible, that it would be beyond a shadow of a doubt that Jesus Christ is indeed the Son of God, the Saviour of the World.

Thought: What is the probability that one person would fulfil all the prophecies concerning Christ?
Prayer: Lord, my heart is filled with the wonders of Your Word!