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Prophecies fulfilled by
Yeshua
Throughout the Torah and
Prophets, God has proclaimed the coming of the Messiah. This presentation
offers in table form, God's promises and fulfillment of His promises as provided
in His Word.
Life of the Messiah
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Messiah would be preceded by a forerunner |
| God's
Promise |
Fulfillment of
God's Promise |
| "Look! I am sending my
messenger to clear the way before me; and the Lord, whom you seek, will
suddenly come to his temple. Yes, the messenger of the covenant, in whom
you take such delight - look! Here he comes," says ADONAI-Tzva'ot" Malachi 3:1
"A voice cries out: "Clear a
road through the desert for ADONAI! Level a highway in the 'Aravah for our
God!" Isaiah 40:3
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"It was just as had been written in
the book of the sayings of the prophet Yesha`yahu, "The voice of
someone crying out: `In the desert prepare the way for ADONAI! Make
straight paths for him!" Luke 3:4
"When the
messengers from Yochanan had gone, Yeshua began speaking to the crowds
about Yochanan: "What did you go out
into the desert to see? Reeds swaying in the breeze? No? then what did you
go out to see? Someone who was well dressed? But people who dress
beautifully and live in luxury are found in kings' palaces. Nu, so
what did you go out to see? A prophet! Yes, and I tell you he's much more
than a prophet. This is the one about whom the Tanakh says, `See, I
am sending out my messenger ahead of you; he will prepare your way before
you.' I tell you that among those born of women there has not arisen
anyone greater than Yochanan the Immerser! Yet the one who is least in the
Kingdom of Heaven is greater than he!" Luke 7:24 - 28
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| The
Messiah would be anointed by the Spirit of God |
| God's
Promise |
Fulfillment of
God's Promise |
| " The Spirit of
ADONAI will rest on him, the Spirit of wisdom and understanding, the
Spirit of counsel and power, the Spirit of knowledge and fearing ADONAI"
Isaiah 11:2 |
"As soon as Yeshua had been immersed,
he came up out of the water. At that moment heaven was opened, he saw the
Spirit of God coming down upon him like a dove,"
Matthew 3:16 |
| The
Messiah would be declared the Son of God |
| God's
Promise |
Fulfillment of
God's Promise |
| "I myself have
installed my king on Tziyon, my holy mountain. I will proclaim the
decree: ADONAI said to me, 'You are my son; today I became your father.
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Psalm 2:6 - 7 |
"and a voice from heaven
said, "This is my Son, whom I love; I am well pleased with him.""
Matthew 3:17
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| The
Messiah would preach in Galilee |
| God's
Promise |
Fulfillment of
God's Promise |
| "But there will be no
more gloom for those who are now in anguish. In the past the land of
Z'vulun and the land of Naftali were regarded lightly; but in the future
he will honor the way to the lake, beyond the Yarden, Galil-of-the-Goyim. 2 The
people living in darkness have seen a great light; upon those living in
the land that lies in the shadow of death, light has dawned." Isaiah 9:1 - 2
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"He has with him his
winnowing fork; and he will clear out his threshing floor, gathering his
wheat into the barn but burning up the straw with unquenchable fire!
Then Yeshua came from the Galil to the Yarden to be immersed by
Yochanan. But Yochanan tried to stop him. "You are coming to
me? I ought to be immersed by you!" However, Yeshua answered
him, "Let it be this way now, because we should do everything
righteousness requires." Then Yochanan let him. " Matthew 3:12 - 16
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| The
Messiah would be a prophet |
| God's
Promise |
Fulfillment of
God's Promise |
| "ADONAI will raise up
for you a prophet like me from among yourselves, from your own kinsmen.
You are to pay attention to him," Deuteronomy 18:15
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"Philip found Natan'el
and told him, "We've found the one that Moshe wrote about in the
Torah, also the Prophets -- it's Yeshua Ben-Yosef from Natzeret!" John 1:45
"When the people saw the miracle he
had performed, they said, "This has to be `the prophet' who is
supposed to come into the world." John 6:14
"Therefore, repent and turn to God,
so that your sins may be erased; so that times of refreshing may
come from the Lord's presence; and he may send the Messiah appointed in
advance for you, that is, Yeshua. He has to remain in heaven until
the time comes for restoring everything, as God said long ago, when he
spoke through the holy prophets. For Moshe himself said, 'ADONAI
will raise up for you a prophet like me from among your brothers. You are
to listen to everything he tells you. Everyone who fails to listen
to that prophet will be removed from the people and destroyed.' Indeed,
all the prophets announced these days, starting with Sh'mu'el and
continuing through all who followed. "You are the sons of the
prophets; and you are included in the covenant which God made with our
fathers when he said to Avraham, 'By your seed will all the families of
the earth be blessed.' So it is to you first that God has sent his
servant whom he has raised up, so that he might bless you by turning each
one of you from your evil ways." Acts 3:19 - 26
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| The
Messiah would preach in parables |
| God's
Promise |
Fulfillment of
God's Promise |
| " A maskil of Asaf:
Listen, my people, to my teaching; turn your ears to the words from my
mouth. I will speak to you in parables and explain mysteries from
days of old." Psalm 78:1 - 2
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"All these things Yeshua
said to the crowds in parables; indeed, he said nothing to them without
using a parable. 35 This was to fulfill what had been spoken
through the prophet, "I will open my mouth in parables, I will say
what has been hidden since the creation of the universe." Matthew
13:34 - 35 |
| The
Messiah would perform miracles |
| God's
Promise |
Fulfillment of
God's Promise |
| "Strengthen your
drooping arms, and steady your tottering knees. Say to the
fainthearted, "Be strong and unafraid! Here is your God; he will come
with vengeance; with God's retribution he will come and save you." Then
the eyes of the blind will be opened, and the ears of the deaf will be
unstopped; then the lame man will leap like a deer, and the mute
person's tongue will sing. For in the desert, springs will burst forth,
streams of water in the 'Aravah;"
Isaiah 35:3 - 7
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"Meanwhile,
Yochanan the Immerser, who had been put in prison, heard what the Messiah
had been doing; so he sent a message to him through his talmidim, asking,
"Are you the one who is to come, or should we look for someone
else?" Yeshua answered, "Go
and tell Yochanan what you are hearing and seeing -- the blind are
seeing again, the lame are walking, people with tzara'at are being
cleansed, the deaf are hearing, the dead are being raised,y the Good News
is being told to the poorz -- and how blessed is anyone not offended
by me!" Matthew 11:2 - 6
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| The
Messiah would be compassionate |
| God's
Promise |
Fulfillment of
God's Promise |
| " The Spirit of
Adonai ELOHIM is upon me, because ADONAI has anointed me to announce good
news to the poor. He has sent me to heal the brokenhearted; to proclaim
freedom to the captives, to let out into light those bound in the dark; 2 to
proclaim the year of the favor of ADONAI and the day of vengeance of our
God; to comfort all who mourn," Isaiah 61:1 - 2
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"Now
when he went to Natzeret, where he had been brought up, on Shabbat he went
to the synagogue as usual. He stood up to read, and he was given the
scroll of the prophet Yesha`yahu. Unrolling the scroll, he found the place
where it was written, "The Spirit
of ADONAI is upon me because he has anointed me to announce Good News to
the poor; he has sent me to proclaim freedom for the imprisoned and
renewed sight for the blind, to release those who have been crushed,
to proclaim a year of the favor of ADONAI." After
closing the scroll and returning it to the shammash, he sat down; and the
eyes of everyone in the synagogue were fixed on him. He started to
speak to them: "Today, as you heard it
read, this passage of the Tanakh was fulfilled!" Luke 4:16
- 21
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| The
Messiah would preach and heal but His ministry would not be understood |
| God's
Promise |
Fulfillment of
God's Promise |
| "He said, "Go and
tell this people: 'Yes, you hear, but you don't understand. You certainly
see, but you don't get the point!' 10 "Make the heart of
this people [sluggish with] fat, stop up their ears, and shut their eyes.
Otherwise, seeing with their eyes, and hearing with their ears, then
understanding with their hearts, they might repent and be healed!" Isaiah 6:9 - 10
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"Then
the talmidim came and asked Yeshua, "Why are you speaking to them in
parables?" He answered, "Because
it has been given to you to know the secrets of the Kingdom of Heaven, but
it has not been given to them. For anyone who has something will be
given more, so that he will have plenty; but from anyone who has nothing,
even what he does have will be taken away. Here is why I speak to
them in parables: they look without seeing and listen without hearing or
understanding. That is, in them is fulfilled the prophecy of
Yesha`yahu which says, `You will keep on hearing but never understand, and
keep on seeing but never perceive, because the heart of this people
has become dull -- with their ears they barely hear, and their eyes they
have closed, so as not to see with their eyes, hear with their ears,
understand with their heart, and do t'shuvah, so that I could heal them.'
But you, how blessed are your eyes, because they see, and your ears,
because they hear! Yes indeed! I tell you that many a prophet and
many a tzaddik longed to see the things you are seeing but did not see
them, and to hear the things you are hearing but did not hear them." Matthew 13:10 - 17
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| The
Messiah would have zeal for the Temple |
| God's
Promise |
Fulfillment of
God's Promise |
| "I am estranged from my
brothers, an alien to my mother's children, because zeal for your
house is eating me up, and on me are falling the insults of those
insulting you." Psalm 69:8 - 9
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"It was almost time for
the festival of Pesach in Y'hudah, so Yeshua went up to Yerushalayim.
In the Temple grounds he found those who were selling cattle, sheep
and pigeons, and others who were sitting at tables exchanging money.
He made a whip from cords and drove them all out of the Temple
grounds, the sheep and cattle as well. He knocked over the money-changers'
tables, scattering their coins; and to the pigeon-sellers he said,
"Get these things out of here! How dare you
turn my Father's house into a market?" (His talmidim later
recalled that the Tanakh says, "Zeal for your house will devour
me." )" John 2:13 - 17
Also found in Matthew 21:12 - 17
"He said to
them, "It has been written, `My house
will be called a house of prayer.' But you are making it into a den of
robbers!" (v13)
Also found in Luke 19:45 - 48 and Mark
11:15 - 19 |
| The
Messiah would be hated without cause |
| God's
Promise |
Fulfillment of
God's Promise |
| "Those who hate me for
no reason outnumber the hairs on my head. My persecutors are powerful, my
enemies accuse me falsely. Am I expected to return things I didn't steal?" Psalm 69:4
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"Whoever
hates me hates my Father also. 24 If I had not done in their
presence works which no one else ever did, they would not be guilty of
sin; but now, they have seen them and have hated both me and my Father. 25 But
this has happened in order to fulfill the words in their Torah which read,
`They hated me for no reason at all." John 15:23 - 25 |
| The
Messiah would be rejected |
| God's
Promise |
Fulfillment of
God's Promise |
| "People despised and
avoided him, a man of pains, well acquainted with illness. Like someone
from whom people turn their faces, he was despised; we did not value him." Isaiah
53:3
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"This was the true
light, which gives light to everyone entering the world. He was in
the world -- the world came to be through him -- yet the world did not
know him. He came to his own homeland, yet his own people did not
receive him. But to as many as did receive him, to those who put
their trust in his person and power, he gave the right to become children
of God, not because of bloodline, physical impulse or human intention, but
because of God." John 1:9
- 13
"You keep
examining the Tanakh because you think that in it you have eternal life.
Those very Scriptures bear witness to me, but you won't come to me
in order to have life! "I don't collect praise from men, but
I do know you people -- I know that you have no love for God in you!
I have come in my Father's name, and you don't accept me; if someone
else comes in his own name, him you will accept. How can you trust?
You're busy collecting praise from each other, instead of seeking praise
from God only. "But don't think that it is I who will be your
accuser before the Father. Do you know who will accuse you? Moshe, the
very one you have counted on! For if you really believed Moshe, you
would believe me; because it was about me that he wrote. But if you
don't believe what he wrote, how are you going to believe what I say?" John 5:39 -
47
"On hearing this, everyone in the
synagogue was filled with fury. They rose up, drove him out of town
and dragged him to the edge of the cliff on which their town was built,
intending to throw him off." Luke 4:28 - 29
"But with one voice they shouted,
"Away with this man! Give us Bar-Abba!" Luke 23:18
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| The
Messiah would be rejected by His brethren |
| God's
Promise |
Fulfillment of
God's Promise |
| "I am estranged from my
brothers, an alien to my mother's children," Psalm 69:8
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"After this, Yeshua
traveled around in the Galil, intentionally avoiding Y'hudah because the
Judeans were out to kill him. But the festival of Sukkot in Y'hudah was
near; so his brothers said to him, "Leave here and go into
Y'hudah, so that your talmidim can see the miracles you do; for no
one who wants to become known acts in secret. If you're doing these
things, show yourself to the world!" (His brothers spoke this
way because they had not put their trust in him.)" John 7:1 - 5 |
| The
Messiah would be a priest after the order or Melchizedek |
| God's
Promise |
Fulfillment of
God's Promise |
| "ADONAI has sworn it,
and he will never retract -"You are a cohen forever, to be compared
with Malki-Tzedek" Psalm 110:4
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"So neither did the
Messiah glorify himself to become cohen gadol; rather, it was the One who
said to him, "You are my Son; today I have become your Father."
Also, as he says in another place, "You are a cohen forever, to
be compared with Malki-Tzedek"
Hebrews 5:5 - 6
"We have this hope as a sure and
safe anchor for ourselves, a hope that goes right on through to what is
inside the parokhet, where a forerunner has entered on our behalf,
namely, Yeshua, who has become a cohen gadol forever, to be compared with
Malki-Tzedek." Hebrews 6:19 - 20
" The one about whom these
things are said belongs to another tribe, from which no one has ever
served at the altar; for everyone knows that our Lord arose out of
Y'hudah, and that Moshe said nothing about this tribe when he spoke about
cohanim. It becomes even clearer if a "different kind of cohen,"
one like Malki-Tzedek, arises, one who became a cohen not by virtue
of a rule in the Torah concerning physical descent, but by virtue of the
power of an indestructible life. For it is stated, "You are a
cohen FOREVER, to be compared with Malki-Tzedek" Hebrews 7:13 - 17 |
| The
Messiah would enter Jerusalem triumphantly on the colt of an ass |
| God's
Promise |
Fulfillment of
God's Promise |
| "Rejoice with all your
heart, daughter of Tziyon! Shout out loud, daughter of Yerushalayim! Look!
Your king is coming to you. He is righteous, and he is victorious. Yet he
is humble - he's riding on a donkey, yes, on a lowly donkey's colt." Zechariah 9:9
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"As they were
approaching Yerushalayim, they came to Beit-Pagei on the Mount of Olives.
Yeshua sent two talmidim with these instructions: "Go
into the village ahead of you, and you will immediately find a donkey
tethered there with its colt. Untie them and bring them to me. If
anyone says anything to you, tell him, `The Lord needs them'; and he will
let them go at once." This happened in order to fulfill what
had been spoken through the prophet, "Say to the daughter of
Tziyon, `Look! Your King is coming to you, riding humbly on a donkey, and
on a colt, the offspring of a beast of burden!' So the
talmidim went and did as Yeshua had directed them. They brought the
donkey and the colt and put their robes on them, and Yeshua sat on them.
Crowds of people carpeted the road with their clothing, while others
cut branches from trees and spread them on the road. The crowds
ahead of him and behind shouted, "Please! Deliver us!" to the
Son of David; "Blessed is he who comes in the name of ADONAI!"
"You in the highest heaven! Please! Deliver us!" When he
entered Yerushalayim, the whole city was stirred. "Who is this?"
they asked. And the crowds answered, "This is Yeshua, the
prophet from Natzeret in the Galil." Matthew 21:1 - 11
Also recounted in Mark 11:1 - 11 and
John 12:12 - 19
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| God
set a time for Messiah to present Himself |
| God's
Promise |
Fulfillment of
God's Promise |
| "Know, therefore, and
discern that seven weeks [of years] will elapse between the issuing of the
decree to restore and rebuild Yerushalayim until an anointed prince comes.
It will remain built for sixty-two weeks [of years], with open spaces and
moats; but these will be troubled times." Daniel 9:25
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"The next day, the large
crowd that had come for the festival heard that Yeshua was on his way into
Yerushalayim. They took palm branches and went out to meet him,
shouting, "Deliver us!" "Blessed is he who comes in the
name of ADONAI, the King of Isra'el" John 12:12 - 13 |
Continued...
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