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If you could help me out I would appreciate it.

What pieces of Scripture (Chapter, verse) pre-figure the coming of the Messiah. I am teaching a 6th grade OT class and would like to give the class some data on how the OT prophesized the coming of Christ. I really want to connect Old to New.

Any help would be appreciated.

Thanks

nc
 
Here are a few passages.
Biblical Passages of Old Testament Promises Fulfilled (fruition) Through Jesus

WORD
John 1: 1 “In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. “
John 1: 14 “And the Word became flesh, and made His dwelling among us.”

ADAM
I Corinthians 15: 45-47 “So, too, it is written, “The first man, Adam, became a living being,” the last Adam a life giving spirit (John 5: 21-29)…The first man was from the earth, earthly; the second man, from heaven.”

EVE
II Corinthians 11: 3 “But I am afraid that, as the serpent deceived Eve by his cunning, your thoughts may be corrupted from a sincere [and pure] commitment to Christ.”
I Timothy 2: 13-15 “For Adam was formed first, then Eve. Further, Adam was not deceived, but the woman was deceived and transgressed. But she will be saved through motherhood, provided women persevere in faith and love and holiness, with self-control.”

NOAH
I Peter 3: 20-21 “…who had once been disobedient while God patiently waited in the days of Noah during the building of the ark, in which a few persons, eight in all, were saved through water. This prefigured baptism, which saves you now. It is not a removal of dirt from the body but an appeal to God for a clear conscience, through the resurrection of Jesus Christ.”

ABRAHAM
John 8: 40 “But now you are trying to kill me, a man who ahs told you the truth that I heard from God; Abraham did not do this.”
John 8: 56-58 “Abraham your father rejoiced to see my day; he saw it and was glad…Jesus said to them, “Amen, amen, I say to you, before Abraham came to be, I AM.”

MELCHIZEDEK
Hebrews 6: 19-20 “This we have as an anchor of the soul, sure and firm which reaches into the interior behind the veil, where Jesus has entered on our behalf as forerunner, becoming high priest forever according to the order of Melchizedek.”

SARAH & HAGAR & ISHMAEL
Galatians 4: 22-25 “For it is written that Abraham had two sons, one by the slave woman and the other by the freeborn woman. The son of the slave woman was born naturally, the son of the freeborn through a promise. Now this is all allegory. These women represent two covenants. One was from Mount Sinai, bearing children for slavery; this is Hagar. Hagar represents Sinai, a mountain in Arabia; it corresponds to the present Jerusalem, for she is in slavery along with her children.”

LOT
Luke 17: 28-30 “Similarly, as it was in the days of Lot: they were eating and drinking, buying and selling, planting, building; on the day when Lot left Sodom, fire and brimstone rained from the sky to destroy them all. So it will be on the day of the Son of Man.”
II Peter 2: 7-9 “…and if He rescued Lot, a righteous man oppressed by the licentious conduct of unprincipled people…then the Lord knows how to rescue the devout from trial and to keep the unrighteous under punishment for the day of judgment.”

ISAAC
Galatians 4: 28-31 “Now you, brothers, like Isaac, are children of the promise. But just as then the child of the flesh persecuted the child of the spirit, it is the same now. But what does scripture say? “Drive out the slave woman and her son! For the son of the slave woman shall not share the
 
inheritance with the son” of the freeborn. Therefore, brothers, we are the children not of the slave woman but of the freeborn woman.

JACOB
St. John 4: 11-14 “The woman said to Him, “Sir, you do not even have a bucket and the cistern is deep; where then can you get this living water? Are you greater than our father Jacob, who gave us the cistern and drank from it himself with his children and flock?” Jesus answered and said to her, “Everyone who drinks this water will be thirst again; but whoever drinks the water I shall give will never thirst; the water I shall give will become in him a spring of water welling up to eternal life (Cf. Genesis 2:6).”

JOSEPH AND HIS BROTHERS
Hebrews 11: 21-22 “By faith Jacob, when dying, blessed each of the sons of Joseph and ‘bowed in worship, leaning on the top of his staff.’ By faith Joseph, near the end of his life, spoke of the Exodus of Israelites and gave instruction about his bones.”

MOSES
St. Luke 20: 37-38 “That the dead will rise even Moses made known in the passage about the bush, when he called “Lord” the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob; and He is not God of the dead, but of the living, for to Him all are alive.”
Hebrews 3: 1-6 “Therefore, holy ‘brothers,’ sharing in a heavenly calling, reflect on Jesus, the apostle and high priest of our confession, who was faithful to the one who appointed him, just as Moses was “faithful in [all] his house.” But He is worthy of more “glory” than Moses, as the founder of a house has more “honor” than the house itself…We are his house, if [only] we hold fast to our confidence and pride in our hope.”

EXODUS
St. Matthew 2: 13-15 “When they had departed, behold, the angel of the Lord appeared to Joseph in a dream and said, “Rise, take the child and His mother, flee to Egypt, and stay there until I tell you. Herod is going to search for the child to destroy him.” Joseph rose and took the child and his mother by night and departed for Egypt. He stayed there until the death of Herod, that what the Lord said through the prophet might be fulfilled, “Out of Egypt I called by son.”
Hosea 11:1 “When Israel was a child I loved him, out of Egypt I called him.”

TEN WORDS or DECALOGUE or TEN COMMMANDMENTS
St. John 1: 14 “And the Word became flesh and made His dwelling among us, and we saw His glory, the glory as the of the Father’s only Son, full of grace and truth.”

DAVID
St. Matthew 22: 41-45 “While the Pharisees were gather together, Jesus questioned them, saying, “What is your opinion about the Messiah? Whose son is he? They replied, David’s.” He said to them, “How, then, does David, inspired by the Spirit, call Him “Lord,” saying: “The Lord said to my Lord, “Sit at my right hand until I place your enemies under your feet”? If David Calls Him “Lord,” how can He be his son?”
St. Matthew 20: 29-34As they left Jericho, a great crowd followed Him. Two blind men were sitting by the roadside, and when they heard that Jesus was passing by, they cried out, “[Lord,] son of David, have pity on us! The crowd warned them to be silent, but they called out all the more, “Lord, Son of David, have pity on us!” Jesus stopped and called them and said, “What do you want me to do for you?” They answered Him, “Lord, let our eyes be opened.” Moved with pity, Jesus touched their eyes. Immediately they received their sight, and followed Him.

SOLOMON
St. Matthew 12: 42 “At the Judgment the queen of the south will arise with this generation and condemn it, because she came from the ends of the earth to hear the wisdom of Solomon; and there is something greater than Solomon here.”
 
JONAH
St. Matthew 12: 39-41 “He said to them in reply, “An evil and unfaithful generation seeks a sign, but no sign will be given it except the sign of Jonah the prophet. Just as Jonah was in the belly of the whale three days and three nights, so will the Son of Man be in the heart of the earth three days and three nights. At the judgment, the men of Nineveh will arise with this generation and condemn it, because they repented at the preaching of Jonah; and there is something greater than Jonah here.”

SON OF MAN
St. Matthew 20: 17-20 “As Jesus was going up to Jerusalem, He took the twelve [disciples] aside by themselves, and said to them on the way, “Behold, we are going up to Jerusalem, and the Son of Man will be handed over to the chief priests and the scribes, and they will condemn Him to death, and hand Him over to the Gentiles to be mocked and scourged and crucified, and He will be raised on the third day.”
St. Matthew 26: 64 “Jesus said to him in reply, “You have said so. But I tell you: ‘From now on you will see ‘the Son of Man seated at the right hand of the Power’ and ‘coming on the clouds of heaven’”

SON OF GOD
St. Matthew 3: 16-17 After Jesus was baptized, He came up from the water and behold, the heavens were opened [for Him], and He saw the Spirit of God descending like a dove [and] coming upon Him. And a voice came from the heavens, saying, “This is my beloved Son, with whom I am well pleased.”
 
Our daily readings at the Sacrifice of the Holy Mass are perfect typologically. I have trouble seeing the typology some of the time, but I am convinced it is daily. It is beautiful. God is absolute beauty. Our Holy Mass in every part reflects His absolute beauty.

But that is to be expected because the Word of God is revealed in Mass and the Holy Bible-- same Word of God in both places.
 
ncgolf said:
If you could help me out I would appreciate it.

What pieces of Scripture (Chapter, verse) pre-figure the coming of the Messiah. I am teaching a 6th grade OT class and would like to give the class some data on how the OT prophesized the coming of Christ. I really want to connect Old to New.

Any help would be appreciated.

Thanks

nc
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The first prophecy you should teach them about comes straight from God. You may find it in the third chapter of Genesis, commonly called the Protoevangelium. After Adam and Eve sinned, the Lord said this to the serpent (Satan):
15 I will put enmity between you and the woman, and between your seed and her seed; he shall bruise your head, and you shall bruise his heel."
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Right there, God is already predicting that the Messiah will come and redeem us. The father is the seed, the mother the soil… Because Jesus has no earthly father (God is His Father), he is the fruit of Mary’s seed. Thus, this passage not only predicts his coming, but also the manner in which it will happen. Furthermore, there is a tradition (as relayed to me by my Parochial Vicar during our introduction to the NT class) that says that at the crucifixion, the nail struck Jesus at the heel, just as he was crushing Satan at the head.

Monday’s daily Mass reading gives another prediction about the Messiah, this time from Jacob:

Genesis 49: 2, 8 - 10​

2 Assemble and hear, O sons of Jacob, and hearken to Israel your father.
8 Judah, your brothers shall praise you; your hand shall be on the neck of your enemies; your father’s sons shall bow down before you.
9 Judah is a lion’s whelp; from the prey, my son, you have gone up. He stooped down, he couched as a lion, and as a lioness; who dares rouse him up?
10 ***The scepter shall not depart from Judah, nor the ruler’s staff from between his feet, until he comes to whom it belongs; and to him shall be the obedience of the peoples. ***
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Jesus is from the line of Judah and He reigns forever. That is the meaning behind the phrase, “the scepter shall not depart from Judah, nor the ruler’s staff from between his feet.” Some ancient traditions also refer to Jesus as the Lion of Judah.

This next prediction comes from 2 Samuel. This establishes the Messiah as from the Davidic line, again, perfectly fulfilled by Jesus:
12 When your days are fulfilled and you lie down with your fathers, I*** will raise up your offspring after you, who shall come forth from your body, and I will establish his kingdom.
14 I will be his father, and he shall be my son. When he commits iniquity, I will chasten him with the rod of men, with the stripes of the sons of men;
16 And your house and your kingdom shall be made sure for ever before me; your throne shall be established for ever.’" ***
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Here, God is also predcting that the Davidic heir will also undergo chastisement and stripes. It is already foreshadowing the Passion of Jesus.

I hope this helps.
 
See Wisdom 2:12-20
Let us lie in wait for the righteous man, because he is inconvenient to us and opposes our actions; he reproaches us for sins against the law, and accuses us of sins against our training. 13 He professes to have knowledge of God, and calls himself a child* of the Lord. 14 He became to us a reproof of our thoughts; 15 the very sight of him is a burden to us, because his manner of life is unlike that of others, and his ways are strange. 16 We are considered by him as something base, and he avoids our ways as unclean; he calls the last end of the righteous happy, and boasts that God is his father. 17 Let us see if his words are true, and let us test what will happen at the end of his life; 18 for if the righteous man is God’s son, he will help him, and will deliver him from the hand of his adversaries. 19 Let us test him with insult and torture, that we may find out how gentle he is, and make trial of his forbearance. 20 Let us condemn him to a shameful death, for, according to what he says, he will be protected." 21 Thus they reasoned, but they were led astray, for their wickedness blinded them, 22 and they did not know the secret purposes of God, nor hope for the wages of holiness, nor discern the prize for blameless souls; 23 for God created man for incorruption, and made him in the image of his own eternity, * 24 but through the devil’s envy death entered the world, and those who belong to his party experience it.
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This is one reason why the Jews reject this book. It is surprising that the Protestants omit it.
 
I am sorry about misreading this thread. I thought that it was typology.

I am truly sorry.

Please accept my apology.

God Bless
 
ncgolf said:
If you could help me out I would appreciate it.

What pieces of Scripture (Chapter, verse) pre-figure the coming of the Messiah. I am teaching a 6th grade OT class and would like to give the class some data on how the OT prophesized the coming of Christ. I really want to connect Old to New.

Any help would be appreciated.

Thanks

nc
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There are plenty of OT passages which were applied to Him & seen as being verified in Him - that is not quite the same thing as saying that the OT passages were intended to be predictions of Him (which is what people seem to understand by the words “an OT prophecy of Christ”)​

So there are certainly plenty of connections- often very subtle: such as John 3.13 & Proverbs 30.4 - between OT & NT passages; but not (AFAIK) any OT predictions of Him. OT “prediction” is seldom (if ever) of events in the distant future - Jeremiah, Isaiah & Ezekiel were all talking of their own times, not of events to come long after them.

Application of an OT passage to Christ is legitimate - what is not legitimate is the kind of treatment that makes it meaningless to the very people for whom it was intended. This is a mistake made by those who see the Papacy in Rev. 17 - the recipients of John’s letters did not need a long spiel about the Papacy, but a message that “spoke to their condition”: which is what John wrote. A denunciation of the Papacy would have been as meaningless to them as a lecture on US foreign policy would have been to a mediaeval peasant. Likewise, the Prophets were not talking about Christology or the Church of Christ, but of their own times or the immediate future (as Jeremiah did).

The Bible is about Christ - but, not in a way that blots out its human & time-conditioned aspects. 🙂
 
Gottle_of_Geer said:
Application of an OT passage to Christ is legitimate - what is not legitimate is the kind of treatment that makes it meaningless to the very people for whom it was intended.
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Hmmm…I was thinking the same thing for those who read Sola Fide into John 3:16 and Sola Scriptura into 2 Timothy 3:16…
But I degress, as this topic was not the intent of the original poster, and I’d rather not be one of those who push their agenda into every discussion on the forum.

Sincerely in Christ,
Corrgc
 
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