OT messianic prophecies that were fulfilled by Jesus

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I’m inviting Catholics as well as non-Catholic Christians to post an Old Testament messianic prophecy that they know of that was fulfilled by Jesus. I’ll start it with this one.

Jesus overturning the chairs and tables of the money-changers and chasing them all out of the Temple (Matt. 21:12-13, Mk. 11:15-17) fulfills this prophecy:

“…And there shall no longer be a trader in the house of the Lord of hosts on that day.” - Zechariah 14:21
 
livingwordunity said:
I’m inviting Catholics as well as non-Catholic Christians to post an Old Testament messianic prophecy that they know of that was fulfilled by Jesus. I’ll start it with this one.

Jesus overturning the chairs and tables of the money-changers and chasing them all out of the Temple (Matt. 21:12-13, Mk. 11:15-17) fulfills this prophecy:

“…And there shall no longer be a trader in the house of the Lord of hosts on that day.” - Zechariah 14:21
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Nice thread topic! 🙂

Off the top of my head:

“God is with us” shall be born of a virgin: Isaiah 7:14.

also connected to:

The woman’s seed shall crush the serpent, Satan: Genesis 3:15.
 
RPRPsych said:
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Thanks. No other religion has a founder whose coming was foretold by prophets beforehand. This is one of the major ways that Christianity is uniquely set apart from all the other religions of the world.
 
Wisdom 2:12-20 (Written 50 BC)

“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.
He professes to have knowledge of God,
and calls himself a child (Son) of the Lord.
He became to us a reproof of our thoughts;
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.
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.
Let us see if his words are true,
and let us test what will happen at the end of his life;
for if the righteous man is God’s son, he will help him,
and will deliver him from the hand of his adversaries.
Let us test him with insult and torture,
that we may find out how gentle he is,
and make trial of his forbearance.
Let us condemn him to a shameful death,
for, according to what he says, he will be protected.”
 
po18guy said:
Wisdom 2:12-20 (Written 50 BC)

“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.
He professes to have knowledge of God,
and calls himself a child (Son) of the Lord.
He became to us a reproof of our thoughts;
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.
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.
Let us see if his words are true,
and let us test what will happen at the end of his life;
for if the righteous man is God’s son, he will help him,
and will deliver him from the hand of his adversaries.
Let us test him with insult and torture,
that we may find out how gentle he is,
and make trial of his forbearance.
Let us condemn him to a shameful death,
for, according to what he says, he will be protected.”
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👍 How anyone could read that and still maintain a claim that the deuterocannon is uninspired is beyond me.
 
Psalm 22:13-22

Many bulls surround me;
fierce bulls of Bashan encircle me.
They open their mouths against me,
lions that rend and roar.
Like water my life drains away;
all my bones are disjointed.
My heart has become like wax,
it melts away within me.
As dry as a potsherd is my throat;
my tongue cleaves to my palate;
you lay me in the dust of death.
Dogs surround me;
a pack of evildoers closes in on me.
They have pierced my hands and my feet
I can count all my bones.
They stare at me and gloat;
they divide my garments among them;
for my clothing they cast lots.
But you, LORD, do not stay far off;
my strength, come quickly to help me.
Deliver my soul from the sword,
my life from the grip of the dog.
Save me from the lion’s mouth,
my poor life from the horns of wild bulls.
 
po18guy said:
Wisdom 2:12-20 (Written 50 BC)

“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.
He professes to have knowledge of God,
and calls himself a child (Son) of the Lord.
He became to us a reproof of our thoughts;
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.
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.
Let us see if his words are true,
and let us test what will happen at the end of his life;
for if the righteous man is God’s son, he will help him,
and will deliver him from the hand of his adversaries.
Let us test him with insult and torture,
that we may find out how gentle he is,
and make trial of his forbearance.
Let us condemn him to a shameful death,
for, according to what he says, he will be protected.”
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I believe that this Scripture passage is the real reason why the corrupt Pharisee leadership of the first and second centuries decided to get rid of the deuterocanonical books from the official Jewish canon of Scripture. It was directly calling them out. And the discovery of the Dead Sea Scrolls confirmed that the reason they gave for excluding these books from their canon was unfounded.
 
SoMissCatholic said:
👍 How anyone could read that and still maintain a claim that the deuterocannon is uninspired is beyond me.
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We could go on and on in just those seven books!

OK, a two-fer: as to both messianic prophecy, as well as Mary’s perpetual virginity (destroying the “other children” myth) how about…
Zechariah 12:10
On David’s clan, on all the citizens of Jerusalem, I will pour out a gracious spirit of prayer; towards me they shall look, me whom they have pierced through. Lament for him they must, and grieve bitterly; never was such lament for an only son, grief so bitter over first-born dead.
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SoMissCatholic said:
👍 How anyone could read that and still maintain a claim that the deuterocannon is uninspired is beyond me.
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You are so right…

Reading that chapter kicked off the chain of events that led me to become Catholic last Easter.
 
livingwordunity said:
I’m inviting Catholics as well as non-Catholic Christians to post an Old Testament messianic prophecy that they know of that was fulfilled by Jesus. I’ll start it with this one.

Jesus overturning the chairs and tables of the money-changers and chasing them all out of the Temple (Matt. 21:12-13, Mk. 11:15-17) fulfills this prophecy:

“…And there shall no longer be a trader in the house of the Lord of hosts on that day.” - Zechariah 14:21
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WOW! You took zec 14:21 badly out of context.

Its talking about the festival of the Tabernacles not of Jesus.

1 6 Then the survivors from all the nations that have attacked Jerusalem will go up year after year to worship the King, the Lord Almighty, and to celebrate the Festival of Tabernacles. 17 If any of the peoples of the earth do not go up to Jerusalem to worship the King, the Lord Almighty, they will have no rain. 18 If the Egyptian people do not go up and take part, they will have no rain. The Lord** will bring on them the plague he inflicts on the nations that do not go up to celebrate the Festival of Tabernacles. 19 This will be the punishment of Egypt and the punishment of all the nations that do not go up to celebrate the Festival of Tabernacles. 20 On that day holy to the Lord will be inscribed on the bells of the horses, and the cooking pots in the Lord’s house will be like the sacred bowls in front of the altar. 21 Every pot in Jerusalem and Judah w

The gospel writers clearly did not know their way around scripture.**
 
 
Daniel chapter 9

It speaks of 70 ‘weeks’ (490 years) from a kings proclamation until Messiah. It was fulfilled with detail and great accuracy.

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Cyberseeker said:
Daniel chapter 9

It speaks of 70 ‘weeks’ (490 years) from a kings proclamation until Messiah. It was fulfilled with detail and great accuracy.

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Good one! And the one who revealed this to Daniel appears to be none other than the angel Gabriel (Dan. 9:21-27).
 
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