Messiah: Promises of Christ’s coming
Here are a few:
Gen. 3:15, Gen. 12:3: Gen 18:17-18; Gen. 22:16-18; Gen. 26: 2-4; Gen 28:12-14; Gen 49:10 & 26; Numbers 24:17-24; Deut 18:15; Is 7:14; Is 9,:6-7; Is 11:1-5; Is 59:20; Is 62: 1-4; Jer 33:15-16; Bar 3:36-38; Ezech 24:23; Ezech 34, 29; Dan 9:24-25; Mich 5:2; Zach 3: 8; Zach 9:9; Malachi 3:1-2
You’ll also find a list of Messianic prophecies fulfilled by Jesus at
scripturecatholic.com/messianic_prophecies.html
Article:
The Messiah of Prophecy
And why did God decide to send a Redeemer??
In brief:
Catechism of the Catholic Church:
622 The redemption won by Christ consists in this, that he came “to give his life as a ransom for many” (Mt 20:28), that is, he “loved [his own] to the end” (Jn 13:1), so that they might be “ransomed from the futile ways inherited from [their] fathers” (I Pt 1:18).
623 By his loving obedience to the Father, “unto death, even death on a cross” (Phil 2:8), Jesus fulfills the atoning mission (cf. Is 53:10) of the suffering Servant, who will “make many righteous; and he shall bear their iniquities” (Is 53:11; cf. Rom 5:19).
Further reading:
*Catechism of the Catholic Church * sections 601-623
