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[quote=Anonymous]All we like sheep have gone astray; we have turned every one to his own way; and the LORD hath laid on him the iniquity of us all.
[i]Isaiah 53:6[/i]

One of over three hundred prophecies about the Messiah Jesus and written hundreds of years before his birth.  These prophecies are like fingerprints that attest to the veracity of the New Testament account of the Messiah, since most historians and theologians agree they were written long before the first century.  Most of the common people of Israel were not aware of these prophecies at the time or that they were actually being fulfilled in their day, but many religious and political leaders were and tried to stop their fulfillment, even going so far as to murder the first born male of every family in Bethlehem when Jesus was born.

From our perspective in the 21st century the time span may not seem all that relevant given that it all happened thousands of years ago, but consider the fascination that many people have with Nostradamus who is somewhat closer to our time and consider that his predictions were also hundreds of years before our time.  Now there are only a few of his vague predictions that even come close to resembling anything that has happened in our time and perhaps to World War II.  And still, many people believe in them.  The Old Testament account in the Bible has more than a hundred prophecies that indicate a single person and his first arrival.  There are even more about his second coming.  And many people today are not even aware of them.  The odds that all these prophecies describe Jesus are greater than anything Nostradamus has ever predicted.  It is the closest thing we have in history to evidence of God, because there is no way that the various prophets living in different times could have all foreseen so plainly what was to happen in Jesus's time.

Here are some other prophecies fulfilled about Jesus or by Jesus himself, all written centuries before his birth.

"When Israel was a child, I loved him, and out of Egypt I called my son..."

[i]Hosea 11:1[/i]

See, your king comes to you, righteous and having salvation, gentle and riding on a donkey, on a colt, the foal of a donkey.

[i]Zechariah 9:9[/i]

In that day the deaf will hear the words of the scroll, and out of gloom and darkness the eyes of the blind will see.

[i]Isaiah 29:18[/i]

Then will the eyes of the blind be opened and the ears of the deaf unstopped.

[i]Isaiah 35:5[/i]

Dogs have surrounded me; a band of evil men has encircled me, they have pierced my hands and my feet.

[i]Psalm 22:16[/i]

They divide my garments among them and cast lots for my clothing.

[i]Psalm 22:18[/i]

I offered my back to those who beat me, my cheeks to those who pulled out my beard; I did not hide my face from mocking and spitting.

[i]Isaiah 50:6[/i]

He was oppressed and afflicted, yet he did not open his mouth; he was led like a lamb to the slaughter, and as a sheep before her shearers is silent, so he did not open his mouth.

[i]Isaiah 53:7[/i]

He was assigned a grave with the wicked, and with the rich in his death, though he had done no violence, nor was any deceit in his mouth.

[i]Isaiah 31:5[/i]

So they paid me thirty pieces of silver...I took the thirty pieces of silver and threw them into the house of the LORD to the potter.

[i]Zechariah 11:12, 13[/i][/quote]

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