The Case for Jesus the Messiah: Incredible Prophecies That Prove God Exists

The Hebrew Scriptures are unique among those of the world's religions in that they contain scores of prophecies about a predicted future Messiah. These prophecies extend over a period of 1,000 years and many are given in specific detail. The final prophecy was given 400 years before Christ was ever born. In our book, The Case for Jesus the Messiah, we discuss a dozen of these prophecies, in detail, proving that only Jesus Christ fulfills them, and therefore, that only He is the predicted Jewish Messiah1 (cf., John 5:46). For example, in the anguished imagery of King David's prayers, Psalm 22 accurately describes a crucifixion - yet this description is given hundreds of years before the method of execution by crucifixion was devised. No other Psalm fits the description of Christ's crucifixion better than Psalm 22, explaining why it is the most frequently quoted Psalm by New Testament writers. Yet this Psalm was written 1000 years before Jesus was born. Jesus Himself quoted the first verse of this Psalm while on the cross. Whatever one thinks of this Psalm, no one can deny that it describes what happened to Jesus on the cross an entire millennium later: "they have pierced my hands and my feet. I can count all my bones; people stare and gloat over me. They divide my garments among them and cast lots for my clothing" (Psa. 22:16-18; cf. Matt. 27:35). In Isaiah 9:6-7, the prophecy of the coming Messiah concerns a child to be born who will also be God and who will have an everlasting kingdom. In the Gospels, Jesus claimed that He was that incarnate God and that He would have an everlasting kingdom (Matt. 16:28; 26:64; Luke 22:30; John 6:38-42, 62; 8:42; 10:30, 36-38; 18:36; cf., 2 Pet. 1:11). In Isaiah 53:4-12, the Messiah is prophesied to be.....