that pertain unto life and godliness through the knowledge of him that hath called us to
glory and virtue, whereby are given unto us exceeding great and precious promises, that
by these ye might be partakers of the divine nature, having escaped the corruption that
is in the world through lust.
And beside this, giving all diligence, add to your faith virtue, and to virtue knowledge,
and to knowledge temperance, and to temperance patience, and to patience godliness, and to
godliness brotherly kindness, and to brotherly kindness charity.
For if these things be in you and abound, they make you, that ye shall neither be barren
nor unfruitful in the knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ.
and cannot see afar off, and hath forgotten that he was purged from his old sins.
Wherefore, the rather, brethren, give diligence to make your calling and election sure, for if you
do these things, ye shall never fall. For so an entrance shall be ministered unto you abundantly
into the everlasting kingdom of our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ. Wherefore, I will not be
negligent to put you always in remembrance of these things, though ye know them.
and be established in the present truth.
Yay, I think it meet as long as I am in this tabernacle
to stir you up by putting you in remembrance,
knowing that shortly I must put off this my tabernacle,
even as our Lord Jesus Christ has showed me.
Moreover, I will endeavor that you may be able
after my decease to have these things always in remembrance.
For we have not followed cunningly devised fables
when we made known unto you,
the power and coming of our Lord Jesus Christ,
but were eyewitnesses of His majesty,
for He received from God the Father honor and glory.
When there came such a voice to Him from the excellent glory,
this is my beloved Son in whom I am well pleased,
and this voice which came from heaven we heard,
when we were with Him in the Holy Mount.
We have also a more sure word of prophecy where unto ye do well that ye take heed as unto light
As unto a light that shineth in a dark place unto the day dawn and the day star rise in your hearts
Knowing this first that no prophecy of the scripture is of any private interpretation
for the prophecy came not in old time by the will of man the holy man of god spake as they were moved by the holy ghost brother jesse we pray for us
amen all right well i'm preaching part two of my prophecies of christ series and
I'm preaching today about the first coming, so prophecies of Christ, the first coming.
Now, we're in 2 Peter chapter number one, look at verse number 16.
The Bible says, For we have not followed cunningly devised fables.
when we made known unto you the power and coming of our Lord Jesus Christ, but were eye-witnesses of his majesty.
So the Apostle Peter here is telling us that
They didn't just make up the story of Jesus.
They didn't make up the gospel.
They didn't make up that Jesus rose again from the dead.
This is what people will say even today.
Well, it was all just made up.
And when he rose from the dead,
when he rose from the tomb, that part was just made up.
And they didn't really see that stuff.
But it's kind of funny that they would be willing
to die for these things.
Why would you die for something that was not true?
That just doesn't make sense.
If it wasn't really true, they wouldn't be willing.
The apostle Paul just put his life at risk constantly
and he was willing to be stoned to death for it.
He forsook his old life, his life as a Pharisee,
his life as, you know, he was the head hunter,
so to speak, of the Christians.
And then just all of a sudden just flipped a switch
and became.
a Christian that was just putting his life in peril and first took everything that he
knew. He was probably very wealthy at the time. He was probably, you know, he was held in high
esteem. He was, he could go straight to the high priest and ask him for warrants for people's death,
for people's death warrants. And so Peter here is saying,
We have not followed cunningly devised fables like, you know, just a trick to get people to
follow some religion. This is what people say in our modern era. They've been saying it for the
last 2,000 years. And I'm sure they were saying it to them at that time. That's why he's bringing
it up. And it says, but we, but we're eyewitnesses of his majesty. They actually saw the Lord Jesus
by any metric. He looked just like a normal human being just like everybody else, but he was actually
God and man at the same time. And they actually saw the time on the Mount of Transfiguration
when he actually was transfigured. He was changed in appearance in front of them and he was in his
glorified state. And it was Peter, James, and John actually got to see him in this form
of what he would look like in the future when he was
resurrected. So they saw this vision. So this is what he's talking about here.
He says, but were eyewitnesses of his majesty and they also saw him in his resurrected form
later on, but they saw him glorified when he came back after the resurrection. They didn't
necessarily see him in his glorified state necessarily. They saw him again, but he was in
his glorified body, but not necessarily, you know, in his glorified state.
John saw him in his glorified state in the book of Revelation and fell down like he was dead,
remember. So in verse 17 it says, for he received from God the Father honor and glory,
when there came such a voice to him from the excellent glory, this is my beloved Son in whom
I am well pleased. So that's what he said to him on the Mount of Transfiguration. And all of them,
they saw Jesus, majesty, and then they heard those words from God the Father because it says,
And verse 18, in this voice, which came from heaven, we heard.
They actually heard God the Father say these words to the Lord Jesus Christ on the Mount.
It says, when we were with Him in the Holy Mount, this is again what it's talking about.
They heard, they saw Him and they heard the voice of God the Father say this with their own ears.
And verse 19 says, we have also a more sure word
of prophecy.
So that word prophecy is in there, right?
This is what we're talking about this morning.
Wherein to you do well that you take heed
as unto a light that shineth in a dark place.
until the day dawn and the day star arise in your hearts knowing this first that no prophecy of the scripture is of any
Private interpretation for the prophecy came not in old time by the will of man
But holy men of God's spake as they were moved by the Holy Ghost
this is talking about how the Bible is written and
How the Bible came to man so God uses human instruments
to write down and to put the pen to paper
and write the words of God into the pages of the Bible.
Now of course back then they didn't have books like these that were bound that didn't come tell much later
They had scrolls or what we would call rolls where they would write them on parchment or leather
Animal leather or on parchment that they would you know use to make these rolls
And they would write them down on those but the word of God is from you know is an everlasting word
And God inspired his word
And when he spoke those words, that's what they call God Breathe.
And I'll show you the passage that kind of teaches that here in a minute, but...
What I'm trying to get through to you on this part here is that Peter says in verse 19
We have a more sure word of prophecy
The Bible is more sure to you today
Than what you see with your eyes and what you hear with your ears Peter saw those things
the apostles saw those things and
He's saying hey, I believe the Bible and what the prophet said of old time
more than I, than I believe what I saw with my own eyes and what I heard with my own ears.
But see, what do people say today? They say, well, if, if you show me God, or if I hear
things from God, I'll believe that more than I believe the Bible. And a lot of people say,
or I, you know, God spoke to me or something.
And it's like, if God's speaking to you audibly,
you need to go check yourself into a mental institution.
Because God does not speak to us in that way anymore.
He speaks to us through this book.
the holy words of God that were written down
as they were moved by the Holy Ghost.
And then the Book of Revelation is the last things
that God penned down for us in the book.
Everything that we need to know as far as God is concerned
when it comes to the things of the Spirit
are in this book right here.
We don't need another Testament.
We don't need the Book of Mormon.
The Book of Mormon is just a plagiarized trash.
from a charlatan pedophile named Joseph Smith okay and he was you know a wicked false prophet
he's much like Muhammad and their their religions are very similar if you believe it or not but um
Anyway, so Peter is saying here that we should depend on the Word of God more than what we
see with our eyes and what we hear with our ears.
Now in the book of Jeremiah, it explains to us that when Baruch took the words down
that Jeremiah
had had him write down.
Jeremiah just spoke those words
and he just wrote them down.
They even asked him like,
how did you, how did you write all this?
And then he just simply says,
he spoke the words, I wrote them down.
It was just really simple.
But he went and read these things to the king
and they took a pen knife and cut up the roll
and threw it in the fire.
All the words that Jeremiah had spoken,
it's the original document,
the original
scriptures and that doesn't just that doesn't get rid of the word of God you
can burn the Bible you can burn the original copies there's these people
that believe that oh we have to we have to I have faith only in the original
copies well that's done because we don't have to have the original copies
because God promised to preserve his word from this generation and forever so
when they did that God just said hey
Get another role write the words again exactly the same words that I had you write before and he did do that
And he said and then other like words also he wrote so
That takes care of the whole original manuscript only people and then think about Moses
He comes down with the tablets that God wrote the law with his own finger the Bible says
And Moses comes down, they're worshiping the golden calf, and in a rage he comes down and just
just smashes the Ten Commandments, both tables, smashes them to bits.
It's like, what are you doing, Moses?
You smashed the original documents.
It's like, God just said, just write them again.
And the ones that Moses etched in stone
were exactly the same words that God wrote down
the first time.
And so God, we don't have a problem with,
people are like, well, how do you know the Bible
has just been translated over and over and over again?
This is what people say.
It's like they heard it on the History Channel
from some woman narrating some dumb Bible show
that they put on like 25 years ago or something.
You know when the history channel used to put stuff on about the Bible, but it was always just doubting God's word
It was always just a woman narrating it for some weird reason
And then they went into ancient aliens and how all the sites in the world were built by alien technology or something
So they just kind of just made you doubt the word of God for like 10 years and then they stopped it stopped being about real history a long time ago and it was always just doubting well and then just putting all this weird stuff on about the Bible.
So it turned to 2 Timothy chapter 3 verse 15 I'm just kind of warming up for the main topic and really what I want to accomplish in this sermon is to show.
That the prophecies in the Bible are able to be counted upon the prophecies in the Bible in the Old Testament
About his first coming in this sermon what I want to accomplish is to show that they were
prophesied and I'm not even going to all of them obviously. You don't have time for that
but also that they were
100% accomplished in Jesus Christ and then in the third sermon is
Going to be the future prophecies of him coming back and the future
times that we can count on those too because if we know that he accomplished the first ones 100% that we know
That the ones that are yet to come in the future are going to happen just as well as the ones that have already happened
So second Timothy chapter 3 verse 15 the Bible says and that from a child thou has known the holy scriptures
Which are able to make thee wise unto salvation
through faith which is in
Christ Jesus
So the scriptures not only can we count on them for prophecies but we can also count on them to
help us to get saved. As a matter of fact the only way you can get saved is through the word of God
by a spirit filled person preaching those scriptures to you. Look at verse 16 it says all
scripture so everything that you have in front of you in that book that you're holding in your hand
except for maybe the maps in any commentary is
given by inspiration of God.
And that word inspiration, you know,
is means that God breathed those words out.
God breathed the scriptures out.
He, they count, they come from inspiration of God
and is profitable for doctrine.
So things that are taught and for reproof
to tell people that they're wrong for correction,
to correct things that are not right.
And for instruction,
and righteousness to tell us how to live our lives in the right way, that the man of God may be
perfect, thoroughly furnished unto all good works. So do we have enough to have the Bible
give us everything we need? It says, thoroughly furnished. I mean, if you moved into a new house
and you could just leave all your stuff behind and you could walk into a house that was
brand new sofas and beds and everything was just 100% just stocked for you that's what
throughly furnishes you know everything that you possibly could need brand new cars everything
you know that's throughly furnished you got everything that you need fridge is full of food
All your creature comforts. That's everything. So the Bible has everything we need and it's like you say well
Nobody's perfect. What it's talking about is a you're complete. You have everything that you need
You're the complete package. It doesn't necessarily mean that you're sinless. That's not what it's talking about
That's not the kind of perfect. It's talking about now. Some people think that God just took control of
People and made them write these things down
That's called, you know, it's called like auto-dication or something like that.
I don't necessarily think that that is how God had people write the Bible.
You know, otherwise the Bible would be written in such a way that it just seems like the same person is writing it all throughout the, all throughout.
There's different writing styles. You have poetic writing styles, and then you have the different
Gospels are written in the different style of the authors. So I believe that, you know, the
You know is what is the verse? I lost it. It's in 1 Corinthians 14
Basically, the spirit of the prophets is in there in control of their own selves
Subject into the prophets right so that it's not like they lose control of themselves
It's like when a preacher speaking it's not like God is controlling everything I say while I'm speaking
So it's the same thing when someone's you know when they're writing the Bible
I don't think that God just like completely takes control of them as a writing the Bible, but
He guides them
is what I believe.
I'm sure that there's times when God does make them say
exactly what he wants them to say, like Balaam's ass.
You know, Balaam's ass said exactly what it was supposed
to say to Balaam, you know.
So I think that there's some kind of dictation
that goes on to a certain extent,
but the Spirit of the Provinces is subject
under the Provinces.
Thank you, Brother Alex.
I was having a Biden moment there.
Anyway, so there is some style differences.
John writes in a very simple style where he's not using a lot of different...
Big words and things like that, but Luke has his own style and his book is even longer than the book of John by far
There's a lot I've ever noticed when you're doing your your Bible reading that the book of Luke is just a lot longer of a book
And the way he writes the book of Acts also he writes in a completely different a different way than the book of John
And Paul you can just tell his books by the way he writes
You can tell that Hebrews is written by Paul because of the way he writes
the book. It doesn't say, that's like the only book that doesn't say that it was written by Paul
and I think that he did that on purpose because I don't think the Hebrews would have written
or read that book if it would have said it was by Paul because they hated Paul so much.
I think that's the reason why he didn't sign off as Paul but it's very obvious that Paul wrote that.
I'm just saying that the the Spirit of the Prophet is subject to the prophets because
possessing them, so to speak, and then just going, and they're just like, you know, I just don't,
I don't see it that way. So that's my opinion about that. But let's get into the prophecies. So
I just want to list some of the most common prophecies and who wrote them and, and basically
how it was fulfilled. I kind of did this in the last sermon, I'll skip some of the ones that maybe
We had already looked at last week, but I just want to list some of them.
I probably won't go through all of them. I won't have time to do that, but
let's look at Isaiah 7 and we'll look at, we'll knock out two and one here.
And so again, I just want to talk about his first coming and the things that were fulfilled,
where they were fulfilled, and so on.
So first we'll look at one's regarding his birth.
So Jesus was prophesied to be born by a virgin.
And Isaiah 7.14 proclaims this.
It says in Isaiah 7.14, it says,
Therefore the Lord himself shall give you a sign.
Behold, a virgin shall conceive and bear a son
and shall call his name Emmanuel.
So people will also twist this and say
like the modern versions will say a young woman and
They'll and I'll say it doesn't say it was supposed to be a virgin or whatever and the Jews will run with that too
So it's like you wonder who's who's kind of running the show there
But and they'll say that it's oh, it just there was a mistranslation in Isaiah and it should say young woman
It's like, yeah, a lot of young women give birth.
Like, is that such a big sign?
I mean, how is that a big sign?
But you know what is a big sign?
Is when a virgin gives birth.
That doesn't happen every day.
In fact, it doesn't happen at all that a virgin gives birth.
So it's a sign because it's not possible.
So, and then it says, and she'll call his name, Immanuel.
Now flip over to Matthew chapter one,
Matthew chapter number one.
to find the fulfillment of that prophecy.
Matthew chapter number one, the Bible reads,
now all this was done that it might be fulfilled,
which was spoken of the Lord by the prophet saying,
behold a virgin shall be with child,
and shall bring forth a son,
and they shall call his name Emmanuel,
which being interpreted is,
God with us. So, you know, the New Testament does shed the light on the darker scenes of the Old Testament.
So, in Isaiah, it doesn't say what Immanuel means.
But in Matthew, it tells us exactly what that means. It means God with us.
So people say, well, Jesus wasn't God. Well, what does the Bible say right there?
Immanuel, his name is called Immanuel, which means God with us. So is Jesus God?
That's what the Bible says right there that his name was me. It's that be interpreted as God with us and
That Mary was a virgin and she gave birth to Jesus. That's just what the Bible teaches and so it was fulfilled
Exactly as the Bible says
Now we went through Micah already last week, but again Micah says that Jesus would be born in Bethlehem
And in Matthew chapter two, it says, when Herod asked where Jesus was supposed to be
born when the wise men came looking for the star, or they saw a star and they wanted to
know
You know, he wanted to know where, where Jesus was to be born and said Bethlehem and Judea for thus is written by the prophet and
now Bethlehem and the land of Judah are not the least of among the princes of Judah.
Proud of thee shall come a governor that shall rule my people Israel.
So I did that one last week, so I just don't want to spend a lot of time on that.
But I don't think I had the Bible reference for it last week. So, but it's in Matthew chapter 2 verses
3 through 6. If you were writing it down or whatever.
Now, let's go to Genesis chapter 22, Genesis chapter 22, and the Bible all the way back in Genesis, which is from a long, long time ago, like 4,000 years ago or something, and Abraham was prophesied to bring forth a seed that all nations would be blessed by.
That's found in Genesis 22.7. Of course, it's said in multiple times in the book of Genesis it says
That in blessing I will bless thee and in multiplying I will multiply thy seed
Notice this just says seed doesn't say seeds as the stars of the heaven
and as the sand which is upon the seashore,
and thy seed shall possess the gate of his enemies."
Isn't that interesting how it says,
thy seed, and it's singular there,
and it says shall possess the gate of his enemies?
So it's using singular terms,
and it even uses the singular term his right there,
of his enemies,
because Christ has a lot of enemies, doesn't he?
So that's kind of an extra prophecy there kind of to give us a little hint and it says and in thy seed
Shall all the nations of the earth be blessed because thou hast obeyed my voice
And you know, people get this idea from Genesis 12 also that, you know, if you bless Israel, then God will bless you because they think they say that the seed is Israel, but that's not what what Genesis actually let's flip over to Genesis.
It's not on my notes, but I but a lot of people, you know, Genesis 12 is is also where the first mention of this is.
So I think it's kind of important.
To point this out
Genesis chapter 12
Speaking of Abraham
Let's see it says in verse number one now the Lord had said unto Abram get thee out of thy country and from my kindred and
From my father's land unto a land which I will show thee and I will make of thee a great nation
And I will bless thee and make thy name great, and thou shalt be a blessing, and I will bless
them that bless thee, and curse him that curseeth thee, and in thee shall all families of the
earth be blessed."
So that thee is singular.
The, thine, and thou is a singular term in the Bible, it isn't plural.
So when he says he'll make a V, he's talking about Abraham himself.
But see, modern Bible scholars and modern dispensationalists and the Israeli flag-waving worshippers of the Jews today will say,
see, if you bless Israel, does that say Israel right there?
It's talking about Abraham.
And what it's talking about also, I'll make a great nation of thee.
Christians and people that are saved. That's what it's actually talking about through Abraham's seed
Which we just read the verses about the seed, right? Now. Let's turn over to Galatians chapter number three
I'm kind of giving you a preview of
From a few weeks from now. We'll actually be in Galatians 3
But Galatians chapter 3 we'll see I don't have time to go through every part of the passage of Galatians 3
And basically, I'm just going to kind of hit enough highlights
till we get to the hour where I got to quit.
But I got way more notes than I have time.
So you all know that's true.
I'll do the hard cut, the one I need to.
All right, Galatians chapter three,
I'll try not to hold you hostage this morning.
Galatians 3 verse eight says,
and the scripture foreseeing that God would justify
the heathen.
Through faith preached before the gospel unto Abraham saying in these shall all nations be blessed
So did Abraham?
People will say well the gospel didn't come until way later
Well, what's the Bible say that God preached the gospel unto Abraham all the way back
4,000 years ago
Because Moses came 30 for about 3,500 years ago, so Abraham was about 500 years before Moses
so
you have Abraham being told that he would be in the all nations will be
blessed so this is like Paul explaining to us how it was fulfilled in Christ look
at verse 16 it says now to Abraham in his seed notice it's not seeds it's seed
where the promise is made he saith not and to seeds plural
as of many, but as of one, and to thy seed, which is Christ."
So see how the New Testament tells us and explains to us exactly what that means from the Old Testament,
from way back in Genesis, what God meant.
So Paul, the Apostle Paul, is explaining to us that he didn't mean all his descendants,
because the modern versions will say descendants in those places with an S at the end.
It'll say, you know, it'll say different thing. It'll use different words with port plurality
But what does that tell you that if it says seed here and they'll even they'll even write the they'll correct
Have it correct in Galatians in the modern versions
But when you go back to the references back in Genesis, it's wrong
So that just tells you what that their Bible versions wrong
If it's if there's a mistake
In the reference that you go back to, then their Bible version is wrong.
Their Bible version is trash, and that's the thing that gets people to not want to believe the Bible.
Well, there's a mistake, and then they'll look at a modern Bible version and go,
I can't believe that.
That's why the devil makes all these different Bible versions, and people are like,
oh well, you're King James only, people are cultists.
So so it says not as seeds as a mini but of one and I seed which is Christ
So the promised seed was always Christ and if people and every nation believe in Christ
Then they're gonna be blessed in that nation
So all the nations of the world were blessed if they believe in Christ
That's what it's talking about and it was Abraham's seed. It's Isaac's seed
It's Jacob's seed and then so on and so forth it went down to Judah and then to
Jesse and then to David and then those those family members the family of Judah is where he was supposed to spring out of right?
Verse 29 and if you be Christ then are ye Abraham see see ye is plural
then are ye Abraham's seed and heirs according to the promise.
So if you believe in Jesus today,
then you're Abraham's seed more than somebody wearing
a funny hat going like this against the wall
and sticking a little piece of papers in it
and stuff like that.
You're more of a seed of Abraham than they are,
even if they're blood related to Abraham
and you're not, you're still more of a seed of Abraham
than they are and you're the seed
of Christ. It says you're Christ. If you're Christ, then you are Abraham's seed and heirs
according to the promise. Because look, it's a spiritual nation. It's a spiritual seed.
It's not about blood. See, a lot of people want to make things about blood. And they'll say blood
is thicker than water and so on and so forth. But I'll tell you what, your spiritual brother in
Christ is more important, really, than your blood brother in Christ that's not saved.
And people will have a hard time with stuff like that,
but it's just the truth.
Sure, I'm not saying don't love them.
I'm just saying that if that person never gets saved,
you're gonna spend eternity in heaven
with your spiritual brother in Christ
and not with that other person.
And that other person's gonna do whatever they can
to trip you up in life.
So a descendant, the next one here is,
let's go to Genesis 2112, Genesis 2112.
Genesis 2112 and it says so a descendant of Isaac indicates that Abraham's seed
will be called through Isaac basically. So and this is also realized and talked
about slightly it's not
Paul talks about it in Galatians chapter 4, but let's look at the verse real quick. It says,
Genesis 21-12 says, And God said unto Abraham, Let it not be grievous in thy sight, because of the
lad, and because of thy bond woman, in all that Sarah has said unto thee, hearken unto her voice,
for an Isaac shall thy seed be called. Because Sarah wanted to get rid of
Hagar and Ishmael and Ishmael is his firstborn son because Sarah gave
Hagar as a as a concubine to Abraham a concubine wife and
You know then that son when Isaac was weaned started teasing and
mocking Isaac and then God said cast out the bond woman and her son
And so that's, and Abraham was upset about it because that's his son also.
But God said, do it. Get him out of here.
And the reason why is because it's kind of an allegory of the Old Covenant and the New Covenant.
And Hagar and Ishmael represent the Old Covenant and Isaac and Sarah represent the New Covenant.
So let's look at Galatians chapter 4.
Paul, we don't have time to go through the whole thing, but it does explain it a little
bit here.
Galatians 422.
It says, for it is written that Abraham had two sons, the one by a bond made and the other by a free woman.
So Sarah was the free woman, Sarah was his free woman wife, and the other was a bond made.
So basically she was like a slave wife is what she was.
Hagar, anyway. So it says, but he who was of the bond woman was born after the flesh, but he of the free woman was by promise.
because God promised that in their old age
that they would bring forth the son.
Sarah was past the time of being able to have children.
She'd already gone through menopause.
She was super old.
Abraham was old too.
And so their child was a miraculous baby, Isaac was.
It says, which things are an allegory?
For these are the two covenants,
the one from which the Mount Sinai,
which gendereth to bondage,
which is Agar or Hagar for this Agar is Mount Sinai in Arabia.
and answereth to Jerusalem, which now is,
and is in bondage with her children.
So, you know, the first covenant
was a covenant of bondage.
It's a covenant that it's kind of,
it's a school master to bring us unto Christ.
It doesn't, the law does not save us.
The only way you could be saved through the law
is to keep it perfectly and to never send your whole life.
That's what Jesus did for us so that we could be saved.
But nobody else can do that.
Anyway, it says, but Jerusalem, which is above, is free.
Which is the mother of us all for it is written rejoice thou barren that bear us not break forth and cry thou that travail us not
For the desolate half many more children than she which hath and husband now we brethren as
Isaac was are the children of
Promise so Isaac was the child of promise and that line
Didn't come through Ishmael like the Muslims will say
because the Muslims will claim Ishmael and say no that's the wrong you know Isaac was not the real one
it's Ishmael and so that's all the Muslims claim Ishmael you know people will say well there's all
these you know Abraham had these different religions that came out of him and it was Christianity
Islam and Judaism and that is true but the only one that really matters is Christianity
because that's the one that's right.
But anyway, Isaac is the seed of promise.
And see, it's funny how Islam will say,
well, the Bible is right, but then man corrupted it.
Well, where's the ones that are right?
Where's the manuscripts that were right?
They can never point you to those.
They just point you to the ones...
Oh, well, yeah, I don't know what happened to them.
We just know that the ones that you have are wrong.
Well, where's the good ones?
Or is the ones that are right?
Because they can't ever point you to those ones.
Anyway, so now the next one is that a seed of Jacob
in Numbers 2417, go ahead and turn there,
foretells the coming of a star.
So and this is a very commonly known one.
But it is a prophecy nonetheless because otherwise where did they know to see the star?
This is the only one I can ever find in scripture that talks about a star
Coming to foretell that Jesus would come numbers chapter 24 7 17 and it's it's interesting because it's a prophecy of Balaam
Who was a false prophet?
So but God God sometimes can use unsaved people to get his message out
And the only reason why we know that Balaam is a false prophet is because the New Testament tells us that he was in the book of Jude and 2 Peter 3, I think.
But we wouldn't even know. I mean, you could know, but he's a confusing character because sometimes it seems like he's doing the right thing.
But then sometimes it's like, yeah, I don't, you know, he's not. He's trying to curse the children of Israel for money, which is super wrong.
But then he's saying, well, I can't say more than what God
will allow me to say.
And then the people that he's paying are mad at him.
And then saying, well, let's go and curse him again
over on this side.
But anyway, then he gets the children of Israel
to commit fornication.
So he gets them to curse the children of Israel
in a different way.
But anyway, I'm going to go back a little bit to that.
Nonetheless God does use other people to speak in his name sometimes he can use people if he wants to
But let's look at numbers 24 17. It says I shall see him, but not now
I shall behold him, but not nigh
There shall come a star out of Jacob and a scepter shall rise out of Israel and shall smite the corners of Moab and
destroy all the children of Sheth
So it's kind of an obscure passage, but it does say it's a star out of Jacob and a scepter shall rise out of Israel
So a scepter is kind of talk is like an orn
It's it's like a staff that that has you know decoration on it that
Represents like power of like a king. So it's talking about a king and it says it's the star out of Jacob
so
It is kind of obscure, but that's the only one that I can see in all of scripture that talks about a star
Being prophesied about now. Let's look at the fulfillment to Matthew Matthew chapter number two
verse number one Matthew chapter number two verse number one
Now these guys must have been pretty wise to figure this out because this is not the ease
maybe God just kind of allowed them to to understand that this was the prophecy that was coming true and
You know they were called wise men, so
Of course, the modern versions will say that they're Magi or whatever, that they're like sorcerers or something, like they're, like they're, I just don't think God's going to use, you know, pagan heathens to, you know, figure out that where Jesus was, but I think that they were godly men, obviously.
saying, where is he that is born king of the Jews?
See, he says king of the Jews,
so they understand what scepter means.
For we have seen his star in the east
and are come to worship him.
So they also understand that he's God.
So it's not just some regular dude, it's God too.
And so they see his star in the east.
And when they had heard, when they had, verse nine says,
when they heard the king, they departed and lo,
the star which they saw in the east went before them
till it came and stood over where the young child was.
When they saw the star, they rejoiced with exceeding great joy.
So again, another prophecy fulfilled,
even though it's really obscure,
but it is still a prophecy nonetheless.
So, now there's another prophecy that Jacob himself gives about the descendant, the seed going through the line of Judah.
Now Judah wasn't a very upright and moral character, the man Judah himself, his Jacob's son.
He went to a harlot that was actually his daughter-in-law and got her pregnant and so had children with his sons.
two sons that were married to her before who died,
who were wicked.
So his two sons were wicked.
He ends up sleeping with his former daughter-in-law
who he was supposed to give to his next son,
which he didn't do, and then had twins with her.
So, I mean, pretty weird Southern-style stuff
that was going on there.
Well, Ozark, at least, Ozark Mountain-style stuff.
Anyway, he was going to burn her when he found out she was with child and then when she showed
up and said, well, whose things are these, and then it's like, oh man, she got me.
And then he also...
sold his brother to the Egyptians.
He said, let's not kill him, let's make a profit off of him.
So he's like representing Judas Iscariot at that point.
So he wasn't the greatest guy in the world.
He wasn't necessarily the greatest father.
But in the end, he promised his father
that he would bring back his brother, Benjamin,
because he got kind of in a fix with,
Joseph was tricking them into bringing Benjamin.
Anyway, he kind of came up with the plan
you know bring Benjamin back and to save their family so he said he would he would take the
the wrath forever if he wasn't to bring him back so he kind of had a redeeming plan so maybe I
don't know why God picked him he just knew that Judah's family would be blessed all down the line
whatever reason he picked Judah to be the line he picked him but let's look at Genesis 49 10
Where he Jacob at the end of his life is blessing all of his sons. I mean, I guess you could call them blessing them
Some of them he's not really blessing exactly. He's kind of just telling him what they do
They're not all necessarily blessed, but
When it comes to we're just gonna look at a small portion of what he says to Judah because it's pretty cryptic too
but
He does speak about him and Genesis 4910 it says
The scepter shall not depart from Judah. So again, there's the scepter talking about that power, that he's basically, Judah is going to be the ruling tribe at some point in Judah.
Nor a law giver from between his feet until Shiloh come, and unto him shall the gathering of the people be.
So, you know, it's again kind of a cryptic saying here.
Shiloh, I've preached about this before, Shiloh means one who brings peace.
And so, and the gathering of the people is where Shiloh was when they first went to the promised land and Shiloh is where they put the tabernacle of the congregation and all the people gathered together into that location.
And so it's an interesting name that they called the place where all the children of Israel met together.
So again, a scepter is an ornamental staff that symbolizes a king's power.
Have you ever seen like maybe a movie or something where they hold out the scepter?
you know, or whatever. Anyway, it's kind of just symbolizes their power. So let's look at a couple
passages here. Let's look at John chapter 18.
Now, Jesus is the king of kings and the Lord of lords, and in reality, even though he wasn't
coming to rule as the king at that time, last week we kind of talked about how he came in
on the cult, the full of an ass, and they said, Hosanna, blessed be the king that comes
in the name of the Lord.
So when he came in that triumphal entry into Jerusalem, they were calling him the son of
They knew exactly who he was, and he was that prophesied king that was going to come, but
his time was not to be ruling and reigning, that's going to be yet in the future.
But it doesn't mean that he wasn't the king, because he has this little exchange with Pilate
right here, and Pilate asks him straight up, are you a king?
Look at verse 33 here, it says, then Pilate entered into the judgment hall again and called
Jesus answered him, sayest thou this thing of thyself, or did others tell thee of me?
Pilate answered, Am I a Jew? Thine own nation and the chief priests have delivered thee unto me.
What hast thou done? Jesus answered, My kingdom is not of this world.
If my kingdom were of this world, then would my servants fight?
that I should not be delivered to the Jews.
But now is my kingdom not from hence.
So is he saying he's a king though?
He is because he's saying my kingdom is not from hence.
So he is saying he's a king.
Pilate therefore said unto him, art thou a king then?
Because he's getting what he's,
he's picking up what he's laying down.
Jesus answered, thou sayest that I'm a king.
To this end was I born.
And for this cause came I into the world.
that I should bear witness unto the truth,
everyone that is of the truth, heareth my voice."
It's a great answer.
Of course, Pilate says, what is truth?
Which, you know, he's an idiot.
But he says, thou sayest I'm a king,
and to this end was I born.
So he is saying, I am a king.
And for this cause came I into the world.
But...
So he is saying he's a king, but his kingdom is not of this world and his kingdom will come his kingdom will be of this earth
He'll be the king that rules and reigns for a thousand years on this earth and we will rule and reign with him
The Bible says this so
Now I like what he says at the very end here though it says every one that is of the truth here with my voice
So, you know, this is this is something that I really like because I feel like if you're seeking the truth
You're gonna find Jesus the end of the truth movement the end of people that are actually seeking for the truth and want to know
What the truth is they're gonna find Jesus Christ
So I always say that I was in the truth movement before the truth movement started
But anybody, before the Truth Movement,
just were seeking truth also.
I mean, I was reading conspiracy theory books
and stuff like that before 9-Eleven even happened.
I was reading about Ruby Ridge and stuff like that.
And obviously, I was off into the woods
with some other stuff, like ancient,
not ancient aliens, but alien autopsy and stuff.
Who has ever looked into that?
And what about, what's the New Mexico place
where they have the Raw as well and all that kind of stuff?
I read a book called Behold a Pale Horse and it like has a lot of conspiracy theories in it and some of them are like kind of true or whatever but a lot of it's misinformation but I learned, that's how I learned about George Bush senior's dad being second in charge of the CIA and he was in charge when, oh was George Bush senior, yeah he was second in charge of the CIA when Kennedy was assassinated.
So, and then his dad, I don't know if, you know, supposedly he sold Zyklon B to Hitler or something.
I don't know, who knows if that's true or not, but they were major players long before, you know, he became president.
So, that's why I voted for Al Gore, because I thought, well, surely Al Gore's good and George Bush must be bad.
So, I wasn't saved, so give me a break. Anyway.
I just couldn't win.
So, but I just, you know, I didn't know the difference
between, you know, Al Gore and I thought Al Gore was just good
because George Bush was bad.
So I almost, almost lost the presidency.
No, but George Bush is bad too.
So anyway, I'm off in the woods now.
So, but the truth, the truth is that if you're of the truth,
you're going to hear the voice of the Son of God
and you're going to believe on the Lord Jesus Christ
because you're, everyone is of the truth is going to hear
his voice and get saved.
So, let's see, the next one is...
I just want to say one more thing about that, actually,
is that Jesus, so until Shiloh comes,
Judah would be the ruling class of...
Israel, but what happens after Jesus dies and is crucified and rises from the dead and goes up to heaven?
Well, Israel gets smashed and there are no long Judas no longer the ruling class anymore
He was the last king of Israel
And he's the last king that ever will be of Israel, because he's Shiloh that came and the gathering of the people was under him.
And he's going to gather all the people under him when he comes back, you know, in the rapture.
So let's look at Isaiah 11-1.
The Messiah also describes a branch coming forth.
And it's more than just Isaiah 11.
I think it's in Zechariah also.
Or yeah, I think it's in Zechariah also.
But it describes a rod and a branch growing
from the stem of Jesse in Isaiah 11-1.
It says,
there shall come forth a rod out of the stem of Jesse and a branch shall grow
out of the roots." It's also talked about in Jeremiah, it talks about David
himself, but it's interesting how you got to go to Revelation 22-16 and Jesus
himself talks about how he is this root and rod. Go ahead and turn there to
Revelation 22 verse 16.
22 Isaiah 22 16, we're not even going to get too close to all these prophecies. So it's not going to happen, but
Revelation 22 verse 16
says
So remember Isaiah said there shall come a rod and a stem of Jesse a branch shall grow out of his roots look at Jesus says himself
in his own words, he says,
I, Jesus, have sent my angel to testify
unto you these things in the churches.
I am the root and the offspring of David
and the bright and morning star.
So, I mean, obviously he says of Jesse,
but Jesse's the father of David.
So, and if you look at the verses in Jeremiah
that talk about it, and in Zechariah,
it's, he's called the branch.
and he's from David and he's from Jesse.
So interesting.
So let's look at, let's see, I'll skip forward to
the ones regarding his life and purpose.
We'll get a few of these in.
How about the fact that he would be
He'd begin his ministry in Galilee. So look at Isaiah 9 verse 1 and 2 Isaiah 9 verse 1 and 2
I mean obviously Moses was a big one too Moses said that he would a prophet like himself would come in Deuteronomy
1815 he said
That he would raise up unto the a prophet in the midst of the of thy brethren like unto me
unto him shall you hearken
And in Acts chapter 3, 22, it says that Moses truly said unto the fathers a profit shall the Lord your God raise up unto you for your brother and like unto me him shall you hear in all things whatsoever he shall say unto you and shall come to pass to the things whatsoever he shall say unto you and shall come to pass that every soul which will not hear that profit shall be destroyed from among the people.
I mean, that's a pretty big.
That's a pretty big prophecy that Moses gave and then the fulfillment and acts.
This one is that in Isaiah 9-12 it says,
nevertheless the dimness should not be such as was in the
vexation when at first he lightly afflicted the land of the Zebulun and the land of Neftali
and afterward did more grievously afflict her by the way of the sea beyond Jordan
and Galilee of the nations, which also means the Gentiles.
The people that walked in darkness have seen a great light.
They that dwell in the land of the shadow of death upon them hath the light shined
Now turn to Matthew chapter 4 verse 12 for the New Testament fulfillment Matthew chapter 4 verse number 12
Matthew 4 12 the Bible says
Now, when Jesus had heard that John was cast into prison, he departed into Galilee and leaving Nazareth, he came and dwelt in Capernaum, which is upon the sea coast in the borders of Zebulun and Neftalum.
that it might be fulfilled which was spoken of exias the prophet saying
The land of zebulin and the land of neftalum by the way of the sea beyond Jordan
Galilee of the Gentiles
The people which sat in darkness saw a great light and to them which sat in the region and shadow of death
Light is sprung up from that same time Jesus began to preach and say repent for the kingdom of heaven is at hand
So, that explanation in Isaiah is fulfilled in Matthew chapter 4, exactly how it was prophesied.
So, let's see, let me go to one more here.
Let's look at Isaiah chapter 61, Isaiah chapter 61, that he would, and this prophecy is that
he would proclaim good news to the poor.
Isaiah 61 verse 1 the Bible says the Spirit of the Lord God is upon me because the Lord
hath anointed me to preach good tidings unto the meek.
He hath sent me to bind up the broken hearted to proclaim liberty to the captives and the
opening of the prison to them that are bound.
So he preached this and in Luke chapter four was almost killed for preaching it
They were gonna try to throw him off of a cliff here in Luke chapter four
Because look at how it how it's fulfilled in Luke four
Verse 16 it says and he came to Nazareth where he had been brought up
So he's raised there and as his custom was he went into the synagogue on the Sabbath day and stood up for to read
And there was delivered unto him the book of the prophet Isaiah.
And when he had opened the book he found the place where it was written,
the Spirit of the Lord is upon me because he hath anointed me to preach the gospel to the poor.
He hath sent me to heal the broken hearted to preach deliverance to the captives
and recovering of the sight to the blind, to set at liberty them that are bruised
to preach the acceptable year of the Lord.
And he closed the book and gave it again to the minister and sat down
and all and the eyes of all them that were in the synagogue were fastened on him and they began to say into them
This day is is this scripture fulfilled in your ears. So that's when they get mad
Because you know, he's basically making himself out to be the Messiah right in front of them and
So that's really all we have time to really look at and
there's so much more, obviously, that I have. If you want to see the notes, there's just tons
of different fulfillments and different things. Obviously, I didn't even get to the
crucifixion parts about not a bone broken. They'd cast lots. I'll just kind of name them off to you
instead of just going to them because we don't have time. We're running out of time. But he would,
let's see, he'd be rejected by his own people. The Bible says he came to his own and his own
His brother, even his brethren, I'll talk about that tonight though, how his brothers
didn't believe in him and they tried to get him killed.
And he's betrayed by a friend, of course that's Judas.
Betrayed for 30 pieces of silver or sold for 30 pieces of silver. He was despised and rejected of men
he's talked about in Isaiah and he
Was silent before his accusers that was already talked about that last week though
And then his hands and feet were pierced. I talked about that last week
crucified with criminals and
Given vinegar to drink
fulfilled in John 19 but prophesied in Psalm 69. His garments were parted and cast lots
for in the Old Testament and in the New Testament that happens in John, some of the other Gospels
too. Not a bone was broken, buried with the rich, resurrected from the dead, ascended
So I mean, and some of the questions that people might have about this would be like
How could one man fulfill dozens of specific prophecies written centuries before his birth?
And really the only way that that would be possible is that God's divine providence and will
Obviously, God isn't like a Calvinist controlling everything like a puppet master, but still
everything, his divine will still does win out.
When God says something's going to happen, it's going to happen.
And we don't always see the plan, the way it's going to work out.
And sometimes in the Bible, just things just work out and you're like, well how in the
world could that possibly have been orchestrated just because it's God's ultimate will works
out.
always does. And it might not even be the first plan that he had or whatever. Some people try to
foil these plans, but God still wins out at the end. And the many verses that we've seen,
we know that not only is it possible, but that those things were prophesied well before his
I mean, the book of Matthew just constantly is saying this is fulfilled by the prophet
and the book of John says it a lot, especially during the time of the crucifixion.
You'll see this is, you know, that which was spoken by the prophet that they would look on him,
who they pierced and, and, and things like that.
So you'll see a lot of that taking place and being said in the book of Matthew and in the book of John
specifically, but in all the Gospels, it says it, but a lot in the book of Matthew.
So.
And you know last week I talked about how it's mathematically improbable and really just impossible
without divine direction. And the state or the statistical odds of even a handful of these
prophecies even just eight that we looked at last week being fulfilled by chance was 10 to the 17
I mean, it would take years to count to 100 quadrillion.
And I think it was like, it's the equivalent to,
the chances that eight of those could be fulfilled
in one person was Texas being filled up with,
what was it, silver dollars or half dollars?
Two feet high, and then one person just reaching in
and grabbing the right coin by just reaching in
and grabbing in the state of Texas, two feet high.
then just grabbing the right one. That's the chances of one person fulfilling eight of the prophecies and
There's like hundreds of prophecies about Jesus
So the chances would even be more exponential than that of him fulfilling all of those prophecies
I mean if I would have known those things when I was younger if I would have been taught those things when I was younger
I probably would have got saved sooner
because I'm kind of like I like seeing evidence of things and people like well
It's just it's only faith
Well, there are things about the Bible that if I would have known some of the things I might have
You know, I don't think that the Bible is just faith only
I think there are things like if if the Bible was like the Quran I wouldn't believe it
I mean, there are things you have to take by faith, obviously, there are a lot of spiritual things in it and there's things that seem too fantastical to believe,
like Jonah being swallowed by the whale for three days. I mean, it is hard to believe, but when the Bible just proves itself over and over in so many different other passages,
to me, it's not hard to believe. It's not hard at that point.
So, and what do these improbabilities tell us about divine authorship and Jesus as the Messiah?
Well, you know, the Bible is written by God himself.
And obviously he used human authors to pen these things down,
but there are authors in different continents.
There are authors over a different time,
but yet the Bible just gels together.
It's not just like a completely different book.
The Old Testament isn't a completely different,
people are like, well, the Old Testament God's different
than the New Testament God.
No, he's not.
He's the same.
You know, when Jesus said, you know, let them die the death
if just the child, this unruly child in the Old Testament
that is supposed to be brought to the elders,
it says in the New Testament, Jesus said,
let them die the death.
He's not, obviously, it's an extreme case.
It's like, you know, he's a drunkard and a glutton and he refuses to listen and obey the voice of his parents.
It's like some degenerate freak kid or something, and people just freak out over stuff like that.
But, you know, there has to be law and order in this world, and Jesus is all for that.
But then he pardons the woman, given, you know, who's caught in the act of adultery.
He does partner. There's no doubt about that
but
adultery is punishable by death in the Bible, but he didn't punish David for it
I mean he punished him, but he didn't punish him with death
So there is God has the right to stay executions. He has the right to judge how he sees fit and
He has the right to stay executions obviously so
But you know God is the one that wrote the Bible is written by God himself. There is no other option
Then if you see prophecies in the Old Testament, then you know that they were fulfilled in the New Testament
You know that the Bible has to be true
Or what they just made it all up like Peter is saying oh, it's not carefully devised
You can there's just no way you can just Jesus could have just made all that stuff up and full and just happened to fulfill it perfectly
It's not possible
so and
You know, he promised that he
was going to come back. He's the promised Messiah that came and you know the Jews rejected him as people rejected him
But you know just a glimpse again into the third and final sermon. I'm going to preach about this. It helps us
These prophecies that we see fulfilled. It helps us to have a hundred percent faith in what the Bible says
So just to conclude and reflect a little bit here
How do these fulfilled prophecies demonstrate divine foreknowledge and authorship of Scripture?
Well, the fact that they are perfectly fulfilled, again, as written, hundreds,
And spoken thousands of years before the events take place prove that God is not only highly intelligent
But that he has all knowledge. He knows the beginning from the end and the end from the beginning
He's omniscient means he knows everything
Exodus 20 verse 1 says and God
Spake all these words saying
This is the chapter where he gives the Ten Commandments.
So it doesn't, you know, there's tons of verses where it says,
and God said, you know, tell this people, thus say it the Lord.
He's telling his prophets to tell them what he said.
He used human beings to bring his message forth.
But, you know, people freak out when they hear the voice of God.
You know, Peter, John, and James heard that voice speaking kindly to his son.
But on the mount when God's voice was uttered when he was given the Ten Commandments it it freaked people out
They were freaked out. They were just like you speak to us Moses. Don't let God speak to us anymore
Because when he spoke
They were terrified
so
That's probably why he speaks through prophets and he speaks through the book because if God spoke to us
It would probably be you know a very terrifying experience for us
And the Bible itself tells us who the author is
You know in exes 20 verse 1 and in many other places in the Bible, but
Let's pray Lord. We thank you so much for the Bible and how we could just look at the Old Testament prophecies and just see
the divine will of yourself God and how we can see these things fulfilled all
over the first coming Lord that it was all fulfilled according to your will
Lord I pray that you just help us to have more faith in the Bible and not just
Have faith in the things that our eyes see and the things that our ears hear and Lord that we would be like
Some kind of Pentecostals where we have to see a sign or the Jews that have to see a sign or Greeks
That have to just have all this knowledge Lord that we would just take the Bible at face value and believe what it says
And Lord that we would not to doubt, but we would have
That we'd have a steadfast faith and what the Bible teaches us to just believe what it says and let the Bible mold how we think
and not take our preconceived thoughts into what the Bible says but let you transform our minds
in and believe what the Bible says and not have our own opinions over what the Bible teaches.
And Lord we thank you for this great church and we pray that you just bless us as we
go soul-winning today and that we'd see some people saved today Lord and you bless us as we
come back tonight for the evening service. In Jesus' name we pray. Amen.
We'll close with the song 201 201 in the blue. I know the Bible is true
201 in the blue
Sing it out
the living word. I know the Bible is true. I know, I know, I know the Bible is true.
is true. I know the story of Christ is true. His virgin glorious birth, his life is death
and the open.
by day and gives me victory or sin.
I know, I know, I know the boy.
But still no, its truth is sweeter each time it is told I know the Bible is true, I know, I know, I know the Bible
Full is true
Amen, brother Anthony can you close this with a word for
Amen word dismissed