First, we in this
house 'Love' Morgan Freeman the actor/person.
I sat patiently, for
the most part,
while enjoying the many stumbling
throughout the six
stories,
until the last one!
"There is no
scripture in the old testament
about Jesus Christ!"
Morgan Freeman
quote!
As a believer in the
"Word of God"
(Creator of All),
I believe that he
(Morgan Freeman), chose the incorrect people to ask his questions.
Because the Old
Testament was written,
with the blessing of God,
to show his son the Messiah!
A few of the old
testament scriptures to make my point.
Christ's Death and
Resurrection In the Old Testament.
Prophecies of
the
Messiah
From the Old
Testament
Tanakh
Messiah (translated
Christ in English) is not a name ... it is His Title.
Isaiah 52:13-53:12
offers one of the
most profound prophecies in the entire Old Testament, written over 700 years
before Christ's death and resurrection.
"He is despised
and rejected of men; a man of sorrows, and acquainted with grief: and we hid as
it were our faces from him; he was despised, and we esteemed him not.
Surely he hath borne
our griefs, and carried our sorrows: yet we did esteem him stricken, smitten of
God, and afflicted.
But he was wounded
for our transgressions, he was bruised for our iniquities: the chastisement of
our peace was upon him; and with his stripes we are healed.
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."
Isaiah 53:3-6
The Old Testament is
filled with prophecies and types of Jesus' suffering and death and
resurrection as payment for the sins of the world, and the New Testament points
those out.
"And I will
pour on the house of David and on the inhabitants of Jerusalem the Spirit of
grace and supplication; then they will look on Me whom they pierced"
Zechariah 12:10
"Thus it is
written, and thus it behoved Christ to suffer, and to rise from the dead the
third day:" - Luke 24:46
Psalm 16:8-11
Simon Peter starts
out on the day of Pentecost explaining that Jesus the Messiah had risen from
the dead, "Whom God hath raised up, having loosed the pains of death:
because it was not possible that he should be holden of it,"
(Acts 2:24).
Peter then pulled
from the Psalms to prove the truth of his testimony.
"For David
speaketh concerning him, I foresaw the Lord always before my face, for he is on
my right hand, that I should not be moved: Therefore did my heart rejoice, and
my tongue was glad; moreover also my flesh shall rest in hope: Because thou wilt
not leave my soul in hell, neither wilt thou suffer thine Holy One to see
corruption.
Thou hast made known
to me the ways of life; thou shalt make me full of joy with thy countenance.
"Men and
brethren, let me freely speak unto you of the patriarch David, that he is both
dead and buried, and his sepulchre is with us unto this day.
Therefore being a
prophet, and knowing that God had sworn with an oath to him, that of the fruit
of his loins, according to the flesh, he would raise up Christ to sit on his
throne; He seeing this before spake of the resurrection of Christ, that his
soul was not left in hell, neither his flesh did see corruption.
This Jesus hath God
raised up, whereof we all are witnesses." Act 2:24-32
Psalm 22:
The sacrifice
and resurrection of the Messiah are throughout the Old Testament.
Psalm 22, written by
King David a millennium before Christ, gives us the very perspective of
the Lord hanging on the cross.
It describes how the
people mocked Christ (Psalm 22:7-8; Mat 27:41-43), how they cast lots to divide
up his clothes (Psalm 22:18;Mat 27:35), how his bones were out of joint (Psalm
22:14), how the wicked had surrounded him and pierced his hands and feet (Psalm
22:16),
the scars of which
Thomas later got to touch and feel (John 20:27).
Psalm 22 ends by
saying God's righteousness would be declared to "a people that shall be
born"
(Psalm 22:31).
Hebrews noted
in verses 10:4-5, quoting Psalm 40:6:
The sacrifice of
bulls and goats could never take away sin, as the writer of Hebrews noted
in verses 10:4-5,
quoting Psalm 40:6:
"For it is not
possible that the blood of bulls and of goats should take away sins.
Wherefore when he
cometh into the world, he saith,
Sacrifice and
offering thou wouldest not, but a body hast thou prepared me:"
Isaiah 25:8
Throughout the Law
and the Prophets, God revealed His eternal plan of redemption to
mankind.
In advance,
He described the sacrifice and resurrection of the Messiah.
It was a plan He had
purposed before He had even formed humanity.
He then accomplished
it, and through Jesus Christ we have the victory now and forever.
Praise the King!
"He will
swallow up death in victory; and the Lord GOD will wipe away tears from off all
faces; and the rebuke of his people shall he take away from off all the earth:
for the LORD hath spoken it."
Isaiah 25:8
Old Testament
Scriptures Pointing to Christ.
This article is
being written as some have asked what scriptures in the Old Testament point
Still do not
believe?
Dig in yourself
and
prove the
"New Testament
wrong!"