The prophets of the Old Testament spoke some profound things. What they said shook the world enough to make kings tremble. They served as God’s mouthpiece and dealt with burning issues of the day.
As we read the prophets, we notice that they spoke of Christ, the Messiah, in bits and pieces. However, when we put all the pieces together it fits only one person, the Lord Jesus Christ.
- He is the promised seed of Adam who would crush Satan’s head (Genesis 3:15).
- He is the descendent of Abraham through whom every nation on earth would be blessed (Genesis 12:3).
- He is the Passover Lamb who was slain to protect God’s people from the Angel of Death (Exodus 12)
- He is the true bread from heaven that actually nourishes and feeds his people (Exodus 16).
- He is the Rock from whom the only life-giving water flows (Exodus 17).
- He is the star that shall come out of Jacob, and the scepter that comes out of Israel (Numbers 24:17).
- He is a city of refuge for guilty sinners to run into and find shelter (Numbers 34).
- He leads his redeemed people into the Promised Land where they will dwell with him forever (Joshua 3).
- He is our conquering warrior, victorious over the powers of sin and death (Joshua 5).
- He is the offspring of David whose kingdom has been established forever (2 Samuel 7).
- He is Job’s hope and ours because we know that our Redeemer lives and at the last he will stand upon the earth (Job 19:25).
- He is the greater Son of David who will sit at Yahweh’s right hand until all his enemies are as footstools, and is the priest forever in the order of Melchizedek (Psalm 110).
- He is the Word of God incarnate, and the only lamp for our path (Psalm 119).
- He is the sign to Ahaz, one named Immanuel and born to a virgin (Isaiah 7).
- He is the Righteous Branch from David who will deal wisely and execute justice and righteousness in the land (Jeremiah 23).
- He is the ruler from Bethlehem Ephrathah, whose origin is of old, from ancient days (Micah 5).
- He is the sun of righteousness, who will rise with healing in his wings, and as a result of what he has done, we, like calves, will go out leaping from our stalls (Malachi 4).
