Day 166 - Psalm 17-24 (Is Jesus Your Messiah?)
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"My God, My God, why have You forsaken Me?
All those who see Me ridicule Me;
They shoot out the lip, they shake the head, saying,
"He trusted in the LORD, let Him rescue Him;
Let Him deliver Him, since He delights in Him!"
They pierced My hands and My feet;
I can count all My bones.
They look and stare at Me.
They divide My garments among them,
And for My clothing they cast lots.
(Psalm 22:1, 7, 8, 17, 18)
If I did not know that the above text was from the book of Psalm, you may think that it came right out of the New Testament gospels if you are familiar with it as many are. The reason for that is simple, the various verses above I have copied and pasted from Psalm 22 were all spoken by our Lord Jesus as He hung on the cross.
Many prophecies in the Old Testament were written by the prophets without them knowing what they were writing about. Such is the case with the above verses. David wrote them as sort of prophetic "inserts" under the inspiration of the Holy Spirit without him knowing what he was writing about. For sure, David would not have known that the Messiah would utter those exact words one thousand years later.
The fact that Jesus Christ fulfilled the handful of prophecies about the Messiah from Psalm 22 should be enough to make any skeptic believe that Jesus indeed is the Christ of the Bible. Could it be mere co-incidence? Impossible! Jesus fulfilled a total of 456 prophecies about the Messiah.
After examining only eight different prophecies several Mathematicians conservatively estimated that the chance of one man fulfilling all eight prophecies was one in 10^17. To illustrate how large the number 10^17 IS (a figure with 17 zeros), Stoner gave this illustration:
"If you mark one of ten tickets, and place all the tickets in a hat, and thoroughly stir them, and then ask a blindfolded man to draw one, his chance of getting the right ticket is one in ten. Suppose that we take 10^17 silver dollars and lay them on the face of Texas. They'll cover all of the state two feet deep. Now mark one of these silver dollars and stir the whole mass thoroughly, all over the state. Blindfold a man and tell him that he can travel as far as he wishes, but he must pick up one silver dollar and say that this is the right one. What chance would he have of getting the right one? Just the same chance that the prophets would've had of writing these eight prophecies and having them all come true in any one man, from their day to the present time, providing they wrote them in their own wisdom" (http://www.biblebelievers.org.au/radio034.htm)
"God so thoroughly vindicated Jesus Christ that even mathematicians and statisticians, who were without faith, had to acknowledge that it is scientifically impossible to deny that Jesus is the Christ." (idem)
Only a completely disillusioned person would deny that Jesus is who He claimed to be - the Messiah of Scriptures and of the world. The question is, "Is He your Messiah?"
I can count all My bones.
They look and stare at Me.
They divide My garments among them,
And for My clothing they cast lots.
(Psalm 22:1, 7, 8, 17, 18)
If I did not know that the above text was from the book of Psalm, you may think that it came right out of the New Testament gospels if you are familiar with it as many are. The reason for that is simple, the various verses above I have copied and pasted from Psalm 22 were all spoken by our Lord Jesus as He hung on the cross.
Many prophecies in the Old Testament were written by the prophets without them knowing what they were writing about. Such is the case with the above verses. David wrote them as sort of prophetic "inserts" under the inspiration of the Holy Spirit without him knowing what he was writing about. For sure, David would not have known that the Messiah would utter those exact words one thousand years later.
The fact that Jesus Christ fulfilled the handful of prophecies about the Messiah from Psalm 22 should be enough to make any skeptic believe that Jesus indeed is the Christ of the Bible. Could it be mere co-incidence? Impossible! Jesus fulfilled a total of 456 prophecies about the Messiah.
After examining only eight different prophecies several Mathematicians conservatively estimated that the chance of one man fulfilling all eight prophecies was one in 10^17. To illustrate how large the number 10^17 IS (a figure with 17 zeros), Stoner gave this illustration:
"If you mark one of ten tickets, and place all the tickets in a hat, and thoroughly stir them, and then ask a blindfolded man to draw one, his chance of getting the right ticket is one in ten. Suppose that we take 10^17 silver dollars and lay them on the face of Texas. They'll cover all of the state two feet deep. Now mark one of these silver dollars and stir the whole mass thoroughly, all over the state. Blindfold a man and tell him that he can travel as far as he wishes, but he must pick up one silver dollar and say that this is the right one. What chance would he have of getting the right one? Just the same chance that the prophets would've had of writing these eight prophecies and having them all come true in any one man, from their day to the present time, providing they wrote them in their own wisdom" (http://www.biblebelievers.org.au/radio034.htm)
"God so thoroughly vindicated Jesus Christ that even mathematicians and statisticians, who were without faith, had to acknowledge that it is scientifically impossible to deny that Jesus is the Christ." (idem)
Only a completely disillusioned person would deny that Jesus is who He claimed to be - the Messiah of Scriptures and of the world. The question is, "Is He your Messiah?"
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