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56 of the most significant prophecies from the Old Testament, each fulfilled in Jesus Christ. Written across 970 years by different authors, these prophecies form an undeniable pattern pointing to one person.
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Dates follow the traditional composition date of each book, not the date of the events described.
Explore Interactive Map (312 Prophecies)“And I will put enmity between thee and the woman, and between thy seed and her seed; it shall bruise thy head, and thou shalt bruise his heel.”
“And the God of peace shall bruise Satan under your feet shortly.”
First messianic promise: seed of woman crushes serpent's head
“And in thee shall all families of the earth be blessed.”
“Scripture foresaw that God would justify the Gentiles by faith, and announced the gospel in advance to Abraham: All nations will be blessed through you... and to thy seed, which is Christ.”
All families of earth blessed through Abraham's seed
“Abraham... bound Isaac his son, and laid him on the altar... God will provide himself a lamb”
“He received him in a figure”
The Akedah is a profound type of Christ's sacrifice.
“The sceptre shall not depart from Judah, nor a lawgiver from between his feet, until Shiloh come; and unto him shall the gathering of the people be.”
“For it is evident that our Lord sprang out of Juda”
Scepter remains with Judah until Shiloh comes
“When I see the blood, I will pass over you”
“For even Christ our passover is sacrificed for us”
The Passover lamb explicitly typifies Christ.
“Make thee a fiery serpent, and set it upon a pole”
“Even so must the Son of man be lifted up”
Jesus explicitly used this as a type of His crucifixion.
“I shall see him, but not now: I shall behold him, but not nigh: there shall come a Star out of Jacob, and a Sceptre shall rise out of Israel.”
“Saying, Where is he that is born King of the Jews? for we have seen his star in the east, and are come to worship him.”
A star and scepter rising from Israel
“The LORD thy God will raise up unto thee a Prophet from the midst of thee, of thy brethren, like unto me; unto him ye shall hearken.”
“For Moses truly said unto the fathers, A prophet shall the Lord your God raise up unto you of your brethren, like unto me; him shall ye hear in all things.”
God will raise a prophet like Moses whom they must hear
“I will set up thy seed after thee... I will establish the throne of his kingdom for ever. I will be his father, and he shall be my son.”
“He shall be great, and shall be called the Son of the Highest: and the Lord God shall give unto him the throne of his father David: And he shall reign over the house of Jacob for ever; and of his kingdom there shall be no end.”
Eternal throne promised to David's descendant
“Why do the heathen rage... The kings of the earth set themselves... against the LORD, and against his anointed”
“The kings of the earth stood up... against the Lord, and against his Christ”
Psalm 2 prophesied rulers conspiring against Messiah; fulfilled in Jesus's trial.
“For thou wilt not leave my soul in hell; neither wilt thou suffer thine Holy One to see corruption”
“Neither wilt thou suffer thine Holy One to see corruption”
David prophesied that God's Holy One would not see decay; fulfilled in Jesus's resurrection.
“My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me?”
“Eli, Eli, lama sabachthani?”
Jesus quoted Psalm 22:1 from the cross, invoking the entire psalm.
“They pierced my hands and my feet”
“Except I shall see in his hands the print of the nails”
David described piercing of hands and feet 1000 years before crucifixion was invented.
“They part my garments among them, and cast lots upon my vesture”
“They parted my raiment among them, and for my vesture they did cast lots”
David prophesied garment division and lot-casting; fulfilled precisely at the cross.
“Into thine hand I commit my spirit”
“Father, into thy hands I commend my spirit”
David's words of trust became Jesus's final words, committing His spirit to the Father.
“He keepeth all his bones: not one of them is broken”
“They brake not his legs”
David prophesied no broken bones; fulfilled when soldiers did not break Jesus's legs.
“Which did eat of my bread, hath lifted up his heel against me”
“He that eateth bread with me”
Jesus explicitly quoted Psalm 41 to identify His betrayer.
“Thy throne, O God, is for ever and ever: the sceptre of thy kingdom is a right sceptre. Thou lovest righteousness... therefore God, thy God, hath anointed thee.”
“But unto the Son he saith, Thy throne, O God, is for ever and ever: a sceptre of righteousness is the sceptre of thy kingdom.”
King addressed as God with eternal throne
“Thou hast ascended on high”
“When he ascended up on high”
Paul explicitly applies Psalm 68 to Christ's ascension.
“For the zeal of thine house hath eaten me up”
“The zeal of thine house hath eaten me up”
David's zeal typified Messiah's; fulfilled in Jesus's temple cleansing.
“They gave me also gall for my meat; and in my thirst they gave me vinegar to drink”
“They filled a sponge with vinegar”
David prophesied vinegar for thirst; fulfilled at the crucifixion.
“The kings of Tarshish and of the isles shall bring presents: the kings of Sheba and Seba shall offer gifts. Yea, all kings shall fall down before him: all nations shall serve him.”
“And when they were come into the house, they saw the young child with Mary his mother, and fell down, and worshipped him: and when they had opened their treasures, they presented unto him gifts; gold, and frankincense, and myrrh.”
Kings of Tarshish and Sheba bring gifts; all nations serve him
“I will open my mouth in a parable; I will utter dark sayings of old”
“I will open my mouth in parables”
The Psalmist prophesied a teacher who would reveal ancient mysteries through parables; Jesus fulfilled this.
“The LORD said unto my Lord, Sit thou at my right hand, until I make thine enemies thy footstool”
“The LORD said unto my Lord, Sit thou on my right hand”
Psalm 110 is the most quoted psalm in the NT; Jesus is David's Lord enthroned.
“Thou art a priest for ever after the order of Melchizedek”
“Thou art a priest for ever after the order of Melchisedec”
The Messiah is a priest of a different order than Levi, eternal like Melchizedek.
“The stone which the builders refused is become the head stone of the corner”
“The stone which the builders rejected”
The psalm prophesied that the rejected one would become chief; fulfilled in Jesus's rejection and exaltation.
“Make the heart of this people fat, and make their ears heavy, and shut their eyes”
“By hearing ye shall hear, and shall not understand”
Isaiah prophesied Israel's blindness; Jesus cited this to explain the rejection He faced.
“Therefore the Lord himself shall give you a sign; Behold, a virgin shall conceive, and bear a son, and shall call his name Immanuel.”
“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.”
A virgin conceives and bears Immanuel
“The people that walked in darkness have seen a great light”
“The people which sat in darkness saw great light”
Isaiah prophesied great light in Galilee; Jesus began His ministry there.
“For unto us a child is born, unto us a son is given: and the government shall be upon his shoulder: and his name shall be called Wonderful, Counsellor, The mighty God, The everlasting Father, The Prince of Peace. Of the increase of his government and peace there shall be no end, upon the throne of David.”
“For unto you is born this day in the city of David a Saviour, which is Christ the Lord.”
Child born who is Mighty God, Everlasting Father, Prince of Peace
“And there shall come forth a rod out of the stem of Jesse, and a Branch shall grow out of his roots: And the spirit of the LORD shall rest upon him.”
“And again, Esaias saith, There shall be a root of Jesse, and he that shall rise to reign over the Gentiles; in him shall the Gentiles trust.”
Shoot from Jesse's stump, Spirit-anointed
“Then the eyes of the blind shall be opened”
“And their eyes were opened”
Isaiah prophesied that when God comes to save, the blind will see. Jesus fulfilled this repeatedly.
“The voice of him that crieth in the wilderness, Prepare ye the way of the LORD, make straight in the desert a highway for our God.”
“He said, I am the voice of one crying in the wilderness, Make straight the way of the Lord, as said the prophet Esaias.”
A voice cries: prepare the way of the LORD in the wilderness
“Behold my servant, whom I uphold; mine elect, in whom my soul delighteth”
“Behold my servant, whom I have chosen”
Isaiah introduced the Servant of YHWH; Jesus was identified as this Servant.
“I will also give thee for a light to the Gentiles, that thou mayest be my salvation unto the end of the earth”
“I have set thee to be a light of the Gentiles”
The Servant's light reaches Gentiles through the church's mission.
“I gave my back to the smiters, and my cheeks to them that plucked off the hair: I hid not my face from shame and spitting”
“Then did they spit in his face, and buffeted him”
Isaiah described the Servant giving His back to smiters and face to spitting; fulfilled literally.
“And with his stripes we are healed”
“By whose stripes ye were healed”
Isaiah prophesied healing through the Servant's wounds; fulfilled in Jesus's scourging.
“He was oppressed, and he was afflicted, yet he opened not his mouth”
“He answered him to never a word”
Isaiah prophesied the Servant's silence under accusation; Jesus fulfilled this remarkably.
“And he made his grave with the wicked, and with the rich in his death”
“A rich man of Arimathaea, named Joseph... laid it in his own new tomb”
Isaiah prophesied the Servant would be with the rich in death; fulfilled by Joseph of Arimathea.
“And he was numbered with the transgressors”
“And he was numbered with the transgressors”
Isaiah prophesied the Servant would be counted with criminals; fulfilled literally.
“The Spirit of the Lord GOD is upon me; because the LORD has anointed me to preach good tidings unto the meek”
“The Spirit of the Lord is upon me”
Jesus publicly claimed Isaiah 61 as His mission statement, declaring its fulfillment in Himself.
“Behold, the days come, saith the LORD, that I will raise unto David a righteous Branch, and a King shall reign and prosper... and this is his name whereby he shall be called, THE LORD OUR RIGHTEOUSNESS.”
“But of him are ye in Christ Jesus, who of God is made unto us wisdom, and righteousness, and sanctification, and redemption”
David's righteous Branch called "The LORD Our Righteousness"
“Behold, the days come, saith the LORD, that I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel”
“This cup is the new testament in my blood”
Jeremiah prophesied a new covenant; Jesus inaugurated it with His blood.
“And I will set up one shepherd over them... even my servant David”
“I am the good shepherd”
Ezekiel prophesied one shepherd, David's son; Jesus claimed this identity.
“Behold, one like the Son of man came with the clouds of heaven”
“A cloud received him out of their sight”
Daniel's Son of Man comes on clouds; Jesus ascended in clouds.
“Seventy weeks are determined upon thy people and upon thy holy city, to finish the transgression, and to make an end of sins, and to make reconciliation for iniquity, and to bring in everlasting righteousness, and to seal up the vision and prophecy, and to anoint the most Holy. Know therefore and understand, that from the going forth of the commandment to restore and to build Jerusalem unto the Messiah the Prince shall be seven weeks, and threescore and two weeks: the street shall be built again, and the wall, even in troublous times. And after threescore and two weeks shall Messiah be cut off, but not for himself: and the people of the prince that shall come shall destroy the city and the sanctuary; and the end thereof shall be with a flood, and unto the end of the war desolations are determined. And he shall confirm the covenant with many for one week: and in the midst of the week he shall cause the sacrifice and the oblation to cease, and for the overspreading of abominations he shall make it desolate, even until the consummation, and that determined shall be poured upon the desolate.”
“The time is fulfilled, and the kingdom of God is at hand”
69 weeks from decree until Messiah the Prince
“When Israel was a child, then I loved him, and called my son out of Egypt.”
“And was there until the death of Herod: that it might be fulfilled which was spoken of the Lord by the prophet, saying, Out of Egypt have I called my son.”
God calls his son out of Egypt
“I will pour out my spirit upon all flesh”
“I will pour out of my Spirit upon all flesh”
Joel prophesied universal Spirit outpouring; fulfilled at Pentecost.
“And Jonah was in the belly of the fish three days and three nights”
“So shall the Son of man be three days and three nights in the heart of the earth”
Jesus declared Jonah's experience a sign of His coming death and resurrection.
“But thou, Bethlehem Ephratah, though thou be little among the thousands of Judah, yet out of thee shall he come forth unto me that is to be ruler in Israel; whose goings forth have been from of old, from everlasting.”
“And they said unto him, In Bethlehem of Judaea: for thus it is written by the prophet, And thou Bethlehem, in the land of Juda, art not the least among the princes of Juda: for out of thee shall come a Governor, that shall rule my people Israel.”
Ruler from Bethlehem with eternal origins
“Rejoice greatly, O daughter of Zion; shout, O daughter of Jerusalem: behold, thy King cometh unto thee: he is just, and having salvation; lowly, and riding upon an ass, and upon a colt the foal of an ass”
“Behold, thy King cometh unto thee, meek, and sitting upon an ass”
Zechariah prophesied the King would enter Jerusalem on a donkey; Jesus deliberately arranged this.
“And they weighed for my price thirty pieces of silver”
“And they covenanted with him for thirty pieces of silver”
Zechariah prophesied the shepherd valued at slave price; Jesus was betrayed for exactly this amount.
“And I cast them to the potter in the house of the LORD”
“And he cast down the pieces of silver in the temple... and bought with them the potter's field”
Zechariah prophesied money thrown in the temple for the potter; fulfilled precisely.
“And they shall look upon me whom they have pierced”
“One of the soldiers with a spear pierced his side”
Zechariah prophesied the piercing of God; fulfilled when Jesus's side was pierced.
“Smite the shepherd, and the sheep shall be scattered”
“I will smite the shepherd, and the sheep of the flock shall be scattered”
Zechariah prophesied that striking the shepherd would scatter the flock; fulfilled when disciples fled.
“Behold, I will send my messenger, and he shall prepare the way before me.”
“For this is he, of whom it is written, Behold, I send my messenger before thy face, which shall prepare thy way before thee.”
God sends messenger to prepare way before him
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