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OT - Messianic Prophecy A Messianic prophecy is a prophecy concerning the future Messiah The odds of any one person in history fulfilling just 8 of the 300+ Messianic prophecies is 1/1017th The mathematical computation we use to calculate this number is ca...

OT - Messianic Prophecy A Messianic prophecy is a prophecy concerning the future Messiah The odds of any one person in history fulfilling just 8 of the 300+ Messianic prophecies is 1/1017th The mathematical computation we use to calculate this number is called composite probabilities. That’s like marking a silver dollar with an X, mixing it up, blindfolding someone and asking them to choose that particular silver dollar at random if we deposited that silver dollar in a pool of silver dollars the size the state of Texas (256,000 square miles) two feet deep with silver dollars. The odds of any one person in history fulfilling just 16 of the 300+ Messianic prophecies is 1/1045th To put this into perspective, the secular world of science defines an impossible event as… 1/1050th Incidentally…the odds of any one person in history fulfilling 48 of the 300+ Messianic prophecies is 1/10157th For this example, we can’t use silver dollars because they are way too big. So, we will have to make a ball of every atom in the universe, which is 1066th atoms. But we’re not even close yet. So, we have to make one of these balls for each atom of the universe. Composite probability is: 1066th X 1066th = 10132nd That’s still not enough, so we will now imagine that we will have this many atoms to choose from for every second since the [supposed] beginning of the universe (15.3 billion years). That number turns out to be 1017th 10132nd x 1017th = 10149th And then we are still short by 100,000,000 to 1 !!!!!!!! (108th) From the math and common logic, this should tell us that we should be more certain of the identity of Jesus Christ than our own identity. If you have the opportunity to have a spiritual conversation with a Jewish person, a great place to take them would be Psalm 22 and Isaiah 53 because they are both dense with Messianic prophecy. In fact, many sects of Judaism skip these chapters in their annual readings because they perfectly reflect the life of the historical Jesus and Him fulfilling the Messianic prophecies. Jn 20:24-29 Jesus fulfills the prophecy of Zechariah 13:6. He is cut to the heart with Thomas’ unbelief in His resurrection. According to the scriptures is something we see in the core verses of the Gospel, 1 Corinthians 15:3-4. It is simply referring to the Messiah fulfilling the specific details in the 300+ Messianic prophecies of the Old Testament (Tanakh). In Luke 4:14-30, Jesus reads from Isaiah 61:1-2. He then sits down and says, “Today this Scripture is fulfilled in your hearing” (Lk 4:21). This was Him literally, and clearly, claiming to be God incarnate. And once again, the people tried to kill Him (v28-30). The “Scepter Prophecy” is when Jacob prophesied over his 12 sons. The Scepter Prophecy ​ Gen 49:10 ​ Scepter refers to their tribal identity and the right to apply and enforce Mosaic Laws and adjudicate laws, namely capital offenses: jus gladii (lit. means “the right of the sword” in Latin; it refers to the power or right to give the death penalty; especially for provincial governors) ​ It is significant that during their 70-year Babylonian captivity (606-537 b.c.) the tribes retained their tribal identity. They retained their own logistics, judges, etc… (Ezek 1:5,8) ​ The term Shiloh was understood by the early rabbis and Talmudic authorities as referring to the Messiah. The Hebrew word Shiloh should be rendered “whose it is”, that is, the scepter will not depart from Judah until He comes to whom it belongs. ​ In 6-7 A.D., King Herod’s son and successor, Herod Archelaus, was dethroned and banished to Vienna, a city in Gaul. Archelaus was the second son of Herod the Great. The older son, Herod Antipater, had been murdered by Herod the Great, along with other family members. ​ After the death of Herod (4 B.C. ?), Archelaus had been placed over Judea as “Entharch” (the governor [not king] of a district) by Caesar Augustus. Broadly rejected, he was removed in 6-7 A.D. He was replaced by a Roman procurator (an agent representing others in a court of law in countries retaining Roman civil law) named Caponius. The legal power of the Sanhedrin was immediately restricted and the adjudication of capital cases was lost. The was normal Roman policy. o​ Reference John 18:31b. ​ The bottom line here is that the religious Jewish leadership were convinced that the word of God had been broken… and therefore failed. ​ They thought this because the scepter had departed (meaning they lost their sovereign authority to self-govern their own people, which was defined by their right and legal ability to execute their own criminals [Jn 18:31b]). ​ What they didn’t know was that there was a young Boy playing in His father’s carpenter shop about 12 miles to the North. ​ The Jerusalem Talmud records that the Jews walked around Jerusalem wearing sackcloth and ashes, beating their chests and repeating: “Woe to us, for the scepter has departed and Messiah has not yet come.”.