Psalm 40:6-8, “6 Sacrifice and offering thou didst not desire; mine ears hast thou opened: burnt offering and sin offering hast thou not required. 7 Then said I, Lo, I come: in the volume of the book it is written of me, 8 I delight to do thy will, O my God: yea, thy law is within my heart.”
These verses are distinctly Messianic! God had required sacrifices and offerings for the nation of Israel as types of the ultimate sacrifice of Jesus as a propitiation for sins. John 1:29, “The next day John seeth Jesus coming unto him, and saith, Behold the Lamb of God, which taketh away the sin of the world.”
A few verses earlier, Psalm 40:2. “He brought me up also out of an horrible pit, out of the miry clay, and set my feet upon a rock, and established my goings.” Resurrection after three days and nights in the tomb? Brings to mind Daniel 2:43, “And whereas thou sawest iron mixed with miry clay, they shall mingle themselves with the seed of men: but they shall not cleave one to another, even as iron is not mixed with clay.”
The stone cut out of the mountain without hands that shattered the status in Nebuchadnezzar’s dream was a foretelling of Jesus at the end of days. The miry clay could relate to Genesis 6:2, “That the sons of God saw the daughters of men that they were fair; and they took them wives of all which they chose.” A little further out of the box, Jude 1:6, “And the angels which kept not their first estate, but left their own habitation, he hath reserved in everlasting chains under darkness unto the judgment of the great day.”
Jesus was quoted by Paul as confirmation, Hebrews 10:6-7, “6 In burnt offerings and sacrifices for sin thou hast had no pleasure. 7 Then said I, Lo, I come (in the volume of the book it is written of me,) to do thy will, O God.”
A mystery in Numbers 21:8, “And the LORD said unto Moses, Make thee a fiery serpent, and set it upon a pole: and it shall come to pass, that every one that is bitten, when he looketh upon it, shall live.” Explained in John 3:14, “And as Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness, even so must the Son of man be lifted up.” Again Jesus, a propitiation for sins.
Hundreds of Old Testament prophecies fulfilled by Jesus, and yet Matthew 7:14, “Because strait is the gate, and narrow is the way, which leadeth unto life, and few there be that find it.” Rather most rush through the wide gate “that leadeth to destruction.”
44 Messianic Prophecies Fulfilled by Jesus Christ
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353 Prophecies Fulfilled in Jesus Christ
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