Isaiah 53 is a prophecy of Christ, and when I was reading it the other day, one verse really blessed me. I genuinely can’t understand why anyone doubts the validity of Christ’s atoning death when Scripture offers so many details of His life thousands of years before He came to earth.
“He was assigned a grave with the wicked, and with the rich in his death, though he had done no violence, nor was any deceit in his mouth.”
Not only does this prophecy explain that Jesus was “assigned a grave with the wicked”—crucified as a common criminal in a most evil way. It also prophesies that He would have a grave with the rich because the rich man, Joseph of Arimathea, gave Jesus his tomb (Matthew 27:57-60).
Christ fulfilled over 300 Old Testament prophecies like this. (source)
One expert calculated that the chance of anyone fulfilling that many prophecies is one chance in 100,000,000,000,000,000, and he offered this analogy:
If the state of Texas were covered with 100,000,000,000,000,000 silver dollars, they would be two feet deep. If one coin were marked and a blindfolded person, without knowing where the marked coin was, found it on his first try, that would compare to someone fulfilling all the Old Testament prophecies Jesus fulfilled. (source)
Impossible! Unless you are the Son of God.
Only a fool would claim there’s not enough proof to believe in Christ!
Only a fool would claim there’s not enough proof to believe in Christ!
For more encouragement, see Why We Trust a Bible “Written by Men” and check out the wonderful symbolism of Jesus in the Old Testament.
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