Last week’s message taught us that, “Rejoicing In The World About The Knowledge Of God” should be our status everyday! This leads us to our message today about the ” Precise Predictions Of Jesus Prince Of Peace” which are plentiful throughout the Old Testament!
Old Testament Scripture Reading: Micah 5:1 – 4 (KJV)
Mic 5:1 Now gather thyself in troops, O daughter of troops: he hath laid siege against us: they shall smite the judge of Israel with a rod upon the cheek.
Mic 5:2 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.
Mic 5:3 Therefore will he give them up, until the time that she which travaileth hath brought forth: then the remnant of his brethren shall return unto the children of Israel.
Mic 5:4 And he shall stand and feed in the strength of the LORD, in the majesty of the name of the LORD his God; and they shall abide: for now shall he be great unto the ends of the earth.
New Testament Scripture Reading: Matthew 2:1 – 6 (KJV)
Mat 2:1 Now when Jesus was born in Bethlehem of Judaea in the days of Herod the king, behold, there came wise men from the east to Jerusalem,
Mat 2:2 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.
Mat 2:3 When Herod the king had heard these things, he was troubled, and all Jerusalem with him.
Mat 2:4 And when he had gathered all the chief priests and scribes of the people together, he demanded of them where Christ should be born.
Mat 2:5 And they said unto him, In Bethlehem of Judaea: for thus it is written by the prophet,
Mat 2:6 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.
The Ministries of Jesus have never ended, but they perpetually existed in eternity past, were spoken through the prophets (i.e. In The Bible) from Moses to Malachi and after four hundred years became flesh (JESUS!) were explained via Jesus Himself; and a revealed understanding of them, were completed via Matthew, Mark, Luke, John, Paul, James, the writer to the Hebrews, Peter and Jude