Through scripture the prophets paint a portrait for us of what it will be like when Messiah comes again. I choose to write about the portrait that that Jesus was the Messiah.
Matthew, a Jew, records for us in the New Covenant that though no man knows the day nor hour, we can see the signs for His return. The days will be like the days of Noah when people carried on their activities without thinking of the LORD and scorned those who warned of coming judgment (Matthew 24). The Lord has come to be the sin-bearer and Redeemer of mankind. But we also know that He is coming to rule and reign from Jerusalem.
The prophet Daniel paints a picture for us concerning Messiah's first advent. Daniel was written around 586-530 B.C.E. and therefore after …show more content…
This was accomplished by the marvelous sign revealed through the prophet Isaiah. "Behold a virgin shall conceive, and bear a son, and shall call his name Immanuel" (Isaiah 7:14). A virgin could only conceive by the power of the LORD through the Holy Spirit. The bible stresses nothing is impossible with the LORD. That's what makes the portrait of a Messiah lifelike and because he is the Lord’s Divine Son. That's is what also makes Him the spotless Lamb that can be the sacrifice for our sins. You say the LORD is one LORD. That is true, but we see from Scripture that He is one in unity. The Hebrew term echad used in the Shema (Deuteronomy 6:4) is the very same word used to describe the unity of Adam and Eve becoming one flesh. There is unity in …show more content…
Listen to the LORD Himself as He speaks in Isaiah 48:16, "Come near unto me, hear this: I have not spoken in secret from the beginning; from the time that it was, there am I; and now the Lord God, and his Spirit, hath sent me." A very clear picture of the unity in plurality of the Godhead. Listen to the words of the Messianic Psalm
Matthew, a Jew, records for us in the New Covenant that though no man knows the day nor hour, we can see the signs for His return. The days will be like the days of Noah when people carried on their activities without thinking of the LORD and scorned those who warned of coming judgment (Matthew 24). The Lord has come to be the sin-bearer and Redeemer of mankind. But we also know that He is coming to rule and reign from Jerusalem.
The prophet Daniel paints a picture for us concerning Messiah's first advent. Daniel was written around 586-530 B.C.E. and therefore after …show more content…
This was accomplished by the marvelous sign revealed through the prophet Isaiah. "Behold a virgin shall conceive, and bear a son, and shall call his name Immanuel" (Isaiah 7:14). A virgin could only conceive by the power of the LORD through the Holy Spirit. The bible stresses nothing is impossible with the LORD. That's what makes the portrait of a Messiah lifelike and because he is the Lord’s Divine Son. That's is what also makes Him the spotless Lamb that can be the sacrifice for our sins. You say the LORD is one LORD. That is true, but we see from Scripture that He is one in unity. The Hebrew term echad used in the Shema (Deuteronomy 6:4) is the very same word used to describe the unity of Adam and Eve becoming one flesh. There is unity in …show more content…
Listen to the LORD Himself as He speaks in Isaiah 48:16, "Come near unto me, hear this: I have not spoken in secret from the beginning; from the time that it was, there am I; and now the Lord God, and his Spirit, hath sent me." A very clear picture of the unity in plurality of the Godhead. Listen to the words of the Messianic Psalm