WHAT PROPHECIES CONCERN JESUS CHRIST?
There are 332 references in the Old Testament prophecies written at least 450 years before the birth of Jesus concerning His birth, His life, His death and His resurrection. “But”, says the sceptic, “how can we be sure that all of these were in fact written before the birth of Jesus? Could they not have been written after the life of Jesus?” The Old Testament was completed 450 years before His birth in Hebrew, and translated into Greek 250BC. Copies of that translation made 250 years before His birth are still in existence today bearing those same prophecies! “Well,” says the sceptic, “would it not be possible for Jesus to have so learnt the prophecies that He arranged His life so they seemed to be fulfilled?” Nice argument! But many of those prophecies involved other people, including people before His birth, including people of other races, cultures and languages who had not heard of the prophecies and who would never have dreamed that what they decided in Rome or Persia would have r