The law and the prophets--that is, the Old
Testament--testified to the coming of Messiah, Jesus Christ.
Matthew 5:17 "Do not think that I have come to abolish
the Law or the Prophets; I have not come to abolish them
but to fulfill them.
Matthew 11:12 From the days of John the Baptist until
now, the kingdom of heaven has been forcefully advancing,
and forceful men lay hold of it.
13 For all the Prophets
and the Law prophesied until John.
Luke 16:16 "The Law and the Prophets were proclaimed
until John. Since that time, the good news of the kingdom
of God is being preached, and everyone is forcing his
way into it.
Luke 24:44 "This is what I told you while I was still
with you: Everything must be fulfilled that is written
about me in the Law of Moses, the Prophets and the
Psalms."
John 1:45 Philip found Nathanael and told him, "We
have found the one Moses wrote about in the Law, and about
whom the prophets also wrote--Jesus of Nazareth, the son of
Joseph."
John 5:39 You diligently study the Scriptures because you
think that by them you possess eternal life. These are
the Scriptures that testify about me,
40 yet you
refuse to come to me to have life.
41 "I do not
accept praise from men,
42 but I know you. I know that
you do not have the love of God in your hearts.
43 I have
come in my Father's name, and you do not accept me; but if
someone else comes in his own name, you will accept
him.
44 How can you believe if you accept praise from one
another, yet make no effort to obtain the praise that comes
from the only God?
45 "But do not think I will accuse you
before the Father. Your accuser is Moses, on whom your
hopes are set.
46 If you believed Moses, you would
believe me, for he wrote about me.
47 But since you
do not believe what he wrote, how are you going to believe
what I say?"
Acts 28:23 They arranged to meet Paul on a certain
day, and came in even larger numbers to the place where he
was staying. From morning till evening he explained and
declared to them the kingdom of God and tried to convince
them about Jesus from the Law of Moses and from the
Prophets.
Romans 3:21 But now a righteousness from God, apart
from law, has been made known, to which the Law and the
Prophets testify.
Matt. 26:55 At that time Jesus said to the crowd, "Am I
leading a rebellion, that you have come out with swords and
clubs to capture me? Every day I sat in the temple courts
teaching, and you did not arrest me.
56 But this has
all taken place that the writings of the prophets might be
fulfilled." Then all the disciples deserted him and
fled.
Luke 1:67 His father Zechariah was filled with the Holy
Spirit and prophesied:
68 "Praise be to the Lord, the God
of Israel, because he has come and has redeemed his
people.
69 He has raised up a horn of salvation for us
in the house of his servant David
70 (as he said
through his holy prophets of long ago),
71 salvation
from our enemies and from the hand of all who hate
us--
72 to show mercy to our fathers and to remember
his holy covenant,
73 the oath he swore to our
father Abraham:
74 to rescue us from the hand of our
enemies, and to enable us to serve him without fear
75
in holiness and righteousness before him all our days
Acts 3:17 "Now, brothers, I know that you acted in
ignorance, as did your leaders.
18 But this is how God
fulfilled what he had foretold through all the
prophets, saying that his Christ would suffer.
19
Repent, then, and turn to God, so that your sins may be
wiped out, that times of refreshing may come from the Lord,
24 "Indeed, all the prophets from Samuel on, as
many as have spoken, have foretold these days.
25
And you are heirs of the prophets and of the covenant God
made with your fathers. He said to Abraham, `Through your
offspring all peoples on earth will be blessed.'
Acts 10:42 He commanded us to preach to the people and to
testify that he is the one whom God appointed as judge of
the living and the dead.
43 All the prophets
testify about him that everyone who believes in him
receives forgiveness of sins through his name."
Acts 13:26 "Brothers, children of Abraham, and you
God-fearing Gentiles, it is to us that this message of
salvation has been sent.
27 The people of Jerusalem and
their rulers did not recognize Jesus, yet in condemning
him they fulfilled the words of the prophets that are read
every Sabbath.
Acts 26:21 That is why the Jews seized me in the temple
courts and tried to kill me.
22 But I have had God's help
to this very day, and so I stand here and testify to small
and great alike. I am saying nothing beyond what the
prophets and Moses said would happen--
23 that the
Christ would suffer and, as the first to rise from the dead,
would proclaim light to his own people and to the
Gentiles."
Romans 1:1 Paul, a servant of Christ Jesus, called to be
an apostle and set apart for the gospel of God--
2 the
gospel he promised beforehand through his prophets in the
Holy Scriptures
3 regarding his Son, who as to
his human nature was a descendant of David,
1 Peter 1:9 for you are receiving the goal of your
faith, the salvation of your souls.
10 Concerning this
salvation, the prophets, who spoke of the grace that was to
come to you, searched intently and with the greatest
care,
11 trying to find out the time and
circumstances to which the Spirit of Christ in them was
pointing when he predicted the sufferings of Christ and the
glories that would follow.
2 Peter 1:18 We ourselves heard this voice that came from
heaven when we were with him on the sacred mountain.
19
And we have the word of the prophets made more
certain, and you will do well to pay attention to it, as
to a light shining in a dark place, until the day dawns and
the morning star rises in your hearts.
20 Above all,
you must understand that no prophecy of Scripture came about
by the prophet's own interpretation.
It is all
about Him.
Grace and peace,
Patti
