ONE HEARTBEAT AWAY - PART 29

                                              ONE HEARTBEAT               AWAY
                                                    PART 29


(Mark Cahill's Book)

6.    Deuteronomy 18:18  says the 
        Messiah would be a prophet

I will raise them up a prophet from among their brethren, like unto thee, and I will put My words in his mouth; and he shall speak unto them all that I command him.

This prophecy was fulfilled in Matthew 21:11 when the multitude said , this is Jesus, the prophet of Nazareth, of Galilee.

God said His Son would be a prophet and He was.

7.  The Messiah would have an unusual
      manifestation of the Holy Spirit. 
      Isaiah 11:2  says of this:

And the Spirit of the Lord shall rest upon Him, the spirit of wisdom and understanding, the spirit of counsel and might, the spirit of knowledge and the fear of the Lord.

Matthew tells us of events that confirmed the fulfillment of this prophecy, including Matthew 3:16-17
Which states:

And Jesus, when He was baptised, went up straightway out of the water: and lo, the heavens were opened unto Him, and He saw the Spirit of God descending like a dove, and lighting upon Him:

And lo, a voice from heaven saying, This is My Beloved Son, in Whom I am well pleased.

God said His Son would have an unusual manifestation of the Holy Spirit , and He did.

8.  The Messiah would also have a 
      ministry of miracles, as foretold in 
      Isaiah 35:6

Then shall the lame man leap as an hart, and the tongue of the dumb sing, for in the wilderness shall waters break out, 
 and streams in the desert.

This prophecy was fulfilled continually in the ministry of Jesus. For instance 
Matthew 9:35 says:

And Jesus went about all the cities and villages, teaching in their synogogues, and preaching the gospel of the kingdom, and healing every sickness and every disease among the people.

And Matthew 15: 29-31 tells us that:

And Jesus departed from thence, and came nigh unto the sea of Galilee;  and went up into a mountain, and sat down there.

And great multitudes came unto Him, having with them those that were lame, blind, dumb, maimed and many others , and cast them down at Jesus' feet ; and He healed them.

Insomuch that the multitude wondered, when they saw the dumb to speak, the maimed to be whole, the lame to walk, and the blind to see: and they glorified the God of Israel.

God said that His Son would perform miracles and He did.

9.  The Old Testament prophesies
      that the Messiah would rise from
      the dead  Psalm 16:10  says:

For Thou wilt not leave my soul in hell; neither wilt Thou allow Thine Holy One to see corruption. 

We are told by an apostle in Acts 2:31  that this prophecy was fulfilled by Jesus' resurrection, and he referred to the  above verse. 

He seeing this before spake of the resurrection of Christ, that His soul was not left in hell, neither His flesh did see corruption.

What an amazing prophecy!  Hundreds of years before the Son of God walked the earth, it was predicted that He would rise from the dead, and He did.

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