What are some examples of Jesus Christ in the Old Testament?

Question

"And beginning with Moses and all the Prophets, he explained to them what was said in all the Scriptures concerning himself." (Lk 24:27)

I am compiling a list of references to His existence (such as the "fourth man" in the burning furnace of King Neb...), symbolism (the rock of Moses, Tabernacle, etc), and foreshadowing pointing to Christ in the OT....Can anyone think of an interesting one for me to use? Thanks!!!

Answer 1

Seed of the woman: Gen. 3: 15 , Galatians 4:4

Seed of Abraham: Genesis 12: 1-4, John 8: 56, John 4:22

Shiloh: Gen 49:8-12, Is. 9:6

Suffering Messiah: Ps. 22: 22-31, Isa. 53: 10-12


Branch: Is. 4:2, Zech 6: 12-13

Messiah in Daniel : Dan 9: 24-27

Messiah Shepherd: Ps. 223, Is. 40:11, John 10:11

MELCHIZEDEK (Gen. 14:18 ff, Psalm 110) is seen in the Epistle to the Hebrews as a type of Christ, foreshadowing a new priesthood not derived from Aaron, and offering as his sacrifice bread and wine.

ISAAC (Gen. 22) is the Only Son willing to be offered as a sacrifice, carrying the wood on his shoulder. (Cf. Hebrews 11:17 ff).

JOSHUA (the name is the same word as Jesus) leads the people of God over the Jordan river into the Promised Land. (Joshua 3 ff) This is a type of Baptism. Moses, the law-giver, cannot enter the Promised Land. For Christians the law is holy, but incomplete, and it is Jesus, not our righteousness, that leads us to the Kingdom. As St. John puts it, The law was given by Moses, but grace and truth came by Jesus Christ (John 1:17,


Ruler of Israel : "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." (Micah 5:2)

Immanuel: "Therefore the Lord himself shall give you a sign; Behold, a virgin shall conceive, and bear a son, and shall call his name Immanuel." (Isaiah 7:14)

The Lord: "The voice of him that crieth in the wilderness, Prepare ye the way of the LORD, make straight in the desert a highway for our God." (Isaiah 40:3)

Answer 2

certainly, no. The gospels have been written to make it sound like Jesus fulfilled prophecy. There are 3 ordinary styles of prophecies in those lists. First are the passages from the previous testomony that have been by no skill meant as prophecy yet have been echoed contained in the gospels. The passages from Psalms are the main glaring examples of that. No respected Bible pupil claims that the Psalms have been meant as prophecy; they have been of course songs of compliment. 2nd are the prophecies that have been certainly approximately something else. a lot of them have been with regard to the rustic of Israel, not some Messiah, yet Christian translations of specific passages comprise some quite self-serving be conscious options that make it sound like the passage refers to somebody quite than a rustic. The meant virgin start prophecy became some difficulty that became going on at that factor, not some Messianic parent that doesn't be born for hundreds of years. every physique who reads it in context can tell that, yet curiously maximum Christians by no skill difficulty with the context or have desperate that they already be responsive to what it skill so as that they don't could desire to word what the context is. third are thoughts that have been of course invented to make it sound like Jesus became the prophesied Messiah. the main glaring occasion is that the authors of Luke and Matthew have been given Jesus born in Bethlehem yet raised in Nazareth by using 2 thoroughly distinctive and incompatible thoughts. that is quite glaring that the thoughts have been basically invented to impression their purpose audience.

Answer 3

There are no examples of Jesus in the so-called "Old Testament". What the Church did was try to back-engineer false prophecies, changing the words and meanings of verses in the Old Testament to try to make it look like Jesus is found there. He isn't.

Just one example (and there are dozens) of where the Church did this is in Isaiah 9:6.

Your Christian bible has this:

"For unto us a child is born, unto us a son is given: and the government shall be upon his shoulder: and his name shall be called Wonderful, Counsellor, The mighty God, The everlasting Father, The Prince of Peace."

However, this is NOT what it says. It actually says this:

"To us a child is born, to us a son is given: and the government shall be upon his shoulder: and GOD the Wonderful, the Counsellor, the Mighty, the Everlasting Father, CALLED HIS NAME SAR SHALOM."

As you can see, the child there was NOT the one being called "Wonderful, Counsellor, Mighty, Everlasting Father". GOD the Father was being called all those names.

The ONLY name that God called the child in this verse was "sar shalom" which means prince of peace. And this is referring to the child of Ahaz, who was King Hezekiah, who saved Jerusalem from the seige by Sennerachib. It is NOT referring to Jesus, nor is this even a verse referring to the Messiah at all in the first place, never has been.

Then there is the virgin birth verse, in which the Church has deliberately mistranslated the word for "young woman" which is "almah" (the word actually used there) into "virgin" which is "betulah" (which is not used there). The Church actually admitted doing this, and many bibles today are no longer printing "virgin" anymore, but "young woman" as is correct. ALL women back then who gave birth were "young women", except Sarah of course.

This is just the tip of the iceberg. There has never been any virgin birth impregnated by a god prophecy for the Messiah, this has never existed in Judaism but was brought in from ancient pagan religions by the Church. Same with the Messiah being a virgin human/god-man sacrifice for sin, etc. None of this has ever existed except in ancient pagan religions that the Church incorporated. There is no such thing as this in Judaism, it is not what God gave on Mt. Sinai, and it is completely incorrect.


If you want to know the actual meanings of what is in the "Old Testament" ask the religious Jews who are the holders of the truth of what is in the Torah, given to them by GOD HIMSELF on Mt. Sinai, and never changed. And no, the Jews are not blind, which was a very convenient lie the Church told in order to get away with the pagan changes they made for their followers in their bible without their followers wanting to go to the Jews and find out what it really says. Of course, the Church consistently murdered Jews who spoke out against these perversions to the Torah and tried to teach the Gentiles what it really said.

Have a look at these:

http://www.aish.com/spirituality/philoso...

http://www.messiahtruth.com/response.htm...

http://ohr.edu/ask/ask00j.htm

http://shamash.org/lists/scj-faq/HTML/fa...

http://www.beingjewish.com/toshuv/whynot...

http://www.askmoses.com/article.html?h=1...

http://www.jewsforjudaism.com

If you are interested in learning the actual way that God gave in the Torah and on Mt. Sinai for the Gentiles to merit their place in the World To Come, please see: http://www.noahide.org It does not involve human pagan virgin blood sacrifice for sin, either.

Answer 4

Psalm 22

Answer 5

The original sacrifice of Cain and Abel is an example of Christ Metaphor.

Abel's sacrifice of an unblemished Lamb, that wasn't a result of his efforts mirrors Christ, while Cain's Vegetables were the result of his hard work and mirror man's works.

Apparently God doesn't accept our efforts.

Answer 6

I don't remember the book and verse, but when God is giving Moses instructions on preparing the Passover meal (I think) He says to sacrifice an unblemished lamb and that it's bones shall not be broken. Clearly a foreshadowing of the Crucifixion of Jesus.

Answer 7

Isa 9:6 For unto us a child is born, unto us a son is given: and the government shall be upon his shoulder: and his name shall be called Wonderful, Counsellor, The mighty God, The everlasting Father, The Prince of Peace.

Answer 8

At the very beginning, when God told the serpent " You will strike at his heal, but he will crush your head"


Gen 3:14-15

Answer 9

He wasn't mentioned in the OT. Anything in the OT that people say is a reference to Christ is just revisionism. He doesn't show up until the sequel.

Answer 10

there are none. none whatsover.

the OT was already written before jesus lived. there are predictions about a messiah but none of them have anything to do with jesus. jesus did not fulfill those predictions.

some christians twist the OT to try and find thing they can claim are about jesus. the irony is that these are the same christians who claim to be bible literalists about other things.