In Divine Concert

January 28

It challenges credulity but defies coincidence to study the myriad Old Testament scriptures that are types and shadows of Christ or that are straightforward prophecies of His birth, life, death, and resurrection and come to any conclusion other than that the New Testament Jesus is exactly who He is purported to be by the Christian Scriptures.

Anyone who studies the Old Testament with an open mind, who recognizes the scriptures that speak of Jesus and connects them to the events of His life in the New Testament must conclude that Jesus is God Incarnate, God with us, Emmanuel, Our Savior.

The 39 books of the Old Testament were written over a lengthy span of history and by almost as many authors, so it is impossible to think that they had collaborated on a theme and projected it in concert with one another. It further defies logic to imagine that a single individual, born thousands of years after these prophetic utterances were made, could have filled them by random coincidence.

The only logical deduction at which any objective, thinking individual can arrive is that Jesus Christ was prophesied through the ages by men who wrote in divine concert as God spoke to them and that as Acts 10:43 declares, “All the prophets testify about Jesus of Nazareth—and everyone who believes in Him receives forgiveness of sins through His name.”