Morris Cerullo - Jeshua Hamashiah

INTRODUCTION

The English version of the Old Testament was translated directly from the original Hebrew in which it was written. Later Greek became the cultural language of the Jews. An important translation of the Hebrew Old Testament was made into the Greek language. This was called the Septuagint, because the translation was made by 70 scholarly Hebrews. This Greek translation or version of the Old Testament was widely used by the Jews at the time the New Testament was written.

The Greek word for Messiah or Mashiah (anointed) is Christos, and is translated Christ. The Greek for Jehoshua or Jeshua is Iesous , and is translated Jesus, which means "Jehovah saves." Hence the Hebrew name for Jesus Christ is really Jeshua-Hamashiah . This leads us to the name of this message, Jeshua-Hamashia . Jesus Christ the philosopher? Or the Mashiah , the Anointed One, the Hope of Israel?

Let us consider intelligently Old Testament prophecies of the Messiah, and in consideration of these pages if Christ (Who 2000 years ago laid claim to being the Messiah, the promised One of Israel) came as prophesied, lived and died as prophesied; we must then accept in our minds and hearts the true facts of His being the true Messiah.

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1. MESSIAH LIKE ALL PEOPLE WAS TO BE THE SEED OF A WOMAN.

Note: Contrary to popular belief and longing of the depressed Jews of Bible days, who yearned for freedom and a mighty deliverer, this Messiah was not to drop out of heaven as a general, but was to come from the bruised seed of a woman. This is hard fact to accept; however, if we believe the Old Testament writing, we must clear this thought uppermost, for this lays the foundation for future prophecies.

OLD TESTAMENT PROPHECY. Genesis 3:15 "And 1 will put enmity between thee and the woman, and between thy seed and her seed; it shall bruise thy head, and thou shalt bruise his heel."

NEW TESTAMENT FULFILLMENT. Galatians 4:4. "But when the fullness of the time was come, God sent forth his Son, made of a woman, made under the law,"

2. HE WAS THE PROMISED SEED OF ABRAHAM, ISAAC, AND JACOB OLD TESTAMENT PROPHECY. Genesis 18:18. "Seeing that Abraham shall surely become a great and mighty nation, and all the nations of the earth shall be blessed in him?"

Genesis 17:19. "And God said, Sarah thy wife shall bear thee a son indeed; and thou shalt call his name Isaac: and I will establish my covenant with him for an everlasting covenant, and with his seed after him."

Numbers 24:17. "I shall see him, but not now: I shall behold him, but not nigh: there shall come a Star out of Jacob, and a Sceptre shall rise out of Israel"

NEW TESTAMENT FULFILLMENT. Acts 3:25 "Ye are the children of the prophets, and of the covenant which God made with our fathers, saying unto Abraham, And in thy seed shall all the kindreds of the earth be blessed."

Matthew 1:2. "Abraham begat Isaac: and Isaac begat Jacob; and Jacob begat Judas and his brethren;"

Luke 3:34. "Which was the son of Jacob, which was the son of Isaac, which was the son of Abraham, which was the son of Thara , which was the son of Nachor ,"

3. MESSIAH WAS TO BE BORN IN BETHLEHEM.

OLD TESTAMENT PROPHECY. Micah 5:2 "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."

NEW TESTAMENT FULFILLMENT. Matthew 2:1. "Now when Jesus was born in Bethlehem of Judaea in the days of Herod the king, behold, there came wise men from the east to Jerusalem,"

4. MESSIAH WAS TO BE BORN OF A VIRGIN.

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

NEW TESTAMENT FULFILLMENT. Matthew 1:18. "Now the birth of Jesus Christ was on this wise: When as his mother Mary was espoused to Joseph, before they came together, she was found with child of the Holy Ghost."

5. AS A BABE HE TOOK FLIGHT TO EGYPT.

OLD TESTAMENT PROPHECY. Hosea 11:1. "When Israel was a child, then I loved him, and called my son out of Egypt."

NEW TESTAMENT FULFILLMENT. Matthew 2:14. "When he arose, he took the young child and his mother by night, and departed into Egypt:"

6. MESSIAH WAS TO BE A PROPHET LIKE UNTO MOSES.

OLD TESTAMENT PROPHECY. Deuteronomy 18:15. "The Lord thy God will raise up unto thee a Prophet from the midst of thee, of thy brethren, like unto me; unto him ye shall hearken;"

NEW TESTAMENT FULFILLMENT. John 6:14. "Then those men, when they had seen the miracle that Jesus did, said, This is of a truth that prophet that should come into the world."

7. MESSIAH WAS TO BE A PRIEST LIKE UNTO MELCHIZEDEK.

Psalm 110:4. "The Lord hath sworn, and will not repent, Thou art a priest for ever after the order of Melchizedek."

NEW TESTAMENT FULFILLMENT. Hebrews 6:20. "Whither the forerunner is for us entered, even Jesus, made an high priest for ever after the order of Melchisedec ."

8. MESSIAH WAS TO MINISTER IN THE REGION PROPHESIED, GALILEE.

OLD TESTAMENT PROPHECY. Isaiah 9:1, 2. "Nevertheless the dimness shall not be such as was in her vexation, when at the first he lightly afflicted the land of Zebulun and the land of Naphtali, and afterward did more grievously afflict her by the way of the sea, beyond Jordan, in Galilee of the nations. The people that walked in darkness have seen a great light: they that dwell in the land of the shadow of death, upon them hath the light shined."

NEW TESTAMENT FULFILLMENT. Matthew 4:12-16. "Now when Jesus had heard that John was cast into prison, he departed into Galilee; And leaving Nazareth, he came and dwelt in Capernaum, which is upon the sea coast, in the borders of Zabulon and Nephthalim : That it might be fulfilled which was spoken by Esaias the prophet, saying, The land of Zabulon , and the land of Nephthalim , by the way of the sea, beyond Jordan, Galilee of the Gentiles; The people which sat in darkness saw great light; and to them which sat in the region and shadow of death light is sprung up."

9. SOME OF MESSIAH'S CHARACTERISTICS.

OLD TESTAMENT PROPHECY. Isaiah 11:2." 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 of the fear of the Lord;"

NEW TESTAMENT FULFILLMENT. Luke 2:52. "And Jesus increased in wisdom and stature, and in favour with God and man."

10. MESSIAH WAS TO ENTER JERUSALEM IN TRIUMPH.

OLD TESTAMENT PROPHECY.

Zechariah 9:9. "Rejoice greatly, O daughter, of Zion; shout, O daughter of Jerusalem: behold, thy King cometh unto thee: he is just, and having salvation; lowly, and riding upon an ass, and upon a colt the foal of an ass."

NEW TESTAMENT FULFILLMENT. John 12:13 ,14 . "Took branches of palm trees, and went forth to meet him, and cried, Hosanna: Blessed is the King of Israel that cometh in the name of the Lord. And Jesus, when he had found a young ass, sat thereon; as it is written."

11. MESSIAH WAS TO BE REJECTED BY HIS OWN PEOPLE.

OLD TESTAMENT PROPHECY. Isaiah 53:3. "He is despised and rejected of men; a man of sorrows, and acquainted with grief: and we hid as it were our faces from him; he was despised, and we esteemed him not."

NEW TESTAMENT FULFILLMENT. John 1:11. "He came unto his own, and his own received him not."

12. MESSIAH WAS TO BE BETRAYED BY ONE OF HIS OWN CLOSE FOLLOWERS AND FRIENDS.

OLD TESTAMENT PROPHECY. Psalm 41:9. "Yea, mine own familiar friend in whom I trusted, which did eat of my bread, hath lifted up his heel against me."

NEW TESTAMENT FULFILLMENT. Mark 14:10. "And Judas Iscariot, one of the twelve, went unto the chief priests, to betray him unto them."