OLD TESTAMENT PROPHECIES ABOUT JESUS THE CHRIST, THE MESSIAH, THE SAVIOR, THE SON OF MAN, SON OF GOD, GOD WITH US, REDEEMER, KING OF KINGS, SUFFERING SURVANT, WONDER COUSELOR, PROCLAIMER OF THE KINGDOM OF GOD, THE ANCIENT OF DAYS

The Holy Child Jesus, Savior

Isaiah 7:14   "The virgin will be with child and will give birth to a son, and they will call him Immanuel" — which means, "God with us."

Isaiah 9:5-6   "For a child will be born to us, a son will be given to us; And the government shall rest on His shoulders; And His name will be called Wonderful, Counselor, Mighty God, Eternal Father, Prince of Peace."

Isaiah 11:1-11   “But a shoot shall sprout from the the stump of Jesse, and from his roots a bud shall blossom.  The spirit of the Lord shall rest upon him, a spirit of wisdom and of understanding... On that day, The root of Jesse, set up as a signal for the nations, The Gentiles shall seek out, for his dwelling shall be glorious.”

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

Micah 5:2   "But thou, Beth-lehem Ephrathah, which art little to be among the thousands of Judah, out of thee shall one come forth unto Me that is to be ruler in Israel; whose goings forth are from of old, from ancient days."

Genesis 3:15   “I will put enmity between you [the serpent] and the woman, and between your offspring and hers; he will strike at your head, while you strike at his heal.”

A light to the Nations and

the Glory of Isreal

 Isaiah 9:2   “The people walking in darkness have seen a great light; on those living in the land of the shadow of death a light has dawned.”

Deuteronomy 18:15   “I will raise up for them a prophet like you from among their kinsmen. I will put my words in his mouth, and he will tell them everything I order him."

Isaiah 42:6-7   “I, the Lord, have called you for the victory of justice, I have grasped you by the hand; I formed you, and set you as a covenant of the people, a light for the nations, to open the eyes of the blind, to bring out prisoners from confinement, and from the dungeon, those who live in darkness.”

Ezekiel 37:26-27   "I will make a covenant of peace with them, an everlasting covenant. I will give to them, increase their numbers, and set my Sanctuary among them forever. My dwelling place will be with them; I will be their God, and they will be my people."

The Suffering Servant

Isaiah 53:5   "But he was wounded because of our transgressions, he was crushed because of our iniquities: the chastisement of our welfare was upon him, and with his stripes we were healed."

Isaiah 53:12   “Because he surrendered himself to death and was counted among the wicked; And he shall take away the sins of many, and win pardon for their offenses.”

Zechariah 12:10   "And I will pour upon the house of David, and upon the inhabitants of Jerusalem, the spirit of grace and of supplication; and they shall look unto Me because they have thrust him through; and they shall mourn for him, as one mourneth for his only son, and shall be in bitterness for him, as one that is in bitterness for his first-born."

Psalm 22:16-18   "They have pierced my hands and my feet. I can count all my bones: they look and stare upon me. They part my garments among them, and cast lots for my clothing.”

Psalm 34: 20   "Many are the afflictions of the just man; but the Lord delivers him from all of them. He guards all his bones: not even one of them shall be broken."

Psalm 69   "They gave me also gall for my meat; and in my thirst they gave me vinegar to drink."

Zechariah 13:6   “And they shall say to him: What are these wounds in the midst of thy hands?”

Wisdom of Solomon 2:12-20   "Let us lie in wait for the righteous man, because he is inconvenient to us and opposes our actions; he reproaches us for sins against the law, and accuses us of sins against our training. He professes to have knowledge of God, and calls himself a child of the Lord. He became to us a reproof of our thoughts; the very sight of him is a burden to us, because his manner of life is unlike that of others, and his ways are strange. We are considered by him as something base, and he avoids our ways as unclean; he calls the last end of the righteous happy, and boasts that God is his father. Let us see if his words are true, and let us test what will happen at the end of his life; for if the righteous man is God's son, he will help him, and will deliver him from the hand of his adversaries. Let us test him with insult and torture, that we may find out how gentle he is, and make trial of his forbearance. Let us condemn him to a shameful death, for, according to what he says, he will be protected.”

PIETRO PERUGINO, The Transfiguration of Christ, c. 1497. Collegio del Cambio, Perugia.

Son of God, King of Kings

Zechariah 9:9   "Rejoice greatly, O daughter of Zion! Shout in triumph, O daughter of Jerusalem! Behold, your king is coming to you; He is just and endowed with salvation, Humble, and mounted on a donkey, Even on a colt, the foal of a donkey."

Psalm 2:3-9   “I have set my king on Zion, my holy hill." I will tell of the decree of the LORD: He said to me, 'You are my son, today I have begotten you. Ask of me, and I will make the nations your heritage, and the ends of the earth your possession. You shall break them with a rod of iron, and dash them in pieces like a potter’s vessel'"

Daniel 7:13-14   "I saw in the night visions, and, behold, one like the Son of man came with the clouds of heaven, and came to the Ancient of days, and they brought him near before him. And there was given him dominion, and glory, and a kingdom, that all people, nations, and languages, should serve him: his dominion is an everlasting dominion, which shall not pass away, and his kingdom that which shall not be destroyed."

The Eucharist (Blessed Sacrament) Foretold

Genesis 14: 18  “Melchizedek, king of Salem [a priest of God Most High], brought out bread and wine.” (The Eucharist)

Exodus 16:4, 15    “I will now rain down bread from heaven for you;  This is the bread which the Lord has given you to eat.”  (The Eucharist)

Wisdom 16:20   “You nourish your people with food of angels and furnished them with bread from heaven.” (The Eucharist)

For more prefigurations of Christ in the Old Testament see also Psalm 22, Psalm 23, Isaiah 11, Isaiah 42, Isaiah 53, and Jonah 2

Daniel's Vision

Daniel 7: 9-14

14And he gave him power, and glory, and a kingdom: and all peoples, tribes and tongues shall serve him: his power is an everlasting power that shall not be taken away: and his kingdom that shall not be destroyed.

9I beheld till thrones were placed, and the Ancient of days sat: his garment was white as snow, and the hair of his head like clean wool: his throne like flames of fire: the wheels of it like a burning fire.

10A swift stream of fire issued forth from before him: thousands of thousands ministered to him, and ten thousand times a hundred thousand stood before him: the judgment sat, and the books were opened.

11I beheld because of the voice of the great words which that horn spoke: and I saw that the beast was slain, and the body thereof was destroyed, and given to the fire to be burnt: 12And that the power of the other beasts was taken away: and that times of life were appointed them for a time, and time.

13I beheld therefore in the vision of the night, and lo, one like the son of man came with the clouds of heaven, and he came even to the Ancient of days: and they presented him before him.

Isaiah 7:14   "The virgin will be with child and will give birth to a son, and they will call him Immanuel" — which means, "God with us."