Messianic Prophecies 10 worksheet

To Us a Child Is Born

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Old Testament Prophecies

Context
Isaiah 9 begins with what may be the conclusion of the previous chapter. Isaiah 8 ended with the description of the darkness experienced by those in Israel who reject the Lord. The prophet describes a day in Israel’s far future when the gloom will lift and glory will return. A child will become king of Israel, but He will also be the Everlasting Father who will rule forever. However, In Isaiah’s time, the Lord will judge Israel with destruction from other nations. The following chapter pronounces disaster for the people who persist in sin.

Isaiah 9:6-7 (NIV) says:
6For to us a

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is born, to us a son is given, and the government will be on his shoulders. And he will be called Wonderful Counselor, Mighty God, Everlasting Father, Prince of Peace. 7Of the greatness of his government and peace there will be no end. He will
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on David’s throne and over his kingdom, establishing and upholding it with justice and righteousness from that time on and
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. The zeal of the Lord Almighty will accomplish this.

Q1 In which dispensation is this prophecy revealed?

New Testament Fulfillments

Luke 1:31-33 (NIV) says:
31You will conceive and give

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to a son, and you are to call him Jesus. 32He will be great and will be called the Son of the Most High. The Lord God will give him the throne of his father David, 33and he will
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over Jacob’s descendants forever; his kingdom will never end.”

Q2 Who is speaking to the virgin Mary? Which fulfillments do you read in this text in Luke? List them.

Q3 “Kingdom forever” is mentioned in both texts, Old and New Testament. Describe when this kingdom starts. Has it formally started already or will it be established in the future? So, in your answer, during which dispensation?

Romans 1:1-4 (NIV) says:
1Paul, a servant of Christ Jesus, called to be an apostle and set apart for the gospel of God— 2the gospel he promised beforehand through his prophets in the Holy Scriptures 3regarding his Son, who as to his

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life was a descendant of David, 4and who through the Spirit of holiness was
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the Son of God in power by his resurrection from the dead: Jesus Christ our Lord.

John 1:1-4 (NIV) says:
1In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. 2He was with God in the beginning. 3Through him all things were made; without him nothing was made that has been made. 4In him was life, and that life was the light of all mankind.

Colossians 2:9 (NIV) says:
For in Christ all the fullness of the

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lives in
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form.

Q4 Elaborate in the “blue box” on the fulfillments in the three NT texts above. Pay attention to Jesus in bodily and Godly form. Is Jesus 50% God and 50% human?