Messianic Prophecies Pt3

A continuation of messianic prophecies.

Therefore the Lord himself will give you a sign: The virgin will be with child and will give birth to a son, and will call him Immanuel.  Isaiah 7:14

Jesus was born of the virgin Mary (Matthew 1:24-25).  Immanuel literally means 'God with us', and when Jesus walked the earth, God was with us.  Since then, God has always been with the church in the person of the Holy Spirit.

Know and understand this: From the issuing of the decree to restore and rebuild Jerusalem until the Anointed One, the ruler, comes, there will be seven 'sevens,' and sixty-two 'sevens.'  Daniel 9:25

The "Anointed One" is the Christ.  Christ literally means 'the anointed one'.  This verse actually tells us when the Christ would come - 69 'sevens' from the decree to rebuild Jerusalem.  The 'sevens' refer to seven year periods, giving us a total of 483 years from the decree to rebuild till Christ's coming.  The Jewish year was 360 days.  This is proven by the one 'seven' in verse 27, and the fact that the middle of that seven, or 42 months - three and a half years, is 1260 days (Revelation 11:3).  When you convert 483 Jewish years (360 days) to solar years, you get 476.37 years.  The decree to rebuild Jerusalem was issued 444-445 BC by the Persian king Artaxerxes.  Going 476.3 solar years from there, you come to about the year AD 31-32, which could be the beginning of Jesus' ministry, or when He entered Jerusalem, or when He was crucified.  Most likely the prophecy is referring to the triumphal entry (Mark 11:11).

Let your hand rest on the man at your right hand, the son of man you have raised up for yourself.  Psalm 80:17

Jesus refers to Himself many times as the "Son of Man" (Mt 10:23, 12:40, 16:27, 20:28, Mk 8:38, 13:26, 14:41, Lk 6:5, 9:44, 17:24 and much more).  When God raised Jesus up into heaven (Mark 16:19), the Scripture says that He sits at the right hand of God.  This is confirmed by Acts 2:33 and 1Peter 3:22.

The LORD says to my Lord: "Sit at my right hand until I make your enemies a footstool for your feet."  Psalm 110:1

This is interesting firstly because there is two Lords in this passage, giving us a good reason to believe the Trinity.  It also predicts the ascension and Jesus sitting at the right hand of God.  And it gives us an allusion to the second coming of Christ, when He will "rule them with an iron scepter." (Revelation 19:15)

"Shout and be glad, O Daughter of Zion.  For I am coming, and I will live among you," declares the LORD.  "Many nations will be joined with the LORD in that day and will become my people.  I will live among you and you will know that the LORD Almighty has sent me to you..."  Zechariah 2:10-11

Notice how this is the LORD speaking, and how He says "the LORD Almighty has sent me to you"?  This is another good reason to believe the Trinity.  This prophecy also predicts salvation being extended to the Gentiles, and Gentiles being joined with the Lord, as Christians are members of the body of Christ today.