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To: presently no screen name; metmom; kosta50

Micah 5:2

But you, Bethlehem Ephrathah,
Though you are little among the thousands of Judah,
Yet out of you shall come forth to Me
The One to be Ruler in Israel,
Whose goings forth are from of old,
From everlasting.”

Matthew 2:1-6

1 After Jesus was born in Bethlehem in Judea, during the time of King Herod, Magi from the east came to Jerusalem 2 and asked, “Where is the one who has been born king of the Jews? We saw his star when it rose and have come to worship him.”
3 When King Herod heard this he was disturbed, and all Jerusalem with him. 4 When he had called together all the people’s chief priests and teachers of the law, he asked them where the Messiah was to be born. 5 “In Bethlehem in Judea,” they replied, “for this is what the prophet has written:

6 “‘But you, Bethlehem, in the land of Judah,
are by no means least among the rulers of Judah;
for out of you will come a ruler
who will shepherd my people Israel.’


4,417 posted on 12/02/2010 8:19:06 PM PST by boatbums (God is ready to assume full responsibility for the life wholly yielded to him.)
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To: boatbums

More OT prophecy of John The Baptist and the coming of Jesus fulfilled.

Isaiah 40
A voice cries:
“In the wilderness prepare the way of the Lord;
make straight in the desert a highway for our God.

Every valley shall be lifted up,
and every mountain and hill be made low;
the uneven ground shall become level,
and the rough places a plain.

And the glory of the Lord shall be revealed,
and all flesh shall see it together,
for the mouth of the Lord has spoken.”


4,422 posted on 12/02/2010 8:33:32 PM PST by presently no screen name ("Thus you nullify the word of God by your tradition that you have handed down.." Mark 7:13)
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To: boatbums; presently no screen name

John 19:23-25

23 When the soldiers had crucified Jesus, they took his garments and divided them into four parts, one part for each soldier; also his tunic. But the tunic was seamless, woven in one piece from top to bottom, 24so they said to one another, “Let us not tear it, but cast lots for it to see whose it shall be.” This was to fulfill the Scripture which says,

“They divided my garments among them,
and for my clothing they cast lots.”

So the soldiers did these things, 25 but standing by the cross of Jesus were his mother and his mother’s sister, Mary the wife of Clopas, and Mary Magdalene.

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Psalm 22:17I can count all my bones—they stare and gloat over me; 18 they divide my garments among them,
and for my clothing they cast lots.

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For that matter, all of Psalm 22 written centuries before Christ came and died, prophesied about Him.

There’s proof for you, although it’s just as likely to be dismissed by anyone who doesn’t WANT to believe, and that’s all it ever gets down to. For the one who doesn’t want to believe, even a material, confirmed resurrection, wouldn’t be enough.

Even if someone rises from the dead, they won’t be convinced.


4,423 posted on 12/02/2010 8:34:44 PM PST by metmom (Welfare was never meant to be a career choice.)
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To: boatbums
These are not coincidental discoveries or prophesies, boatbums. The NT was written so that it would appear the OT is a Christian prophesy, the way the Book of Mormon was written to “prove” that it is the third authentic scripture.
4,440 posted on 12/02/2010 9:29:36 PM PST by kosta50 (God is tired of repenting -- Jeremiah 15:6, KJV)
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