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5 Resurrection of Jesus as foretold in the
Jewish Scriptures.
Bible
Prophecy Fifty
The
Messiah would be raised from the dead.
"I have set the LORD always before me; Because
He is at my right hand I shall not be moved. Therefore my heart is
glad, and my glory rejoices; My flesh also will rest in hope. For You
will not leave my soul in Sheol [Hell], Nor will You allow
Your Holy One to see corruption. You will show me the path of life;
In Your presence is fullness of joy; At Your right hand are pleasures
forevermore" (Psalms 16:8-11).
"[W]hom
God raised up, having loosed the pains of death, because it was not
possible that He should be held by it. For David says concerning Him:
'I foresaw the LORD always before my face, For He is at my right
hand, that I may not be shaken. Therefore my heart rejoiced, and my
tongue was glad; Moreover my flesh also will rest in hope. For You
will not leave my soul in Hades, Nor will You allow Your Holy One to
see corruption. You have made known to me the ways of life; You will
make me full of joy in Your presence. '
Men and brethren, let me speak freely to
you of the patriarch David, that he is both dead and buried, and his
tomb is with us to this day. Therefore, being a prophet, and knowing
that God had sworn with an oath to him that of the fruit of his body,
according to the flesh, He would raise up the Christ to sit on his
throne, he, foreseeing this, spoke concerning the resurrection of the
Christ, that His soul was not left in Hades, nor did His flesh see
corruption" (Acts 2:24-31).
Jesus
is alive!
Bible
Prophecy Fifty One
The Messiah
would be born again from the dead as the Son of God.
"I
will declare the decree: The LORD has said to Me, 'You are My Son,
Today I have begotten You '" (Psalms 2:7).
"And
we declare to you glad tidings--that promise which was made to the
fathers. God has fulfilled this for us their children, in that He has
raised up Jesus. As it is also written in the second Psalm: 'You are
My Son, Today I have begotten You. ' ' And that He raised Him from
the dead, no more to return to corruption, He has spoken thus: 'I
will give you the sure mercies of David. ' Therefore He also says in
another Psalm: 'You will not allow Your Holy One to see corruption '"
(Acts 13:32-35).
"For
to which of the angels did He ever say: 'You are My Son, Today I have
begotten You '? And again: 'I will be to Him a Father, And He shall
be to Me a Son '?" (Hebrews 1:5).
Here
is a mystery revealed.
Jesus was raised from the dead as a "new creation" or a new species
of being that never existed before.
"Therefore,
if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation; old things have passed
away; behold, all things have become new" (2 Corinthians 5:17).
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Bible
Prophecy Fifty Two
The Messiah
would ascend back to Heaven to God.
"You
have ascended on high, You have led captivity captive; You have
received gifts among men, Even from the rebellious, That the LORD God
might dwell there" (Psalms 68:18).
"And He led them out as far as Bethany, and He lifted up His hands
and blessed them. Now it came to pass, while He blessed them, that He
was parted from them and carried up into heaven" (Luke 24:50,51).
Bible
Prophecy Fifty Three
The Messiah
would be seated at the right hand of God on His throne.
"The
LORD said to my Lord, 'Sit at My right hand, Till I make Your enemies
Your footstool '" (Psalms 110:1).
"If
then you were raised with Christ, seek those things which are above,
where Christ is, sitting at the right hand of God" (Colossians
3:1).
"[W]ho
being the brightness of His glory and the express image of His
person, and upholding all things by the word of His power, when He
had by Himself purged our sins, sat down at the right hand of the
Majesty on high" (Hebrews 1:3).
"Him
God has exalted to His right hand to be Prince and Savior, to give
repentance to Israel and forgiveness of sins" (Acts 5:31).