Survey: Churches Losing Youths Long Before College

tjredeye »

Wed Jul 22, 2009 8:06 am Agree: 0   Disagree: 0

Immanuel means God with us

Survey: Churches Losing Youths Long Before College

tjredeye »

Wed Jul 22, 2009 8:04 am Agree: 0   Disagree: 0

Jesus could not have faked it

There is a great deal about the life of Jesus that was prophesied hundreds and even thousands of years before his birth. And Jesus fulfilled these prophesies. Had Jesus been a mere man, it would have been impossible for him to manufacture compliance with many of the prophecies about him.

The Virgin Birth is foretold in prophesy

ISAIAH 7:14 So, the Lord Himself shall give you a sign. Behold, the virgin will conceive and shall bring forth a son, and they shall call His name Immanuel. (Immanuel in Hebrew means, â

Survey: Churches Losing Youths Long Before College

tjredeye »

Wed Jul 22, 2009 8:03 am Agree: 0   Disagree: 0

His linage was prophesied, his city of birth was prophesied, even the time of his birth was prophesied in the writings of Moses. (But that's too long to get into here.) Jesus could not have controlled all of these aspects of his life.

And if God can create the entire universe and can take the dust of the earth and make a live human being out it, why is it hard to believe that He could cause a virgin have a son?

The Death of Jesus is foretold in prophesy

ISAIAH 53:8 He was taken from prison and from judgment; and who shall declare His generation? For He was cut off out of the land of the living; for the transgression of My people He was stricken.

ISAIAH 53:9 And He put His grave with the wicked, and with a rich one in His death; although He had done no violence, nor was any deceit in His mouth.

He was judged by Pilot, he was in prison, he had no children, he died on the cross between two thieves (with the wicked), his corps was laid in a rich man's tomb, even though he had done no violence. This ancient prophecy explains many well known truths about the death of Jesus Christ. How could anyone know about this hundreds of years before it happened? Only God, who knows the end from the beginning, could have prophesied with perfect accuracy, the life and death of Jesus Christ.

As the Roman guard said when Jesus died, "Truly, he was the Son of God." Matthew 27:54

Survey: Churches Losing Youths Long Before College

tjredeye »

Wed Jul 22, 2009 8:02 am Agree: 0   Disagree: 0

(Immanuel in Hebrew means; â