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00:03 by the friends of the Amazing Facts ministry. 00:08 Doug Batchelor: One of the most important topics in scripture is 00:11 the subject of "Family." 00:13 From Genesis to Revelation, family is explained and 00:17 magnified as being both a blessing and a necessity. 00:21 There is a heavenly family above, the Father, the Son, Holy 00:24 Spirit and all the angels, 00:26 and there are families on the earth in every nation, tongue, 00:29 tribe, and people. 00:31 And there's also such a thing as a church family, a collection of 00:34 people coming together for one specific purpose: 00:38 to worship God. 00:39 It's that unity in the assembly, which is of particular 00:42 importance to God. 00:44 In Ephesians chapter 4, Paul urges us "to keep the unity of 00:48 the spirit in the bond of peace." 00:51 If you think about it, this is what composes a home, people 00:55 uniting to form a family, creating a home. 00:58 Friends, Jesus is wanting to adopt you. 01:01 He's inviting you to join His family. 01:04 He draws everyone unto Him to Calvary with the intention to 01:08 unite His people on earth and prepare them for that journey to 01:11 the heavenly home. 01:13 It's my hope that today's program will bring you closer to 01:16 Jesus and inspire you with a desire to be part of His family. 01:21 And don't forget, stay tuned for a very important free offer at 01:25 the end of this presentation. 01:31 Doug: The message today, as you could tell from the scripture 01:35 reading, is dealing with the fullness of time. 01:38 And when we think of the fullness of time during this 01:40 time of year, we're thinking, of course, about Christ's 01:44 First Coming. 01:45 But Jesus actually used that phrase twice. 01:48 Not only does Paul say in Galatians chapter 4, "But when 01:52 the fullness of time was come, God sent forth His Son, made of 01:56 a woman," speaking of the birth of Christ. 01:59 But also when Jesus began His ministry, that marked another 02:03 time in Bible prophecy history. 02:05 And it says there in Mark chapter 1, verse 15, he began 02:08 preaching and the first words out of Jesus's mouth were, "The 02:12 time is fulfilled, the kingdom of God is at hand. 02:16 Repent, and believe the gospel." 02:20 So we're gonna be talking about some of the prophecies in the 02:22 Bible that prove that Jesus was Who He says He was. 02:26 You know, there are about 300 Old Testament prophecies that 02:30 provide a number of precise identifying characteristics 02:35 regarding the Messiah. 02:36 And by the way, the word Messiah means "the anointed one." 02:40 And it also, in Greek, it's Christos, or we call Him 02:44 the Christ. 02:46 That's why when they christen a ship, and when your parents put 02:51 suntan lotion on you, they are anointing you, they are 02:55 christening you. 02:56 That's what that means. 02:58 It's the word Messiah. 02:59 There would be one who would be filled with all the fullness 03:02 of God. 03:03 He would be anointed with, filled, saturated with the Holy 03:06 Spirit when God would come to the world in the form of a man. 03:10 And that was Jesus. 03:12 But we're gonna show you from the Bible that, that is so. 03:16 So can't talk about all 300 prophecies, but we're gonna take 03:20 a number of them. 03:21 And I hope that your faith is strengthened through 03:23 this presentation. 03:24 From Genesis to Revelation, it talks about this battle between 03:29 three primary characters. 03:31 You've got the seed of the woman, the Messiah who would 03:33 come, Christ. 03:35 You've got the woman, and that's a symbol for the church, 03:37 the people of God. 03:39 And you've got the serpent or the dragon. 03:41 First prophecy in the Bible you find in Genesis chapter 3, verse 03:44 15, where God said to Adam and Eve there in the garden, "And 03:48 I'll put enmity," there'd be this animosity, this opposition, 03:52 this war, "between you and the woman," the serpent and the 03:55 woman, "between your seed," that's Babylon and her 03:59 daughters, the serpent in its seed, "and her seed. 04:04 And he shall bruise your head and you shall bruise his heel," 04:08 the heel of the church. 04:10 That's, you know, when you walk, if you're, I sprained my ankle 04:13 a little this week and I was limping for a couple of days, 04:16 hurt the foot, and it affects your walk, and the devil has 04:20 been biting at the heel of the believers all through history. 04:25 But it says in the end, that the seed of the woman would crush 04:29 the head. 04:30 If you get your head crushed, that's a lot different than 04:32 having your foot bit. 04:34 There would be a mortal wound that would finally be dealt to 04:37 the serpent. 04:38 And you trace the prophecies in the Bible, you go to the end of 04:41 the Bible, and you read in Revelation chapter 9. 04:44 Sorry, Revelation chapter 12, verse 9, "So the great dragon 04:48 was cast out, that serpent of old, called the Devil and Satan, 04:51 who deceives the whole world," and he tries to destroy the 04:55 woman and the seed of the woman, as you read in that chapter. 04:58 So this battle, the theme of the Bible is consistent. 05:02 You know, in the first three chapters, you find man in 05:05 a paradise and he's surrounded with everything good. 05:10 But then because of the serpent, you have sin that comes in, 05:14 and all the misery and pain. 05:16 You get to the last three chapters of the Bible, and 05:19 you have the serpent destroyed, and then you have 05:22 the Garden of Eden restored. 05:25 And once again, man is eating from the tree of life. 05:28 So the whole Bible is about how to get back to the garden, 05:30 from the first three chapters to the last three chapters. 05:34 And the key, of course, is the Messiah. 05:36 It's the Savior. 05:38 God would come to earth as our Savior and our substitute. 05:43 So we're gonna ask a number of questions here and let 05:45 the prophecies answer. 05:47 Now, most of the prophecies we're looking at are in 05:50 the Old Testament. 05:51 Just wanna remind you, you know, we have people at all 05:53 different levels in their walk with the Lord. 05:55 So you got the New Testament book of Matthew, 05:59 the Old Testament. 06:01 All of this was written before Jesus was born. 06:04 This talks about the birth of Christ. 06:06 Three quarters of the Bible is Old Testament. 06:09 Most of the New Testament was written by people that only read 06:13 the Old Testament. 06:15 Did you catch? 06:18 Talks about Jesus even after the Resurrection, or talks about 06:22 Paul and the apostles. 06:24 And they're always proving that Jesus was the Christ, pardon me, 06:29 from the Old Testament. 06:31 And so we're gonna look at those scriptures today and I think 06:34 you're gonna see why they came to that conclusion. 06:37 First of all, where did Jesus come from? 06:39 He made some pretty bold statements. 06:41 He says in John 6:36, or 6:38, "For I have come down 06:46 from heaven." 06:48 Not only does He say it there, you can read in John 3, verse 06:51 13, "No one has ascended into heaven but He that came down 06:56 from heaven, that is, the Son of Man who is in heaven." 07:00 He said he came from a place that is out of this world. 07:03 You can also read here in John 18, verse 36, "Jesus said, 'My 07:08 kingdom,'" He told Pilate, "My Kingdom is not of this world." 07:12 So Jesus came from outside of this world, into this world, 07:17 and you and I will not understand through eternity. 07:20 We'll have a better idea when we get to the kingdom, how much 07:24 Jesus condescended to become a human and come to our world. 07:30 It'd be like you and I deciding to be a worm in a city dump. 07:34 To go from the glory that He had and the adoration He had, and 07:38 come down and be treated like He was, it's just incomprehensible. 07:42 What would bring Him to do that other than the explanation that 07:46 He loves us. 07:48 Did Jesus claim divinity? 07:50 Now, there have been some people who've been debating this for 07:53 years, but I don't see how you can read the Bible and deny it. 07:57 You can read in Mark 2, verse 10, "The Son of Man has power 08:00 on earth to forgive sins." 08:02 And even the Jews knew God and God only can forgive sin. 08:06 There is one God, Jehovah is our only Savior, and yet Jesus said 08:10 He is the Savior. 08:12 The Bible tells us that all the criteria that you would find 08:15 about God, you find about Jesus. 08:17 Only God knows the thoughts of men's hearts, yet Jesus always 08:21 knew what they were thinking. 08:23 The Bible says you are to worship God only, one of the 08:25 Ten Commandments. 08:26 But in Hebrews, it says even the angels worship Him. 08:29 And when He rose from the dead, He said, "All Hail," and they 08:32 worshiped Him. 08:33 And so Jesus fills all the criteria of God. 08:37 You can look in John 8:58, Jesus said to them, "Most assuredly, 08:41 I say to you, before Abraham was," what did He say? 08:45 "I AM." 08:47 That is the name that God gave to Moses as the self 08:51 existent one. 08:53 Furthermore, you read in John 10, verse 30 and verse 33, 08:57 He said, "I and my Father or are one." 09:00 The leaders listening understood what He was saying. 09:02 The Jews answered and said, You being a man are making 09:05 Yourself God. 09:06 Now, if I said that, it would be blasphemy. 09:08 But if Jesus said it, it's true. 09:12 If I say that I'm a great basketball player, that's 09:15 bragging and lying. 09:19 If Michael Jordan says, I'm just not very good. 09:22 That's not humility, that's dishonesty. 09:24 He has every right to say I'm one of the best, 09:26 because he was, you know what I'm saying? 09:29 So Jesus is stating a fact. 09:31 He's not bragging or it's not the visions of grandeur. 09:35 Furthermore read in John 10, verse 17, "Therefore, my Father 09:38 loves me, because I lay down my life, that I might take 09:41 it again. 09:43 No one takes it from me, but I lay it down of myself. 09:46 I have power to lay it down, and I have power to take it again." 09:50 How could anyone have power to lay down their life, be dead, 09:53 and power to take it back up again? 09:56 Except you are divine. 09:59 So how do we evaluate these very big claims? 10:02 Where do we go? 10:03 We've got to look at the history that we have, and most accounts 10:07 about the life of Jesus are in the Bible. 10:09 Though we will look at one or two that 10:10 are extra-biblical today. 10:13 "Search the scriptures, these are they that testify of me." 10:18 And if you look, for instance, in Luke 24, when He rose from 10:21 the dead in verse 27, He's walking on the road with 10:25 two disciples following the Resurrection. 10:27 They don't know that He's raised, and He says, "O, fools 10:31 and slow of heart to believe all that the prophets have spoken." 10:34 Notice He says, "'all that the prophets have spoken.' 10:37 Beginning at Moses and all of the prophets, He expounded unto 10:42 them in all of the scriptures the things concerning Himself." 10:47 That means that the Old Testament is filled from Moses 10:50 to Malachi with prophecies that talk about Jesus. 10:53 Doesn't mean every word of the Old Testament is talking about 10:55 Jesus, but you can find the theme of Jesus, the Messiah, 10:59 the plan of salvation all through the Old Testament. 11:03 Hebrews 10, verse 7, "Then I said, behold, I come (In the 11:07 volume of the book it is written of me,) 11:10 To do your will, O God." 11:12 The volume of the book, it is written of Christ, and He was 11:17 the living expression of the will of God. 11:19 He lived out every aspect of the will of God in His life. 11:24 So let's begin to track down how do we know that Jesus was 11:28 the Messiah? 11:29 Well, the Bible gives us some very specific understanding on 11:33 the family tree of the Messiah, 11:36 what people, tribe, and family would the Messiah come from. 11:40 Way back in Genesis chapter 12, God spoke to Abraham and He 11:44 said, "In you, all the families of the earth would be blessed." 11:49 In fact, He repeats this promise to Abraham three different times 11:54 or slightly different, but He made it very clear that I have 11:57 called you out of Babylon to the promised land, and through your 12:01 descendants, the Messiah would come. 12:04 But you know, Abraham was not only the father of uh Isaac and 12:09 Ishmael from which you get, you know, the whole Arab family. 12:14 Not every Arab is a Muslim, you know? 12:17 There are Arab Christians and a person can be born with Jewish 12:21 blood and become a Muslim. 12:23 I know of Jews that have become Buddhists. 12:25 But Islam did start from the descendants of Abraham, but 12:33 Abraham also had a lot of children with Keturah. 12:36 So which son was the Messiah going to come through? 12:39 Well, the Bible spells it out. 12:40 He said to Isaac, I will give your descendants all these lands 12:45 and He repeated the promise to Isaac, and in your seed, through 12:49 your descendants, all the nations would be blessed. 12:53 The Messiah would come through the descendants of Isaac. 12:56 Now, Isaac was a type of Christ. 12:59 When Isaac went up the mountain with His father, he was a 13:01 willing sacrifice there in the prime of his life. 13:06 And he had the wood on his back as Jesus had the cross on His 13:09 back as He went up Calvary. 13:11 And the Bible tells us that, in the same way, it looked like 13:15 Isaac was doomed, but he came down the mountain alive, Jesus, 13:20 also rose from the dead. 13:22 So He's a type of Christ, but the Messiah was gonna come 13:25 through Isaac. 13:26 Now, Isaac had two sons. 13:28 What were their names? 13:30 Jacob and Esau. 13:32 They were very different, but it tells us which of those two sons 13:36 that the Messiah would come through. 13:38 God said to Jacob in Numbers 24, verse 17, "A star shall come out 13:44 of Jacob, a sceptre shall rise out of Israel." 13:48 And even the prophecies that were given before their birth to 13:50 Rebekah, made it clear that the older Esau would serve 13:54 the younger. 13:55 That it would be through the younger, Jacob, who took hold 13:59 of his brother's heel, the one who wrestled with God, his name 14:02 was Jacob, later changed to Israel, meaning a prince with 14:05 God, because he wrestled with God and would not let go until 14:09 he had that blessing. 14:11 But then Jacob had 12 sons. 14:14 So which one of them is the Messiah gonna come through? 14:16 The Bible is so specific. 14:18 You read here in Genesis 49, when Jacob was blessing his 14:21 sons, it said, "The sceptre will not depart from Judah, Nor a 14:26 lawgiver from between his feet, Until Shiloh come; And unto him 14:31 shall be the gathering of the people." 14:33 I always thought it was interesting that Judah was 14:37 the one of the brothers who suggested they sell Joseph 14:41 instead of killing him, which was, you know, better, 14:45 of course. 14:47 But it was Judas that sold Jesus. 14:49 But later Judah went through a real conversion, and when he 14:52 went down to Egypt, he had changed so much, that he told 14:56 Joseph, he didn't know Joseph was Joseph. 14:57 He told this Prime Minister, he said, "I will take 15:00 Benjamin's place. 15:02 I will be a slave." 15:04 He was willing to be the great substitute. 15:06 He had changed. 15:07 Well, the Messiah was gonna come through the tribe of Judah. 15:10 Well, Judah had at least three sons, two of his sons died 15:14 before they we're able to procreate. 15:17 And it tells us that the Messiah was gonna come through the clan 15:23 of David. 15:24 You read about this in Isaiah 11, verse 1 and 2, "There shall 15:29 come a rod, a stem from Jesse," the house of Jesse, and Jesse 15:34 had several sons, but which son? 15:36 And it said, "A branch shall grow from his roots: and the 15:39 Spirit of the Lord shall rest upon him." 15:41 Later, the prophet Nathan comes to David and says that 15:45 "your son will build me a house that will last forever." 15:48 Speaking of the son of David, not only did Solomon build 15:51 a temple, but the son of David that would build a house that 15:54 would last forever is Jesus. 15:55 That's why Jesus said, destroy this temple made with hands, 15:59 and in three days, I will make one without hands. 16:01 So you notice how the focus keeps getting a little sharper 16:04 as we're going through these prophecies, who is gonna be 16:06 the Messiah. 16:08 By the way, I heard somebody did--since there's 300 16:10 prophecies in the Old Testament that help identify Jesus. 16:14 Someone did some math and they said the statistical odds of 16:20 finding one person that meets the criteria of only eight of 16:24 these prophecies is, what is the word, a zillion beyond 16:29 a trillion? 16:30 What's the next? 16:33 A google? 16:35 Google is one of those. 16:36 Anyway, it's an astronomical number just so far beyond 16:40 the possibility that it could be coincidence that all of these 16:44 criteria would line up in one person. 16:47 Someone said it's something like taking the state of Texas, 16:51 covering it with quarters 2 feet deep, and then telling you that 16:56 there is one quarter out there that has been dipped in 17:00 gold, go find it. 17:02 You know how big Texas is? 17:05 So you cover the state of Texas with quarters 2 feet deep, you 17:08 gotta find that one quarter. 17:09 It's just the odds are astronomical. 17:13 So we know Jesus came, of course, through the tribe 17:17 of David. 17:18 And let's look at some verses to prove that 17:19 now from the New Testament. 17:21 You read in Luke chapter 1, verse 26 17:23 and verse 27, "Now in the sixth month the angel Gabriel was sent 17:29 by God to a city of Galilee, named Nazareth." 17:32 Where was the angel sent? 17:35 Nazareth. 17:36 You know what Nazareth means in Aramaic? 17:39 It's the word branch, that comes up later for two reasons. 17:44 "To a virgin betrothed to a man whose name was Joseph, of 17:48 the house of," who? 17:50 "The house of David." 17:52 Not only that, but said he'd be born of a virgin. 17:55 That's a whole separate prophecy that you find. 17:57 Look here in the book of Isaiah chapter 7, verse 14, "Behold, 18:02 a virgin will conceive and bear a Son, and you will call His 18:06 name Emmanuel," which is being interpreted God with us. 18:09 And then you go to the New Testament and we see that that 18:12 was fulfilled there. 18:14 Now the birth, this is Matthew 1:18, the birth of Jesus Christ 18:17 was as follows, "After His mother Mary was betrothed to 18:21 Joseph," that means they were engaged, "before they came 18:24 together, she was found to be with child of the Holy Spirit." 18:29 And we heard where the angel said, "The power of the Almighty 18:32 would come over you." 18:33 And that's why, you know, Jesus is this supernatural, and that's 18:40 the correct word, supernatural combination of human and divine. 18:47 The place of his birth is spelled out in the Bible. 18:50 You can read the prophecy here in the book of Micah, chapter 5, 18:54 verse 2, "But you, Bethlehem Ephratah," now, the reason he 18:57 says Bethlehem Ephratah is there were two places 18:59 called Bethlehem. 19:01 You know, it's like in North America, you got several cities 19:03 called Farmington, it means Farming Town. 19:05 There's a couple of Portlands, you got Portland, Maine, you got 19:09 Portland, Oregon. 19:10 But, so there was a--the word Bethlehem means house of bread. 19:14 It was not an uncommon--anywhere that had a big bakery. 19:16 It might be called a house of bread, but this was the 19:18 Bethlehem Ephratah, and this is where Rachel died, giving birth 19:23 to Benjamin. 19:25 And she was buried there and it was just outside, or not too far 19:29 from Jerusalem. 19:31 "But you Bethlehem Ephratah, though you are little among the 19:34 thousands of Judah," it's a little Hamlet, "yet out of you 19:38 shall come forth to me the one who's the ruler in Israel; whose 19:42 goings forth are from old, even from everlasting." 19:45 Now, that prophecy is so clear, it can't be misunderstood. 19:48 That prophecy is so clear that when the wise men came looking 19:52 for the one who was born King of the Jews, and Herod got all 19:56 upset and agitated that there was gonna be someone to replace 20:00 him, I don't know why he was worried about a baby king at 20:03 that point because he was already a pretty old man, and 20:05 he had nothing to worry about by the time the baby grew up. 20:08 He called in the scribes and Pharisees and said, where does 20:10 the prophecy say that the Messiah would be born? 20:14 They knew, they said Bethlehem. 20:16 So it was really clear, it's clear from this, 20:20 was Jesus born in Bethlehem? 20:22 He was. 20:24 Now there's a problem, where did the angel come and appear 20:27 to Mary? 20:29 Nazareth, remember we just read that? 20:31 "An angel came to a virgin that was in the city of Galilee 20:34 called Nazareth." 20:35 Nazareth is 70 miles north, and she is found to be with child 20:41 70 miles north. 20:42 And 70 miles back then was more than 70 miles today, because 20:48 70 miles today, you conquer in an hour. 20:50 Some of you conquer it in half an hour, 20:52 depends on how you drive. 20:54 But back then it was a pretty serious journey. 20:58 So God has to somehow get Mary down to Bethlehem before she 21:02 gives birth. 21:03 Enter Octavian Caesar, also known as Augustus Caesar. 21:07 We've got a month named after him. 21:09 He was one of the most successful leaders in history. 21:12 He ruled Rome for about 40 years, and it was during 21:15 the time of what they call the great "Pax Romana." 21:19 That means the Roman peace. 21:21 See when Jesus came, it was ideal in its timing 21:25 historically, and it was ideal in its location. 21:29 Why was it ideal in its timing? 21:32 Because Augustus Caesar, he was the one who really went and 21:36 stretched the Roman roads farther than ever. 21:39 It was like the internet, communication--Karen was in 21:42 Greece a little while ago, and she was telling me about seeing 21:44 the ancient Roman roads, and I told her, they looked a lot 21:47 better back then than they do now. 21:50 And they used to go screaming up and down those roads with 21:53 chariots, like the Pony Express and they'd change 21:56 riders and messages went flashing through the Empire. 21:59 For them, it was lightning speed. 22:01 And so communications happened very quickly. 22:04 Another reason the timing was perfect is the Jews had been 22:08 scattered all over the Roman Empire, and they were 22:10 in industries. 22:11 If you doubt that, read Acts chapter 2, when the Holy Spirit 22:14 was poured out. 22:16 Says, "Now devout Jews from out of every nation under heaven 22:21 came to Jerusalem for Pentecost." 22:24 So when the Holy Spirit was poured out and the news about 22:27 Jesus spread, they were converted. 22:29 They then fanned out from Jerusalem back to their homes 22:32 and the gospel spread on those Roman roads like lightning. 22:36 So that Paul said in one generation, the gospel has been 22:38 preached to every creature under heaven. 22:40 Of course, that was a little bit of hyperbole. 22:42 I'm not sure they had made it to, you know, South America and 22:45 Australia, and some of these places. 22:47 But the gospel had gone through the known civilized world in 22:50 one generation. 22:52 The other reason it was an ideal location is because the place 22:55 where Jesus was born, the land of Israel was a land bridge 22:59 between three great continents of Europe, Asia, and Africa. 23:05 So here Rome owned that territory. 23:08 Christ was born. 23:09 The message then went fanning out, it went into North Africa, 23:12 it was taken down to Ethiopia, it went off into India with 23:15 Thomas, it went off through Europe with Paul and Peter and 23:19 the others. 23:20 So the timing was perfect. 23:22 So when the Bible says, "In the fullness of time," 23:26 some people wonder, "Why didn't Jesus come 1,000 years 23:29 after Adam sinned. 23:30 Why did he wait 4000 years?" 23:34 The ways of the Lord is sometimes a mystery, but there's 23:36 good reason for it. 23:37 He waited for the perfect timing. 23:39 He also waited for conditions to be at their lowest in some 23:43 respects morally, when people especially needed, a time of 23:48 darkness, this light shone the brightest. 23:51 So she went down to Bethlehem, and Luke chapter 2, verse 6, 23:57 "And so it was, while they were there, the days were 24:00 accomplished that she should be delivered. 24:03 And she brought forth her firstborn Son, and wrapped him 24:07 in swaddling clothes," swaddling clothes is strips of cloth, 24:12 the early Pampers, "and laid him in the manger; because there was 24:16 no room for them in the inn." 24:18 Isn't that something? 24:19 You've heard it before, but it's still staggering when you think 24:22 that God Almighty of the cosmos comes to the world in the form 24:26 of a man, and there's no room for Him, and He comes to His own 24:29 people that had all the prophecies, and they do not 24:31 know Him. 24:33 And it's--the religious leaders totally miss it. 24:36 And yet it's revealed to a shepherd, and later to some 24:40 foreign wise men or Magi. 24:44 He's laid in a manger. 24:45 A manger is a place where you put grain for the beasts. 24:49 And I think it's interesting that here in a town called 24:53 "The House of Bread," the bread of life is put in a vessel 24:58 for bread. 24:59 So everything about that is telling us that Jesus is 25:02 the bread that came down from heaven, amen? 25:08 Doug: Amazing Facts International is committed to 25:11 global evangelism. 25:13 Through various forms of media such as 25:15 radio, television, satellite, and live streaming, 25:18 we are fulfilling the gospel commission and reaching the 25:21 world like never before. 25:23 With radio programs such as our 25:25 "Bible Answers" live broadcasts, with 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