Christ is the Messiah and Fulfills Old Testament Prophecy

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A simple way to learn some history about the prophets and Jesus Christ fulfilling the Old Testament.

Jesus is God Almighty

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Jesus is God. He is Yahweh of the Old Testament robed in flesh, who came down to the world to die and rise again the 3rd day for His creation. Extra study: Colossians 1:15-20.
Oh Lord we love you and worship You. You set the prisoners free, You care for the poor, You grieve over evil done, You are full of justice, and You always do all things by Your essence- love.

Abuse

Abuse can come in many different forms. It can be physical, sexual, emotional, spiritual, isolating, teasing, and more. Abuse can shatter the strongest soul and cause someone to experience grief years after a traumatic event. Most victims can even truly love their abusers, as most of the time its someone close to them, and even if they aren't that close with their abuser, an emotional tie can develop.

However, I'm here to proclaim-- JESUS WILL BREAK THAT TIE... THAT EMOTIONAL, SPIRITUAL, PHYSICAL, SEXUAL, ISOLATING, TEASING, CONFUSING TIE!!!!

Here is some proof:
Psalm 11:5 
The Lord tests the righteous, but his soul hates the wicked and the one who loves violence. 

2 Timothy 3: 1-8
But understand this, that in the last days there will come times of difficulty. For people will be lovers of self, lovers of money, proud, arrogant, abusive, disobedient to their parents, ungrateful, unholy, heartless, unappeasable, slanderous, without self-control, brutal, not loving good, treacherous, reckless, swollen with conceit, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God, having the appearance of godliness, but denying its power. Avoid such people. ...



“See that you do not despise one of these little ones. For I tell you that in heaven their angels always see the face of my Father who is in heaven. Matthew 18:10

Proverbs 6:16-19
There are six things that the Lord hates, seven that are an abomination to him: haughty eyes, a lying tongue, and hands that shed innocent blood, a heart that devises wicked plans, feet that make haste to run to evil, a false witness who breathes out lies, and one who sows discord among brothers.

Psalm 146:7
Who executes justice for the oppressed, who gives food to the hungry. The Lord sets the prisoners free

Isaiah 1:17
Learn to do good; seek justice, correct oppression; bring justice to the fatherless, plead the widow's cause.


Psalm 103:6 The Lord works righteousness and justice for all who are oppressed. 
Jesus Himself taught not to fear those who can destroy the body, but the One who is able to destroy the soul.  However, though God (Jesus Christ in the flesh was referring to Himself in the above soul/body scenario) is a righteous judge, you must never forget His judgements in light of His love, willingness to see repentance, compassion mercy, and measurement. For example, an eye for an eye or a tooth for a tooth. This was God's law before Jesus showed us the New Covenant. God's punishment was measured according to offenses. 

Did you catch that Psalm? Psalm 103:6 The Lord works righteousness and justice for ALL who are oppressed. I believe the ALL and the Bible. 

As someone who might even be a prisoner from actually being the abuser themselves, its important to realize God's mercy for you Hebrews 9:26 says Jesus ABOLISHED SIN at the cross. You might feel unforgivable, but God died for you and shed His own righteous blood - that nothing in all creation can conquer- 

Otherwise, Christ would have had to suffer repeatedly since the foundation of the world. But now He has appeared once for all at the end of the ages to do away with sin by the sacrifice of Himself... 

Christ put away all sin at the cross. Whoever believes in Him and comes to Him is not separated through any sin, unforgivable or not, because He alone had the victory over Hades (hell in english translations) Sin, and Death.. I laugh when people say death conquers Christ. FALSE

Christ Conquered Death. 

Start walking in Freedom. Start realizing God is not stopped by anything. No power overcomes His love for you. As a victim, this is important. 
Meditate on these scriptures. Print them out on your wall. Pull up a verse on google images and have a nice picture to view while meditating on scripture only. 

Realize Jesus is the overseer of your soul. No abuser stands in that place next to God. It can seem that way at times, like God loves them more than you. Like they must matter or have more authority than you. FALSE. 1, I repeat ONE is the judge and creator of you. No man stands in that place. Start seeking God's heart and healing for abuse. 
Start seeing God's love and corrective punishment in scripture and his fairness in justice. 
Quit thinking God is the monster. This is a false view of God. 

As a famous abuse survivor quoted- my wording, ..." A person, male or female, can torment your body. They can sever your heart and emotions and will. However, they can never grab a hold of your spirit. God is the Father of all spirits. No human has that authority over another's spirit. Only God my child.  Hebrews 12:9 Since we respected our earthly fathers who disciplined us, shouldn't we submit even more to the discipline of the Father of our spirits, and live forever?

Your Father God, who is Jesus Christ, walked through your death. He took your punishment and sentence. Walk with Him and live. He has defeated death, it never was able to beat Him. 
This is a loving Father. Walking in death with you, side by side, taking your pain, so you don't have to suffer. 

You can't have the New Testament without the Old. See God's heart in the Old Testament. Even in His wrath, he desired repentance. Many times his justice was due to people groups slaughtering one another, sexually abusing one another, throwing children into fire, wanting to rape anything that moved. Have you realized that? He had to stop the evil. He did not sit there and torment the abusers on earth. He had swift judgement and justice that stopped and brought death to the EVIL for the oppressed and even the oppressors. He will not tolerate abuse. 

May God bless you and I on our journey of seeking His heart more and more in scripture daily. 

Scripture & Shattered Heart Healing

May Jesus, the Great I AM, cause you to find HOPE in Him alone. May these verses bring some serious HEALING . When you are suffering, the abused, the outcast, the broken, no person can take away God's Word from you. This will be continually updated and will dig deep into God’s nature and encouraging verses. 

Psalm 22:27 God's Word Translation (GW)
All the ends of the earth will remember and return to the Lord.
All the families from all the nations will worship you 

Psalm 145:17 World English Bible
Yahweh is righteous in all his ways, and gracious in all his works.

2 Samuel 14:14 NIV

Like water spilled on the ground, which cannot be recovered, so we must die. But that is not what God desires; rather, he devises ways so that a banished person does not remain banished from him.

Lamentations 3: 32-33 NKJV

Though He causes grief, 

Yet He will show compassion

According to the multitude of His mercies.

For He does not afflict willingly,

Nor grieve the children of men.

Deuteronomy 25:3

But he must not be beaten more than 40 lashes,

because if he receives more than 40 lashes, your brother will be humiliated in your eyes.

Isaiah 45:11-13 NIV

 “This is what the Lord says—

the Holy One of Israel, and its Maker:

Concerning things to come,

do you question me about my children,

or give me orders about the work of my hands?

It is I who made the earth

and created mankind on it.

My own hands stretched out the heavens;

I marshaled their starry hosts.

I will raise up Cyrus in my righteousness:

I will make all his ways straight.

He will rebuild my city

and set my exiles free,

but not for a price or reward,

says the Lord Almighty.

(All nations and people’s are encouraged through Holy Scripture to turn and know the Lord-  yes foreigners/outcasts  are loved by God!)

1 Kings 8:43

hear in heaven Your dwelling place, and do according to all for which the foreigner calls to You, in order that all the peoples of the earth may know Your name, to fear You, as do Your people Israel, and that they may know that this house which I have built is called by Your name

Romans 8:18-30

Yet what we suffer now is nothing compared to the glory he will reveal to us later.19 For all creation is waiting eagerly for that future day when God will reveal who his children really are. 20 Against its will, all creation was subjected to God’s curse. But with eager hope, 21 the creation looks forward to the day when it will join God’s children in glorious freedom from death and decay. 22 For we know that all creation has been groaning as in the pains of childbirth right up to the present time. 23 And we believers also groan, even though we have the Holy Spirit within us as a foretaste of future glory, for we long for our bodies to be released from sin and suffering. We, too, wait with eager hope for the day when God will give us our full rights as his adopted children,[j] including the new bodies he has promised us. 24 We were given this hope when we were saved. (If we already have something, we don’t need to hope[k] for it. 25 But if we look forward to something we don’t yet have, we must wait patiently and confidently.)

Isaiah 45: 21-25 NLT

"For there is no other God but me,

a righteous God and Savior.

There is none but me.

Let all the world look to me for salvation!

For I am God; there is no other.

I have sworn by my own name;

I have spoken the truth,

and I will never go back on my word:

Every knee will bend to me,

and every tongue will confess allegiance to me.

The people will declare,

“The Lord is the source of all my righteousness and strength.”

And all who were angry with him

will come to him and be ashamed.

In the Lord all the generations of Israel will be justified,

and in him they will boast."

Hebrews 9:26 Yahweh (Christ) Purged all Sin from His Followers!

Hebrews 9:26 English Standard Version (ESV)

26 for then he would have had to suffer repeatedly since the foundation of the world. But as it is, he has appeared once for all at the end of the ages to put away sin by the sacrifice of himself.

Did you catch that? I think so many times those of us who have gone to Jesus, crawled to Jesus, wept to Jesus, pleaded with Jesus, have forgotten this verse. Repeat it over and over again in your heart. 

If you have never accepted Christ as your Savior and feel He couldn't forgive you-because you perceive yourself to be unforgivable-think again. If you are a Christian who feels what they did crossed the line too far- think again! No matter what judgements He has proclaimed, one things stands sure and solid. ------

His blood cleanses all sin. He tasted death for every man. The one who comes to him and asks to be cleansed by His blood is clean! No sin, no devil, no power, has beaten our God. 

No! His blood trumps ALL!!!!! 

Friend, if you suffer from feeling unforgivable, suffer from past trauma and can't forgive yourself, realize the One you approach-God Almighty, shed His own blood for you! He removed ALL sin with His sacrifice. Is there any sin in the passage of Hebrews (after the cross) that is recorded as not covered? NO! Because the Creator died for His creation. The Bible proclaims that Jesus is God come to us in the flesh. He is the Savior of the World!
(1 John 4:14) He is the light of the World. (John 8:12)
He tasted death for every man (Hebrews 2:9) and takes away the sin of the world! (Greek word for world-cosmos- which means universe) 

He promised to draw all men to Himself. Come near to Him. Draw near to Him as He gently pulls you close and shows you the Depth of His sacrifice. Believe on Him to cleanse you. Never doubt the power of His blood, that it removed ALL SIN! Meditate on Hebrews 9:26. BTW-do not meditate on anything else besides scripture and Jesus Christ!

Let's practice again- By His sacrifice, once for all time, or once at the end of the ages, He has come to abolish sin, put an end to sin, put away sin by the sacrifice of Himself. Praise Jesus!

In concordances, the greek words to define- put away- (sin) are nullification, cancellation, abrogation.
Nullification or Null: to make of no value or consequence  "Merriam Webster"
Abrogate: To abolish by authoritative action "Merriam Webster"
Cancel: To destroy the force, effectiveness, or validity of "Merriam Webster"

When we invite Him to be Lord of our life- sin is abolished! Nothing can stand up to His sacrifice----NOTHING!!!
No person, power, demon, sin, force, or satan can stop Jesus Almighty from rescuing you!