Scriptural Proof Of Jesus Christ
The only way to find proof as to the truth behind who Jesus Christ was is for us to look into history. Therefore we must look to evidence beyond the existence of His lifetime.
How is that possible you may ask? Older Scriptures hold evidence as to who the Messiah would be, where He would come from, and what He would do.
Older Texts Which Hold Evidence To The Messiah
A man by the name of Isaiah lived near 700 years before Christ walked the Earth. His book was passed down from generation to generation.
It would be impossible for anyone to inject new texts or references into the book in order to manipulate the text. What it holds would clearly stand as a testament to who the Messiah would be.
The same can be said for Micah who also lived about 700 years before. The texts of Moses through the book of Numbers and others also could not be altered or manipulated.
It is here where evidence to who the Messiah would be can start to define who Jesus was.
Evidence Of The Birth Of Jesus
Isaiah 7:14 Therefore the Lord himself shall give you a sign; Behold, a virgin shall conceive, and bear a son, and shall call his name Immanuel.
Seven hundred years before Mary we find Isaiah stating that a virgin will conceive and have a son. His name would be Immanuel, meaning God with us.
A prophet from any other time or group of people would be called a lunatic for making such claims. Nevertheless the story behind Jesus is unique and the prophecies concerning His life are very specific.
We find this fulfillment concerning Mary in Luke
Luke 1:35 And the angel answered and said unto her, The Holy Ghost shall come upon thee, and the power of the Highest shall overshadow thee: therefore also that holy thing which shall be born of thee shall be called the Son of God.
The nature of how specific passages can become eerie for someone who is not a believer. I give you Micah.
Micah 5:2 But thou, Bethlehem Ephratah, though thou be little among the thousands of Judah, yet out of thee shall he come forth unto me that is to be ruler in Israel; whose goings forth have been from of old, from everlasting.
Micah named the place where Jesus would be born. Many remember the Christmas stories about King Herod inquiring of his scribes as to who this king would be.
After his encounter with the wise men Herod felt threatened. A mad man who murdered his own family would not hesitate to seek out who this future king would be. We turn to Matthew.
Matthew 2: 4 And when he had gathered all the chief priests and scribes of the people together, he demanded of them where Christ should be born.
5 And they said unto him, In Bethlehem of Judaea: for thus it is written by the prophet,
Jesus Would Come Up Out Of Egypt
Hosea lived about 750 years before Jesus. Again another very specific statement made by a man who could not have known the future on his own.
Hosea 11:1 When Israel was a child, then I loved him, and called my son out of Egypt.
Just before Herod sent his soldiers to find this child which had been born to be king, Joseph was given a dream. In the dream he was told to escape the massacre which would come.
Joseph gathered Mary and Jesus and fled to Egypt, a place outside of Herod’s authority. We can see this fulfilled in Matthew
Matthew 2: 14 When he arose, he took the young child and his mother by night, and departed into Egypt:
15 And was there until the death of Herod: that it might be fulfilled which was spoken of the Lord by the prophet, saying, Out of Egypt have I called my son.
A Spotless Sacrifice Was Required
At the very beginning a symbol was created of a sacrifice being needed for all mankind. After Adam and Eve sinned the clothing which was given them came from an animal which was sacrificed.
When Abraham was called, his son Isaac, and also the grandson Jacob, each carried with them this need for a sacrifice. It would be a blood sacrifice which was required.
Exodus 12:5 Your lamb shall be without blemish, a male of the first year: ye shall take it out from the sheep, or from the goats:
A sacrifice from any other person would be insufficient. For the wages of sin is death, one who is condemned cannot save another who is condemned.
Nevertheless one who has no sin is not subject to death. Their replacement accepting our punishment as theirs to redeem us was required. Only one could achieve this.
Hebrews 9:14 How much more shall the blood of Christ, who through the eternal Spirit offered himself without spot to God, purge your conscience from dead works to serve the living God?
Scripture Told Us How Jesus Would Teach
Psalms is a unique book. Different men of Biblical history contributed to its pages across time. Nevertheless they were completed long before the birth of Christ.
Few people realize that these pages also hold prophecies concerning the life of Jesus.
Psalm 78:1 Give ear, O my people, to my law: incline your ears to the words of my mouth. 2 I will open my mouth in a parable: I will utter dark sayings of old:
Across the pages of the New Testament we see how the eyes of unbelievers are closed to the truth. To the world the truth appears as lunacy because they cannot understand it.
We learn that the Holy Spirit is required to open our hearts and therefore our eyes to see its meaning. We literally cannot save ourselves for even our very understanding depends upon God.
We find fulfilment of Psalm 78 in Matthew.
Matthew 13: 34 All these things spake Jesus unto the multitude in parables; and without a parable spake he not unto them:
35 That it might be fulfilled which was spoken by the prophet, saying, I will open my mouth in parables; I will utter things which have been kept secret from the foundation of the world.
It would be only the disciples of Christ which would be spoken to more plainly. Yet even in many cases with His disciples they too received parables if they were not ready.
Jesus Would Be Preceded By A Forerunner
A cousin of Jesus would be named John. The story of who John was, who he was born to, and how John would serve God is amazing.
His life was foretold by Isaiah some 700 years before. I give you the passage.
Isaiah 40: 3 The voice of him that crieth in the wilderness, Prepare ye the way of the Lord, make straight in the desert a highway for our God.
4 Every valley shall be exalted, and every mountain and hill shall be made low: and the crooked shall be made straight, and the rough places plain:
I now give you the line by which the life of John was defined by. It would be a line which all would hear and he would proclaim in every place he visited.
John 1:23 He said, I am the voice of one crying in the wilderness, Make straight the way of the Lord, as said the prophet Esaias.
Jesus Life, Death, And Resurrection
Isaiah goes to great length of detail pertaining to the suffering which Christ would face. Entire passages are dedicated to this. I give you merely one here.
Isaiah 53:3 He is despised and rejected of men; a man of sorrows, and acquainted with grief: and we hid as it were our faces from him; he was despised, and we esteemed him not.
The passage characterizes the life which Jesus would live. He was in fact despised and rejected. He became a man of sorrows for taking our burden as His own.
His blood would have to be spilt, and His life taken to make a remission for sins. Leviticus details this further.
Leviticus 17:11 For the life of the flesh is in the blood: and I have given it to you upon the altar to make an atonement for your souls: for it is the blood that maketh an atonement for the soul.
Many remember the story of Christ with His disciples at what is called The Last Supper. It was His last night with them before He would die.
There He brake bread and gave it to them to eat. He shared with them wine to drink. The bread a picture of His broken body, and the wine of His blood.
We look to Matthew to find this reference in the words of Christ.
Matthew 26:28 For this is my blood of the New Testament, which is shed for many for the remission of sins.
Jesus Did Not Resist Our Sin And Our Shame
The sacrifice to redeem us would need to be voluntary. In the case of Jesus not only was it voluntary, His entire purpose for coming was to achieve this very thing.
He was not caught by chance or as a circumstance of how He chose to live His life. What He chose to do was to fulfill purpose out of love for us.
Isaiah 50:6 I gave my back to the smiters, and my cheeks to them that plucked off the hair: I hid not my face from shame and spitting.
Isaiah foretold of how Christ would not only suffer, but that He would give Himself. Note the specifics mentioned that Jesus would endure. We turn to Matthew to see Isaiah fulfilled.
Matthew 27: 27 Then the soldiers of the governor took Jesus into the common hall, and gathered unto him the whole band of soldiers.
28 And they stripped him, and put on him a scarlet robe.
29 And when they had platted a crown of thorns, they put it upon his head, and a reed in his right hand: and they bowed the knee before him, and mocked him, saying, Hail, King of the Jews!
30 And they spit upon him, and took the reed, and smote him on the head.
31 And after that they had mocked him, they took the robe off from him, and put his own raiment on him, and led him away to crucify him.
How Christ Would Die Was Foretold
In Numbers we are given a story of the children of Israel in their disobedience. A punishment fell on them as poisonous snakes were sent to bite them.
Many would die due to this. God spoke to Moses and instructed him to do something quite odd in Moses’s time.
Moses was told to craft a serpent which would be hung on a pole. He was then told to display this serpent and for those who looked on this symbol and believed, they would be healed.
The symbol itself holds roots in pagan ideology. The pole represented the cross on which Christ would die. The cross was a horrible form of torture and death from a pagan culture.
The serpent clearly a symbol of sin and death. While Christ would die, He would also resurrect to life. What was left nailed to the cross was sin and death as He conquered both.
Numbers 21:9 And Moses made a serpent of brass, and put it upon a pole, and it came to pass, that if a serpent had bitten any man, when he beheld the serpent of brass, he lived.
We find Jesus speaking to Nicodemus in John chapter 3. Nicodemus was having a difficult time understanding these deeper concepts.
Jesus made mention of this story from the time of Moses in order to bridge the gap in Nicodemus’s understanding.
John 3: 14 And as Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness, even so must the Son of man be lifted up:
15 That whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have eternal life.
The Words Of Jesus On The Cross
The very words Christ spoke on the cross were foretold in much older Scriptures. I give you Psalm.
Psalm 22:1 My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me? why art thou so far from helping me, and from the words of my roaring?
As Christ was hanging on the cross he took on our sin. As a holy Father can not look on sin, He turned away from His own Son.
The sky darkened, and for the first time in Jesus life on Earth He was alone. Our sin separated Him from his Father. I give you Matthew.
Matthew 27:46 And about the ninth hour Jesus cried with a loud voice, saying, Eli, Eli, lama sabachthani? that is to say, My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me?
Psalm holds another insight to Jesus on the cross. It is another prophecy to the thoughts and words which Jesus would speak.
Psalm 31:5 Into thine hand I commit my spirit: thou hast redeemed me, O Lord God of truth.
We turn to Luke and find this moment just before Jesus died to find these same words. A fulfillment of what was told would come.
Luke 23:46 And when Jesus had cried with a loud voice, he said, Father, into thy hands I commend my spirit: and having said thus, he gave up the ghost.
Jesus Would Conquer Death
It was not enough that Jesus merely die for us. He would also be required to conquer and overcome sin and death.
We are to serve a living God, not a false one being dead and buried in the Earth. Isaiah again gives us great insight to what Jesus would achieve for us.
Isaiah 25: 7 And he will destroy in this mountain the face of the covering cast over all people, and the vail that is spread over all nations.
8 He will swallow up death in victory; and the Lord God will wipe away tears from off all faces; and the rebuke of his people shall he take away from off all the earth: for the Lord hath spoken it.
I could turn to Easter morning and show you how Jesus rose from the dead. I could speak of His many encounters with His disciples.
The road to Emmaus is a perfect picture to those who fell away. The upper room is another great image for those who felt defeated and alone.
I rather would prefer to show you what John saw many years later. As John was given a vision in Revelation of what would come Jesus made a declaration.
Revelation 1:18 I am he that liveth, and was dead; and, behold, I am alive for evermore, Amen; and have the keys of hell and death.
Who Is Jesus?
This document is far from holding all the evidence as to who Jesus is. Nevertheless, He is our Savior and Messiah. Our Redeemer and our God.
There are hundreds of other prophecies across the Old Testament with the same degree of specifics to His life on Earth. There are also many more which pertain to His second return.
Make no mistake as to who Christ is. John 1 begins to detail the beginning of all things. John also was used to write Revelation pertaining to the new beginning.
We are no accident. God did not make any mistakes. His design and plan was told from the very beginning, if only we would look to find and believe His words.