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The Fundamentals to a number of nations, whose history, whose rise and down* fall, are divinely predicted in the Bible. Furthermore, we shall mention the great prophetic unfoldings as given, in the Book of Daniel, and how many of these predictions have al ready found a most interesting fulfillment. MESSIANIC PROPHECIES AND THEIR FULFILLMENT The Old Testament contains a most wonderful chain of prophecies concerning the person, the life and work of our Lord. As He is the center of the whole revelation of God, the One upon whom all rests, we turn first of all to a few of the prophecies which speak of Him. This also is very necessary. The destructive criticism has gone so far as to state that there are no predictions at all concerning Christ in the Old Testa ment. Such a denial leads to and is linked with the denial of Christ Himself, especially the denial of His Deity and His work on the cross. To follow the large number of prophecies concerning the coming of Christ into the world and the work He was to accomplish we cannot attempt in these pages. We point out briefly in a general way what must be familiar to most Chris tians who search the Scriptures. Christ is first announced in Gen. 3:15 to be the seed of the woman, and therefore a human being. In Gen. 9:26-2 7 the supremacy of Shem is predicted. The full revelation of Jehovah God is connected with Shem and in due time a son of Shem, Abraham, received the promise that the predicted seed was to come from him. (Gen. 12:8.) Messiah was to come from the seed of Abraham. Then the fact was revealed that He was to come from Isaac and not from Ishmael, from Jacob and not from Esau. But Jacob had twelve sons. The Divine prediction pointed to Judah and later to the house of David of the tribe of Judah from which the Messiah should spring. When we come to the prophecies of Isaiah we learn that His mother is to be a virgin. (Isa. 7 :14.) But the son born of the virgin is
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