Fulfilled Prophecy a Potent Argument for the Bible 59 Immanuel, God with us. Clearly the prophetic Word in Isaiah states that the Messiah would be a child born and a Son given with tfre names, “Wonderful, Counsellor, Mighty God, the Everlasting Father, the Prince of Peace” (Isa. 9 :6 ) . The promised Messiah is to be the seed of a woman, of the seed of Abraham, of David, born of a virgin. He is to be Im manuel, the Son given, God manifested in the flesh. This promised Messiah, the Son of David, should appear (according to Isa. 11:1) after the house of David had been stripped of its royal dignity and glory. And what more could we say of the prophecies which speak of His life, His poverty, the works He was to do, His rejection by His own people, the Jews. In that matchless chapter in Isaiah, the fifty-third, the rejection of Christ by His own nation is predicted. In another chapter a still more startling prophecy is recorded: “Then I said, I have labored in vain, I have spent my strength for naught and in vain.” This is Messiah’s lament on account of His rejection. Then follows the answer, which contains a most striking prophecy: “It is a light thing that Thou shouldest be My servant to raise up the tribes of Jacob and to restore the preserved of Israel: I also will give Thee for a light to the Gentiles, that Thou mayest be My salvation unto the ends of the earth” (Isa. 49: 5, 6). Here the revelation is given that He would not alone be rejected by His own nation, but that He would also bring salvation to the Gentiles. What human mind could have ever invented such a program! The prom ised Messiah of Israel, the longed-for One, is predicted to be rejected by His own people and thus becomes the Saviour of the despised Gentiles. His sufferings and His death are even more minutely predicted. In the Book of Psalms the sufferings of Christ, the deep agony of His soul, the expressions of His sorrow and His grief, are pre-written by the Spirit of God. We mention only one Psalm, the twenty-second. His death by crucifixion is prophe sied. Yet death by crucifixion was in David’s time an un-
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