Messianic Prophecy | The Messiah Existed Before Time Began

The Hebrew Bible told us that Messiah would be eternal, that He wouldn't just be a man or a great teacher. He wouldn't just lead Israel back to the Torah, but the Messiah would literally be eternal. Hear the Word of God. Once again, I'm just going to be taking you through a Hebrew Bible or Old Testament reference and then showing you the New Testament correspondence. I'm looking now at the book of Micah, chapter number 5, verse 2. But as for you, Bethlehem, Eprathah, too little to be among the clans of Judah. From you one will go forth for me to be ruler in Israel. Get this now. His goings forth are from long ago, from the days of eternity. We read this same thing in John chapter 1, verses 1 and 14 concerning the eternal nature of the Messiah. Once again, Micah told us that His goings forth would be from long ago, from eternity. The Messiah would be from eternity. Listen to what John tells us. In the beginning was the Word and the Word was with God, eternity, right? And the Word was God. And the Word became flesh. That's the person of Jesus, the physical clothing of Messiah into our earth. And the Word became flesh and dwelt among us. As we continue down our rapid fire prophecies today, we're going to look at the fact that the Hebrew scriptures foretold that Messiah would not only be eternal, but He would also come into the world through a woman. And so we read in the book of Bersheet, the book of beginnings, we call it in English Genesis chapter 3, verse 15, these words. The Lord is speaking here to the serpent that He says, I will put enmity between you and the woman and between your seed, get this now, and her seed. Whose seed? The woman's seed.

So the Lord is saying to the devil, I'm going to put distance between you and the woman and between her seed and your seed. He shall bruise you on the head and you shall bruise him on the heel. Of course, all the gospels bear witness to this. What we call the synoptic gospels, Matthew, Mark, and Luke all tell us how Yeshua was born from the virgin. We say in Hebrew, Miriam, translated into English as Mary. John's gospel is different in the sense that John's gospel just begins to tell the story of Yeshua from eternity. But the synoptic gospels, Matthew, Mark, and Luke show us how this prophecy in Genesis was fulfilled with the Messiah coming into the world as the offspring of a woman, fully God and fully man. God meeting humanity, God clothing Himself in humanity. Theologically, this is called the hypostatic union. The Messiah is fully God and fully man. He came into the world as the offspring of a woman. In the book of Numbers, chapter six, the Lord gave instructions to Moses and Aaron to speak this blessing over his people. And the Lord said, when you speak these words over my people, I will place my name on them and bless them. We receive the impartation of the Lord's blessings. The Lord bless you and keep you. The Lord make His face shine on you and be gracious to you. The Lord lift you up by His countenance and the Lord give you, beloved one, His peace. God bless you and shalom.