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Christ Before Birth

“In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.

He was in the beginning with God.”

(John 1.1-2, ESV)

John 1.1-2John 1.1-2

The ResearchThe Research

“H. P. Liddon is the authority for the statement that there are 332 distinct

prophecies in the O.T. which have been literally fulfilled by Christ.”

--From A Study of the Life of Christ by H. B. Frank

(quoted by Floyd E. Hamilton, Basis of Christian Faith, page 156)

Hamilton states that the mathematical probability of all of these prophecies being fulfilled in one person is one to 84 followed

by 97 zeros.

--From A Study of the Life of Christ by H. B. Frank

(Floyd E. Hamilton, Basis of Christian Faith, page 157)

The ResearchThe Research

Knowing Christ

Getting to Know Jesus:– If Christ is eternal, he was not created.– If Christ is eternal, he knows the nature of man.– If Christ is eternal, he saw man fall from the

presence of God.

Then God said, "Let us make man in our image, after our likeness. And let them have

dominion over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the heavens and over the livestock

and over all the earth and over every creeping thing that creeps on the earth."

(Genesis 1.26, ESV)

The BeginningThe Beginning

The Messiah

• “Messiah” means the anointed one.

• The term in the Old Testament of kings and priests, who were concentrated by the ceremony of anointing. (ISBE)

The Misunderstanding:

– The Messiah will come in glory.

– The Messiah will conquer the Roman empire.

– The Messiah will come and be crowned king of Israel.

– The Messiah will free the people.

The Messiah

The Messiah

The Messiah will come:

– He will come in glory:• He would rule from David’s throne. (Psalms

45.5-7)

• He was humbly born into this world. (Isaiah 7.14)

• Micah 5:2

The Messiah

The Messiah will come:– He will conquer the Roman Empire:

• He would rule from David’s throne. (Psalms 45.5-7)

• He would establish the everlasting kingdom. (Daniel 2.44)

• Jeremiah 23.5

The Messiah

The Messiah will come:– He will be crowned King.:

• He would rule from David’s throne. (Psalms 45.5-7)

• Isaiah 11:1-10• Jeremiah 23.5

The Messiah

The Messiah will come:– He will set the people free:

• The government would be on his shoulder. (Isaiah 9.6-7)

• Psalm 2.6-12• Isaiah 42.1-4

You can be Free

“If you abide in my word, you are truly my disciples, and you will know the truth, and

the truth will set you free.”

(John 8.31-32)