Can anyone accurately describe what life on earth will be like seven hundred years from now, should Christ tarry? We can’t imagine it. We can’t even keep up with the technological challenges of our own time. Yet every aspect of the birth, life, and ministry of Jesus was predicted centuries before He was born.

We’re told He would be born to a virgin (Isaiah 7:14) in the town of Bethlehem (Micah 5:2) and that innocent children would be killed (Jeremiah 31:15). He would be a descendant of Abraham and David (Isaiah 11:1-3). His parents would flee to Egypt to save Him (Hosea 11:1), and He would return to grow up and begin His ministry in Galilee (Isaiah 9:1-2).

That’s only the beginning! On the road to Emmaus with His two disciples, “Jesus quoted them passage after passage from the writings of the prophets, beginning with the book of Genesis and going right on through the Scriptures, explaining what the passages mean and what they said about himself” (Luke 24:27, TLB). We have a Savior the skeptics cannot explain away! You have a Lord you can trust today!

The New Testament is thus the decryption key for unlocking the meaning of the Old Testament Scriptures.
Josh McDowell