Alive: 21 Reasons to Believe in the Resurrection of Jesus Christనమూనా

Reason 2: Jesus' Resurrection was Predicted in the Old Testament

Do you wish you could know the future? I think we all do, and we worship a God who actually does. Hundreds of years before Jesus even was born and walked the earth, David and Isaiah wrote prophecies about how He would die. These are just two compelling examples, but many more could be noted.

1000 B.C. Psalm 16:10 says, “...you will not To secure Jesus’ dead body, “Pilate said...’You have a abandon me to the grave, nor will you let your Holy guard of soldiers. Go, make it as secure as you can.’ So One see decay.” they went and made the tomb secure by sealing the

700 B.C. Isaiah 53:7-11 says, “He was oppressed, and... afflicted... like a lamb that is led to the slaughter... By oppression and judgment he was taken away... he was cut off out of the land of the living, stricken for the transgression of my people... they made his grave with the wicked and with a rich man in his death... Yet it was the will of the Lord to crush him; he has put him to grief; when his soul makes an offering for guilt, he shall see his offspring; he shall prolong his days... Out of the anguish of his soul he shall see and be satisfied; by his knowledge shall the righteous one, my servant, make many to be accounted righteous, and he shall bear their iniquities.”

How does this evidence of prophecy affect your view of the crucifixion? What do we learn about Jesus in these verses?