Shawn Ryan

They're quantifiable.

For instance, Micah 5, verse 2 says the Messiah would be born in Bethlehem.

How many people have been born in Bethlehem?

We can calculate that.

So let's get the ones that can be calculated and run the numbers.

And you know what they found?

The odds of any human being coincidentally fulfilling just 48 of these ancient prophecies would be one chance in a trillion, trillion, trillion, trillion, trillion, trillion, trillion, trillion, trillion, trillion, trillion, trillion.

Wow.

It ain't going to happen.

You get to numbers like that, and you can confidently say, that ain't going to happen by chance.

And yet, Jesus did it in fulfillment to prove he is who he claimed to be, the unique, the Messiah, the unique Son of God.

Wow.

So there's these prophecies that point to him

Where he was born, that's how they knew it was going to be in Bethlehem.

How many prophecies are there?

Gosh, it depends on how you look at them.

Some are more foreshadowings, a little less explicit.

Some are very explicit.

For instance, Isaiah 53 in the Old Testament, this Hebrew writing written hundreds of years before Jesus was born.

If I were to read that to you right now and say, who does this describe?