{"id":4730,"date":"2023-07-27T09:05:01","date_gmt":"2023-07-27T14:05:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bigdadoo.com\/blog\/staging\/3703\/2023\/07\/27\/4730\/"},"modified":"2023-07-27T09:11:19","modified_gmt":"2023-07-27T14:11:19","slug":"4730","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bigdadoo.com\/blog\/2023\/07\/27\/4730\/","title":{"rendered":"Jesus and The Old Testament"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>From today&#8217;s devotion, the prophesy of Jesus in the old testament.<\/p>\n<p>&#8212;<\/p>\n<p>God over the seemingly impossible<\/p>\n<p>It might feel unlikely that God will show up in your impossible situation: your diagnosis, your infertility, your broken relationship, your disobedient kid, your inconsistent character, your anxiety, your financial struggles, your grief.<\/p>\n<p>Thankfully, God is not limited or bound by the natural world.<\/p>\n<p>Growing up in a Jewish family, Mary would have known about the prophesied Messiah; the long-awaited Savior of the world. But she probably never imagined that those age-old predictions would be fulfilled in the life, death, and resurrection of her son\u2014who was somehow fully God, yet also fully man.<\/p>\n<p>But as the angel Gabriel explained to Mary:<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFor nothing will be impossible with God.\u201d<br \/>\n\u202d\u202dLuke\u202c \u202d1:37\u202c \u202dESV\u202c\u202c<\/p>\n<p>Not only did God plan these events long ago, He also declared them ahead of time through Old Testament prophets and writers.<\/p>\n<p>Jesus\u2019 life: This God-man would come from the lineage of David (Isaiah 9:7), and be born of a virgin (Isaiah 7:14) in Bethlehem (Micah 5:2). He\u2019d make the blind see, the deaf hear, the lame walk, and the mute sing (Isaiah 35:5-6). He\u2019d proclaim good news to the poor, comfort the brokenhearted, and set the captive free (Isaiah 61:1).<\/p>\n<p>Jesus\u2019 death: Though innocent (Isaiah 53:9), he\u2019d be betrayed by a close friend (Psalm 41:9) for thirty pieces of silver (Zechariah 11:12). He\u2019d be despised and rejected (Isaiah 53:3), beaten and spit on (Isaiah 50:6), pierced in both the hands and feet (Psalm 22:16), and ultimately killed (Daniel 9:26).<\/p>\n<p>Jesus\u2019 resurrection: He would be raised to life again (Psalm 16:10-11) and establish a never-ending covenant with God\u2019s people (Jeremiah 31:31-34). Because He\u2019d be willing to bear the sins of many and intercede for rebels (Isaiah 53:12), many would be counted as righteous (Isaiah 53:11) and He\u2019d be a light to all nations (Isaiah 11:10).<\/p>\n<p>Everything about Jesus seemed impossible, but God is able to do beyond what we could imagine. So remember the God you serve, and be encouraged: God is surprised by nothing. He already knows the end from the beginning. His purposes can\u2019t be derailed. His character will never change.<\/p>\n<p>Nothing is impossible for Him.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From today&#8217;s devotion, the prophesy of Jesus in the old testament. &#8212; God over the seemingly impossible It might feel unlikely that God will show up in your impossible situation: your diagnosis, your infertility, your broken relationship, your disobedient kid, your inconsistent character, your anxiety, your financial struggles, your grief. Thankfully, God is not limited [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_crdt_document":"","_eb_attr":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4730","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-faith"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bigdadoo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4730","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bigdadoo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bigdadoo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bigdadoo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bigdadoo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4730"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.bigdadoo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4730\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4731,"href":"https:\/\/www.bigdadoo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4730\/revisions\/4731"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bigdadoo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4730"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bigdadoo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4730"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bigdadoo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4730"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}