Biblical Prophesy about Jesus in the Old Testament

Yesterday we read on Psalm 22. For the first time I was astonished to find out that it contains more prophecy about Jesus than what I knew before.

In the past, i only know it prophecies about Jesus’ crucifixion. Read on verse 12 – 18:

Many bulls encompass me; (probably throughout the trial)
strong bulls of Bashan surround me;
they open wide their mouths at me,
like a ravening and roaring lion.
I am poured out like water,
and all my bones are out of joint; (after the flogging)
my heart is like wax;
it is melted within my breast; (when he’s crucified)
my strength is dried up like a potsherd,
and my tongue sticks to my jaws; (when he’s thirsty)
you lay me in the dust of death.
For dogs encompass me;
a company of evildoers encircles me;
they have pierced my hands and feet (put him on the cross)
I can count all my bones—
they stare and gloat over me; (on the cross)
they divide my garments among them, (what happened there)
and for my clothing they cast lots.

 But yesterday, found out also the following verses (9-10) referring to his incarnation nature:

Yet you are he who took me from the womb;
you made me trust you at my mother’s breasts.
On you was I cast from my birth,
and from my mother’s womb you have been my God.

And in verses 27 onwards, referring to His Lordship & glorification

All the ends of the earth shall remember
and turn to the Lord,
and all the families of the nations
shall worship before you.
For kingship belongs to the Lord,
and he rules over the nations.

Again, it confirms what Paul & Peter said that the Lord’s anointed must suffer many things before he entered into His glory. Something that the Old Testament has actually told us beforehand.

And our rightful response to God should be:

it shall be told of the Lord to the coming generation;
they shall come and proclaim his righteousness to a people yet unborn,
that he has done it.

As parents, our responsibility to tell to our children (the next generation), and even to babies in the womb (how i understand the term ‘people yet unborn’), but i could mean to write in memory also, preserve for even those not yet born.

Hallelujah!

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