Prophecies from Jesus

1. Turn in your Bible & mark for class tonight: • Deuteronomy 18 • Acts 3 • Hebrews 1 Prophecies from Jesus

2. Prophecies from Jesus • Introduction • There are many great men in the Bible who were prophets of God. • There is no greater Prophet than Jesus Christ Himself! • Jesus was sent forth by God as His Prophet (Heb. 1:1-2). • Moses foretold of the coming of God’s Great Prophet (Deut. 18:18-19) • Peter confirmed that Jesus of Nazareth was the fulfillment of Moses’ great prophecy (Acts 3:19-26) • God established clear guidelines for determining the truthfulness and faithfulness of a prophet and his message (Deut. 18:21-22; Jer. 28:9). • These can and should be applied to the prophecies of Jesus, too.

3. Prophecies from Jesus • Events That Would Transpire in His Last Days • He would be betrayed • Into the hands of men/sinners (Matt. 17:22; 26:45) • To the chief priests and scribes (Matt. 20:18) • By one of His own apostles/friends (Matt. 26:21, 47-50) • He would be rejected • By the elders and chief priests and scribes (Luke 9:22) • By all of His apostles (John 16:32; Matt. 26:31) • By one of His closest friends, Peter (Matt. 26:23; Mark 14:30) • He would be delivered • To the Gentiles (Matt. 20:19) • Into the hands of sinful men (Luke 24:7) • To be mocked (Luke 18:32) • To be scourged (Matt. 20:19) • To be spit upon (Mark 10:34) • To be insulted (Luke 18:32)

4. Prophecies from Jesus • Events That Would Transpire in His Last Days • He would suffer many things (Matt. 16:21; 17:12) • He would be condemned to death (Matt. 20:18) • He would be crucified (Mt. 20:19; 26:2; Lk. 24:7) • He would be raised from the dead • Spoke of it from early in His ministry (John 2:19-22) • Compared to Jonah (Matt. 12:39-40) • Be raised up on the third day (Matt. 17:23; 20:29) • Be raised and go to Galilee (Matt. 26:32; Mark 14:28) • He would ascend into heaven • Would be taken away (Matt. 9:15; Luke 5:35) • Go back to the Father (John 7:33; 8:21; 16:7; 20:17) • Go to prepare a place (John 14:2-3)

5. Prophecies from Jesus • Events That Would Transpire in His Last Days • How many of these prophecies were fulfilled in the last days of Jesus’ life? • Every single one of them! • Every single detail! • Not one of them failed! • Jesus is the Great Prophet of God! • His words are true and come true…every time! • We can count on it!

6. Prophecies from Jesus • Events That Would Transpire After His Ascension • The Holy Spirit would come • The Spirit of Truth would come (John 14:16-17, 26) • …Testify of Jesus (John 15:26) • …Guide the apostles into all truth (John 16:7-14) • …Give the words they would need (Matt. 16:19; 18:18) • …Give power to do signs & miracles (Mk. 16:17-20; Lk. 24:49) • The church/kingdom would come • It was “at hand” (Matt. 4:17; Mark 1:5) • Build His indestructible church/kingdom (Matt. 16:18-19) • See the kingdom come with power (Mark 9:1; Matt. 16:28) • He would partake L.S. in the kingdom (Mt. 26:29; Lk. 22:18) • Repentance & remission of sins preached (Luke 24:47)

7. Prophecies from Jesus • Events That Would Transpire After His Ascension • Persecution would come • Disciples would be persecuted (John 15:20) • …Delivered up to councils & scourged (Matt. 10:17-18; 23:34) • …Hated for Christ’s name sake (Matt. 10:22) • …Put out of the synagogues (John 16:2) • …Killed as a service to God (John 16:2) • Destruction of Jerusalem would come • Destroyed & burned by the Romans, “His armies” (Mt. 22:7) • Surrounded, leveled, no stone left on another (Lk. 19:43-44) • Suffer the worst tribulation ever (Matt. 24:1-34)

8. Prophecies from Jesus • Events That Would Transpire After His Ascension • How many of these prophecies were fulfilled in the days following Jesus’ ascension? • Every single one of them! • Every single detail! • Not one of them failed! • Jesus is the Great Prophet of God! • His words are true and come true…every time! • We can count on it!

9. Prophecies from Jesus • Events That Would Transpire at the End of Time • The Son of God will come again, a second time • He promised He will come again (John 14:1-3) • With His angels & with His reward (Matt. 16:27; John 14:3) • The hour will be unknown & unexpected (Matt. 24:36-51) • The dead will be raised • All of the dead will hear His voice (John 5:28) • All of the dead will be raised (John 5:29; 6:40, 54) • Life after death is guaranteed (Matt. 22:29-32; John 11:25) • The heavens & the earth will pass away (Matt. 24:35) • The day of judgment will come • His words will be the standard (John 12:48) • Every idle word will be judged (Matt. 12:36-37) • Every plant not planted by God will be uprooted (Matt. 15:13) • Everything that man has done will be judged (Matt. 25:14-30) • Everything man has not done that he should (Matt. 25:31-46)

10. Prophecies from Jesus • Events That Would Transpire at the End of Time • The eternity of the eternal will come • Few will find the way to life (Matt. 7:14) • Rewarded according to their works (Matt. 16:27) • “Well done…Come, you blessed” (Matt. 25:23, 34) • Receive a hundredfold & inherit eternal life (Matt. 19:29) • Mansions prepared in the Father’s house (John 14:2-3) • The faithful of all ages will be there (Matt. 8:11) • Many will find the way to destruction (Matt. 7:13) • Rewarded according to their works (Matt. 16:27) • “Wicked & lazy…Depart from Me, cursed” (Mt. 25:26, 41) • Delivered unto to the torturers (Matt. 18:34-35) • Fire not be quenched & worm never die (Mark 9:43-48) • Weeping and gnashing of teeth (Matt. 25:30)

11. Prophecies from Jesus • Events That Would Transpire at the End of Time • How many of these prophecies do you expect will be fulfilled at the end of time? • Every single one of them! • Every single detail! • Not one of them will fail! • You know it! • Jesus is the Great Prophet of God! • His words are true and come true…every time! • We can count on it!

12. Prophecies from Jesus • Conclusion • God foretold that the Great Prophet that He would send would speak the words of God (Deut. 18:18). • Look at these words from Jesus, the Prophet: • “For I have come down from heaven, not to do My own will, but the will of Him who sent Me” (John 6:38). • “…The word that I have spoken will judge him in the last day. For I have not spoken on My own authority; but the Father who sent Me gave Me a command, what I should say and what I should speak…” (John 12:48-50). • We can have full confidence in the words of every prophet of God & especially His Greatest Prophet! • Every single one of Jesus’ prophecies about the events in His last days and shortly after His ascension came to pass. • We can have full assurance that every prophecy of Jesus about the events at the end of time will come to pass.

13. Prophecies from Jesus • Conclusion • The reasonable response: • “And it shall be that whoever will not hear My words, which He speaks in My name, I will require it of him” (Deut. 18:19). • “And it shall be that every soul who will not hear that Prophet shall be utterly destroyed from among the people” (Acts 3:23). • We must hear and properly respond to the words of Jesus, the Prophet! • Here’s the real question: Are you ready? • Are you ready for Jesus’ prophecy to be fulfilled and for Him to come again?