Messianic Prophecies

Prophecies of Jesus’s birth

- “And I will put enmity between you and the woman, and between your offspring and hers; he
will crush your head, and you will strike his heel.” (Genesis 3:15)
God was not talking to Eve but to the new Eve which is the blessed Mother. There is already a
prefiguration of the coming of the Blessed Virgin Mary and the offspring of that woman which is
no other than Jesus. The offspring will crush the head of the serpent but the serpent will also
strike his heel. But Jesus would triumph over even at the end of His resurrection.
- “I will bless those who bless you, and whoever curses you will curse; and all peoples on earth
will be blessed through you.” (Genesis 12:3)
The one that is referred here is Jesus Himself.
- “The scepter will not depart from Judah, nor the ruler’s staff between his feet, until he to whom
it belongs shall come and the obedience of the nations shall be his.” (Genesis 49:10)
The scepter or the thrown will not depart from Judah because Jesus would be coming from that
nation.
- “When your days are over and you rest with your ancestors, I will raise up your offspring to
succeed you, your own flesh and blood, and I will establish his kingdom. He is the one who will
build a house for my name, and I will establish the throne of his kingdom forever.” (2 Samuel
7:12-13)
- “Therefore the Lord himself will give you a sign: the virgin will conceive and give birth to a son,
and will call him Immanuel (God with us).” (Isaiah 7:14)
Majority of the Messianic Prophecies can be found in the writing of the prophets and one of the
Major Prophets that we have is Prophet Isaiah.
- “But you, Bethlehem Ephrathah, though you are small among the clans of Judah, out of you will
come for me one who will be ruler over Israel, whose origins are from the old, from the ancient
times.” (Micah 5:2)
Jesus was born in Bethlehem and he was born under the house of Joseph, his stepfather. And
Joseph is a descendant of Judah. And one of Judah’s descendant is King David.
- “A voice of one calling: in the wilderness prepare the way for the Lord; make straight in the
desert a highway for our God. Every valley shall be raised up, every mountain and hill made low;
the rough ground shall become level, the rugged places a plain.” (Isaiah 40:3-4)
The voice that is saying to prepare the way of the Lord is not Jesus but this refers to John the
Baptist who is a cousin of Jesus. Isaiah was already talking about the last prophet to prophesize
about the messiah. John the Baptist would preach about Jesus. John the Baptist is the one who
would prepare the people for the coming of the messiah whom is Jesus.