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A:Depending on faith, you could find anything between no prophecy to simply thousands of prophecies in the Old Testament. Burton L. Mack (Who Wrote the New Testament) says that when looking for prophecies, one can ask any question of The Bible and get some kind of answer. If the first answer does not appear to be helpful, one can look for another answer to the same question, until the right answer appears. Sometimes, different people even identify the same passage as prophesying different future events!
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A:There are some references in the Old Testament to a hoped-for Messiah, although none of these refers to Jesus, either directly by name or indirectly. Care should be taken in reading these passages, as many were never thought of as prophecies before the Christian era. The Messiah is mentioned twice in Daniel chapter 9 (KJV). Micah 5:2 was widely interpreted as a prophecy that a Messiah would be born in Bethlehem.


Many passages in the Old Testament have also been taken as references to Jesus, but even so are not about a Messiah. Matthew's Gospel seeks to show thatIsaiah 7:14 prophesied Jesus' birth. This passagedoes say: "Therefore the Lord himself shall give you a sign; Behold, avirginshall conceive, and bear a son, and shall call his name Immanuel," but only in the Septuagint, a flawed early Greek translation of the Hebrew scriptures. WhatIsaiah 7:14 says in the Hebrew original is,"

Therefore the Lord himself shall give you a sign; Behold,

the young woman shall conceive, and bear a son, and shall call his name Immanuel

."(She did, just a few verses later in the Book of Isaiah.) Unless prophecies are to be based on faulty translations, there was no prophecy of a virgin birth,

and in any caseno mention of a Messiah or of Jesus himself.

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There are 668 provable prophesies.

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In spite of anecdotal claims, many people have studied the Bible and come to the conclusion that there is no provable prophecy anywhere in the Bible.

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Was the Old Testament fullfilled in the New Testament?

AnswerSome see prophecies in the Old Testament and believe they were fulfilled in New Testament times. Whether those Old Testament passages were really prophecies is a matter of selective interpretation, and whether they were fulfilled in the New Testament is a matter of faith.


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Is the story of Jesus birth New Testament or Old Testament?

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Where in the Old Testament is it prophesized that Jesus will die and be resurrected on the third day?

There is no prophecy in the Old Testament, that Jesus will die and be resurrected on the third day. Apologists do comb through the Old Testament looking for prophecies like this, claiming to have found thousands, but none of them stands up to scrutiny.


Why is the old testament not just a historical account?

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