These teachers were the outstanding scholars of their times. So, the ancient teachers of Israel, the rabbis, read the original Hebrew texts and identified what they saw as clues which were pointing to the coming of Messiah. How would you know what was important to those who live in the past? You’d have to pay a lot of attention to details that now seem unimportant. So when the ancient teachers of the Bible spoke about the prophecies of the Messiah over many generations they often refer to texts that seem surprising to us: passages that seem obscure or even impossible to understand.Ĭan you imagine picking up a conversation with your great-grand-parents? Even if they were referring to something historical like the First World War, they might well speak about something that seems very unimportant to you-the death of a neighbour’s son whose name you don’t recognize or make some reference to a tiny army regiment that nobody remembers today except maybe that’s where the men in their neighbourhood served. These were much more obvious to the Hebrew speakers. They also had no vowels-so the texts sometimes carried multiple meanings based on the original words in Hebrew. The original Bible texts in scrolls didn’t have texts in numbered verses. The ways in which they were taught and discussed over the past thousands of years had very little to do with the English text you see when you read the Bible. Many of these texts originated as spoken prophecies and were only written down later. However, the texts of the Bible are many thousands of years old. We are used to receiving and analyzing blocks of information like this text that you’re reading. These are very good questions and confront us with the major differences between the writers of the ancient books of the Bible and modern English readers.įirst, Messianic prophecies may often seem like obscure references to unusual or curious snippets of the Biblical text which can appear taken out of context. How can Psalm 41:9 be a messianic prophesy if the verses beforehand say something not messianic? How are messianic prophecies found? Is it just a small verse out of a whole chapter that is messianic or does the whole chapter refer to the same thing?
How can this be messianic if it’s not consistent? Does this still qualify? If so, how?Īlso, Psalm 41:4 talks about the person who is writing and has sinned against the LORD. The writer speaks of a person who is paid 30 pieces of silver, but then the Lord said to that person, “Cast it unto the potter…” The 30 pieces of silver is also in the New Testament, but there it says that the person was told to cast it to “the potter.” I don’t see Jesus casting it, but Judas. Zechariah 11:12-13 is said to be a messianic prophecy.
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