Old Testament prophecies of Christ

Throughout the Old Testament [OT] there are prophecies of Jesus Christ whom God the Father promised to send at the right time, first as His anointed Redeemer and then a second time as Judge and King. Below is a list of those prophecies arranged in order of the OT books. I am not claiming the list is exhaustive, but I think the majority are there. They include prophecies of His past and present ministry and of His coming return.

The common practice in lists like this is to quote single verses, but I encourage you to read the specific references in context. This is why I have on the whole given references for groups of verses, even when only a single phrase in the passage is significant. I have not connected these passages to sections of the New Testament because it is far better to read the accounts of Christ’s life in the gospels and see how they compare to the descriptions of the Messiah promised in the OT.

The name Jesus does not appear as such in the OT, though Joshua is from the same Hebrew root. The title/name Christ means Anointed and is the Greek equivalent of the Hebrew Messiah. A number of other descriptive titles are given to Jesus Christ in OT prophecies. These include Redeemer, The Branch, Shiloh (peaceful one), Son of David, Root of Jesse, and many more.

Many prophecies are direct predictions about Christ and His ministry, Gen 3:15 being the first of these. With hindsight, others describe the work of Christ without being predictions in themselves; Gen 3:21 and 22:8 are examples of such statements. Finally, there is one book which is in its entirety an allegoric prophetic insight into not just the ministry of Christ, but also His heart. This book is the Song of Solomon (also known as the Song of Songs).

In case you are wondering, there are 83 references listed below.

Genesis

3:15; 3:21; 17:15-16; 22:6-8, 15-18, 49:8-11

Exodus

2:1-14, 43-47

Numbers

24:15-19

Deuteronomy

18:15-19

2 Samuel

7:5-16

Job

19:23-27

Psalm

2:1-12; 8:1-9; 16:6-11; 18:1-7, 43-50; 21:1-7; 22:1-31; 24:1-10; 27:7-12; 30:1-12; 31:1-8; 34:17-20; 35:7-22; 38:12-15; 40:6-10; 41:5-12; 42:1-11; 45:1-9 & 17; 50:1-6; 56:4-6; 68:17-20; 69:1-36; 71:1-17; 72:1-20; 78:1-4; 89:1-4, 19-29; 102:1-11; 109:1-5, 21-27; 110:1-7; 118:5-26; 132:11-18

Song of Solomon

The whole of the book

Isaiah

2:1-5; 6:8-10; 7:10-14; 8:9-18; 9:1-7; 11:1-11; 22:20-25; 25:6-9; 28:14-18; 35:1-7; 40:1-11; 42:1-9; 44:1-8; 49:1-12; 50:4-9; 51:1-11; 52:13 - 53:12; 55:1-7; 59:16-21; 61:1-3; 63:7-9

Jeremiah

23:3-8; 30:1-9; 31:15-17; 33:14-22

Ezekiel

34:11-26

Daniel

2:44-45; 7:13-14; 9:24-27

Hosea

11:01:00

Micah

4:1-8; 5:1-2

Haggai

2:6-9

Zechariah

3:8-10; 6:3-4; 9:9; 11:12-13; 12:9-10; 13:7; 14:1-9

Malachi

3:1-3; 4:5-6



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