Delvin Russell on LinkedIn: Perhaps the following prophetic Scriptures were explained by Yeshua:… (2024)

Verse of the DayHe that walketh uprightly walketh surely:but he that perverteth his ways shall be known.Proverbs 10:9 - KJV

1 Chronicles 16:11“Seek the Lord and his strength, seek his face continually.”

“After several days, when Felix arrived…he sent for Paul and heard him speak concerning faith in Christ…Felix was afraid and answered, ‘For now, leave! When time permits, I will send for you.’”— Acts 24:24-25

esus replied, "Marriage is for people here on earth."Luke 20:34

Prophecy: The Messiah would pay the ransom price for our death due to sin: “Shall I ransom them from the power of Sheol? Shall I redeem them from death? O Death, where are your thorns? O Sheol, where is your sting?” (Hosea 13:14; see also Mark 10:45) Though the disciples (talmidim) were familiar with the Scriptures, they did not yet connect the prophecies about the identity of the Messiah or His suffering and resurrection, even though Yeshua had prepared them for both. And, of course, there is the story of Thomas who when told by the others that they had seen the risen Messiah said: “Unless I see the nail marks in His hands and put my finger where the nails were, and put my hand into His side, I will not believe.” (John 20:25)l0

Explaining His Death and Resurrection “And beginning with Moses and all the Prophets, He explained to them what was said in all the Scriptures concerning Himself.” (Luke 24:27) Even though Yeshua's talmidim had witnessed Him revive many people from the dead, no one had been resurrected from death to eternal life. Still, the idea of resurrection of the dead was not new. The prophets had already declared it: Prophecy: "Many of those who sleep in the dust of the ground will awake, these to everlasting life, but the others to disgrace and everlasting contempt.” (Daniel 12:2) Prophecy: “Your dead will live; Their corpses will rise. You who lie in the dust, awake and shout for joy, For your dew is as the dew of the dawn, and the earth will give birth to the departed spirits.” (Isaiah 26:19) Prophecy: “For You will not abandon my soul to Sheol; Nor will You allow Your Holy One to undergo decay.” (Psalm 16:10) Even with all this prophetic teaching, it did not fully penetrate the hearts and minds of the talmidim. After seeing the empty tomb, Peter “went away, wondering to himself what had happened.” (Luke 24:12)

Foreshadow: Exodus 12:46 says that not a bone of the lamb is to be broken.Fulfilled: John 19:31–36 states that when the soldiers came to break the legs of those condemned to die on the Roman execution stake in order to hasten their death, Yeshua was already dead. Not one of His bones was broken. Foreshadow: Leviticus 23:5 says that Passover is to be celebrated on the 14th of Nissan at twilight.Fulfilled: Matthew 27:62 tells us that Yeshua died on the day of preparation for the Passover, which is Nissan 14, just in time for the Passover. When Yeshua became our Passover Lamb, He was cut off from the living for three days. Because of this indescribable sacrifice on our behalf, Believers will be resurrected to be with Him on the last day, just as Martha proclaimed about her brother Lazarus, “I know He will rise again in the resurrection at the last day." (John 11:24)

In 700 BC, the prophet Isaiah spoke of the fulfillment of Passover through the coming of the Passover Lamb, the Suffering Servant of God, who would become this curse for us and bear the sins of many: “But He was pierced for our transgressions, He was crushed for our iniquities; the punishment that brought us peace was on him, and by His wounds we are healed. We all, like sheep, have gone astray, each of us has turned to our own way; and the Lord has laid on Him the iniquity of us all.” (Isaiah 53:5–6; see also Galatians 3:10, 13; 2 Corinthians 5:21) But Isaiah 53 is not the only prophecy about Yeshua. We can know that Yeshua was this Suffering Servant and took our death penalty upon Himself as our Passover Lamb by carefully reading Passover Scripture that foreshadow Him: Foreshadow: Exodus 12:5 speaks of a spotless (unblemished) lamb to be used in the Seder. Isaiah 53:11 further describes the coming Passover Lamb as being the “righteous servant.”Fulfilled: Paul tells us that “God made Him [Yeshua] who knew no sin to be sin on our behalf, so that in Him we might become the righteousness of God.” (2 Corinthians 5:21) Foreshadow: Exodus 12:22–23 describes how the blood of the lamb is used to cover the members of the household from judgment. Isaiah 53:6 says the Messiah bore the “iniquity of us all.”Fulfilled: Believers now “have confidence to enter the Most Holy Place by the blood of Jesus, by a new and living way opened for us through the curtain, that is, His body.” (Hebrews 10:19–20) Foreshadow: Exodus 12:6 says that the lamb is to be slaughtered between the evenings (sometimes translated twilight).Fulfilled: Matthew 27:45–46 describes how Yeshua hung on the tree from the 6th hour to the 9th hour, which is before evening fell. It is the same time that the Passover lambs were being slain for the Passover Seder.