COULD JESUS HAVE CHANGED WHAT HAD BEEN PROPHESIED ABOUT HIMSELF?

COULD JESUS HAVE CHANGED WHAT HAD BEEN PROPHESIED ABOUT HIMSELF?

BY DR. MERVYN ABREO

         

          Let us study just one prophecy about ‘the Christ’ and see its fulfillment.

Jesus, Who was thoroughly well versed with Scripture, very well knew about the prophecies about ‘the Christ’: that He, as the Christ, would ride into Jerusalem, triumphantly entering the city, riding on a colt.

And He had done so! (Mathew 21:5, John 12:14, 15).

Now, the issue is, could He have refused to ride on a colt and instead ridden on a camel?

Of course He could have! He was a complete man who had a free will and one which He could operate as and how He wished. But He submitted to the will of His Father in obedience.

 And Who was the Father?

 The Father and He were one. (John.10:30, 17:22). So why would Jesus contradict Himself and do something other than what He had decided and what He had prophesied through His prophets?

We should also realize that the prophecies about Jesus were given essentially in order that the people would recognize that He was the Christ (the Messiah / the Anointed One).

So if Jesus would start doing something other than what was planned and prophesied, people would reject Him as the Christ, and lose their salvation, negating the very reason He had come down on earth for in the first place.

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