{"id":12093,"date":"2020-07-10T09:00:01","date_gmt":"2020-07-10T09:00:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/reasons.org\/publications\/what-is-the-first-prophecy-of-the-coming-of-the-messiah-in-the-bible\/"},"modified":"2020-07-10T09:00:01","modified_gmt":"2020-07-10T09:00:01","slug":"what-is-the-first-prophecy-of-the-coming-of-the-messiah-in-the-bible","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/reasons.org\/christianity\/bible\/what-is-the-first-prophecy-of-the-coming-of-the-messiah-in-the-bible","title":{"rendered":"What Is the First Prophecy of the Coming of the Messiah in the Bible?"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Question of the week:<\/strong> What is the first direct prophecy of the coming of the Messiah in the Bible?<\/p>\n

My answer:<\/strong> The first direct prophecy is by Moses in one of his last sermons. It is recorded in Deuteronomy 18:15\u201319<\/a>:<\/p>\n

The Lord your God will raise up for you a prophet like me from among you, from your fellow Israelites. You must listen to him. For this is what you asked of the Lord your God at Horeb on the day of the assembly when you said, \u201cLet us not hear the voice of the Lord our God nor see this great fire anymore, or we will die.\u201d The Lord said to me: \u201cWhat they say is good. I will raise up for them a prophet like you from among their fellow Israelites, and I will put my words in his mouth. He will tell them everything I command him. I myself will call to account anyone who does not listen to my words that the prophet speaks in my name.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

That God will provide a Redeemer appears hundreds of years earlier in the oldest book in the Bible. Job declares to his three friends:<\/p>\n