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Why Bible Prophecy Confuses You: How to find Jesus in the Old Testament pt 9 | Mike Winger | YouTubeToText
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The central theme is that the fulfillment of Old Testament prophecy in Jesus is complex and exists on a spectrum, ranging from direct, one-to-one predictions to more nuanced typological and analogical connections, all of which are divinely intended and not fabricated.
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we're gonna deal with the issue tonight
it is confusing prophecy is probably the
most challenging subject in the Bible
and let me illustrate for you if I can I
remember getting a tract that was that
you know you go witnessing with these
you hand these out and it had on it like
something like 50 prophecies of Jesus on
this track and I was like oh yes I love
prophecy it's such perfect evidence to
prove God and prove Jesus so I get this
tract him before I handed it out I
wanted to look into it so I checked
these prophecies and I go home and I
open my Bible and I'm looking looking up
the references and I'm reading them and
I go like some of these are like not
things I would want someone to look up
well you know Jesus would do this in the
other you have a verse reference there
and I look up the person I go nah and I
did not use that tract now if I was a
produce my own prophecy track to show
Jesus it would it would not have 300
prophecies I would put like five because
I'm going here's some that are like
clear in the text that are really good
for proving the Bible true but in
reality we sometimes hear about there's
300 prophecies of Jesus there's four 500
prophecies of Jesus and I'm always like
you know I don't if you notice this I
never say that
and here's and tonight I'll explain why
I'll explain why because what we don't
want to do is overreact because this is
what happens some people realize that
some of these prophecies of Jesus are
not so obvious are not so clear and look
like they're really about someone else
when you're reading the Old Testament
and so then they think oh this prophecy
thing is a sham and I've even heard
teachers like Professor teachers say
that prophecies basically they just you
know did whatever they wanted with the
Old Testament and I'm like no that's not
true that's the overreaction that's
false but then there's the under
reaction where we try to take every
possible type or foreshadowing or
analogy of Jesus in the Old Testament
and offer it as prophetic proof for
Christ and I think that that can be a mistake
mistake
so what's the proper reaction the proper
reaction is for us to realize this and
this is we're gonna focus on tonight that
that
see about Jesus is is is really on a
spectrum and Jesus has prophesied in the
Old Testament in a variety of ways in a
variety of ways and I'm gonna unpack
this by going through the book of
matthew and looking at multiple examples
of how he uses the word fulfilled so
does that sound fun or what but this is
actually a really good way to do it
we're just surveying through Matthew he
says fulfilled what did he mean there he
says it again here what did it mean
there so we're look at that word that in
the Greek is the word play righto and it
is just the word fulfilled it just means
in the same as the English fulfilled to
fill it fully that's all it means
so not realizing the things I'm telling
you some people abandon prophecy
altogether and this has happened a lot
even with apologists and people
defending the faith they don't go to
prophecy because they don't realize what
I'm about to explain to you tonight so
I'm hoping to encourage Christians to
use prophecy more and to use it more
wisely that's the idea not less but to
use it just more wisely okay Matthew 1
verse 22 let's look at our first example
of fulfilled in the Gospel of Matthew it
says all this took place to fulfill what
the Lord had spoken by the Prophet
behold the Virgin shall conceive and
bear a son and they shall call his name
Emmanuel which means God with us now
there's a big debate on this passage did
it really mean verge and know there's
almond but through l''e in these
different words and I'm not gonna worry
about that tonight I'll summarize the
end of the debate we'll just go right to
the end of the debate on that um there's
multiple Hebrew words here
the one that's used in the Hebrew in the
Old Testament the virgin shall conceive
it's used for a young maiden who is
unmarried now back then unlike modern
times when a young maiden is unmarried
she's a virgin that's natural that's
assumed that's the idea so that being
said when we look at Isaiah 7:14 here's
what it says therefore the Lord Himself
will give you a sign behold the virgin
shall conceive and bear a son and shall
call his name Immanuel and we look at
this and we say clearly fulfilled in
Jesus right well it may be slightly more
complicated than that and here's where
we go put your thinking cap on as
Christians you know this it is more
complicated there is somewhat of a
fulfillment of this
in Isaiah's own time when his wife bears
a son and he names the Sun not Emanuel
Maher Shalala Shabazz say that five
times fast
I'm not going to get into a great detail
but of detail on this because we have
lots of prophesies to cover but this is
gonna be an example of what we would
consider a here's the fancy phrase for you
you
double fulfillment and you might go
double fulfillment that sounds
convenient you know just gonna say Jesus
Oh was fulfilled in and Jesus fulfilled
it again rather double fulfillment is
more like when something's not really
totally fulfilled like like so here's a
prophecy virgin conceived bear a son his
name will be called Emmanuel Isaiah's
wife can sees bears a son they call him
a harsh all-out hash Baz then it's just
books laughter just the name itself that
than just I don't know I just I'm good
at names sometimes not other times
apparently but anyhow this was not
really totally fulfilled he was never
called Emmanuel and she wasn't really a
virgin so what how exactly is this
fulfilled and that's what double
fulfillment is double fulfillment is
like this here comes the prophecy here's
an insufficient fulfillment this really
doesn't do the job the prophecies still
hanging in the air and then Jesus comes
and he fulfills it completely so this is
in other words it's really about Jesus
and what happened at the other
contemporary time was was to say hey
there's more hey it's hanging in the air
because there's more so the phrases
again double fulfillment now when you
get into Isaiah 9 and we read about this
child who will be a light we'll come
back to this in a minute and this child
would born his name will be called
wonderful counselor mighty God
everlasting father Prince of Peace and
he's gonna have the government upon his
shoulders and all this stuff this is
clearly not about Marshall al-haj pass
this is clearly this child of Isaiah is
talking about some future greater
messianic King so truly fulfilled in
Jesus that's one example and this is not
a verse I generally use when witnessing
and here's two reasons one I have no
evidence that Jesus was virgin born to
you like though I know this because of
the truth of Christ
I've evidence he was resurrected
the evidence for the resurrection gives
me great reason to believe that the
virgin birth is a reality the the
miracles he does there's various reasons
to believe that he was virgin born but
all those reasons require other
evidences so I'm gonna focus on those
evidences so am i witnessing I don't go
to this passage it's just making my job
harder instead of easier so let's look
at another example that's a double
fulfillment example in Matthew 2 verse 3
we get another example of prophecy being
fulfilled the word fulfillments not here
but I bring this up for a for a point
I'll share with you in a second this is
an example of one to one this was always
about Messiah Jesus came he totally
fulfilled it it was only ever applied to
him this is a this is what we normally
think of when we think fulfill prophecy
right Jesus fulfilled prophecy this is
what we usually think of Matthew two
three when Herod the King heard this he
was troubled and all Jerusalem with him
troubled about this Messiah this
supposed king of Israel borne and
assembling all the chief priests and
scribes of the people he inquired of
them where the Christ was to be born
they told him in Bethlehem of Judaea for
so it is written by the prophet and they
quote Micah 5:2 look at this they're
they're deducing where Jesus was born
based upon Old Testament prophecy and
they say Micah 5:2 and you o Bethlehem
in the land of Judah are by no means
least among the rulers of judah for from
you shall come a ruler who will Shepherd
my people Israel now what's interesting
about this is some would go well this is
just you know Matthew's putting these
words in the mouths of the scribes and
Pharisees they didn't really say that
that is what the skeptic would say at
this point Mike that's very convenient
but that's what Matthew said they said
but even the most ancient Jewish
commentaries we have the targum which is
called the targum right most ancient
Jewish commentaries we have on Micah 5:2
what is it say Micah 5:2 is about the
Messiah so even that these are
non-christian Jewish commentaries and
they say that Micah 5:2 is about the
Messiah so there's an example there of
just a straight one to one fulfillment
we expect them aside to be born in
Bethlehem Jesus is born in Bethlehem
just plain and simple that's what we
normally think of when we say fulfilled
prophecy let's look at another example
Matthew 3:15 it says but then jesus
answered him let it be so now for thus
it is fitting for us to fulfill all
righteousness then he consented what's
happening in this passage Jesus is being
baptized and John's like Jesus you
should baptize me like I'm the sinner
you're the sinless one wire why are you
coming to me and Jesus tells him why he
says it's fitting for us to fulfill all
righteousness it's interesting that
Jesus um at his baptism he refers to the
acts he's taking it's not - it's not
repentance Jesus is not repenting of
anything he's doing this to do to do
what's right just to fulfill
righteousness now this is not a
prophetic statement at all is it why do
I bring this up because I want you to
remember the word fulfill just means
fulfill to fill it fully that's all it
means and sometimes we're like the
scriptures were fulfilled we take this
to be a technical term that means like a
one to one fulfillment clear messianic
prophecy clear fulfilling by Jesus
sometimes the word is used in other
varieties of ways so we'll keep going
and right now remember these points I'm
kind of trying to give you now examples
on the spectrum of how scripture is
fulfilled in a variety of ways so
Matthew 4:14 matthew 4:14 it says so
that what was spoken by Isaiah the
prophet might be fulfilled fulfilled so
there's that word fulfilled used in that
context let me back up a little bit to
verse 12 and we'll get the overall flow
of the passage so we can understand it
better how this speaks of Isaiah being
fulfilled in Jesus now when he heard
that John had been arrested he withdrew
into Galilee and leaving Nazareth he
went and lived in Capernaum by the sea
in the territory of Zebulun and Naphtali
so that what was spoken by the prophet
Isaiah might be fulfilled and here's the
quote from Isaiah the land of Zebulun
and the land of Naphtali by the way of
the sea beyond the Jordan Galilee of the
Gentiles the people dwelling and
darkness have seen a great light and for
those dwelling in the region and shadow
of death on them a light has dawned from
that time Jesus began to preach saying repent
repent
the kingdom of heaven is at hand so
let's if you like you can turn to Isaiah
9 that that's the passage that's being
quoted here and I'm gonna read that to
you as well the context of Isaiah 9 is
that there is this future light for the
people of Israel this light will come to
the people of Israel and the light is
described herein does Isaiah 9 verses 1
and 2 and then we're gonna keep reading
in Isaiah cuz you'll see how this is
connected to another prophecy of Jesus
for to us a child is born to us oh
excuse me officer I jumped ahead Isaiah
9 verse 1 but there will be no gloom for
her who was in English in the former
time he brought into contempt the land
of Zebulun and the land of Naphtali and
now let me pause there the former time
is the people of Israel would be
deported and non Israelis non-jewish
people would be coming into the land and
inhabiting it right they're gonna be
deported this is what Isaiah keeps
prophesying about you guys your lands
gonna be taken away and so the land of
Zebulun and Naphtali they'll be in
contempt but in the latter time the
latter time some future time he has made
glorious the way of the sea the land
beyond the Jordan Galilee of the nations
or the of the Gentiles that's what
that word is galilee of the gentiles now
to a jewish person calling galilee this
Jewish land calling it galilee of the
gentiles is speaking of the fact that
they be deported and then the gentiles
would come into the land and so god's
like even though you see it now covered
with Gentiles you've lost your promised
land yet there will be a future time of
restoration and then it says about that
future time verse 2 the people who
walked in darkness have seen a great
light those who dwell in wealth in the
land of deep darkness on them a light
has shone a light has shone so there's
this great future light coming this is
just about Messiah this is another one
that's really like one-to-one
fulfillment so we have in Micah it's
born in Bethlehem we have in Isaiah he's
gonna be like showing up publicly to the
people of Israel in Galilee in that area
but if you keep reading in Isaiah it
gets better so Isaiah 9:6 has this about
the same context this light that will
come for to us a child is born to us a
son is given and the government shall be
upon his shoulder and
name shall be called wonderful counselor
mighty God everlasting father Prince of
Peace of the increase of his government
and of peace there will be no end on the
throne of David and over his kingdom to
establish it and uphold it with justice
and with a righteousness from this time
forth and forevermore the zeal of the
Lord of hosts will do this now there's
there's actually a second-century
commentary on this passage in the Targum
targum isaiah table by the way a targum
is basically what a when a Jews reading
you know you have a Study Bible has like
notes with the text this the targum is
like an old Jewish Study Bible and so
it's like official rabbinic this is
pretty official stuff if you're a
rabbinic Jew it means a lot when
something's in the targum and so this is
what it says and what they do is they
would have the text with like help for
you they would interpret the text right
in the text so I'll give you an example
here's how what they read on this Isaiah
9 passage in the Targum the prophets
said to the house of David for unto us a
child is born unto us a son is given and
he has taken the law upon himself to
keep it in the interesting
this sounds like Jesus doesn't it he
takes the law upon himself to keep it
he's gonna obey the law Jesus did that
his name is called from eternity
wonderful the mighty God who liveth to
eternity the Messiah whose peace shall
be great upon upon us in his days so the
targum specifically says this child is
the messiah who will obey the law he
will keep the law of Israel yeah yeah
and it seems to identify him as God um
what am I saying
I'm saying these are the targa mcgann
written by Jews who were not followers
of Jesus who were aware probably of him
but had rejected him and they see this
as messianic so this is again Matthew 4
this what was spoken of the prophet
Isaiah might be fulfilled Matthew 4:14
this is like another one-to-one like
really clear this is definitely about
Jesus and this gives us more reason to
think the child in Isaiah 7 is actually
fully talking about the child in Isaiah
9 Isaiah same guy offering more
prophesies for you know explaining it in
more detail
so this is direct fulfillment but know
the nature of the original right it's
given in the context of speaking of
current events of the time Isaiah
speaking about current events right but
it's clearly about something bigger and
better than the current events of
Isaiah's time so this is a legitimate
passage Isaiah seven and nine together
for what we again call double
fulfillment or someone would just say no
no there's no double here like this is
just fulfilled in Jesus and there's no
double since to it at all and I would
say it's definitely one of those two
clearly one of those two um now let's
look at another word fulfilled for
Matthew 5:17 Matthew 5:17 it says do not
think Jesus speaking that I have come to
abolish the law or the prophets I have
not come to abolish them but to fulfill
them to fill them up fully that's the
idea now this is unique because now we
have Jesus and he's not saying I'm doing
this one thing to fulfill this one thing
rather he's saying my ministry or what
I'm doing right now is to fulfill and he
just encompasses the entire Hebrew Bible
I'm gonna fill it all up fully I'm gonna
fulfill this thing and that's pretty
wonderful to me actually this is just
simple observation write the law and the
prophets the law and the prophets are
not clearly predicting Jesus did you
notice that there's passages in the law
and prophets that clearly predict
Messiah but there's other passages that
don't in fact the law in general doesn't
speak very specifically about Messiah it
says what you should do and shouldn't do
that's what it does and Jesus is like
look I'm not only fulfilling the
prophets I'm gonna fulfill the law he's
like I'm gonna fulfill all of that stuff
this is I think as I said in the
beginning of this series Jesus in the
Old Testament
and I'll I'll put in this for anybody
watching the video I'll put in this
video description a link that will allow
you to see the entire series playlist
because there's a lot more to this that
you're gonna want to know about this is
just one study but the thing is that
this concept of Jesus in the Old
Testament is way more central to the
Bible than we often realize because
we're so used to just studying pieces of
the Bible and Jesus is giving us a scope
of the whole scriptures so um there's a
difference and I'll point this out
now that hopefully this make sense
there's a difference between fulfilled
Scripture and fulfilled predictions when
we say fulfill prophecy we're often
thinking of fulfilled predictions and
that's fair that's good we like that
right but the Bible's not all predictive
but the Bible is all fulfilled in Jesus
so there's places where prophetic things
are going on that are not exactly
specifically fulfilled with clear
fulfillments but there's this other
sense this more I don't know
artistic sense in which Jesus did
fulfill that thing so we'll get into
more examples of that stuff now um or
will we let's see Matthew 8:16 that's
the next one we'll see what this one is
remember which one's next Matthew 8:16
alright Matthew 8:16 it says that
evening they brought to him many who
were oppressed by demons and he cast out
the spirits with a word and healed all
who were sick interpretation this was to
fulfill what was spoken by the prophet
Isaiah he took our illnesses and bore
our diseases okay this is actually this
is again another pretty straightforward
one-to-one correlation here the Isaiah
passages Isaiah 53 in case you didn't
notice it was probably a lot of you did
rise a 53 verse for surely he's borne
our griefs he and carried our sorrows
yet we esteemed him stricken smitten by
God and afflicted we are looking at the
passage in Isaiah that is probably one
of the most beautiful messianic passages
in the entire Bible it's one of my
favorite chapters of Scripture period
love it dearly and it was ultimately
interestingly it was ultimately
fulfilled on the cross but Matthew
applies it to Jesus to just going around
healing people see Jesus is just healing
people just going in his day healing
people this relates to the cross but it
relates to his whole ministry of healing
healing the sick the healing the
torments healing us from the torments of
the enemy cast out demons remember and
then ultimately the sin that brings all
those things on because the illness and
the torments of Satan these are all
connected to sin that's that's like that
was the door that opened that brought it
all on Jesus he
with all of that stuff some would say
you know there's healing in the
atonement and that's actually a really
important theology point for the people
that are sort of hyper healing movements
but then there's the other side where
they go oh no the tome it's not about
healing it's just about forgiveness of
sins and I'm like well no it's obviously
about both forgiveness of sins and
physical healing they are they are in
the atonement in on the cross but our
problem is we expect to experience all
of that right now or at least parts of it
it
I'm always confused as this someone who
thinks everyone should be healed today
right now in Jesus's name but they still
expect people to die we're like wait a
minute if every effect of the atonement
is being experienced right now that I'm
never gonna die right so but I'm so the
atonements been paid any healing is an
example of what Jesus purchased on the
cross but that doesn't mean you'll get
healing right now but it's promised for
the future it's sadly it's more
complicated than that
unfortunately right um so let's look at
another one
Matthew 12 verse 17 this was to fulfill
what was spoken by the prophet Isaiah
this is going to be another another
fulfill passage and it's gonna be
another kind of one-to-one correlation
and pretty soon I'm gonna get into ones
we're gonna scratch your head a little
bit and you're gonna be like that's that
doesn't seem like like how is that in
the passage and we'll cover that in a
moment but let's get the context of
Matthew 12 verse 13 Jesus is doing a
healing and it's on the Sabbath he goes
into the synagogue and he's already been
debating them on what is or isn't
appropriate to do on the Sabbath and
then it says in verse 13 then he said to
the man there's a man there's a withered
hand and he says stretch out your hand
and the man stretched out his hand and
it was restored healthy like the other
one but the Pharisees went and conspired
against him how to destroy him
Jesus aware of this withdrew from there
and many followed him and He healed them
all and ordered them not to make him
known interesting notice this so he
heals a guy on the Sabbath people plot
against him what could Jesus do to
people who are plotting against him what
do you think whatever they whatever he
wants he's like you're dead meat like
then they just are dead meat like that
he could do whatever he wants but
instead he withdraws from them people
follow he heals the people that follow
him and he tells them don't tell anyone
don't tell anyone what I've been doing
for you then in verse 17 this was to
fulfill what was spoken by the prophet
Isaiah and here's the quote behold my
servant whom I've chosen my beloved with
whom my soul is well pleased I will put
my spirit upon him and he will proclaim
justice to the Gentiles he will not
quarrel or cry aloud nor will anyone
hear his voice in the streets a bruised
Reed he will not break and a smoldering
wick he will not quench until he brings
justice to victory and in his name the
Gentiles will hope now this is from
Isaiah chapter 42 verses one through
three that's what we just heard Matthew
quote and this can be confusing because
Isaiah 42 has several like my servant
passages and these some of them are very
clearly about Jesus and others it's like
was that about Israel and this is one of
the passages where you look at it and
Isaiah 42 and you go is that about
Israel or is that about Jesus in some
sense it could be about Israel but in a
fuller sense it seems to be about Jesus
you might call that double fulfillment
but here's where I want us to recognize
this a passage like this while truly
about Jesus is not as useful in
witnessing because it's more complicated
and let's be honest when you're sharing
the truth of Christ with a new person
it's better to not use the complicated
stuff it's better to give them what they
can handle what they can understand what
they can grab and the ultimate promise
here is is is about the Messiah and
there's a sense in which Israel becomes
a picture of the Messiah right a lot of
the things Israel goes through Jesus
ends up fulfilling that in other ways
and so here's where I go even if it is
about Israel it could be in a
typological sense about Messiah and now
we move into a whole different place on
the spectrum we're not one-to-one
fulfillment here
we're like typological we're over here
this is this is much more literary and
conceptually and God's drawing out it's
like you know when you when you hear a a
movie or a TV show where they have a
motif a certain musical note that plays
whenever a certain character or idea is
happening on-screen and if
you know if you were telling your friend
oh that that motif represents such-and-such
such-and-such
and they might argue with you well where
does it clearly say that in the movie
and you're like well do you get this
from watching the movie and carefully
looking at it you know and this is
sometimes the case for Jesus in the Old
Testament this is the motif you know I
hear the redemption motif being played
in the background this passage I'm not
gonna use that to witness to someone but
I will certainly use it for theology I
will certainly use it to understand what
God has given us in his word better and
I think that that's an important thing
so what's the motif or the connection
here there's specific connections in
this Matthew 12 passage he quotes from
Isaiah 42 as I said there's a passage in
isaiah 42:6 a few verses later that
really gives you some some more clarity
that isaiah 42 is about the Messiah
because it says isaiah 42:6 i am the
lord i have called you in righteousness
i will take you by the hand and keep you
i will give you as a covenant for the
people a light for the nations now some
would say israel is the covenant for the
people and see i would kind of agree
with that i would say yes israel in a
sense is the covenant for the people but
israel labor's and birth pains to bring
forth of the messiah who is the
fulfillment of the covenant for the
people so in that sense israel and
Messiah that's the whole point of Israel
isn't it Messiah that was the point is
God was bringing the Messiah out of
Israel but what's the nature of the
connection between what Jesus did
healing that man and what happens in
Isaiah 42 well let me give you some
specific points of Correspondence okay
so in verse 13 Jesus tells the man to
stretch out your hand in matthew 12 and
in isaiah 42 it specifically said that
my spear will be upon him now the
healings were specifically to show that
god's holy spirit was upon Christ that
Christ was healing by the Spirit of God
and he actually debates with people
about that about how he healed by the
Spirit of God he also in verse 15 he
orders them not to make it known and
Isaiah the passage quoted it says he
will not quarrel or cry aloud nor will
he let anyone hear his voice in the
streets doesn't mean he'll be mute but
he's not gonna lead to giant rebellion
he's not going to go
saying come and follow me follow me
follow me like in that loudness since
instead he goes and he heals people and
then he's like I'm not starting a
rebellion you know I just healed you to
heal you to show you who I am but but he
has this quietness to it this sort of
non confrontational nature and if you if
were honest about it if Jesus was
confrontational in his first coming he
would have struck them dead like they
would have been struck down like he just
talked to them this is like the nicest
version of Jesus you're gonna get this
he just talks to you and heals you and
tells you to change your ways like
that's very kind of him so he didn't
strike the fools down when they
challenged him and plotted to destroy
him so my conclusion would be this
passage is connected to the events in
Matthew 12 because Jesus is healing by
the Spirit yet is showing the mildness
of hiding it from public public
Proclamation and he's not attacking and
destroying his enemies he's not breaking
the bruised Reed or putting out the wick
he's not doing those things further
jesus's whole ministry fulfills this
Isaiah passage and maybe Matthew is just
taking one event and saying here's a
sample it would still fulfill Isaiah yet
Jesus goes on and his whole ministry
keeps fulfilling this thing he keeps
doing this thing over and over again so
this is a passage again for theology not
a here's proof for who Jesus is passage
it's more of an understanding who he as
in Matthew does this the New Testament
does this sometimes it's proving who
Messiah is other times it's just
explaining who Messiah is and both are
very important all right let's look at
another one if I haven't confused you
yet Matthew 13 35 it says this was to
fulfill what was spoken by the Prophet I
will open my mouth in parables I will
utter what has been hidden since the
foundation of the world
let me read Matthew 13 34 as well so all
these things jesus said to the crowds in
parables indeed he said nothing to them
without a parable he always used
parables whenever he taught now some
people go Jesus used stories because
stories communicate to people and people
like stories
well the Bible actually interprets why
Jesus used a lot of his stories and they
were not there were sometimes to confuse
people like that's there I have a whole
study on God hardening people's hearts
and why that was but some of those
parables he told were to create
fusion in some people and clarity in
other people and it was a way of God
judging the people but the Old Testament
passage being quoted is in Psalm 78 - it
says I will open my mouth in a parable I
will utter dark sayings from of old now
Matthew he quotes his almost his quotes
almost identical to the Septuagint a
side note as I was studying this I was
looking into Matthew how he quotes is he
quitting the Septuagint or the Masoretic
like what version of the Old Testament
manuscripts is he using Matthew would
oftentimes have this Septuagint it looks
he'd have the Septuagint and the Hebrew
and he look at him and he would improve
their translations he did a really good
job of it it's actually really
interesting what he did with it so side
note so Psalm 78 this is a passage where
you go how is this how is this song
about the Messiah like you read the
whole song go it's we're not gonna do it
today it's 72 verses long it's a very
long song but you'll read through and
you go how is this about Messiah it's
not it doesn't seem clearly about
Messiah and I'll say it's not clearly
about Messiah and here's where someone
would say see Matthew just willy-nilly
he just grabbed whatever Old Testament
verse he wanted and he just threw it
there and pretended it was about Jesus
the truth is Matthew's way smarter than
that and the application to Jesus is way
more intelligent than that and some
people upon casually looking at say
Psalm 78 and going I don't see how
that's about Messiah they throw out the
Bible and because they didn't understand
it they figured there was nothing that
there was nothing there to find well
let's look at Psalm 78 verses 1 through
4 and let's see how this relates to what
Jesus did it's actually pretty cool
so I'm 71 through 4 give ear all my
people to my teaching incline your ears
to the words of my mouth I will open my
mouth in a parable I will utter dark
sayings from of old things that we have
heard and known that our fathers have
told us we will not hide them from their
children but tell them to the coming
generation the glorious deeds of the
Lord and His might and the wonders that
he has done now there's specific things
that they're going to communicate in
Psalm 78 and it goes on through the 72
verses and he recounts the law and
specific miracles of God many of which
are very much typological of Jesus so he
recounts the law and the miracles that
God has done in Israel's history what
blows me away is Psalm 70
refers to these things as dark sayings
and like riddles and he's like hey that
law and the miracles God's done for you
they're riddles they're parables there's
hidden truths that are in them and so
Matthew quotes this which is kind of
like a Jesus in the Old Testament verse
he quotes this to say that Jesus is
continuing the same thing God has done
he's embedded these truths in these
complicated mysterious ways sometimes
clear sometimes unclear and Jesus is
doing the same thing in his public
teaching bringing parables as well as
sometimes just very clear things in
other words Matthews use of the Psalms
here is just more complicated than
people realize at first glance and then
they think he has no reason to quote it
if you ever get that impression like the
Bible is just quoting the Old Testament
for no reason you just don't know the
Old Testament very well just be honest
with yourself right there's plenty of
passages you don't understand that well
and it's your understanding that's the
problem here which is to me very good
news so Jesus speaking in parables is
consistent with two things one the fact
that God's interaction with Israel was
often misunderstood and rejected and two
that the whole Old Testament is a
mystery that reveals Christ it's
consistent with those things so it's
actually really cool it's not a
one-to-one prophecy instead it's more
like Jesus is the resolution to the
hanging note you know like the Old
Testament plays all these hanging notes
you know music you can I don't have my
guitar me but you can you can play and
you can lead people up with certain
notes and then you can just walk away
and they're like wait finish this song
you know there's you need to resolve
Jesus is the resolve and the scriptures
in the Old Testament leave all these
hanging notes and Jesus resolves those
things alright let's look at another
example Matthew 13 48 this is a simple
example doesn't have anything to his
prophecy it says when it was full the
net full of fish men drew it ashore and
sat down and sorted the good into
containers but threw away the bat this
is just a net full of fish now the word
is you know the same word play Rollo
right it just means to fill it fully so
the net was it half way full
no two-thirds no it was full it was
absolutely full the my point here is we
we look at the Scriptures of the Old
Testament and we see this word about
Jesus He fulfilled he fulfilled
fulfilled he gave the final meaning and
the final climactic sense to all the
prophecies and the the clear and the
unclear the mysteries and the direct
ones all of the above
alright let's go to Matthew 21 we're
already in chapter 21 so we're doing
through Matthew 21 this is Palm Sunday
this is when Jesus enters in to
Jerusalem on a donkey and here we read
about it in verse 4 it says this took
place to fulfill what was spoken by the
Prophet saying say to the daughter of
Zion behold your king is coming to you
humble and mounted on a donkey on a Colt
on the full of a beast of burden this is
from zechariah 9:9 zechariah 9:9 and
this is a this is a clear one - one example
example
now you notice how Matthew he'll say
fulfilled and one it's like this this
sort of vague like tip illogical and
knowledge of analogical and and then he
uses fulfilled and it's like this clear
Jesus what does it mean it means he
entered Jerusalem on a donkey like
that's what it means on that zechariah
9:9 and some say i've heard people
complain well Jesus did that on purpose
like I'm just saying Jesus is God in the
flesh like everything was on purpose yes
it was all on purpose including where he
was born when he was born even even the
enemy's doing what they did to him he
did that on purpose of course it was on
purpose and that's to be expected but
the meaning goes a little deeper because
zechariah 9:9 never explains it it just
says he's gonna come he's gonna come on
lowly your king is coming to you lowly
sitting on a Colt on the foal of a
donkey or whatever the term the phrasing
is there mounts on a donkey the the
meaning here is it's a beast of burden a
humble beast of burden and Jesus comes
humbly to bear our burdens whereas the
Jews one of the biggest stumbling blocks
is they expected the Messiah to come
triumphal II in his first coming so they
were confused about the suffering
passages and how to court how to relate
those to the so that ruling and reigning
passages they even came up with two
messiahs Messiah son of
Joseph but he dyes Messiah son of David
and he's the one that reigns and some
people believe that because they were to
wrestling with how to understand this
and of course it makes sense in Jesus
and only in Jesus all right let's look
at another passage Matthew 23 32 Matthew
23 32 he says fill up then the measure
of your father's and this that's this
word fill up or fulfil let's look at the
context Jesus speaking it here and he
does speak it in a prophetic sense and
it's very interesting Matthew 23 29 woe
to you scribes and Pharisees hypocrites
for you build the tombs of the prophets
and decorate the monuments of the
righteous saying if we lived in the days
of our fathers we would not have taken
part with them and the shedding of the
blood of the prophets this is
interesting write that they'll have a
tomb to commemorate Isaiah or some some
of the great prophets of old and they
say our fathers rejected Isaiah they
rejected Jeremiah
they wouldn't listen to these probably
but we wouldn't we would do better we
would have honored them and so he so
Jesus is pointing this out and he says
in verse 31
thus you witness against yourselves and
here's the what here's what they're
really saying about themselves you are
the sons of those who murdered the
prophets that's not so good you know and
this has been this has been Israel your
repeated pattern is rejecting God's
prophets verse 32 fill up then the
measure of your father's finish it off
finish it off you serpents you brood of
vipers how are you to escape being
sentenced to hell therefore I send you
prophets and wise men and scribes and
some of whom you will kill and crucify
and some you will flog in your
synagogues and persecute from town to
town so that on you may come all the
righteous blood shed on the earth from
the blood of the rug from the blood of
righteous abel to the blood of zechariah
the son of berechiah whom you murder
between the sanctuary and the altar side
note Abel's the first martyr in the
Bible Zechariah is the final martyr
chronologically in the Bible and there's
other people who were considered like
martyrs that were in the
intertestamental period Jesus doesn't
mention them he mentions the first and
last in the Hebrew Bible
like kind of in other words it's sort of
a subtle way of Jesus affirming the old
testament texts about Abel and Zechariah
and these different Old Testament
characters and not including anything
that came later just a side note I think
it's kind of cool so they're gonna
they're gonna experience the fullness of
this they're gonna fill up or finish
finish it up why because your father's
Riddick to the prophets and you're
rejecting the Messiah truly I say to you
verse 36 all these things will come upon
this generation o Jerusalem Jerusalem
the city that kills the prophets and
stones those who are sent to it how
often I would have gathered your
children together as a hen gathers her
brood under her wings and you were not
willing see your house is left to you
desolate for I tell you you will not see
me again until you say blessed is he who
comes in the name of the Lord so that
the point I see is lots of points but
one of them is that the rejection of
Jesus is like the ultimate rejection the
crowning rejection and it fills up the
measure of the father's guilt you
rejected the prophets and then finally
you rejected the one they prophesied
about so it's in other words when
Matthew has Jesus saying this as Jesus
truly did it's it's not like oh that's a
wrong use of Scripture rather it's just
way smarter than you probably know if
you're very unacquainted with the Bible
and so in studying prophecy some people
stumble because they know so little
about the Bible they can't see how that
is in fact prophetic and that actually
it becomes a problem in Matthew 26 we'll
go to give just two more for tonight
Matthew 26 verse 50 the word fulfilled
is used twice in this passage I'm gonna
read verse 50 through 56 he says jesus
said to him friend do what you came to
do if I know where we're at now this is
the garden right the friend here is
Judas then they came up and laid hands
on Jesus and seized him and behold one
of those who were with Jesus stretched
out his hand and drew his sword and
struck the servant of the high priest
and cut off his ear remember who that is
that would be Peter then jesus said to
him put your sword back into its place
for all who take the sword will perish
by the sword
now that might actually be quoting from
Isaiah as well interestingly but I don't
know enough time for that tonight so
verse 53 do you think that I cannot
appeal to my father and he will at once
send more than twelve legions of angels
but how then should the Scriptures be
fulfilled that it must be so
Jesus's betrayal his crucifixion all of
what was happening was gonna fulfill
Scripture according to Jesus and at that
hour jesus said to the crowds have you
come out as against a robber with swords
and clubs to capture me day after day I
sat in the temple teaching and you did
not seize me but all this has taken
place that the scriptures of the
prophets might be fulfilled then all the
disciples left him and fled I can
imagine how confused they were Jesus is
being taken away and Jesus is like yes
this is supposed to happen and they're
like but what and they can't accept it
they can't accept it because they didn't
understand the Scriptures so fulfilling
the scriptures here is not the same as
fulfilling clear specific predictions of
the scriptures it's bigger than that
right so the fulfilling of prophecy is
like clear specific predictions that's
good evidence for Jesus right but the
fulfillment of the Scriptures in general
where Jesus gives a big sweeping
statement here he's talking about all
kinds of stuff he's talking about stuff
in Genesis and Exodus in Leviticus and
clear prophecies in Isaiah in Psalm 22
but he's also talking about how you know
Isaiah's hold kind of ministry sort of
tip illogically represents Jesus Christ
and what he would go through and how
Jeremiah and his rejection would sort of
represent Jesus even though the text
didn't say that Jeremiah represented
Jesus in that it's just all of the above
it's the whole spectrum that's what's in
view here so again we have like Isaiah
52 Jesus is gonna be killed as a
sacrificial atonement for our sins he's
gonna bear our iniquities Psalm 22 it's
gonna talk about how Jesus will die by
crucifixion specifically Daniel 9 is
gonna talk about the timing of when this
stuff's gonna happen
those are specific prophecies but then
we have all of the above does that make
sense do you guys see it's a tapestry
that's being woven and some threads are
very clear and some threads are more
like you zoom out
and you see it and yeah now let's take
you to a very controversial passage
which took me a great deal of time to
prepare for and I blame you Matthew 27
Matthew 27 verse 3 this is a passage
where the the skeptics are the critics
will often challenge the Bible with
error they will say Matthew was just
wrong here this is not only not about
Jesus but he literally quotes the Bible
wrong and so we're gonna get into that
it says then when Judas his betrayer saw
that Jesus was condemned he changed his
mind and brought back the thirty pieces
of silver to the chief priests and
elders saying I've sinned by betraying
innocent blood they said what is that to
us see to it yourself and throwing down
the pieces of silver into the temple he
departed and went and hanged himself but
and there's a dilemma the chief priests
taking the pieces of silver said it's
not lawful to put them into the Treasury
since it is blood money so they took
Council and bought with them the
potter's field as a burial place for
strangers the money had to be spent they
wouldn't be associate with the temple so
they just buy field well does bury
strangers there therefore that field has
been called the field of blood to this
day then was fulfilled there's that word
fulfilled what had been spoken by the
Prophet Jeremiah remember he says who
Jeremiah saying and they took the thirty
pieces of silver the price of him on
whom a price had been set by some of the
sons of Israel and they gave them for
the potter's field as the Lord directed
me there's a few issues to be resolved
first issue for the most part he is not
quoting Jeremiah he is quoting Zechariah
and to the accusation is Matthew quotes
Zechariah and says it's Jeremiah and
that's an error in your Bible and
therefore you know Christianity explodes
and your faith dies and you should
abandon your faith in Christ actually
I'm always surprised at how quickly some
people are willing to abandon their
trust in Christ because of one thing
they don't understand but let me quickly
resolve this issue if this has shaken
your faith this one he says Jeremiah I
thought he should have said Zechariah
but oh I'm not a Christian anymore like
if that's you you've got other issues
going on but I will try to answer this
for you right there is a common right
and accepted Jewish practice where you
quote two passages of scripture or more
and you'll only mention one name mark
does this in one case right where he
quotes two prophets and he just mentions
one now there's two ways in which you
would do this you would either mention
the most like prominent prophet like say
I quote from Isaiah and I quote from
Hosea and then I mention Isaiah's name
because he's the more dominant prophet
everyone knows him and so then I give
credit Isaiah for both prophecies but
it's understood that there's two
different prophets in mind the other
also more commonly common way of doing
it is I quote from two prophets and I
give the name of the more obscure
passage so you won't miss that I'm
quoting from two prophets and that's
what Matthew does here he quotes from
Jeremiah well really references Jeremiah
quotes Zechariah and he slightly changes
Zechariah to draw your attention to
where in Jeremiah he's talking about
yes it's complicated but I'm gonna try
to explain it for you today so that that
was an accepted thing basically he says
Jeremiah instead of Zechariah cuz he
doesn't want you to miss the Jeremiah
passage that we're about to get into but
first let's talk about the other thing
he did he adds potter's field right they
gave them for the potter's field the
Zechariah quote is gonna refer not to a
potter's field but simply to a Potter
just a Potter and he has the word field
there that's what connects us to
Jeremiah so now we're connecting where's
a potter's field
that's the Jeremiah passage now you're
like well he didn't quote the Bible word-for-word
word-for-word
well actually very frequently New
Testament authors don't quote sometimes
they quote word-for-word
sometimes they quote two passages and
smash them together sometimes they
paraphrase a passage and it's in quotes
in your New Testament because courts
didn't exist back then and your
translators like when do I use quotes
and when do I not use quotes it doesn't
exactly work super easily all the time
sometimes it's complicated so you have
to look at each individual quote
thoughtfully alright let's get into this
one a little more zechariah 11 is the
passage he's quoting so the context of
zechariah 11 is this
earlier in Zechariah the Prophet is is
taken to be like typological of the
Messiah this is already established
Jewish commentary in chapter 3 in
chapter 6
Zechariah is referred to as the branch
but but in chapter 3 it feels like it's
about Zechariah in chapter 6 it seems to
be about Messiah very specifically so we
see this sort of he himself is tip
illogical of Messiah we see that and
then in Zechariah 11 Zechariah is told
to become a shepherd now he's not a
shepherd God wants him to do this for a
specific reason so he becomes a shepherd
and he gets a flock but God tells him
the flock is destined for slaughter who
do you think the flock represents Israel
yeah that's easy right
Israel so he's like you're gonna you're
gonna go and be the shepherd for the
flock they're destined for slaughter
that's what's gonna happen and he
becomes the shepherd and in a Zechariah
11 he removes three bad Shepherds that
he gets rid of and I mean if I had to
give a tip illogical I would think the
Sadducees the Pharisees and the was the
other group I had a membrane the
Sanhedrin yeah so you've got you've got
these sort of leaders of Israel these
groups that are leaders of Israel that
he removes so he removes the bad
Shepherds but in Zechariah 11 8 it says
I became impatient with them and they
also detested me and this may be a
reference to the flock because right
after that he says that's it I quit I
will not be your Shepherd anymore you're
destined for slaughter I came and I was
a good Shepherd for you you rejected me
you detested me fine I'm out of here
and so he takes his two stabs which are
called Union in favor and they're
symbolic and he breaks them so God's
favor broken no longer on Israel the
Union of Israel that God gives them
broken they no longer have that and when
he breaks the staff called favor that's
where we get our passage that Matthew is
talking about so zechariah 11:10 and i
took my staff favor and i broke it
annulling the covenant that i made with
all the peoples okay so this is
obviously about more than just a sheep
fold right this is a symbolic of God
saying covenant is broken so it was an
old on that day and the sheep traders
who were watching me knew that it was
the word
the Lord then I said to them if it seems
good to you give me my wages but if not
keep them and they weighed out my wages
thirty pieces of silver now he's
basically saying pay me I've been the
shepherd now just pay me for what I've done
done
and so they weigh out thirty pieces of
silver and this is where we get that
whole Judas connection thirty pieces of
silver verse thirteen is written very
carefully it says then the Lord said to
me throw it to the potter the Lord Li
price at which I was priced by them so I
took the thirty pieces of silver and
threw them into the house of the Lord to
the Potter and he takes the minutes and
now Jewish commentators they work hard
to understand this passage and even the
most famous ones are like I don't know
what this is about so they're like the
thirty pieces of silver it represents
thirty righteous Jews the thirty pieces
of silver represents God's thirty
commands to the Gentiles
like datas guessing they have no idea
what this means it turns out it was much
more literal than they had realized in
Jesus's time it gets fulfilled the
wording of it's really interesting it
makes it sound in verse 13 now he's just
getting paid for his job but it makes it
sound in verse 13 two things one it
makes it sound like he's getting paid
for it's being paid for him
like he's being purchased it says the
lord said to me throw it to the potter
the Lord Li price at which I was priced
by them and it's a mockery Lord Li
because it's actually a low price that
they paid for him and he goes anybody
selling it was he was priced but the
other thing is the wording of it almost
makes it sound like God is being
purchased the Lord said to me throw it
to the potter the Lord Li price at which
I was priced by them it almost sounds
like the Lord it's just like what
exactly is going on in this passage so
Jewish commentators just scratched their
heads we don't know what this means
makes total sense in relation to Judas
though doesn't it so because the
shepherd is being purchased now and then
the the potter's field write that word
field this is Matthew recognizing its
fulfillment after the fact because he
sees Judas throw the money into the
temple they use it to buy the potter's
field now when you buy the potter's
field where does the money go to the guy
that owned the field
which would be
the Potter right so the money went to
the Potter to purchase his field
Matthews just recognize the fulfillment
and he's also pointing us to Jeremiah
which we'll come to in a minute but let
me now give you a just a quick list of
the correlations why we see Zechariah
and Judas what Judas did as an actual
fulfillment thing and not just Matthew
hijacking a passage that said thirty
pieces of silver
so as Zechariah was told to become a
shepherd so Jesus was the good shepherd
and Zechariah was previously tip
illogical of Messiah in the very book
were reading as Zechariah was rejected
by the sheep and lost his patience with
the sheep that's it I'm done
so Jesus in the passage we just read
he's like Oh Jerusalem Jerusalem the one
who stones the prophets and kills those
who were sent to her and he's like that
was it you missed the time of her
visitation as Zechariah was priced at
thirty pieces of silver and it makes it
sound like it was a purchase price for
him not just a payment Jesus
was sold for thirty pieces of silver as
the money was thrown into the temple but
it was for the Potter which is so
confusing right Judas he throws the
money back into the temple and the money
goes to the Potter to purchase his field
as judgment came to the Sheep afterwards
cuz after this happens God's judgment
there for the slaughter they're judged
so judgment came upon Jerusalem after
they rejected Messiah and it was
destroyed so it's a mixture here of
direct fulfillment and typology they're
both mixed together do you see how it's
a tapestry it's a thoughtful weaving
that God is doing here and I'm just
reading the text and just reading the
text and letting it correlate
interestingly enough commentators look
at these things and they go because of
the way it's written by Matthew because
it doesn't perfectly line up with
Zechariah and because of the connection
to Jeremiah I'll spare you the whole
argument here but basically scholars ago
we have good reason to think Matthew
really is telling us a historical story
that sucker that happened with Judas and
the money and the potter's field that
that happened and the Matthews now
looking back at the Old Testament going
hey in Matthew kind of like us is
discovering it after the fact so there's
good historical reasons the way it's
written to boost the historicity case of
happen with Judas now let's look at
Jeremiah so how is this relate to
Jeremiah and here's where the big debate
is here's a summary of Jeremiah 18 to
get you up to Jeremiah 19 that's where
we're gonna be
Jeremiah 19 in Jeremiah 18 Jeremiah is
told to go to the potter's house is the
first time Potter comes up here in
Jeremiah so we immediately get our
attention on there because that's the
connection between the two passages
Zechariah Jeremiah is the word Potter so
he goes and he's looking at the Potter
he's working at the wheel and the Potter
something's wrong with the clay and it's
still wet so it gets marred in the hands
of the Potter so he just smashes it down
and he reshapes it into a new vessel and
God's message to Israel is hey you have
rebelled against me I'm Ana Mari I'm
gonna mash you down but I'm gonna
rebuild you
Israel rejects that they reject God's
words whose people so they reject
Jeremiah and his words and they then
plot to kill him in Jeremiah 18 after he
tells him about the Potter they plot to
kill him now something different happens
so God tells him in Jeremiah 19 verse 1
no longer will they be this soft
moldable clay that can be reshaped he
says thus says the Lord
go by a Potter's earthenware flask and
take some of the elders of the people
and some of the elders of the priests
and go out to the valley of the son of
Hinnom at the entry of the potsherd gate
and proclaim there the words that I tell
you so he's gonna take them elders and
priests with him to purchase this piece
of pottery not soft multiple clay VAT a
hard piece of pottery and he's going to
go out with them to the to the valley of
the son of Hinnom at the potsherd gate
now the Potter gate is a gate in the
south section of the Jerusalem wall at
this time it led to the Valley of Hinnom
so they would go out the gate right to
that very valley that we're talking
about and this was the potter's field
the gates were named for practical
reasons the Sheep gate was where they
would literally sell sheep right The
Potter's gate led to the potter's field
the field where pottery could be
disposed of pot shards could be disposed
of you could throw it away there there
was a big litter problem back in the day
with pottery shards in fact doing
archaeology they find pottery everywhere
it was like it was like the straws of
the day
with plastic bags of the day so here you
were allowed to dispose of pottery
shards so he gets the pottery he takes
them out to that location now this
valley has multiple names it's called
the valley of the sons of Hinnom or it's
called the valley of Toph at same place
just two different names and God tells
them that he's going to wreck Jerusalem
and this valley this is the prophecy to
the leaders of Israel this valley this
location will be the place where they
are routed and destroyed so there Jeremiah
Jeremiah
takes the pottery now there's got the
leaders of Israel knees in front of this
field and he smashes it on the ground no
longer can Israel be like marred and
reshaped no no I'm gonna break you right
you rejected my rebuke I'm breaking
Israel so there he breaks the vessels of
the vessel of pottery and he proclaims
the God's gonna break Jerusalem just
like that because they rejected what God
was gonna tell them to do in the same
sense Jesus came right he says repent
come to me yeah you'll be broken down
but I'll rebuild you so to speak but
because they reject him
they're just broken so in jeremiah 19
verse 5 let's read what it says so um
here's the criticisms that God has of
why he's going to destroy Jerusalem in
Jeremiah's day and have built the high
places of Baal to burn their sons in the
fire as burnt offerings to Baal which I
did not command or decree nor did it
come into my mind therefore behold days
are coming declares the Lord when this
place shall no more be called the valley
of tofa or the valley of the sons of
Hinnom but the valley of slaughter it'll
have a new name it won't be the Potters
location will be the value of slaughter
and in this place I will make void the
plains of Judah and Jerusalem and will
cause their people to fall by the sword
before their enemies and by the hand of
those who seek their life I will give
their dead bodies for food to the birds
of the air and to the beasts of the
earth and I will make this city a horror
anything to be hissed at everyone who
passed passes by it will be horrified
and will hiss because of all its wounds
and I will make them eat the flesh of
their sons and their daughters then
everyone shall eat the flesh of his
neighbour in the siege and in the
distress with which their enemies and
those who seek their life afflict them
this prop this is prophecy about eating
flesh it's not what some people think
it's not although I'm gonna make you
guys become cannibals rather there'll be a
a
ceej and they'll starve to death and
those who die first will end up being
the only food that there is God is not
saying this is a good thing he's saying
this is a bad thing this is how bad
things will become you'll actually have
to do this you'll resort to this to stay
alive verse 10
then you shall break the flasks in the
side of the man who go with you she
breaks the flask and shall say to them
thus says the Lord of Hosts so I will
break this people in this city as one
breaks a Potter's vessel so that it can
never be mended men shall bury in TOFA
because there will be no place else to
bury thus I will do to this place
declares the Lord and to its inhabitants
making this city like TOFA so how does
this relate to Jesus right there
Zechariah prophecy is very different
than the Jeremiah one if he hadn't said
the Prophet Jeremiah you wouldn't even
have looked for this you would have just
looked at Zechariah and like that's the
whole fulfillment Zechariah had like a
one-to-one fulfillment a lot of it but
it was also had some type of logical
elements Jeremiah is very typological or
analogical or you know Dolby Digital you
know surround sound logical it's it's
got it's a different kind of vibe to it
the Jeremiah prophecy so let me just
connect to you some ways in which the
Jeremiah statement connects to Jesus
it's directly and initially about the
fall of Jerusalem when Babylon comes in
and destroys it in the time of Jeremiah
how is it like Jesus though well as
Judas threw the money to the priests and
leaders of the people and the priests
and leaders of the people going they buy
the field and the Judas dies there so
it's the priests and the elders the
priests and the same people the priests
and leaders of the people who go with
Jeremiah - by the pottery so they go to
purchase the pottery as Judas's money
went to the Potter for his field
Jeremiah's money went to the Potter for
his pottery these are just this is not one-to-one
one-to-one
these are analogical typological
connections as the New Testament field
became a place of blood a field of blood
and then became a cemetery for strangers
that's what happened with this field
that Judas Judas his money purchased so
toe faith became the valley of slaughter
so they both get new names field of
blood valley of slaughter and toe faith
they would bury till there was no place
left to bury so it became a cemetery as
well so we have both of these places
becomes image
both fields were formerly associated
with potters both fields have new names that connote bloodshed valley of
that connote bloodshed valley of slaughter field of blood could the money
slaughter field of blood could the money going to the house of the lord for the
going to the house of the lord for the potter's field could that be
potter's field could that be foreshadowing the destruction of the
foreshadowing the destruction of the temple like pottery could could it be I
temple like pottery could could it be I know this is just a little confusing
know this is just a little confusing because it's a complicated stuff could
because it's a complicated stuff could it be right Jeremiah is standing there
it be right Jeremiah is standing there with the leaders of Israel and he says
with the leaders of Israel and he says because you rejected me because you
because you rejected me because you rejected what God was doing through me
rejected what God was doing through me God's gonna break you and this whole
God's gonna break you and this whole place is going to be destroyed and so
place is going to be destroyed and so now another valley of blood that becomes
now another valley of blood that becomes a cemetery
a cemetery therefore shadows the fact that
therefore shadows the fact that Jerusalem is also going to be destroyed
Jerusalem is also going to be destroyed meaning that Israel's going through some
meaning that Israel's going through some cyclical stuff you keep rejecting God's
cyclical stuff you keep rejecting God's people and God keeps judging you for it
people and God keeps judging you for it you reject the Sun just like in
you reject the Sun just like in Jeremiah's day the Jerusalem was
Jeremiah's day the Jerusalem was destroyed the temple itself was
destroyed the temple itself was destroyed
destroyed so now Jerusalem and the Temple will
so now Jerusalem and the Temple will also be destroyed in the times of Jesus
so the connection is not exactly literal in Jeremiah it's more a typology thing
in Jeremiah it's more a typology thing here I would say Matthew just knows the
here I would say Matthew just knows the Old Testament better than us so he not
Old Testament better than us so he not only mentioned Zechariah the clearer
only mentioned Zechariah the clearer prophecy but he draws us to Jeremiah so
prophecy but he draws us to Jeremiah so we can see the typos logical statement
we can see the typos logical statement that's there as well I remember when we
that's there as well I remember when we went to Israel and when our guide at one
went to Israel and when our guide at one point someone picked up a piece of
point someone picked up a piece of pottery there is everywhere out there he
pottery there is everywhere out there he picked a piece of pottery and they held
picked a piece of pottery and they held it up and they showed her to the guy
it up and they showed her to the guy they were like when is this from and he
they were like when is this from and he just like shouts out like oh that's from
just like shouts out like oh that's from like 200 AD or something and I and I
like 200 AD or something and I and I just like I was like it's this little
just like I was like it's this little tiny piece of pie and I just liked
tiny piece of pie and I just liked laughed I was like yeah but that's
laughed I was like yeah but that's ridiculous he does not know that and he
ridiculous he does not know that and he like overheard me which is really a
like overheard me which is really a bummer and and he turns and he was like
bummer and and he turns and he was like no actually I was on archaeological digs
no actually I was on archaeological digs and I've studied archaeology and number
and I've studied archaeology and number one way in which archaeologists
one way in which archaeologists identified dates is using pottery
identified dates is using pottery because there's different forms of
because there's different forms of pottery different styles of of making
pottery different styles of of making pottery and it changes pretty reliably
pottery and it changes pretty reliably over time so you could and I realized
over time so you could and I realized pretty quickly the problem wasn't that
pretty quickly the problem wasn't that he didn't know what he was talking about
he didn't know what he was talking about it was that I didn't know what he was
it was that I didn't know what he was talking about and now this was this was
talking about and now this was this was 2,000 like five I think it was so I'm
2,000 like five I think it was so I'm you know and now that I know everything
you know and now that I know everything I'll never make a mistake like that
I'll never make a mistake like that but I think the point here though is
but I think the point here though is sometimes you think oh Matthews just
sometimes you think oh Matthews just misusing the Old Testament and I just
misusing the Old Testament and I just gotta say like sometimes people know as
gotta say like sometimes people know as much about the Old Testament is I did
much about the Old Testament is I did about pottery right and I look out and
about pottery right and I look out and go how could that tell you all that
go how could that tell you all that and I'm like well how many hours have
and I'm like well how many hours have you spent studying this how much thought
you spent studying this how much thought have you put into this Matthew has a
have you put into this Matthew has a variety of ways and so does the New
variety of ways and so does the New Testament in which it uses the old clear
Testament in which it uses the old clear one-to-one fulfillment typological
one-to-one fulfillment typological fulfillments more an analogies and just
fulfillments more an analogies and just saying hey just let it happen here it's
saying hey just let it happen here it's happening over here it's just drawing
happening over here it's just drawing out like hey look at that it's like a
out like hey look at that it's like a Jesus in the Old Testament thing and
Jesus in the Old Testament thing and there's a variety of ways and so we need
there's a variety of ways and so we need to be aware of these things fulfilled
to be aware of these things fulfilled scripture is a spectrum it's a spectrum
scripture is a spectrum it's a spectrum clear one-to-one fulfillment double
clear one-to-one fulfillment double fulfillment in some cases typological
fulfillment in some cases typological fulfillment and the analogical
fulfillment and the analogical fulfillment but fabrication is not on
fulfillment but fabrication is not on the spectrum that's the important thing
the spectrum that's the important thing to realize making stuff up not okay and
to realize making stuff up not okay and that's not what they do they simply do
that's not what they do they simply do not do that it's no not every prophecy
not do that it's no not every prophecy is not the best for witnessing I
is not the best for witnessing I wouldn't say give someone 300 prophecies
wouldn't say give someone 300 prophecies of Jesus
of Jesus how would you give them 3 I mean how
how would you give them 3 I mean how many do they need like how many times
many do they need like how many times does God have to tell us ahead of time
does God have to tell us ahead of time about Jesus for it to be compelling to
about Jesus for it to be compelling to you I don't know if it needs to be 300
you I don't know if it needs to be 300 but there are 300 the point is there are
but there are 300 the point is there are different kinds of prophecies and that's
different kinds of prophecies and that's why they're not all useful for the same
why they're not all useful for the same thing sometimes it's good for proving
thing sometimes it's good for proving the truthfulness of the Bible sometimes
the truthfulness of the Bible sometimes it's just explaining it to you so you
it's just explaining it to you so you can understand it better so a casual
can understand it better so a casual look at the text can be tricky and some
look at the text can be tricky and some teachers casually look at the text and
teachers casually look at the text and you'll hear it out of their mouths where
you'll hear it out of their mouths where they say things like well that's not
they say things like well that's not really what that passage meant in the
really what that passage meant in the Old Testament but you know it's the
Old Testament but you know it's the inspired writers so they're allowed to
inspired writers so they're allowed to do that and personally I've never been
do that and personally I've never been satisfied with that answer I'm like I
satisfied with that answer I'm like I think God is rational I think that
think God is rational I think that there's a deeper reasoning going on here
there's a deeper reasoning going on here so hopefully we can realize just this as
so hopefully we can realize just this as we continue doing our Jesus in the Old
we continue doing our Jesus in the Old Testament we cover a variety of these
Testament we cover a variety of these things personally I'm gonna focus more
things personally I'm gonna focus more on the tapestry of things that's the
on the tapestry of things that's the dust on I'm focusing on because I feel
dust on I'm focusing on because I feel like the clear fulfillments are easier
like the clear fulfillments are easier to find
to find discover and that's for a different
discover and that's for a different series this is gonna be about the
series this is gonna be about the tapestry but it has to be legit it's got
tapestry but it has to be legit it's got to be in the text it's gotta be
to be in the text it's gotta be something God really gave us and not
something God really gave us and not something I'm making up and that's my
something I'm making up and that's my intention because I really believe the
intention because I really believe the Bible is much deeper than us and smarter
Bible is much deeper than us and smarter than us but the beautiful thing there is
than us but the beautiful thing there is as much as you do invest in it and much
as much as you do invest in it and much as you can invest in it you will get
as you can invest in it you will get that much out so we'll continue doing at
that much out so we'll continue doing at least for a little while our Jesus in
least for a little while our Jesus in the Old Testament series and seeking to
the Old Testament series and seeking to see the tapestry that's in the
see the tapestry that's in the scriptures to stay faithful to what God
scriptures to stay faithful to what God has originally written not to fabricate
has originally written not to fabricate but to discover so let's pray father
but to discover so let's pray father thank you for this challenging but
thank you for this challenging but really good stuff we pray Lord that we
really good stuff we pray Lord that we would just at least realize that there's
would just at least realize that there's often more there than what we see and
often more there than what we see and more there to discover than what we have
more there to discover than what we have so far learned and we pray that you
so far learned and we pray that you would stir up within us a sense of awe
would stir up within us a sense of awe as it comes to reading the scriptures
as it comes to reading the scriptures that we would realize how much is there
that we would realize how much is there to know how deep it is
to know how deep it is how thoughtful it is and we pray that
how thoughtful it is and we pray that you give us the ability Lord to rightly
you give us the ability Lord to rightly divide the scriptures to thoughtfully
divide the scriptures to thoughtfully and correctly understand what you're
and correctly understand what you're doing and what you're saying in the text
doing and what you're saying in the text of Scripture that we would discover
of Scripture that we would discover Jesus as you have embedded the truths of
Jesus as you have embedded the truths of Christ throughout the Bible we just
Christ throughout the Bible we just discover that more and more and more and
discover that more and more and more and we pray Lord for the church around the
we pray Lord for the church around the world that there would just be more and
world that there would just be more and more attention and appreciation to Jesus
more attention and appreciation to Jesus throughout the Scriptures in Jesus name
throughout the Scriptures in Jesus name Amen
Amen [Music]
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