It
is written – and the Scripture was fulfilled
It is
written in the law.
It is
written in the book of Psalms.
It is
written in the prophets.
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Jesus is the
ONLY one who fulfilled all of the Messianic
prophecies of the Old Testament. He revealed the prophecies concerning Himself to His apostles AND His disciples. This is in stark
contrast to what the OAC believe today.
Catechism of the Old Apostolic Church of Africa…Part 2;
Question 38 (page 68):
“Who can understand
the scriptures?” (Sic)
“Ans. Those whose
spiritual eye has been opened by the spirit of God. We read in Luke 24 v. 45,
with reference to the Apostles:-“Then opened he their understanding, that they
might understand the scriptures.”…”
Module 1 and Module 2 (earth, light, water and kingdom) give clear indications of how the term “opened he their
understanding” is misused and abused to mean something else completely
different. The OAC believe that only their “apostles” can reveal the “hidden
mysteries” of the Bible.
Jesus did
not reveal the Scriptures to His apostles only. He also appeared to two of His
disciples on their way to Emmaus and expounded to them all the scriptures
concerning Himself, beginning at
Moses and all the prophets (Luke 24:25-27).
Let us read
the single excerpt from Question 38 of the OAC catechism in conjunction with
the other missing verses:
Luke 24:44-48 And he
said unto them, These are the words which I spake unto you, while I was yet
with you, that all things must be fulfilled, which were written in
the law of Moses, and in the prophets, and in the psalms,
concerning me. Then opened he their understanding, that they might
understand the scriptures, And said unto them, Thus it is written, and
thus it behoved Christ to suffer, and to rise from the dead the third
day: And that repentance and remission of sins should be preached in his
name among all nations, beginning at Jerusalem. And ye are witnesses of
these things.
Before He
was crucified, His disciples did not fully understand the Scriptures pertaining
to Him, it was only after His crucifixion and resurrection that they fully
understood that He is the Messiah. Allow me to share a few examples.
It is
written in the Law:
Genesis 3:15 And I
will put enmity between thee and the woman, and between thy seed and her seed;
it shall bruise thy head, and thou shalt bruise his heel.
And the Scripture was fulfilled:
John 19:18 Where they crucified him, and two other with him, on
either side one, and Jesus in the midst.
John 12:31-33 Now is the judgment of this world:
now shall the prince of this world be cast out. And I, if I be lifted up from
the earth, will draw all men unto me. This he said, signifying what death he
should die.
Romans 16:20 And the God of peace shall bruise Satan under your feet
shortly. The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with you. Amen.
It is
written in the Law:
Exodus 12:46 In one
house shall it be eaten; thou shalt not carry forth ought of the flesh abroad
out of the house; neither shall ye break a bone thereof.
And the Scripture was fulfilled:
John 19:33 But when they came to Jesus, and saw that he was dead
already, they brake not his legs:
It is
written in the Book of Psalms:
Psalms 22:1 To the
chief Musician upon Aijeleth Shahar, A Psalm of David. My God, my God, why hast
thou forsaken me? why art thou so far from helping me, and from the words of my
roaring?
And the Scripture was fulfilled:
Matthew 27:46 And about the ninth hour Jesus cried
with a loud voice, saying, Eli, Eli, lama sabachthani? that is to say, My God,
my God, why hast thou forsaken me?
It is
written in the Book of Psalms:
Psalms 22:8 He
trusted on the LORD that he would deliver him: let him deliver him, seeing he
delighted in him.
And the Scripture was fulfilled:
Matthew 27:43 He trusted in God; let him deliver
him now, if he will have him: for he said, I am the Son of God.
It is
written in the Book of Psalms:
Psalms 22:14 I am
poured out like water, and all my bones are out of joint: my heart is like wax;
it is melted in the midst of my bowels.
And the Scripture was fulfilled:
John 19:34 But one of the soldiers with a spear pierced his side, and
forthwith came there out blood and water.
It is written
in the Book of Psalms:
Psalms 22:16 ...
they pierced my hands and my feet.
And the Scripture was fulfilled:
Matthew 27:35 And they crucified him...
It is
written in the Book of Psalms:
Psalms 22:17 ...
they look and stare upon me.
And the Scripture was fulfilled:
Matthew 27:36 And sitting down they watched him
there;
It is
written in the Book of Psalms:
Psalms 22:18 They
part my garments among them, and cast lots upon my vesture.
And the Scripture was fulfilled:
John 19:24 They said therefore among themselves, Let us not rend it,
but cast lots for it, whose it shall be: that the scripture might be fulfilled,
which saith, They parted my raiment among them, and for my vesture they did
cast lots. These things therefore the soldiers did.
It is
written in the Book of Psalms:
Psalms 22:31 They
shall come, and shall declare his righteousness unto a people that shall be
born, that he hath done this.
And the Scripture was fulfilled:
John 19:28-30 After this, Jesus knowing that all
things were now accomplished, that the scripture might be fulfilled, saith, I
thirst. Now there was set a vessel full of vinegar: and they filled a spunge
with vinegar, and put it upon hyssop, and put it to his mouth. When Jesus
therefore had received the vinegar, he said, It is finished: and he bowed his
head, and gave up the ghost.
It is
written in the Book of Psalms:
Psalms 31:5 Into
thine hand I commit my spirit: thou hast redeemed me, O LORD God of truth.
And the Scripture was fulfilled:
Luke 23:46 And when Jesus had cried with a loud voice, he said,
Father, into thy hands I commend my spirit: and having said thus, he gave up
the ghost.
It is
written in the Book of Psalms:
Psalms 35:11 False
witnesses did rise up; they laid to my charge things that I knew not.
And the Scripture was fulfilled:
Mark 14:56 For many bare false witness against him, but their witness
agreed not together.
It is
written in the Book of Psalms:
Psalms 38:11 My
lovers and my friends stand aloof from my sore; and my kinsmen stand afar off.
And the Scripture was fulfilled:
Luke 23:49 And all his acquaintance, and the women that followed him
from Galilee, stood afar off, beholding these things.
It is
written in the Book of Psalms:
Psalms 41:9 Yea, mine
own familiar friend, in whom I trusted, which did eat of my bread, hath lifted
up his heel against me.
And the Scripture was fulfilled:
Mark 14:10 And Judas Iscariot, one of the twelve, went unto the chief
priests, to betray him unto them.
It is written
in the Book of Psalms:
Psalms 69:3 I am
weary of my crying: my throat is dried: mine eyes fail while I wait for my God.
And the Scripture was fulfilled:
John 19:28 After this, Jesus knowing that all things were now
accomplished, that the scripture might be fulfilled, saith, I thirst.
It is
written in the Book of Psalms:
Psalms 69:19 Thou
hast known my reproach, and my shame, and my dishonour: mine adversaries are
all before thee.
And the Scripture was fulfilled:
Matthew 27:28 And they stripped him, and put on
him a scarlet robe.
It is
written in the Book of Psalms:
Psalms 69:21 They
gave me also gall for my meat; and in my thirst they gave me vinegar to drink.
And the Scripture was fulfilled:
Matthew 27:34 They gave him vinegar to drink
mingled with gall: and when he had tasted thereof, he would not drink.
John 19:29 Now there was set a vessel full of vinegar: and they
filled a spunge with vinegar, and put it upon hyssop, and put it to his mouth.
It is
written in the Book of Psalms:
Psalms 109:24 My
knees are weak through fasting; and my flesh faileth of fatness.
And the Scripture was fulfilled:
John 19:17 And he bearing his cross went forth into a place called
the place of a skull, which is called in the Hebrew Golgotha:
Matthew 27:32 And as they came out, they found a
man of Cyrene, Simon by name: him they compelled to bear his cross.
It is
written in the Book of Psalms:
Psalms 109:25 I
became also a reproach unto them: when they looked upon me they shaked their
heads.
And the Scripture was fulfilled:
Matthew 27:39-40 And they that passed by reviled him,
wagging their heads, And saying, Thou that destroyest the temple, and buildest
it in three days, save thyself. If thou be the Son of God, come down from the
cross.
It is
written in the Prophets:
Isaiah 50:6 I gave
my back to the smiters, and my cheeks to them that plucked off the hair: I hid
not my face from shame and spitting.
And the Scripture was fulfilled:
Matthew 27:26 Then released he Barabbas unto them:
and when he had scourged Jesus, he delivered him to be crucified.
Matthew 27:30 And they spit upon him, and took the
reed, and smote him on the head.
It is
written in the Prophets:
Isaiah 52:14 As
many were astonied at thee; his visage was so marred more than any man, and his
form more than the sons of men:
And the Scripture was fulfilled:
John 19:5 Then came Jesus forth, wearing the crown of thorns, and
the purple robe. And Pilate saith unto them, Behold the man!
It is
written in the Prophets:
Isaiah 53:5-6 But he
was wounded for our transgressions, he was bruised for our iniquities: the
chastisement of our peace was upon him; and with his stripes we are healed. All
we like sheep have gone astray; we have turned every one to his own way; and
the LORD hath laid on him the iniquity of us all.
Isaiah 53:10 Yet it
pleased the LORD to bruise him; he hath put him to grief: when thou shalt make
his soul an offering for sin, he shall see his seed, he shall prolong his days,
and the pleasure of the LORD shall prosper in his hand.
And the Scripture was fulfilled:
Luke 23:33 And when they were come to the place, which is called
Calvary, there they crucified him, and the malefactors, one on the right hand,
and the other on the left.
John 19:16 Then delivered he him therefore unto them to be crucified.
And they took Jesus, and led him away.
It is
written in the Prophets:
Isaiah 53:7 He was
oppressed, and he was afflicted, yet he opened not his mouth: he is brought as
a lamb to the slaughter, and as a sheep before her shearers is dumb, so he
openeth not his mouth.
And the Scripture was fulfilled:
Matthew 27:13-14 Then said Pilate unto him, Hearest
thou not how many things they witness against thee? And he answered him to never
a word; insomuch that the governor marvelled greatly.
John 1:29 The next day John seeth Jesus coming unto him, and saith,
Behold the Lamb of God, which taketh away the sin of the world.
It is
written in the Prophets:
Isaiah 53:9 And he
made his grave with the wicked, and with the rich in his death; because he had
done no violence, neither was any deceit in his mouth.
And the Scripture was fulfilled:
Matthew 27:57-60 When the even was come, there came a
rich man of Arimathaea, named Joseph, who also himself was Jesus' disciple: He
went to Pilate, and begged the body of Jesus. Then Pilate commanded the body to
be delivered. And when Joseph had taken the body, he wrapped it in a clean
linen cloth, And laid it in his own new tomb, which he had hewn out in the
rock: and he rolled a great stone to the door of the sepulchre, and departed.
It is
written in the Prophets:
Isaiah 53:12 Therefore
will I divide him a portion with the great, and he shall divide the spoil with
the strong; because he hath poured out his soul unto death: and he was numbered
with the transgressors; and he bare the sin of many, and made intercession for
the transgressors.
And the Scripture was fulfilled:
Luke 23:33-34 And when they were come to the
place, which is called Calvary, there they crucified him, and the malefactors,
one on the right hand, and the other on the left. Then said Jesus, Father,
forgive them; for they know not what they do. And they parted his raiment, and
cast lots.
It is
written in the Prophets:
Daniel 9:26 And after
threescore and two weeks shall Messiah be cut off, but not for himself: and the
people of the prince that shall come shall destroy the city and the sanctuary;
and the end thereof shall be with a flood, and unto the end of the war
desolations are determined.
And the Scripture was fulfilled:
John 11:49-52 And one of them, named Caiaphas,
being the high priest that same year, said unto them, Ye know nothing at all,
Nor consider that it is expedient for us, that one man should die for the
people, and that the whole nation perish not. And this spake he not of himself:
but being high priest that year, he prophesied that Jesus should die for that
nation; And not for that nation only, but that also he should gather together
in one the children of God that were scattered abroad.
It is
written in the Prophets:
Amos 8:9 And it
shall come to pass in that day, saith the Lord GOD, that I will cause the sun
to go down at noon, and I will darken the earth in the clear day:
And the Scripture was fulfilled:
Matthew 27:45 Now from the sixth hour there was
darkness over all the land unto the ninth hour.
It is
written in the Prophets:
Zechariah 11:12 And I
said unto them, If ye think good, give me my price; and if not, forbear. So
they weighed for my price thirty pieces of silver.
And the Scripture was fulfilled:
Matthew 26:15 And said unto them, What will ye
give me, and I will deliver him unto you? And they covenanted with him for
thirty pieces of silver.
It is
written in the Prophets:
Zechariah 11:13 And
the LORD said unto me, Cast it unto the potter: a goodly price that I was
prised at of them. And I took the thirty pieces of silver, and cast them to the
potter in the house of the LORD.
And the Scripture was fulfilled:
Matthew 27:3-7 Then Judas, which had betrayed him,
when he saw that he was condemned, repented himself, and brought again the
thirty pieces of silver to the chief priests and elders, Saying, I have sinned
in that I have betrayed the innocent blood. And they said, What is that to us?
see thou to that. And he cast down the pieces of silver in the temple, and
departed, and went and hanged himself. And the chief priests took the silver
pieces, and said, It is not lawful for to put them into the treasury, because
it is the price of blood. And they took counsel, and bought with them the
potter's field, to bury strangers in.
It is
written in the Prophets:
Zechariah 12:10 ...and
they shall look upon me whom they have pierced...
And the Scripture was fulfilled:
Luke 23:35 And the people stood beholding...
It is written
in the Prophets:
Zechariah 13:7 Awake,
O sword, against my shepherd, and against the man that is my fellow, saith the
LORD of hosts: smite the shepherd, and the sheep shall be scattered: and I will
turn mine hand upon the little ones.
And the Scripture was fulfilled:
Matthew 26:31 Then saith Jesus unto them, All ye
shall be offended because of me this night: for it is written, I will smite the
shepherd, and the sheep of the flock shall be scattered abroad.
Mark 14:50 And they all forsook him, and fled.
These were
just a few examples. The Bible is shallow enough for a child to understand, yet
deep enough for an educated adult to drown in.
Isaiah 53:1-12 Who
hath believed our report? and to whom is the arm of the LORD revealed?
For
he shall grow up before him as a tender plant, and as a root out of a dry
ground: he hath no form nor comeliness; and when we shall see him, there is no
beauty that we should desire him. He is despised and rejected of men; a man of
sorrows, and acquainted with grief: and we hid as it were our faces from him;
he was despised, and we esteemed him not. Surely he hath borne our griefs, and
carried our sorrows: yet we did esteem him stricken, smitten of God, and
afflicted. But he was wounded for our transgressions, he was bruised for our
iniquities: the chastisement of our peace was upon him; and with his stripes we
are healed. All we like sheep have gone astray; we have turned every one to his
own way; and the LORD hath laid on him the iniquity of us all. He was
oppressed, and he was afflicted, yet he opened not his mouth: he is brought as
a lamb to the slaughter, and as a sheep before her shearers is dumb, so he
openeth not his mouth. He was taken from prison and from judgment: and who
shall declare his generation? for he was cut off out of the land of the living:
for the transgression of my people was he stricken. And he made his grave with
the wicked, and with the rich in his death; because he had done no violence,
neither was any deceit in his mouth. Yet it pleased the LORD to bruise him; he
hath put him to grief: when thou shalt make his soul an offering for sin, he
shall see his seed, he shall prolong his days, and the pleasure of the LORD
shall prosper in his hand. He shall see of the travail of his soul, and shall
be satisfied: by his knowledge shall my righteous servant justify many; for he
shall bear their iniquities. Therefore will I divide him a portion with the
great, and he shall divide the spoil with the strong; because he hath poured
out his soul unto death: and he was numbered with the transgressors; and he
bare the sin of many, and made intercession for the transgressors.
If you can
understand that the above verses are about Jesus our only Messiah, then your
understanding has been opened and you understand the Scriptures. The Old
Testament is the New Testament concealed, the New Testament is the Old
Testament revealed.
Only by the
Holy Ghost can someone say that Jesus is the Lord. It is that simple, there is
no other Jesus. If anyone preaches any other gospel, let him be accursed (1 Corinthians
12:1-11, 2 Corinthians 11:3-4, Galatians 1:6-10).
