Amos 3:7 “For the Lord God does nothing without revealing his secret to his servants the prophets.”
- Psalm 22: An Amazingly Accurate, Faith-Building Prophecy of Christ’s Death on the Cross
- Jesus said on the cross “My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?”
- Jesus was quoting Psalm 22, verse 1 word-for-word. While he could hardly breathe up on the cross, He certainly couldn’t quote the entire long psalm, but with those few words He could manage, He was pointing the way, guiding people to go read Psalm 22.
- Verse 16 says “Dogs have surrounded me; a band of evil men has encircled me, they have pierced my hands and my feet.”
- Verse 18 says, “They divide my garments among them and cast lots for my clothing.”
- The Gospel of John 19:23-24 relates, “When the soldiers crucified Jesus, they took his clothes, dividing them into four shares, one for each of them, with the undergarment remaining. The garment was seamless, woven in one piece from top to bottom. ‘Let’s not tear it,’ they said to one another. ‘Let’s decide by lot who will get it.'”
- And King David’s description of the agony caused by crucifixion is eerily accurate.
- Verse 14: “I am poured out like water, and all my bones are out of joint. My heart has turned to wax, it has melted away within me.”
- Verse 15: “My tongue sticks to the roof of my mouth.”
- Verses 7 and 8 share exactly what Jesus’ enemies would do and say at the cross: “All who see me mock me; they hurl insults, shaking their heads; ‘He trusts in the Lord; let the Lord rescue him.'”
- The second half of Psalm 22 turns powerfully positive, with talk of a global faith, saying in verse 27, “All the ends of the earth will remember and turn to the Lord, and all the families of the nations will bow down before him.”
- Verses 30 and 31 conclude the psalm by describing a faith going on into the ages, saying, “…future generations will be told about the Lord. They will proclaim his righteousness to a people yet unborn – for he has done it.”
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