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1. How many of the 16 prophecies about Jesus  that were mentioned in this presentation can you remember?
   1. (See following questions)
2. How was Genesis 3:15 fulfilled? ( “I will put enmity between you and the woman, and between your offspring and her offspring; he shall bruise your head, and you shall bruise his heel.”” (Ge 3:15 ESV) (see Mt 1:20)
   1. Satan induced people to call for Jesus’ death, but in His death, Jesus defeated Satan’s power over death
3. How as Is 7:14 fulfilled? ( “Therefore the Lord himself will give you a sign. Behold, the virgin shall conceive and bear a son, and shall call his name Immanuel.” (Isa 7:14 ESV)) (see Mt 1:18, 25)
   1. Jesus was born of a virgin and was “God with us.”
4. How was Ps 2:7 fulfilled? ( “I will tell of the decree: The LORD said to me, “You are my Son; today I have begotten you.” (Ps 2:7 ESV) (see Mt 3:15)
   1. God the Father begot God the Son. Jesus is the “Only begotten son of the Father.”
5. How as Gen 22:18 fulfilled? “and in your offspring shall all the nations of the earth be blessed, because you have obeyed my voice.”” (Ge 22:18 ESV) (see Mt 1:1)
   1. Jesus is a descendent of Abraham, and people of all nations can come to Him and be saved.
6. How is Gen 21:12 fulfilled? ( “But God said to Abraham, “Be not displeased because of the boy and because of your slave woman. Whatever Sarah says to you, do as she tells you, for through Isaac shall your offspring be named.” (Ge 21:12 ESV) (see Lk 3:23-24)
   1. Jesus was descended through Isaac
7. How is Jer 23:5 fulfilled? ( “”Behold, the days are coming, declares the LORD, when I will raise up for David a righteous Branch, and he shall reign as king and deal wisely, and shall execute justice and righteousness in the land.” (Jer 23:5 ESV) (see Lk 3:23-31)
   1. Jesus is a descendent of David
8. How is Micah 5:2 fulfilled? ( “But you, O Bethlehem Ephrathah, who are too little to be among the clans of Judah, from you shall come forth for me one who is to be ruler in Israel, whose coming forth is from of old, from ancient days.” (Mic 5:2 ESV) (see Mt. 2:1)
   1. Jesus was born in Bethlehem
9. How is Deut 18:18 fulfilled? ( “I will raise up for them a prophet like you from among their brothers. And I will put my words in his mouth, and he shall speak to them all that I command him.” (De 18:18 ESV) (see Matthew 21:11)
   1. Jesus completely obeyed His father and gave us (and is) the Word of God. He is the Great Prophet.
10. How is Psalm 110:4 fulfilled? ( “The LORD has sworn and will not change his mind, “You are a priest forever after the order of Melchizedek.””) (see Heb 3:1; 5:5-6)
    1. Jesus is declared the great High Priest, but not from tribe of Levi or from Aaron. Melchizedek was “King of Salem” = “King of peace.” Melchizedek received tithes from Abraham. 
11. How is Psalm 2:6 fulfilled? (  “”As for me, I have set my King on Zion, my holy hill.””) (see Matt 27:37)
    1. Jesus was “king of the Jews.” and “King of Kings”
12. How is Is 33:22 fulfilled? ( “For the LORD is our judge; the LORD is our lawgiver; the LORD is our king; he will save us.” ); (see John 5:30)
    1. Jesus is the great Judge
13. How is Is 40:3 fulfilled? (“A voice cries: “In the wilderness prepare the way of the LORD; make straight in the desert a highway for our God.”); (See Matt 3:1-2)
    1. John the Baptist
14. How is Is 53:3 fulfilled? ( “He was despised and rejected by men; a man of sorrows, and acquainted with grief; and as one from whom men hide their faces he was despised, and we esteemed him not.”); (see John 7:5, 48)
    1. Most people did not trust Jesus. Jewish leaders called for His crucifixion
15. How is Zechariah 11:12-13 fulfilled? ( “12  Then I said to them, “If it seems good to you, give me my wages; but if not, keep them.” And they weighed out as my wages thirty pieces of silver. 13  Then the LORD said to me, “Throw it to the potter” —  the lordly 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.”); (see Matthew 27:3-10)
    1. Judas betrayed Jesus for the price of a slave, and when he was remorseful, he threw the money back at them. They bought “potter’s field” as a burial place for strangers
16. How is Zech 12:10 fulfilled? ( “”And I will pour out on the house of David and the inhabitants of Jerusalem a spirit of grace and pleas for mercy, so that, when they look on me, on him whom they have pierced, they shall mourn for him, as one mourns for an only child, and weep bitterly over him, as one weeps over a firstborn.”) ; (see John 19:34)
    1. Some Jews ( and many gentiles) looked on Jesus, pierced by crucifixion, and mourned for him when they realized it was for their sins. This will be further fulfilled near the end of the age.
17. How is Psalm 22:1, 11-18 fulfilled? ( “My God, my God, why have you forsaken me? Why are you so far from saving me, from the words of my groaning?”) ; (see Luke 23:33; John 19:23-24, 33)
    1. Jesus used these words on the cross to point people to the prophecies in this Psalm (See the Q & A for the previous video)
18. What is the significance of the prophecy about the death of Jesus in Daniel 9?
    1. Jesus death is prophesied, to the very year, hundreds of years before His birth in Bethlem
19. Approximately how many years before Jesus was born was the prophecy in Daniel 9 given?
    1. Over 500 years
20. When was Daniel first taken captive?
    1. 605 BC
21. Who took him captive?
    1. King Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon
22. What nation ruled most of the world at that time?
    1. Babylon
23. How did Daniel prove his faith when he was first taken captive?
    1. Refused to worship idols by eating foods that were part of that worship. (Wisely made an appeal based on reason.)
24. What nation conquered Babylon? Who was its king?
    1. Persia. Cyrus (also called Darius)
25. When did Persia conquer Babylon?
    1. 539 BC
26. What happened to Daniel when Persia conquered Babylon?
    1. Cyrus recognized Daniel’s gifts and made him “prime minister”
27. Approximately how old was Daniel when this occurred?
    1. 75
28. Approximately how old was Daniel when he was thrown into the Lion’s den?
    1. Over 75
29. What is prophesied in Daniel 9:25-26?
    1. The death of the Messiah (Jesus)
30. When did Nebuchadnezzar destroy Jerusalem?
    1. 586 BC
31. What prompted him to do it?
    1. His vassal king, Zedekiah, tried to rebel
32. From what event does Daniel time his prophecy?
    1. The command to rebuild Jerusalem
33. Where do we read about the command to rebuild the walls of Jerusalem?
    1. Nehemiah 2
34. In what year was that command given?
    1. 445 BC
35. How can we be sure about the year that the command was given?
    1. It was in the 20th year of Artaxerxes. We know his father, Xerxes 1, died in 645 because of inscriptions on a cuneiform tablet and references to two lunar eclipses
36. What does the word “week” mean in the Bible?
    1. 7 “units” (could be a “week” of days, or a “week” of years)
37. How many days were in a Biblical “prophetic” year? How do we know that?
    1. 360. References in Daniel and Revelation that equate 360 days with 1 year. 3 1/2 years =  42 months = 1260 days
38. How many days in a solar year?
    1. 365.25
39. How do we change prophetic years to solar years?
    1. Multiply the number of prophetic years by 360 to get the number of days. Divide that number by the number of days in a solar year (365.25)
40. According to Daniel’s prophecy, in what year would the Messiah be crucified?
    1. 32 AD