I am a Jesus pusher!!! Jesus is the fulfillment of all prophecy! In the Old Testament, there are three hundred and thirty-two verbal predictive prophecies concerning Jesus. A prophet actually proclaimed to a crowd of people each of these prophecies hundreds of years before they came to pass. Jesus fulfills every one of them down to the smallest detail. The possibility of one man fulfilling all of them is stated as “one out of eighty four with one hundred zeros after it.”
Matthew writes an entire book to the Jews. He makes one consistent argument in behalf of Jesus as the fulfillment of prophecy. He front loads the first four chapters with prophecy. Seven times in these four chapters he stops his narrative to remind us; this is a fulfillment of prophecy. He mentions prophecy only six times in the rest of his twenty-four chapters. It is a reminder of what he heavily emphasized at the beginning. The concluding paragraph of his prophecy emphasis comes near the close of chapter four (Matthew 4:12-17). He uses prophecy to authenticate the person of Jesus. As one views prophecy through the person of Jesus, the plan of God for my life becomes clear! God’s plan is Jesus. All prophecy points to Jesus, the fulfillment of the plan. The plan is now complete in Jesus. We are on a new level! We have shifted from expecting and waiting to embracing and experiencing. There is nothing more; it is all in Jesus. In Him I have all God wants for my life. I am a Jesus pusher!!!