INFINITE MESSIANIC PROPHECIES

 

This will blow you away….

“How many Messianic prophecies have there been? In the real and true perspective of things, ten thousand times ten thousand is not a beginning to their number. They are in multitude like the sand upon the seashore. Obviously, all the prophetic utterances about Christ and the plan of salvation were Messianic in nature. But such teachings merely introduce the subject. For instance:

“Every proper and perfect prayer uttered by a righteous man, woman or child, from the day Adam stepped through Eden’s portals into his lone and dreary habitation, to the day the angelic hosts acclaimed the birth of God’s own Son, was in fact a Messianic prophecy. The mere saying, with sincerity and understanding, of the words of the prayer itself constituted a Messianic affirmation.

“Why? Because all the prophets, saints, and righteous hosts prayed to the Father in the name of Christ, thus witnessing that they knew that salvation came through him and his atoning blood. Similarly, every true prayer today is a reaffirmation that Jesus is the Lord and that through his blood the believing saints are redeemed.

“Every shout of praise and exultation to the Lord Jehovah was Messianic in nature, for those who so acclaimed worshiped the Father in the name of Jehovah-Messiah who would come to redeem his people.

“And so with every baptism, every priesthood ordination, every patriarchal blessing, every act of administering to the sick, every divine ordinance or performance ordained of God, every sacrifice, symbolism, and similitude; all that God ever gave to His people – all was ordained and established in such a way as to testify of his Son and center the faith of believing people in him and in the redemption He was foreordained to make.”

-          Bruce R. McConkie, “The Promised Messiah” p 27-8

We, the saints of God, are living and breathings testaments of the Saviour Jesus Christ if we live in the way that was ordained for members of His Church to live: every prayer we utter, every testimony we bear, every ordinance we participate in, every sacrament emblem we take affirms our allegiance and loyalty to the Saviour.

And I would add that through every worthy thought of Him we cultivate, every worthy action in example of Him we execute, every unrighteous temptation we resist through our obedience to His commandments, we ultimately increase the spirit of belief throughout the world.  

We are the living scriptures some people will ever read.

- CATHRYNE ALLEN 

(Art: Jesus by Joseph Brickey)