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Messianic Prophecies: Wisdom 2: 12-20

 

 

 

Something for the weekend.  O Come, O Come Emmanuel.  We start Advent tomorrow, and my thoughts have been turning to the many messianic prophecies in the Old Testament that are applicable to Christ.  I do not think there is adequate treatment in contemporary catechesis of the remarkable string of prophecies in the Old Testament that find their completion in Christ.  All Catholics need to be familiar with these prophecies, for they are an anchor for our Faith.  One example is Wisdom 2:12-20:

12 Let us, therefore, lie in wait for the just, because he is not for our turn, and he is contrary to our doings, and upbraids us with transgressions of the law, and divulges against us the sins of our way of life. 13 He boasts that he has the knowledge of God, and calls himself the son of God. 14 He has become a censurer of our thoughts. 15 He is grievous unto us, even to behold: for his life is not like other men’s, and his ways are very different. 16 We are esteemed by him as triflers, and he abstains from our ways as from filthiness, and he prefers the latter end of the just, and glories that he has God for his father. 17 Let us see then if his words be true, and let us prove what shall happen to him, and we shall know what his end shall be. 18 For if he be the true son of God, he will defend him, and will deliver him from the hands of his enemies. 19 Let us examine him by outrages and tortures, that we may know his meekness, and try his patience. 20 Let us condemn him to a most shameful death: for there shall be respect had unto him by his words.

As we proceed through Advent I will do my best to remind our readers of some of the major prophecies that foretold Christ.  We will have to restrict ourselves only to the major ones, as there are hundreds of references in the Old Testament that are applicable to Him.

 

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t shaw
t shaw
Saturday, November 26, AD 2011 7:48am

Job confesses, “I know that my Redeemer lives.”

bill bannon
Saturday, November 26, AD 2011 5:06pm

These speakers within that section of wisdom amongst other things neglect psalm 44 which speaks of the season during which God forsakes the just for His hidden reasons:

19
*Our hearts have not turned back,
nor have our steps strayed from your path.
20
Yet you have left us crushed,
desolate in a place of jackals..”

Very unique psalm and very like Job. God may foresake the just on the physical level which is how the crucifixion happened at all.
you have covered us with a shadow of death.

bill bannon
Saturday, November 26, AD 2011 5:09pm

that last line should be with the psalm….after jackals.

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