Herod consulted the Old Testament prophecies to learn that the Messiah was prophesied to be born in Bethlehem. The document then lists several Old Testament prophecies concerning characteristics of the Messiah and their fulfillment in the New Testament accounts of Jesus's life. This demonstrates that the details of Jesus's life were foretold centuries earlier, fulfilling the prophecies and validating that he is the promised Messiah.

1. POWER OF PROPHECY
- Messianic Version -

2. MATTHEW 2:4-6
• Herod was looking for the Messiah
• Even though he had malicious motives, he was
still able to identify where the Christ was to be
born by using the writings of God’s prophets
• Old Testament prophecies fitting New
Testament fulfillments are not the wishful
thinking of believers

3. The Messiah OT Prophecy NT Fulfillment
Would be born in
Bethlehem
Micah 5:2 Matthew 2:1
Would be born of a
virgin
Isaiah 7:14 Matthew 1:22-23
Would be heir to
King David
2 Samuel 7:12-13 Luke 1:32-33
Would spend a
season in Egypt
Hosea 11:1 Matthew 2:14-15
Would bring light to
Galilee
Isaiah 9:1-2 Matthew 4:13-16
Would be silent at
his trial
Isaiah 53:7 Mark 15:4-5
His price money
would be used to
buy a potter’s field
Zechariah 11:12-13 Matthew 27:9-10

4. MICAH 5:2 / MATT. 2:1
“But you, Bethlehem Ephrathah,
Though you are little among the thousands of Judah,
Yet out of you shall come forth to Me
The One to be Ruler in Israel,
Whose goings forth are from of old,
From everlasting.”
3 Therefore He shall give them up,
Until the time that she who is in labor has given birth;
Then the remnant of His brethren
Shall return to the children of Israel.
4 And He shall stand and feed His flock
In the strength of the LORD,
In the majesty of the name of the LORD His God;
And they shall abide,
For now He shall be great
To the ends of the earth;
5 And this One shall be peace.

5. HOSEA 11:1 / MATT. 2:14-15
• “When Israel was a child, I loved him,
And out of Egypt I called My son.
2 As they called them,
So they went from them;
They sacrificed to the Baals,
And burned incense to carved images.

6. ISAIAH 9:1-2 / MATT. 4:13-16
• Nevertheless the gloom will not be upon her
who is distressed,
As when at first He lightly esteemed
The land of Zebulun and the land of Naphtali,
And afterward more heavily oppressed her,
By the way of the sea, beyond the Jordan,
In Galilee of the Gentiles.
2 The people who walked in darkness
Have seen a great light;
Those who dwelt in the land of the shadow of death,
Upon them a light has shined.

7. ZECHARIAH 11:12-13 / MATT. 27:9-10
12 Then I said to them, “If it is agreeable to you,
give me my wages; and if not, refrain.” So they
weighed out for my wages thirty pieces of silver.
13 And the LORD said to me, “Throw it to the
potter”—that princely price they set on me. So I
took the thirty pieces of silver and threw them
into the house of the LORD for the potter.

8. WHAT DOES THIS ALL MEAN?
• Jesus is the Christ, the Son of God, the Son of
Man, the Messiah, Immanuel, the Seed of the
Woman
• God’s plan all along was to adopt/save/redeem
us through Jesus Christ
• Ephesians 1:4-9
• We have the Prophetic Word Confirmed!
• 1 Peter 1:10-12
• 2 Peter 1:15-16, 19-21