HARD TO FATHOM ISAIAH PROPHESIED THE VIRGIN BIRTH OF CHRIST some 600 years before the actual event:
For unto us a child is born, unto us a child is given: and the government shall be on his shoulder: and His name shall be called Wonderful, Counseller, The Mighty God, The everlasting Father, The Prince of Peace.
The zeal of the Lord of hosts will perform this.
---Isaiah 9:6, 7b
Yet it's only one of dozens of Old Testament prophesies of the Messiah. The prophet Daniel prophesied in the 7th century B.C not only the birth of Christ but also the exact timing in relation to the rebuilding of the Temple in Jerusalem, the birth of the Savior and then the total destruction of Jerusalem in 70 A.D.:
24 “Seventy ‘sevens’[a] are decreed for your people and your holy city to finish[b] transgression, to put an end to sin, to atone for wickedness, to bring in everlasting righteousness, to seal up vision and prophecy and to anoint the Most Holy Place.[c]
25 “Know and understand this: From the time the word goes out to restore and rebuild Jerusalem until the Anointed One,[d] the ruler, comes, there will be seven ‘sevens,’ and sixty-two ‘sevens.’ It will be rebuilt with streets and a trench, but in times of trouble. 26 After the sixty-two ‘sevens,’ the Anointed One will be put to death and will have nothing.[e] The people of the ruler who will come will destroy the city and the sanctuary. The end will come like a flood: War will continue until the end, and desolations have been decreed. 27 He will confirm a covenant with many for one ‘seven.’[f] In the middle of the ‘seven’[g] he will put an end to sacrifice and offering. And at the temple[h] he will set up an abomination that causes desolation, until the end that is decreed is poured out on him.
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