Christ is both the object and the subject of biblical prophecy.

All of the multitudes of Old Testament prophecies regarding the future coming of the

kingdom of God converge in Him.

Now, most people that I talk to who are Christians don't get all that excited when you say

that Jesus is a prophet. And I think the reason for that is because there is so much skepticism that abounds in our

day the legacy of 19th century liberalism and cynicism that denied all things supernatural

in the New Testament, denying the virgin birth, the atonement, the resurrection, all of that.

And they still didn't want to close down the churches.

They had payrolls, and they had a lot of money invested in church property.

So they tried to reconstruct and redefine Christianity and redefined Jesus.

And they said, we don't believe that He's the Son of God anymore, but we believe he was

a great prophet.

And so we're accustomed to hearing the title Prophet associated with Jesus as a downgrade

from being the divine, incarnate, son of God.

We need to get over that because there is no conflict in the New Testament

between Jesus holding the office of prophet and being the son of God.

And it's important for us to understand that Jesus Christ not only has the Word of God put

in His mouth, He is the Word of God.

He is the Word of God incarnate.

And in this regard, we look at the irony of this relationship

between Jesus to the Old Testament prophets, that Christ is both the object and the subject

of biblical prophecy. He is the supreme object of prophecy in that all of the multitudes

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