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Hey there, Sprouts. Today is Thursday, October 3rd, 2019. This week on the Catholic Spouts

podcast, we have been talking about the Bible. We talked about how it is God's inspired word,

but written down by human authors. We talked about the Old Testament, which is Jewish scripture, and through the

Old Testament, God revealed himself to us. In the New Testament, which is the second half of the Bible,

God continued to reveal himself to us, but he did so through the person of Jesus Christ

and through the third person of the

Trinity, the Holy Spirit. Now, today we are going to talk about a common misconception about the

Bible. Oftentimes, we might think that the Old Testament predicted what happened in the New Testament.

Now that isn't exactly what happened.

You might know that in the Old Testament, they were constantly looking forward to the Messiah.

God had promised that there would be a person that would come, a descendant from the very first people,

a person that would come that would fix what was broken between God and human beings when Adam and Eve first sinned,

that he would come and he would fix that. And they saw this person as the Messiah.

So the prophets and the Jewish nation in general were constantly looking for this person.

There's lots of places in the Old Testament where they make sort of what might sound like

a prediction about this Messiah.

And in fact, they knew certain things. For example, they knew that the Messiah would be born in

Bethlehem. And Jesus was born in Bethlehem. We also knew that the Messiah would be a suffering servant. The book of Isaiah is very clear on a lot of the

suffering that Jesus ended up enduring. But both of these things, both the fact that he was born in

Bethlehem and that he would suffer are not predictions. In fact, the Old Testament does not predict the New Testament.

Instead, the New Testament fulfills the Old Testament.

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