Some Old Testament references to Jesus Christ
LUKE 24:27
Then Jesus quoted them passage after passage from the writings of the prophets, beginning with the book of Genesis and going right through the Scriptures, explaining what the passages meant and what they said about himself.
From the promised seed in Genesis, through the suffering servant in Isaiah and the pierced one in Zechariah, to the promised one in Malachi, Jesus reintroduced these disciples to the Old Testament. Christ is the thread woven though all the Scriptures, the central theme that binds them together. We can see that God loves us in his careful preparation and the detail of all his efforts to make salvation available to us. Following are several key passages Jesus probably mentioned on this walk to Emmaus.
Note Luke 24:27
From now on you and the woman will be enemies, as will your offspring and hers. You will strike his heel, but he will crush your head."
Genesis 3:15
...and Melchizedek, the king of Salem (Jerusalem), who was a priest of the God of Highest heaven, brought him bread and wine. Then Melchizedek blessed Abram with this blessing: "The blessing of the supreme God, Creator of heaven and earth, be upon you, Abram; and blessed be God, who has delivered your enemies over to you."
Genesis 14:18-20
And I will cause your descendants to become as numerous as the stars! And I will give them all of these lands; and they shall be a blessing to all the nations of the earth.
Genesis 26:4
The scepter shall not depart from Judah until Shiloh comes, whom all people shall obey.
Genesis 49:10
When she opened it, there was a baby! And he was crying. This touched her heart. "He must be one of the Hebrew children!" she said.
Exodus 3:6
Annually, on the tenth day of this month (announce this to all the people of Israel) each family shall be a lamb (or, if a family is small, let it share the lamb with another small family in the neighborhood; whether to share in this way depends on the size of the families). This animal shall be a year-old male, either a sheep or a goat, without any defects. "On the evening of the fourteenth day of this month, all these lambs shall be killed, and their blood shall be placed on the two side-frames of the door of every home and on the panel above the door. Use the blood of the lamb eaten in that home. Everyone shall eat roast lamb that night, with unleavened bread and bitter herbs. The meat must not be eaten raw or boiled, but roasted, including the head, legs, heart, and liver. Don't eat any of it the next day; it all is not eaten that night, burn what is left. Eat it with your traveling clothes on, prepared for a long journey, wearing your walking shoes and carrying your walking sticks in your hands; eat it hurriedly. This observance shall be called the Lord's Passover.
Exodus 12:3-11
When the people of Israel saw it they asked each other, "What is it?" And Moses told them, "It is the food Jehovah has given you.
Exodus 16:15
"Raise he banner of the Lord!" Moses said. "For the Lord will be at war with Amalek generation after generation."
Exodus 17:6
Then the Lord told him, "Make a bronze replica of one of these shakes and attach it to the top of a pole; anyone who is bitten shall live if he simply look's at it!" So Moses made the replica, and whenever anyone who had been bitten looked at the bronze snake, he recovered!
Numbers 21:8,9
I see in the future of Israel, far down the distant trail, That there shall come a star from Jacob! This ruler of Israel Shall smite the people of Moab, and destroy the sons of Sheth.
Numbers 24:17
"Instead, he will raise up for a Prophet like me, and Israeli, a man to whom you must listen and whom you must obey.
Deuteronomy 18:15
I will raise up from among them a Prophet, and Israeli like you. I will tell him what to say, and he shall be my spokesman to the people.
Deuteronomy 18:18
For when you die, I will put one of your sons upon your throne and I will make his kingdom strong. He is the one who shall build me a temple. And I will continue his kingdom into eternity. I will be his father and he shall be my son. If he sins, I will use other nations to punish him,...
2 Samuel 7:12-14
But as for me, I know that my Redeemer lives, and that he will stand upon the earth at last.
Job 19:25
For a summit conference of the nations has been called to plot against the Lord and His Messiah, Christ the King.
Psalms 2:2
For the Lord declares, "This is the King of my choice, and I have enthroned him in Jerusalem, my holy city." His chosen one replies, "I will reveal the everlasting purposes of God, for the Lord has said to me, `You are my Son. This is your Coronation Day. Today I am giving you glory.'" Only ask, and I will give you all the nations of the world Rule them with an iron rod; smash them like clay pots!"
Psalm 2:6-9
Fall down before his Son and kiss his feet before his anger is roused and you perish. I am warning you--his wrath will soon begin. But oh, the joy of those who put their trust in him!
Psalm 2:12
I cannot understand how you can bother with mere puny man, to pay any attention to him! And yet you have made him only a little lower than the angels, and placed a crown of glory and honor upon his head. You have put him in charge of everything you made; everything is put under his authority:...
Psalm 8:4-6
I am always thinking of the Lord; and because he is so near, I never need to stumble or to fall. Heart, body, and soul are filled with joy. For you will not leave me among the dead; you will not allow your beloved one to rot in the grave. You have let me experience the joys of life and the exquisite pleasures of your own eternal presence.
Psalm 16:8-11
My God, my God, why have you forsaken me? Why do you refuse to help me or even listen to my groans? Day and night I keep on weeping, crying for your help, but there is no reply--for you are holy. The praises of our fathers surrounded your throne; they trusted you and you delivered them. You heard their cries for help and saved them; they were never disappointed when they sought your aid. But I am a worm, not a man, scorned and despised by my own people and by all mankind. Everyone who sees me mocks and sneers and shrugs. "Is this the one who rolled his burden on the Lord?" they laugh. "Is this the one who claims the Lord delight in him? We'll believe it when we see God rescue him!" Lord, how you have helped me before! You took me safely from my mother's womb and brought me through the years of infancy. I have depended upon you since birth; you have always been my God. Don't leave me now, for trouble is near and no one else can possibly help. I am surrounded by fearsome enemies, strong as the giant bull from Bashan. They come at me with open jaws, like roaring lions attacking their prey. My strength has drained away like water, and all my bones are out of joint. My heart melts like wax; my strength has dried up like sun-baked clay; my tongue sticks to my mouth, for you have laid me in the dust of death. The enemy, this gang of evil men, circles me like a pack of dogs; they have pierced my hands and feet. I can count every bone in my body. See these men of evil gloat and stare; they divide my clothes among themselves by a toss of the dice. O Lord, don't stay away. O God my Strength, hurry to my aid. Rescue me from death; spare my precious life from all these evil men. Save me from these lions' jaws and from the horns of these wild oxen. Yes, God will answer me and rescue me. I will praise you to all my brothers; I will stand up before the congregation and testify of the wonderful things you have done. "Praise the Lord, each one of you who fears him," I will say. "Each of you must fear and reverence his name. Let all sing his praises, for he has not despised my cries of deep despair; he has not turned and walked away. When I cried to him, he heard and came." Yes, I will stand and praise you before all the people. I will publicly fulfill my vows in the presence of all who reverence your name. The poor shall eat and be satisfied; all who seek the Lord shall find him and shall praise his name. Their hearts shall rejoice with everlasting joy. The whole earth shall see it and return to the Lord; the people of every nation shall worship him.
Psalm 22:1-22
Into your hand I commit my spirit. You have rescued me. O God who keeps his promises. I worship only you; how you hate all those who worship idols, those imitation gods.
Psalm 31:-5
Not one of his bones is broken.
Psalm 34:20
Even my best friend has turned against me--a man I completely trusted; how often we ate together.
Psalm 41:9
Your throne, O God, endures forever. Justice is your royal scepter. You love what is good and hate what is wrong. Therefore God, your God, has given you more gladness than anyone else.
Psalm 45:6,7
He ascends the heights, leading many captives in his train. He receives gifts for men, even those who once were rebels. God will live among us here.
Psalm 68:18
I can not even count all those who hate me without cause. They are influential men, those who plot to kill me though I am innocent. They demand that I be punished for what I didn't do.
Psalm 69:4
My zeal for God and his work burns hot within me. And because I advocate your cause, your enemies insult me even as they insult you.
Psalm 69:9
For food they give me gall; for my awful thirst they offered vinegar.
Psalm 69:21
The Lord God says, "I have made a solemn agreement with my chosen servant David. I have taken an oath to establish is descendants as kings forever on his throne, from now until eternity!"
Psalm 89:3,4
Let those who worship idols be disgraced--all who brag about their worthless gods--for every god must bow to him!
Psalm 97:7
Jehovah said to my Lord the Messiah, "Rule as my regent--I will subdue your enemies and make the bow low before you." Jehovah has established your throne in Jerusalem to rule over your enemies.
Psalm 110:1,2
Jehovah has taken oath, and will not rescind his vow, that you are a priest forever like Melchizedek.
Psalm 110:4
The stone rejected by the builders has not become the capstone of the arch!
Psalm 118:22
Blessed is the one who is coming, the one sent by the Lord. We bless you from the Temple.
Psalm 118:26
For you promised me that my son would sit on my throne and succeed me. And surely you will never go back on a promise!
Psalm 132:11
The Lord formed me in the beginning, before he created anything else. From ages past, I am. I existed before the earth began. I lived before the oceans were created, before the springs bubbled forth their waters onto the earth; before the mountains and the hills were made. Yes, I was born before God made the earth and fields, and the first handfuls of soil. I was there when he established the heavens and formed the great springs in the depths of the oceans. I was there when he set the limits of the seas and gave them his instructions not to spread beyond their boundaries. I was there when he made the blueprint for the earth and oceans. I was the craftsman at his side. I was his constant delight,
rejoicing always in his presence. And how happy I was with what he created--his wide world and all his family of mankind!
Proverbs 8:22-31
Those whose names are written down to escape the destruction of escape the destruction of Jerusalem will be washed and rinsed of all their moral filth by the horrors and the fire.
Isaiah 4:2
All right then, the Lord himself will choose the sign--a child will be born to a virgin! And she shall call him Immanuel (meaning, "God is with us").
Isaiah 7:14
He will be your safety; but Israel and Judah have refused his care and thereby stumbled against the Rock of their salvation and lie fallen and crushed beneath it: God's presence among them has endangered them!
Isaiah 8:14,15
I and the children of God has given me have symbolic names that reveal the plans of the Lord of heaven's armies for his people: Isaiah means "Jehovah will save (his people)," Shear-jashub means "A remnant shall return," and Maher-shalal-hash-baz means "Your enemies will soon be destroyed."
Isaiah 8:18
Nevertheless, that time of darkness and despair shall not go on forever. Though soon the land of Zebulun and Naphtali will be under God's contempt and judgement, yet in the future these very lands, Galilee and Northern Transjordan, where lies the road to the sea, will be filled with glory. The people who walk in darkness shall see a great Light--a Light that will shine on all those who live in the land of the shadow of death.
Isaiah 9:1,2
For unto us a Child is born; unto us a Son is given; and the government shall be upon his shoulder. These will be his royal titles: "Wonderful," "Counselor," "The Mighty God," "The Everlasting Father," "The Prince of Peace." His everexpanding, peaceful government will never end. He will rule with perfect fairness and justice from the throne of his father David. He will bring true justice and peace to all the nations of the world. This is going to happen because the Lord of heaven's armies has dedicated himself to do it!
Isaiah 9:6,7
The royal line of David will be cut off, chopped down like a tree; but from the stump will grow a Shoot--yes, a new Branch from the old root. And the Spirit of the Lord shall rest upon him, the Spirit of wisdom, understanding, counsel and might; the Spirit of knowledge and of the fear of the Lord. His delight will be obedience to the Lord. He will not judge by appearance, false evidence, or hearsay, but will defend the poor and the exploited. He will rule against the wicked who oppress them. For he will be clothed with fairness and with truth. In that day the wolf and the lamb will lie down together, and the leopard and goats will be at peace. Calves and fat cattle will be safe among lions, and a little child shall lead them all. The cows will graze among bears; cubs and calves will lie down together, and lions will eat grass like the cows. Babies will crawl safely among poisonous snakes, and a little child who puts his hand in a nest of deadly adders will pull it out unharmed. Nothing will hurt or destroy in all my holy mountain, for as the waters fill the sea, so shall the earth be full of the knowledge of the Lord.
Isaiah 11:1-10
I will give him responsibility over all my people; whatever he says will be done; none will be able to stop him. I will make him a strong and steady peg to support my people; they will load him with responsibility, and he will be an honor to his family name."
Isaiah 22:22-24
...he will swallow up death forever. The Lord God will wipe away all tears and take away forever all insults and mockery against his land and people. The Lord has spoken--he will surely do it!
Isaiah 25:8,9
Look, a righteous King is coming, with honest princes! He will shelter Israel from the storm and wind. He will refresh her as river in the desert and as the cooling shadow of a mighty rock within a hot and weary land. Then at last the eyes of Israel will open wide to God; his people will listen to his voice. Even the hotheads among them will be full of sense and understanding, and those who stammer in uncertainty will speak out plainly.
Isaiah 32:1-4
And when he comes, he will open the eyes of the blind, and unstop the ears of the deaf. The lame man will leap up like a deer, and those who could not sleep will shout and sing! Springs will burst forth in the wilderness, and streams in the desert.
Isaiah 35:5,6
Comfort, yes, comfort my people, says your God. Speak tenderly to Jerusalem and tell her that sad days are gone. Her sins are pardoned, and I have punished her in full for all her sins. Listen! I hear the voice of someone shouting, "Make a road for the Lord through the wilderness; make him a straight, smooth road through the desert. Fill the valleys; level the hills; straighten out the crooked paths and smooth off the rough spots in the road. The glory of the Lord will be seen by all mankind together." The Lord has spoken--it shall be. The voice says, "Shout!" "Shout that man is like the grass that dies away, and all his beauty fade like dying flowers. The grass withers, the flower fades beneath the breath of God. And so it is with fragile man. The grass withers, the flowers fade, but the Word of our God shall stand forever." O Crier of Good News, shout to Jerusalem from the mountain tops! Shout louder--don't be afraid--tell the cities of Judah, "Your God is coming!" Yes, the Lord God is coming with mighty power; he will rule with awesome strength. See, his reward is with him, to each as he has done. He will feed his flock like a shepherd; he will carry the lambs in his arms and gently lead the ewes with young.
Isaiah 40:3-11
See my servant, whom I uphold; my Chosen One, in whom I delight. I have put my Spirit upon him; he will reveal justice to the nations of the world. He will be gentle--he will not shout nor quarrel in the streets. He will not break the bruised reed, nor quench the dimly burning flame. He will encourage the fainthearted, those tempted to despair. He will see full justice given to all who have been wronged. He won't be satisfied until truth and righteousness prevail throughout the earth, nor until even distant lands beyond the seas have put their trust him. The Lord God who created the heavens and stretched them out and created the earth and everything in it, and gives life and breath and spirit to everyone in all the world, he is the one who says [to his Servant, the Messiah], "I the Lord have called you to demonstrate my righteousness. I will guard and support you, for I have given you to my people as the personal confirmation of my covenant with them. You shall also be a light to guide the nations unto me. You will open the eyes of the blind, and release those who sit in prison darkness and despair. I am the Lord! That is my name, and I will not give my glory to anyone else; I will not share my praise with carved idols. Everything I prophesied came true, and how I prophesy again. I will tell you the future before it happens."
Isaiah 42:1-9
Listen to me, all of you in far-off lands: The Lord called me before my birth. From within the womb he called me by my name. God will make my words of judgement sharp as swords. He has hidden me in the shadow of his hand; I am like a sharp arrow in his quiver. He said to me: "You are my Servant, a Prince of Power with God, and you shall bring me glory." I replied, "But my work for them seems all in vain; I have spent my strength for them without response. Yet I leave it all with God for my reward." "And now," said the Lord--the Lord who formed me from my mother's womb to serve him who commissioned me to restore to him his people Israel, who has given me the strength to perform this task and honored me for doing it!--"you shall do more than restore Israel to me. I will make you a Light to the nations of the world to bring my salvation to them too." The Lord, the Redeemer and Holy One of Israel, says to the one who is despised, rejected by mankind, and kept beneath the heel of the world's rulers: "Kings shall stand at attention when you pass by; princess shall bow low because the Lord has chosen you; he, the faithful Lord, the Holy One Israel, chooses you." The Lord says, "Your request has come at a favorable time. I will keep you from harm and give you as a token and pledge to Israel, proof that I will reestablish the land of Israel and reassign it to its own people again. Through you I am saying to the prisoners of darkness, `Come out! I am giving you your freedom!' They will by my sheep, grazing in green pastures and on the grassy hills. They shall neither hunger nor thirst; the searing sun and scorching desert winds will not reach them any more. For he Lord in his mercy will lead them beside the cool waters.
Isaiah 49:1-10
The Lord God has spoken to me and I have listened; I do not rebel nor turn away. I give my back to the whip, and my cheeks to those who pull out the beard. I do not hide from shame--they spit in my face. Because the Lord God helps me, I will not be dismayed; therefore, I have set my face like flint to do his will, and I know that I will triumph.
Isaiah 50:5-7
The Lord has bared his holy arm before the eyes of all the nations; the ends of the earth shall see the salvation of our God.
Isaiah 52:10
See, my Servant shall prosper; he shall be highly exalted.
Isaiah 52:13
But, oh, how few believe it! Who will listen? To whom will God reveal his saving power? In God's eyes he was like a tender green shoot, sprouting from a root in dry and sterile ground. But in our eyes there was no attractiveness at all, nothing to make us want him. We despised him and rejected him--a man of sorrows, acquainted with bitterest grief. We turned our backs on him and looked the other way when he went by. He was despised and we didn't care. Yet it was our grief he bore, our sorrows that weighed him down. And we thought his troubles were a punishment from God, for his own sins! But he was wounded and bruised for our sins. He was chastised that we might have peace; he was lashed--and we were healed! We are the ones who strayed away like sheep! We, who left God's path to follow our own. Yet God laid on him the guilt and sins of every one of us! He was oppressed and he was afflicted, yet he never said a word. He was brought as a lamb to the slaughter; and as a sheep before her shearers is dumb, so he stood silent before the ones condemning him. From prison and trial they led him away to his death. But who among the people of that day realized it was their sins that he was dying for--that he was suffering their punishment? He was buried like a criminal in a rich man's grave; but he had done no wrong, and had never spoken an evil word. Yet it was the Lord's good plan to bruise him and fill him with grief. But when his soul has been made an offering for sin, then he shall have a multitude of children, many heirs. He shall live again and God's program shall prosper in his hands. And when he sees all that is accomplished by the anguish of his soul, he shall be satisfied; and because of what he has experienced, my righteous Servant shall make many to be counted righteous before God, for he shall bear all their sins. Therefore I will give him the honors of one who is mighty and great, because he has poured out his soul unto death. He was counted as a sinner, and he bore the sins of many, and he pled with God for sinners.
Isaiah 53:1-12
The Spirit of the Lord God is upon me, because the Lord has anointed me to bring good news to the suffering and afflicted. He has sent me to comfort the brokenhearted, to announce liberty to captives and to open the eyes of the blind. He has sent me to tell those who mourn that the time of God's favor to them has come, and the day of his wrath to their enemies.
Isaiah 61:1,2
For the time is coming, says the Lord, when I will place a righteous Branch upon King David's throne. He shall be a King who shall rule with wisdom and justice and cause righteousness to prevail everywhere throughout the earth. And this is his name: The Lord Our Righteousness. At that time Judah will be saved and Israel will live in peace.
Jeremiah 23:5,6
For they shall serve the Lord their God, and David their King, whom I will raise up for them, says the Lord.
Jeremiah 30:9
At that time I will bring to the throne the true Son of David, and he shall rule justly.
Jeremiah 33:15
"And I will set one Shepherd over all my people, even my Servant, David. He shall feed them and be a Shepherd to them. And I, the Lord, will be their God, and my Servant David shall be a Prince among my people. I, the Lord, have spoken it.
Ezekiel 34:23,24
"And David, my Servant--the Messiah--shall be their King, their only Shepherd; and they shall obey my laws and my wishes. They shall in the land of Israel where their fathers lived, the land I gave my servant Jacob. They and their children after them shall live there, and their grandchildren, for all generations. And my Servant David, their Messiah, shall be their Prince forever.
Ezekiel 37:24,25
But as you watch, a Rock was cut from the mountainside by supernatural means. It came hurling toward the statue and crushed the feet of iron and clay, smashing them to bits. Then the whole statue collapsed into a heap of iron, clay, brass, silver, and gold; its pieces were crushed as small as chaff, and the wind blew the all away. But the Rock that knocked the statue down became a great mountain that covered the whole earth.
Daniel 2:34,35
"During the reigns of those kings, the God of heaven will set up a kingdom that will never be destroyed; no one will ever conquer it. It will shatter all these kingdoms into nothingness, but it shall stand forever, indestructible.
Daniel 2:44,45
Next I saw the arrival of a Man--or so he seemed to be--brought there on clouds from heaven; he approached the Ancient of Days and was presented to him.
Daniel 7:13
Now listen! It will be forty-nine years plus 434 years from the time the command is given to rebuild Jerusalem, until the Anointed One comes! Jerusalem's streets and walls will be rebuilt despite the perilous times. After this period of 434 years, the Anointed One will be killed, his kingdom still unrealized...and a king will arise whose armies will destroy the city and the Temple. They will be overwhelmed as with a flood, and war and its miseries are decreed from that time to the very end.
Daniel 9:25,26
Then the people of Judah and Israel will unite and have one leader; they will return from exile together; what a day that will be--the day when God will sow his people in the fertile soil of their own lang again."
Hosea 11:1
O Bethlehem Ephrthah, you are but a small Judean village, yet you will be the birthplace of my King who is alive from everlasting ages past!
Micah 5:2
Listen to me, O Joshua the High Priest, and all you other priest, you are illustrations of the good things to come. Don't you see?--Joshua represents my servant the Branch whom I will send. He will be the Foundation Stone of the Temple that Joshua is standing beside, and I will engrave this inscription on it seven times: I will remove the sins of this land in a single day.
Zechariah 3:8,9
Tell him that the Lord Almighty says, `You represent the Man who will come, whose name is "The Branch"--he will grow up from himself--and will build the Temple of the Lord. To him belongs the royal title. He will rule both as King and as Priest, with perfect harmony between he two!'
Zechariah 6:12,13
"Rejoice greatly, O my people! Shout with joy! For look--your King is coming! He is the Righteous One, the Victor! Yet he is lowly, riding on a donkey's colt!
Zechariah 9:9
And I said to their leaders, "If you like, give me my pay, whatever I am worth; but only if you want to." So they counted out thirty little silver coins as my wages. And the Lord told me, "Use it to buy a field from the pottery makers--this magnificent sum they value you at!" So I took the thirty coins and threw them into the Temple for the pottery makers.
Zechariah 11:12,13
"Then I will pour out the spirit of grace and prayer on all the people of Jerusalem, and they will look on him they pierced, and mourn for him as for an only son, and grieve bitterly for him as for an oldest child who died.
Zechariah 12:10
"At the time a Fountain will be opened to the people of Israel and Jerusalem, a Fountain to cleanse them from all their sins and defilement."
Zechariah 13:1
"Awake, O sword, against my Shepherd, the man who is my associate and equal," says the Lord Almighty. "Strike down the Shepherd and the sheep will scatter, but I will come back and comfort and care for the lambs.
Zechariah 13:7
"Listen: I will send my messenger before me to prepare the way. And then the one you are looking for will come suddenly to his Temple--the Messenger of God's promises, to bring you great joy. Yes, he is surely coming," says the Lord Almighty.
Malachi 3:1
"But for you who fear my name, the Sun of Righteousness will rise with healing in his wings. And you will go free, leaping with joy like calves let out to pasture.
Malachi 4:2
"See, I will send you another prophet like Elijah before the coming of the great and dreadful judgment day of God.
Malachi 4:5
See also Genesis 3,12 Psalms 22,69,110 Isaiah 53 Jeremiah 31 Zechariah 9,13 Malachi 3
Reference Living Bible
JESUS
the central theme of the Bible
Abraham saw His reflection in Melchizedek, king of Salem.
Jacob called Him Shiloh.
To Moses He was the Passover Lamb and the Lifted-Up One.
To Joshua He was Captain of our Salvation.
Ruth saw Him as Family Redeemer.
Samuel portrayed Him as our King.
David called Him Lion of Judah and Good Shepherd.
To Solomon He was the Beloved.
Ezra and Nehemiah pictured Him as our Restorer.
To Ester He was our Advocate.
Job said He was my Redeemer.
Isaiah described Him as a Suffering Servant.
Jeremiah saw Him at the Potter's wheel.
Ezekiel called Him the Son of Man.
Daniel called Him the Prince and the Smiting Stone.
Hosea likened Him to a Bridegroom redeeming a fallen wife.
To Joel He was the Restorer.
Amos saw Him as a Heavenly Husbandman.
To Obadiah He was a Savior.
Jonah saw Him as Resurrection and Life.
Mich called Him a Witness.
To Nahum He was a Stronghold in a day of trouble.
Habakkuk described Him as God of my salvation.
To Zephaniah He was a Jealous Lord.
Haggai said He was the Desire of All Nations.
Zechariah called Him the Righteous Branch.
Malachi declared Him the Sun of Righteousness.
And John the Baptist cried out: "Look! There is the Lamb of God who takes away the sin of the world!"
pages 99&100
In the sign language for the deaf, the sign for Jesus is to point to the palm of each hand with the index finger of the other hand. This is symbolic of the nail prints in the hands of Jesus.
The sign for the Bible is to point with first one index finger, then the other, to the palm of each hand, then to open the palms up as if they were a book. In other words, the Bible is a book about Jesus Christ.
page 95, paragraphs 3&4
As you read through the Old Testament, there looms on the horizon of history One Person through whom God would establish His Kingdom on earth: Jesus Christ. Micah said He would be born in Bethlehem. Isaiah said He would be born of a virgin and would be called Emmanuel. David and Isaiah told how He would die, and Job prophesied of His resurrection. Others pointed out He would be introduced by a strange prophet like Elijah, that He would work miracles, speak in parables, be rejected by leaders, be a Smitten Shepherd, a Man of Sorrows, would enter Jerusalem riding on a colt, would be betrayed by a friend for 30 pieces of silver and would be led as a lamb to the slaughter. He would die with the wicked. His hands and feet would be pierced. Not a bone of His body would be broken. Lots would be cast for His garments. He would be in a tomb three days, would rise from the dead and would ascend to Heaven at God's right hand.
It was foretold by David, Isaiah, Daniel, and Jeremiah that the Messiah would offer a new covenant for His people. He would send the Holy Spirit. His Kingdom would be of the Gentiles and would be universal and endless.
All of this was written hundreds of years before Christ's birth, at which time the angels appeared to the shepherds on the hillside, saying they had good tiding of great joy.
reference: Power for Living by Jamie Buckingham, (quotations taken from the Holy Bible, New Living Translation)