Hmm… not off to a very good start. It’s been a few days since my last post. Hopefully I get more consistent soon and get in the groove.
Observations
The one thing that stands out is fulfilling prophecy. It’s mentioned 4 times in this chapter. The prophecies are
- Out of Bethlehem – v5-6
- Out of Egypt – v15
- Death of firstborn sons – v17
- a Nazarene – v23
Thoughts
I once heard Josh McDowell speak at a youth rally a few years back. He went through the list of prophecies that Jesus fulfilled and came up with some ridiculous odds for the chance of someone fulfilling all the prophecies. Some crazy prophecy like 1 in 150000000000000000… ok I just put a random number of zeros, but still it was a ridiculous number. Anyways I don’t know if it makes sense to calculate odds like that, but it does make sense that the odds of someone fulfilling all these prophecies are very small– it’s statistically impossible.
