Christ’s life story is a continuous fulfillment of Bible prophecy. Peter Stoner, in the book Science Speaks, examined these predictions in the light of probability theory. Of the 60 major Messianic prophecies he selected just eight and calculated this: “The chance that any man might have lived down to the present time and fulfilled all eight prophecies is 1 in 10 to the 17 power.” (That’s 1 in 100,000,000,000,000,000.) The evidence is strong that Jesus didn’t just happen to fit a few predictions. His biography was indeed written beforehand by supernatural means. Truly, Jesus is the Messiah, the Son of God.

One of the main reasons the disciples of Jesus, many of whom were at first skeptical of His claims, came to believe so passionately was because they saw Old Testament prophecies fulfilled in every detail of His life. A disciple named Apollos, for example, “vigorously refuted the Jews in public debate, proving from the Scriptures that Jesus was the Christ” (Acts 18:28).

The eyewitness testimony of Peter, John, and Luke compels us to take seriously Christ’s claim to be God’s Son (2 Peter 1:16; John 20:30, 31; Luke 1:1-4). After looking at the evidence, we need to make a prayerful decision about who is going to be Lord in our lives. If you have not already done so, will you place your life in Jesus’ hands?