12. Mathematics cannot be wrong: The Messianic Prophecy are fulfilled!

Messianic Prophecies Fulfilled: What are the Odds?

What is a “Messianic” Prophecy?

Messianic prophecy is the collection of over 300 prophesies with over 100 predictions that could only be fulfilled by Yeshua (Jesus) (a conservative estimate) in the Old Testament about the future Messiah of the Jewish people. These predictions were written by multiple authors, in numerous books, over approximately 1,000 years. Messianic Prophecy is so dramatic today, because with the discovery of the Dead Sea Scrollswhich were discovered in eleven caves along the northwest shore of the Dead Sea between the years 1947 and 1956. The mostly fragmented texts, are numbered according to the cave that they came out of. They have been called the greatest manuscript discovery of modern times. Only Caves 1 and 11 have produced relatively intact manuscripts. Discovered in 1952, these Caves produced the largest find. About 15,000 fragments from more than 500 manuscripts were found. In all, scholars have identified the remains of about 825 to 870 separate scrolls.

Many of the Messianic prophecies anti-missionaries dispute are of course some of the strongest evidence that Yeshua is the Divine Messiah. Their argument, that doesn’t hold water, is to simply say it is not a Messianic prophecy; to say that the literal context has nothing to do with the Messiah. This is their way of picking and choosing which Messianic prophecies to accept and which ones to deny and they go against their own method of interpretation to do it. This is their way to draw away Christians and Messianic Jews who may not know about Jewish Hermeneutics and to deny Yeshua is Messiah or Divine. The Talmud and Jewish literature and commentaries are chalked full of examples of where a verse that has nothing to do literally with the subject matter at hand is used to back up a Judaic principle or some spiritual truth and they come to the conclusion by their Jewish method of Interpretation.

This is an acronym for how we Jews interpret Scripture: PaRDeS, meaning “Paradise” in Hebrew.

P - Pashat = The simple, literal, plain meaning.

R - Remez = The homiletical meaning. Something hinted at.

D - Drash = The allegorical meaning and or the teaching and application of a given passage.

S - Sod = The deep, hidden, secret, spiritual meaning of a given text.

The main rule is the other interpretations NEVER take away from the Pashat level of interpretation.

And the Messianic interpretation doesn’t. Many Messianic Prophetic interpretations fall into the Remez or Sod level such as the prophecy in Isaiah 7:14 regarding the virgin birth, but we will deal specifically with that in due time.

Another thing that happens when people encounter the Truth regarding Messiah Yeshua, that is an act of desperation, is that they will be a myriad of Scriptures backing this fact up that they cannot explain away and yet people still grasp at straws and tries to find just one to go against the multitude of passages that prove Yeshua is the Messiah. The exact thing occurs when a Christian tries to deny the obligation and relevancy of keeping Torah after Messiah Yeshua came. It all boils down to brainwashing and bias and not taking an honest look at the Scriptures and Prophecies at hand.

“Using the science of probability, we find the chances of just forty-eight (out of 300 messianic prophecies in the “Old Testament”) being fulfilled in one person to be only one in ten.” – More Than a Carpenter, Josh Mc Dowell (parenthesis mine)

“Hundreds of years before Jesus (Yeshua) was born, prophets foretold the coming of Messiah, or the Anointed One, who would redeem Elohim’s people. In effect, dozens of these Old Testament prophecies created a fingerprint that only the true Messiah could fit. This gave Israel a way to rule out imposters and validate the credentials of the authentic Messiah. Against astronomical odds – once change in a trillion, trillion, trillion, trillion, trillion, trillion, trillion, trillion, trillion, trillion, trillion, trillion, trillion, trillion – Jesus (Yeshua), and only Jesus (Yeshua) throughout history, matched this prophetic fingerprint. This confirms Jesus’ (Yeshua’s) identity to an incredible degree of certainty. The expert I interviewed on this topic, Louis Lapides, in an example of someone raised in a conservative Jewish home and who came to believe Jesus (Yeshua) is the Messiah after a systematic study of the prophecies.” – The Case for Faith, Lee Strobel – (parenthesis mine)

“Statistical Theory shows that if the probability of one event occurring is one in five and the probability of another event occurring is one in ten, then the probability of both events being fulfilled in sequence is five multiplied by ten. Thus, the chance of both events occurring in one in fifty.” – Armageddon by Grant R. Jeffery

I am no mathematician and to play this out to the end would boggle and stagger the mind, so I will only give an example of three Messianic Prophecies.

“1. The Messiah would come from the Tribe of Judah, one of the 12 tribes descended from Jacob. Gen. 49:10; Luke 3:23-24. One chance in 12.

2. He would be born in Bethlehem. Micah 5”2; Matt. 2:1. One change in 200.

3. He would be betrayed for 30 pieces of silver. Zech. 11:12; Matt. 26:15. One chance in 50. The combined probability: 12 x 200 x 50 = One chance in 120,000.” – Armageddon by Grant R. Jeffery

“There were about 70 nations in the world when Yeshua was born. The odds of a Savior being born in Yisrael by chance are 70 to one. For Him to come from the tribe of Y’hudah, one of the 12 tribes of Yisrael, the odds are 12 to one. To find the law of probability, multiply 12 x 70, which equals 840 to one that He would come from Yisrael and Y’hudah, one of the 12 tribes. There were thousands of villages in Yisrael at the time of Yeshua’s birth. For the prophet to predict the right village, the odds are 2,000 to one, using only 2,000 villages for this calculation. Now we have the nation, the tribe and the village from where Messiah would come. To calculate the law of probability, multiply 70 x 12 x 2,000 = 1,680,000 to one, if we were figuring from the law of (chance) probability.” – Yeshua: The name of Jesus revealed in the Old Testament, by Yacov Rambsel

“What Are the Odds of One Person Fulfilling Numerous

Messianic Prophecies?

If that's not the case, the odds get worse!

For 50 prophecies, multiply 1,024 times 1,099,343,411,976 -- the answer is more than One Quadrillion.

For 60 prophecies, multiply that answer by 1,024 -- the answer is more than One Quintillion.

Yeshua Fulfilled over 365 Messianic Prophecies!”

The Mathematical Odds of Yeshua Fulfilling Prophecy

"The following probabilities are taken from Peter Stoner in Science Speaks (Moody Press,

1963) to show that coincidence is ruled out by the science of probability. Stoner says that by using the modern science of probability in reference to eight prophecies, 'we find that the chance that any man might have lived down to the present time and fulfilled all eight prophecies is 1 in 10 to the 17th power."That would be 1 in 100,000,000,000,000,000. In order to help us comprehend this staggering probability, Stoner illustrates it by supposing that "we take 100,000,000,000,000,000 silver dollars and lay them on the face of Texas. They will cover all of the state two feet deep. Now mark one of these silver dollars with a red X and stir the whole mass thoroughly, all over the state. Blindfold a man and tell him that he can travel as far as he wishes, but he must pick up one silver dollar and say that this is the right one. What chance would he have of getting the right one? Just the same chance that the Prophets would have had of writing these eight prophecies and having them all come true in any one man."

Stoner considers not 8 but 48 prophecies and says, "we find the chance that any one man fulfilled all 48 prophecies to be 1 in 10157, or 1 in 100,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000, 000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000, 000,000,000,000,000,000,000, 000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000."

The estimated number of electrons in the universe is around 1079. It should be quite evident that Yeshua - Jesus did not fulfill the prophecies by accident, but by The Divine One. The Holy Bible is inspired! The answer is very clear, inspiration is proven by fulfill prophecies! But it is not the only evidence of inspiration, yet to date, the most impressive evidence!

Messianic Prophecy is about statistics and odds because the thing about Messianic Prophecy is that it is not vague. It is time and sequence sensitive and very specific things have been prophesied and required of the Messiah. To even attempt to argue that Yeshua is not Messiah is a mathematical absurdity!

I’m not a betting man, but if this was a horse race, I’d bet it all on in the first race on the Donkey (Zech. 9:9) and on the second race I’d bet it all on the White Horse. The first time Messiah came on a lowly donkey and when he returns the Revelation says it will be on a White Horse (Rev. 19:11).

Timing is Everything!

The fact is Messiah came right on time, right on schedule according to Messianic Prophecy, the equation and the answer were in sync, but when the answer arrived, those who knew the equation and saw the answer, knew it was correct and didn’t like the answer, so they changed the equation so as to come up with a different answer. If it looks like a duck, waddles like a duck, swims and flies like duck and quacks like a duck, guess what, it’s a duck. If you take duck and put a fur coat on it and cut off a beaver’s tale and tack it on it, it won’t turn into a platypus, guess what? It will still be a duck.

Here’s a question for you: Since the Anti-Missionaries of Judaism claim that Yeshua is not the Messiah, and they are waiting for a "messiah-yet-to-come" to fulfill Messianic Prophecies, then what about the prophecies that cannot be fulfilled NOW because they were, and HAD TO BE fulfilled in the PAST?

The prophecies and Rabbinic commentary dealt with here are time sensitive in nature, things had to be fulfilled at a specific time and way.

The Talmud says in regards to the timing of Moshiach’s coming, “The world will exist 6000 years. 2000 years of desolation (meaning from Adam to Avraham); 2000 years of Torah (Meaning Avraham to somewhere about the start of the Common Era); and 2000 years of the Messianic Era (approximately the last 2000 years); but because our iniquities were many, all this had bet lost.” – Sanhedrin 97a-b

The last part meaning the Messiah didn’t come at the expected time. Ironic, the Talmud says Messiah was supposed to come about 2000 years ago, the exact time Yeshua came.

Rashi even said, “After 2000 years of Torah, it was G-d’s decree that the Messiah would come and the wicked kingdom would come to an end and the subjugation of Israel would be destroyed. (Because of sin) Messiah hasn’t come to this very day.”

Yeshua came at this time but because they didn’t like the answer, something must be wrong with the equation or there is a missing figure in the equation.

Seeing as the majority of Judaism follows Rashi’s dating, the argument can be made that Rashi says Messiah’s coming was to be around 200 C.E. This is not the time Yeshua came, so Yeshua can’t be the Messiah. But hold up, Rashi based this on a Talmudic error, a miscalculation of almost 200 years! “How convenient” one may say. But this is a known and accepted error. (See: “Jewish History in Conflict: A Study of Major Discrepancies between Rabbinic and Conventional Chronology” By Mitchell Frist and “Seder Olam” by Judah M. Rosenthal in Encyclopedia Judaica)

You see because of this Chronological Talmudic error they believe the 2nd Temple only stood for 470 years when in fact it stood for 600 years, but if we adjust Rashi’s calculations by about 180 years, we find we are right in the middle of the time of Yeshua. So in reality, Messiah indeed came at the right time, even according to Rabbinic tradition.

The Vilna Gaon relates a story of Rabbi Yeshoshua ben Chonanyah when he was asked by Athenian elders where the midpoint of the world was in time and the Rabbi said it was here and now (during the lifetime of Yeshua) but because Yeshua wasn’t recognized as Messiah, the excuse made why Messiah didn’t come was because of the sin of the people. But Rabbi Yehoshuah said even though Messiah didn’t come, nonetheless the Messianic Era had begun. Adjusting for the obvious error, Rashi and the Vilna Gaon, both Torah Scholar Giants agree Messiah should have come about 2000 years ago, the very time Yeshua walked the earth.

Even Jewish Scholars Abba Hillel Silver said Messiah was suppose to come “about the second quarter of the first century C.E.” – A History of Messianic Speculation in Israel

You see, prophecy tells us, and hence the Rabbinic expectation of the coming Messiah during the 2nd Temple Era, that Messiah was to show up while the Temple stood and when 70 A.D. came and went with the 2ndTemple in ruins the Rabbi’s has to figure out why Messiah didn’t come according to Prophecy.

It is interesting to note that after Messiah’s execution that the Talmud says in Yoma 39a-b that a woolen scarlet cord that was tied between the scapegoat’s horns during Yom Kippur ceased to miraculously turn white as it did prior, a sign that the sacrifice for the national atonement was rejected.

Despite what anti-missionaries may say, during the very time Yeshua walked the earth there was a great expectation of the coming of Messiah because the prophecies regarding Messiah, Yes, but also because of the Rabbinic timeline regarding Messiah’s expected arrival. There were many so-called Messiah’s come on the scene and left the people of Israel empty handed and hopes dashed. Israel was reeling under the oppression of Rome and longed to be a free and independent people with Messiah as King, that they grabbed on to anyone who was extraordinary or had the potential to overthrow Rome. After Yeshua rose from the dead and ascended the Netzarim became well established because Acts tells us there were thousands who believed Yeshua was Messiah and were zealous for Torah (Acts 21:20) when a Jewish General arose to challenge Rome and Rabbi Akiva publicly proclaimed General Bar Kochba as the Messiah and all of Israel said “Hurray!” But the Netzarim said, “Whoa, wait a second, we know who the Messiah is and this guy is not it, we cannot revolt and fight against Rome under the banner of this false Messiah.” The rest of Israel said, “Fine, then if you will not stand with us and fight, you become traitors.” And this is the point in history when the Nazarene sect of Judaism went underground and was rejected by Judaism as a whole.

Again, you don’t like the answer, change the equation. The excuse the Rabbi’s contrived why Messiah didn’t show because of the magnitude of Israel’s sin, but could arrive anytime during those 200 years of the Messianic Era. Messiah is allowed to show up fashionably late. But that isn’t what the Scriptures, the Prophecies say.

The Messiah according to the Prophets was supposed to come during the 2nd Temple period.

Haggai 2:2-9

For thus saith the LORD of hosts; Yet once, it is a little while, and I will shake the heavens, and the earth, and the sea, and the dry land; And I will shake all nations, and the desire of all nations shall come: and I will fill this house with glory, saith the LORD of hosts. The silver is mine, and the gold is mine, saith the LORD of hosts. The glory of this latter house shall be greater than of the former, saith the LORD of hosts: and in this place will I give peace, saith the LORD of hosts.

How could the glory of the 2nd Temple be greater than the first when those who remembered the 1st Temple wept because it wasn’t as great (Ezra 3:12-13)!?

Neither did the 2nd Temple merit the visitation of the Glory cloud that visited the 1st Temple and the Tabernacle in the wilderness (2 Chron. 5:14; 7:1-3; Exod. 40:34-35).

So how could Haggai say that the glory of the 2nd Temple would be greater than the 1st!?

The Rabbi’s scratch their heads because they say things were missing from the 2nd Temple according to Yoma 21b

1. The Ark of the Covenant

2. The Divine fire that came down from heaven

3. The Shekinah

4. The Ruach HaKodesh (Holy Spirit)

5. The Urim and Thummim

Yet the reasoning, that just doesn’t cut it, that the Rabbi’s use is that the 2nd Temple stood longer than the first and Herod’s contributions of it’s beautification exceeded that of the 1st Temple.

But this does not make sense, where is the Divine visitation to this 2nd Temple that Malachi spoke of?

Malachi 3:1-5 Behold, I will send my messenger, and he shall prepare the way before me: and the LORD, whom ye seek, shall suddenly come to his temple, even the messenger of the covenant, whom ye delight in: behold, he shall come, saith the LORD of hosts. But who may abide the day of his coming? and who shall stand when he appeareth? for he is like a refiner's fire, and like fullers' soap: And he shall sit as a refiner and purifier of silver: and he shall purify the sons of Levi, and purge them as gold and silver, that they may offer unto the LORD an offering in righteousness. Then shall the offering of Judah and Jerusalem be pleasant unto the LORD, as in the days of old, and as in former years. And I will come near to you to judgment; and I will be a swift witness against the sorcerers, and against the adulterers, and against false swearers, and against those that oppress the hireling in his wages, the widow, and the fatherless, and that turn aside the stranger from his right, and fear not me, saith the LORD of hosts.Radak (Rabbi David Kimchi) commented in Mishnah Torah, Hilkhot Melakhim 12:3 that the Divine visitation here refers to King Messiah, making him a Divinely Human Messiah.

This can only have been fulfilled in the person of Yeshua Ha Moshiach the human, seed of the woman, virgin born, Divine Messiah of Elohim, for HE stood in that very Temple.

John 2:13-17 And the Passover was at hand, and Jesus went up to Jerusalem, And found in the temple those that sold oxen and sheep and doves, and the changers of money sitting: And when he had made a scourge of small cords, he drove them all out of the temple, and the sheep, and the oxen; and poured out the changers' money, and overthrew the tables; And said unto them that sold doves, Take these things hence; make not my Father's house an house of merchandise And his disciples remembered that it was written, The zeal of thine house hath eaten me up.

John 10:22-25 And it was at Jerusalem the feast of the dedication (Chanukah), and it was winter. And Jesus walked in the temple in Solomon's porch. Then came the Jews round about him, and said unto him, How long dost thou make us to doubt? If thou be the Christ, tell us plainly. Jesus answered them, I told you, and ye believed not: the works that I do in my Father's name, they bear witness of me.

John 7:14-19 Now about the midst of the feast Jesus went up into the temple, and taught. And the Jews marvelled, saying, How knoweth this man letters, having never learned? Jesus answered them, and said, My doctrine is not mine, but his that sent me. If any man will do his will, he shall know of the doctrine, whether it be of Elohim, or [whether] I speak of myself. He that speaketh of himself seeketh his own glory: but he that seeketh his glory that sent him, the same is true, and no unrighteousness is in him. Did not Moses give you the law, and [yet] none of you keepeth the law? Why go ye about to kill me?

John 8:2 And early in the morning he came again into the temple, and all the people came unto him; and he sat down, and taught them.

Luke 19:47-48 And he taught daily in the temple. But the chief priests and the scribes and the chief of the people sought to destroy him, And could not find what they might do: for all the people were very attentive to hear him.

Mark 12:35-37 And Jesus answered and said, while he taught in the temple, How say the scribes that Christ is the Son of David? For David himself said by the Holy Ghost, The LORD said to my Lord, Sit thou on my right hand, till I make thine enemies thy footstool. David therefore himself calleth him Lord; and whence is he [then] his son? And the common people heard him gladly.

Daniel also confirms the timing of the Prophets of the Tanak and Rabbi’s of the Talmud.

Daniel 9:24-27 Seventy weeks are determined upon thy people and upon thy holy city, to finish the transgression, and to make an end of sins, and to make reconciliation for iniquity, and to bring in everlasting righteousness, and to seal up the vision and prophecy, and to anoint the most Holy. Know therefore and understand, that from the going forth of the commandment to restore and to build Jerusalem unto the Messiah the Prince shall be seven weeks, and threescore and two weeks: the street shall be built again, and the wall, even in troublous times. And after threescore and two weeks shall Messiah be cut off, but not for himself: and the people of the prince that shall come shall destroy the city and the sanctuary; and the end thereof shall be with a flood, and unto the end of the war desolations are determined. And he shall confirm the covenant with many for one week: and in the midst of the week he shall cause the sacrifice and the oblation to cease, and for the overspreading of abominations he shall make it desolate, even until the consummation, and that determined shall be poured upon the desolate.

According to Daniel’s understanding of Jeremiah 25:11-12; 29:10, the Babylonian exile would last 70 years.

“The seventy years were almost over, signaling the time of Judah’s restoration. So he gave himself to prayer and fasting, repenting before the Lord for his people’s many sins, and asking Elohim to fulfill His promise and bring to and end Judah’s exile.

Surprisingly, the answer that came from the angel of the Lord dealt with a period far beyond the period of seventy years. In fact, it spoke of a period of 490 years, literally 70 sevens (or 70 weeks, meaning weeks of years, as opposed to weeks of days, and understanding that is universal among both Jewish and Christian commentators). But this is where the agreement ends, and questions and differences of interpretation are myriad.” – Answering Jewish Objections to Jesus Vol. I, Michael L. Brown

The Old Testament contains numerous prophecies written over 2,500 years ago. Every one of these prophecies was fulfilled in the life of Yeshua (Jesus) approximately 2,000 years ago.

Even more prophecies concerning the Second Coming of the messiah remained unfulfilled, but the promise of Yeshua (Jesus) is that they will be fulfilled in this generation.

So the prophets and Rabbi’s were correct when Messiah should show up and He did but it wasn’t in the way and guise the Rabbi’s were expecting. Again, you don’t like the answer? Change the equation.

The following is a list of prophecies in the Jewish scriptures that Yeshua fulfilled.

There were over 360 prophecies foretold about the coming of Messiah - hundreds of years before Jesus Christ (Yeshua Ha`Mashiach) was born in Bethlehem.

Jesus Christ fulfilled all 365 of these prophecies.

Prophecies presented here in their order of fulfillment: