This man Jesus
In our yearly Bible reading, we’re now in the book of Matthew. The word that keeps leaping off the page for me is fulfill . Matthew uses it about 7 times. To FULFILL is to bring to completion that which was incomplete — and this is where prophecy comes in. Last year, I learnt to study the Bible with a Jewish posture and this word gains new weight from that perspective. To a Jew, prophecies were spoken, yes, but not yet seen. They carried promise but also a sense of something missing. Matthew is putting every effort to show the Jews(Israelites) that every fulfillment is tied to prophecy concerning the Messiah. Words once carried by prophets now find their completion in Jesus. This man, Jesus — Yehoshua, meaning Yehovah saves — is truly the God who saves. Finally, salvation was delivered to the Jew first and also to the gentiles(Akamba, Ameru, Abagusii...all other nations) If you are still searching for salvation, you will only find it in Him. “All this took place to fulfill what t...