These are a few prophecies with promises of
something new coming.
Isaiah
42:1“Behold, My Servant, whom I uphold; My chosen one in whom My soul
delights. I have put My Spirit upon Him; He will bring forth justice to
the nations. 2 “He will not cry out or raise His voice, Nor make His
voice heard in the street. 3 “A bruised reed He will not break And a
dimly burning wick He will not extinguish; He will faithfully bring
forth justice. 4 “He will not be disheartened or crushed Until He has
established justice in the earth; And the coastlands will wait
expectantly for His law.” 5 Thus says God the LORD, Who created the
heavens and stretched them out, Who spread out the earth and its
offspring, Who gives breath to the people on it And spirit to those who
walk in it, 6 “I am the LORD, I have called You in righteousness, I will
also hold You by the hand and watch over You, And I will appoint You as
a covenant to the people, As a light to the nations, 7 To open blind
eyes, To bring out prisoners from the dungeon And those who dwell in
darkness from the prison. 8 “I am the LORD, that is My name; I will not
give My glory to another, Nor My praise to graven images. 9 “Behold, the
former things have come to pass, Now I
declare new things; Before they spring forth I proclaim them to
you.” 10 Sing to the LORD a new song,
Sing His praise from the end of the earth!...... NAS
Isaiah 62 1. For Zion's sake will I not hold my
peace, and for Jerusalem's sake I will not rest, until the righteousness
thereof go forth as brightness, and the salvation thereof as a lamp that
burns. 2. And the Gentiles shall see your righteousness, and all kings
your glory: and you will be called by a new
name, which the mouth of the Lord shall name.
(Incidentally, that new name is New Jerusalem among many other new
names.)
Jeremiah 31 31. Behold, the days come, says the
Lord, that I will make a new covenant
with the house of Israel, and with the house of Judah: 32. Not according
to the covenant that I made with their fathers in the day that I took
them by the hand to bring them out of the land of Egypt; which my
covenant they broke, although I was an husband to them, says the Lord:
33. But this shall be the covenant that I will make with the house of
Israel; After those days, says the Lord, I will put my law in their
inward parts, and write it in their hearts; and will be their God, and
they shall be my people. 34. And they shall teach no more every man his
neighbor, and every man his brother, saying, Know the Lord: for they
shall all know me, from the least of them unto the greatest of them,
says the Lord: for I will forgive their iniquity, and I will remember
their sin no more.
Ezekiel 11 19. And I will give them one heart,
and I will put a new spirit within
you; and I will take the stony heart out of their flesh, and will give
them an heart of flesh:
Joel 3 16. The Lord also shall roar out of Zion,
and utter his voice from Jerusalem; and the heavens and the earth shall
shake: but the Lord will be the hope of his people, and the strength of
the children of Israel. 17. So shall you know that I am the Lord your
God dwelling in Zion, my holy mountain: then shall Jerusalem be holy,
and there shall no strangers pass through her any more. 18. And it shall
come to pass in that day, that the mountains shall drop down
new wine, and the hills shall flow
with milk, and all the rivers of Judah shall flow with waters, and a
fountain shall come forth of the house of the Lord, and shall water the
valley of Shittim.
Deuteronomy 18:15 The Lord your God will raise
up for you a prophet like me from among you, from your fellow
Israelites. You must listen to him. 16 For this is what you asked of the
Lord your God at Horeb on the day of the assembly when you said, “Let us
not hear the voice of the Lord our God nor see this great fire anymore,
or we will die.” 17 The Lord said to me: “What they say is good. 18 I
will raise up for them a prophet like you from among their fellow
Israelites, and I will put my words in his mouth. He will tell them
everything I command him. 19 I myself will call to account anyone who
does not listen to my words that the prophet speaks in my name.
This is the famous prophecy about "the prophet" that was to come
who....would be "like" Moses, in the sense of as "great" as Moses to
Israel. That anyone in Israel who did not listen to that prophet
would be called to account by God. This was the new that fulfilled the
old. John 1:9 And this is the record of
John, (John the Baptist) when the Jews sent priests and
Levites from Jerusalem to ask him, Who are you? 20 And he confessed, and
denied not; but confessed, I am not the Christ. 21 And they asked him,
What then? Are you Elijah? And he said, I am not.
Are you that prophet? And he answered,
No. 22 Then said they to him, Who are you? that we may give an answer to
them that sent us. What do you say about yourself? 23 He said, I am the
voice of one crying in the wilderness, Make straight the way of the
Lord, as said the prophet Isaiah. 24 And they which were sent were of
the Pharisees. 25 And they asked him, and said to him, Why do you
baptize then, if you be not that Christ, nor Elijah,
neither that prophet? John 6:14
Then those men, when they had seen the miracle that Jesus did, said,
This is of a truth that prophet that should
come into the world. John 7:40 Many of the people therefore, when
they heard this saying, said, Of a truth this
is the Prophet. 41 Others said, This is the Christ. But some
said, Shall Christ come out of Galilee? 42 Hath not the scripture said,
That Christ cometh of the seed of David, and out of the town of
Bethlehem, where David was? 43 So there was a division among the people
because of him.
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