Is there proof that Jesus was God’s son?
“You are my Son; today I have begotten you.” – Psalm 2:7
Twice during Jesus’s ministry, God paraphrased Psalm 2:7—before Jesus’s baptism (Matthew 3:16-17) and during the transfiguration (Matthew 17:1-8).
The Old Testament predicted a coming Messiah, which simply means “anointed one.”
God referenced Psalm 2 to do more than declare his approval of Jesus; He was affirming Jesus’s deity and regal heritage to the throne of Isreal as the Messiah.
Psalm 2 has two other messianic prophecies besides verse 7. The believer’s prayer in Acts 4:25-26 cites Psalm 2:1-2. Psalm 2:9 is cited three times in Revelation (2:27; 12:5; 19:15).
With over 60 major Messianic prophecies in the Old Testament, the odds of fulfilling seven of them is 1 in 100,000,000,000,000,000—one in one hundred quadrillion, according to Peter Stoner, in his book, Science Speaks.
Stoner explains that’s like filling the state of Texas two-feet deep in silver dollars, painting one red, shuffling them randomly, then wandering the state blindfolded and selecting the red coin. Statistically impossible.
That’s before calculating in the other fifty-plus prophecies and their probabilities. Our God has given enough evidence to make it easy to believe in Jesus, if we’re willing to examine the evidence. And the cumulative weight of God’s predictive prophecies is overwhelming to the objective observer.
