The Bible Predicted:
        Jesus smitten and spat upon.

"I gave my back to the smiters, and my cheeks to them that plucked off the hair: I hid not my face from shame and spitting."
Isaiah 50:6

"And some began to spit on him, and to cover his face, and to buffet him, and to say unto him, Prophesy: and the servants did strike him with the palms of their hands."
Mark 14:65

The Bible Predicted:
        Jesus was silent before accusers

"He was oppressed, and he was afflicted, yet he opened not his mouth: he is brought as a lamb to the slaughter, and as a sheep before her shearers is dumb, so he openeth not his mouth."
Isaiah 53:7

"And the high priest arose, and said unto him, Answerest thou nothing? what is it which these witness against thee?
But Jesus held his peace. And the high priest answered and said unto him, I adjure thee by the living God, that thou tell us whether thou be the Christ, the Son of God."
Matthew 26:62-63

The Bible Predicted:
       Jesus sold for 30 pieces of silver

"And I said unto them, If ye think good, give me my price; and if not, forbear. So they weighed for my price thirty pieces of silver."
Zechariah 11:12

"And said unto them, What will ye give me, and I will deliver him unto you? And they covenanted with him for thirty pieces of silver."
Matthew 26:15

The Bible Predicted:
        Jesus betrayed by Judas

 "Yea, mine own familiar friend, in whom I trusted, which did eat of my bread, hath lifted up his heel against me."
Psalm 41:9

"And Judas Iscariot, one of the twelve, went unto the chief priests, to betray him unto them."
Mark 14:10

The Bible predicted:
         The Messiah rejected

" He is despised and rejected of men; a man of sorrows, and acquainted with grief: and we hid as it were our faces from him; he was despised, and we esteemed him not."
Isaiah 53:3

"He came unto his own, and his own received him not,"
John 1:11

Through a Word of Wisdom,
Jesus predicted the fall of three cities,
Capernaum, Chorizin and Bethsaida
            Matthew 11:21-24

also the fall of Jerusalem within on generation.
            Luke 19:41-44
also the dispersion of the Jews
            Luke 21:24

Jesus used the Gift of Miracles:
           changing the water into wine,
           multiplied the loaves and the fishes,
           tax money in the fish's mouth,
           the raising of people from the  dead
           and many others.

Jesus operated in the Word of Knowledge with the woman at the well in Samaria (John 4).

              Also with Nathanael under the fig tree (John 1:48).

Jesus cast out demons and healed the sick.

 "When the even was come, they brought unto him many that were possessed with devils: and he cast out the spirits with his word, and healed all that were sick:"
Matthew 8:16

Jesus operated in the gifts of the Holy Spirit.

           Although Jesus isn't reported to have spoken in tongues or interpretation,
                   He certainly prophesied
                   of the future of the church,
                   of His second coming, and
                   the rapture of the church.
Matthew 24

As the soldiers came to arrest Jesus in the garden, Judas had betrayed Him, He said to the soldiers,  "I am."

                 There was such power with that statement that they fell backward to the ground (John 18:6).

Jesus taught with authority, "For he taught them as one having authority."  Matthew 7:29

"And they were astonished at his doctrine: for his word was with power [authority]."  Luke 4:32

        After Jesus' death, burial, resurrection and ascension, the Father kept the influence of His life and ministry throughout the world and through all the ages.

Healings and miracles made Jesus popular with the people and His teachings made Him notorious with the scribes and Pharisees.

Jesus' fame grew out of obscurity.

           Jesus of Nazareth, the Christ of God, was raised in a small town in Galilee.

                     For thirty years He was just another carpenter who had learned His trade from His earthly father, Joseph.

                              In just three years of ministry, His name became a household word throughout Israel and Judea.

Some say they can know God without accepting Jesus Christ as His only begotten Son.

                We cannot reject Jesus Christ and know the Father, for Jesus said in John 14:6 "No man cometh unto the Father but by me."

In John 10:36 Jesus Himself says "I am the Son of God."

We must accept this as true or
                 reject the Bible,
                 reject the ten commandments,
                 reject all the law
                 reject all religion that recognizes God

There are many others the Angel of the Lord spoke to:

Manoah's wife,
mother of Samson              Judges 13:3
Manoah                                 Judges 13:13
David                                     2 Samuel 24:16
Elijah                                     1 Kings 19:7
Daniel                                    Daniel 8:16
Joseph                                   Matthew 1:20
Mary Magdalene                 Matthew 28:2-7
Zacharias                              Luke 1:11
Mary, Jesus' mother           Luke 1:26
The shepherds                     Luke 2:8-12
Peter                                      Acts 5:19
Philip                                     Acts 8:26
Cornelius                              Acts 10:3
Paul                                       Acts 27:23

"And there came an angel of the Lord, and sat under an oak which was in Ophrah. . . .and the angel of the Lord appeared unto him [Gideon], and said unto him, The Lord (Jehovah) is with thee, thou mighty man of valor.
And Gideon said unto him O My Lord. . . ."
Judges 6:11

                    The Angel of the Lord (the dispatched one) referred to as the Lord (Jehovah). It's believed that the Lord in this verse is the Christ of God.

"And the Angel of the Lord came up from Gilgal to Bochim. . . .and I said, I will never break my covenant with you."

            The Angel of the Lord speaks of His covenant.

                          It is God [Elohim] the Lord [Jehovah] who has made a covenant with Israel, not a spirit-realm being with wings, but God Himself or the Christ of God.

"And the angel of the Lord called out of heaven and said. . . . and the angel of the Lord called unto Abraham out of heaven the second time and said, By myself I have sworn, saith the Lord [Jehovah]. . . ."

                                       Again the angel of the Lord is compared with the Lord [Jehovah].

                It was either the Father or the Son , NOT the Holy Spirit that appeared to Abraham because it was a tangible appearance.

"And the angel of the Lord found her [Hagar] by a fountain of water in the wilderness, by the fountain in the way of Shar and the angel of the Lord said unto her. . . .and she called the name of the Lord [Jehovah] that spake unto her, Thou God [El, meaning strength] seest me. . . ."

           Here the 'angel of the Lord' is compared with Jehovah and El.

The angel of the Lord, who appeared to Moses, is not a spiritual being with wings.

       We can conclude that this 'angel of the Lord' could have been Jesus Christ who is the same yesterday, today and forever; the One by whom all things are made.

"And the angel of the Lord [a dispatched one of the Lord] appeared unto him in a flame of fire out of the midst of the bush. . . .and when the Lord [Jehovah] saw that he turned aside to see, God [Elohim] called unto him out of the bush and said, Moses, Moses.
And he, Moses, said Here am I. . . .he said, I am the God [Elohim] of thy Father, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac and the God of Jacob. . . ."
Exodus 3:2-6

                          Here is 'the dispatched one,' Jehovah and Elohim, in one appearance.

There are a number of references in the Old Testament of the Angel of the Lord.

           To us the word angel makes us think of a spiritual being with wings, a member of the heavenly host that does things for God. It is true in many references.

                        But in the Hebrew it is literally a dispatched one or messenger.

Jesus Christ existed before He took on His body of flesh and participated in the work of creation.

            1 Corinthians 8:6 reveals "By whom are all things and we by him."

            Ephesians 3:9, "....Who created all things by Jesus Christ."

           Colossians 1:16-17, "For by Him were all thing created, that are heaven and that are in earth, visible and invisible, whether they be thrones, or dominions or principalities, or powers: all things were created by Him and for Him. And He is before things and by Him all things consist."

     John 8:58,
"Before Abraham was I am."

         John 17:5,
"And now, O Father, glorify thou me with thine own self with the glory which I had with thee before the world was."

               Revelation 22:13
"I am Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the end, the first and the last."

Hebrews 1:2,
         The Father "hath in these last days spoken unto us by His Son, whom hath appointed heir of all things, by whom also he made the worlds,"
         and sat down at the right hand of the majesty on high.
"And Thou Lord, in the beginning hast laid the foundation of the earth; and the heavens are the works of they hands."

The Christ was participating in the creation with the Father.
He was with the Father from eternity past.
He existed before He took upon Himself flesh to dwell among us.

The Christ [Word] was with the Father in the beginning.

                  Jesus spoke of Himself as coming down from Heaven [the dwelling place of God] to give life unto the world in John chapter six.

Jesus Christ was the Word that was God in the beginning of all things.

         John 1:14, "And the Word was made flesh and dwelt among us, (and we beheld his glory, the glory as of the only begotten of the Father,) full of grace and truth."

The Word that was God and that was with God in the beginning took on the body of flesh and dwelt amoug us.