Excerpt from Jesus the Messiah: In Prophecy and Fulfilment; A Review and Refutation of the Negative Theory of Messianic Prophecy It is only in the light of these prophecies that we can rightly apprehend the redemptive work of Christ and its glorious results - not as an isolated and independent system of religion, but as the con summation of the divine purposes which had been revealed, by the holy prophets, to the people of God in a former dispensation. The relation of the Old Testament to the New is as the blossom to the fruit, as the foundation to the complete structure, as the hope-inspiring promise to the joy-giving fulfilment. The prophecies of the Old Testament invest the New Testament with a divine sanction, because they show the Christian dispensation to be the outcome of God's purpose. The fulfilments of the New Testament vindicate the supernatural origin of the Old Testament revelation, and reflect back upon it the light of the glory of the latter days. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.