Messias
Jesus é o Messias prometido — o Cristo, o Ungido de Deus. Séculos de profecias apontaram para Ele, e Pedro declarou: 'Tu és o Cristo, o Filho do Deus vivo.'
A confissão messiânica
Pedro confessou: Tu és o Cristo, o Filho do Deus vivo. Os apóstolos pregaram incansavelmente que Jesus é o Messias prometido.
15 He saith to them, But whom say ye that I am?16 And Simon Peter answering said, Thou art the Christ, the Son of the living God.
42 And they ceased not to teach and preach Jesus Christ daily, in the temple, and from house to house.
22 But having obtained help from God, I continue till this day, testifying both to small and great, saying nothing but what both the prophets and Moses have declared should be,23 That the Christ having suffered, and being the first who rose from the dead, should shew light to the people and to the Gentiles.
As profecias cumpridas
O Messias viria como Príncipe da Paz, Salvador e Senhor. Cada profecia se cumpriu em Jesus de Nazaré, nascido em Belém.
11 For to you is born this day in the city of David, a Saviour, who is Christ the Lord.
6 Happy and holy is he that hath a part in the first resurrection: over these the second death hath no power; but they shall be priests of God and of Christ, and shall reign with him a thousand years.
44 Therefore be ye also ready: for at an hour ye think not, the Son of man cometh.