The Acts of the Apostles (1911) — PDF Scan 228

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222 THE ACTS OF THE APOSTLES birth, sufferings, death, resurrection, -and ascension of Christ. By the inspired testimony of Moses and the prophets, he clearly proved the identity of Jesus of Nazareth with the Messiah, and showed that from the days of Adam it was the voice of Christ which had been speaking through patriarchs and prophets. Plain and specific prophecies had been given regarding the appearance of the Promised One. To Adam was given an assurance of the coming of the Redeemer. The sentence pronounced on Satan, ''I will put enmity between thee and the woman, and between thy seed and her seed; it shall bruise thy head, and thou shalt bruise his heel,"' was to our first parents a promise of the redemption to be wrought out through Christ. To Abraham was given the promise that of his line the Saviour of the world should come: '^In thy seed shall all the nations of the earth be blessed." ''He saith not, And to seeds, as of many; but as of one, And to thy seed, which is Christ."' Moses, near the close of his work as a leader and teacher of Israel, plainly prophesied of the Messiah to come. ''The Lord thy God," he declared to the assembled hosts of Israel, "will raise up unto thee a Prophet from the midst of thee, of thy brethren, like unto me; unto Him ye shall hearken." And Moses assured the Israelites that God Himself had revealed this to him while in Mount Horeb, saying, "I will raise them up a Prophet from among their brethren, like unto thee, and will put My words in His mouth; and He shall speak unto them all that T shall command Him. ' ' ' =^Geii. 3:15; 22:18j Gal. 3:16. ^Deut. 18:15,18.