predictive prophecy, authentic hope

We often think of "predictive prophecy" as information in the Bible about the end times. The Bible does promise certain victory at the end, but much of prophecy in the Bible centered around Jesus.  Across the 4000 thousand years from Genesis to Malachi, God's Spirit gave the prophets clear direction about the coming redemption of the world.  David was used by God as well.  We refer to these as "messianic prophecies" because the hope of the coming Messiah was clearly called for. Here is one from David (quoted in Romans 4:7 concerning Psalms 32:1-2)

    Blessed are those whose lawless acts are forgiven
    and whose sins are covered.
8     Blessed is the person
    the Lord will never charge with sin.

As Paul wrote these words, it built to a crescendo of high theology in Romans 5:1

 Therefore, since we have been justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ.
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Praise God!