(By the way, this is a post is from Lifeway, where we get our Sunday School material. This week, the parents’ Bible study class will be looking at the uniqueness of Jesus. Read it, and consider how great our Savior is!)

What Are the Odds?

“Then He told them, ‘These are My words that I spoke to you while I was still with you—that everything written about Me in the Law of Moses, the Prophets, and the Psalms must be fulfilled.’ Then He opened their minds to understand the Scriptures. He also said to them, ‘This is what is written: the Messiah would suffer and rise from the dead the third day, and repentance for forgiveness of sins would be proclaimed in His name to all the nations, beginning at Jerusalem. You are witnesses of these things. And look, I am sending you what My Father promised. As for you, stay in the city until you are empowered from on high’”
(Luke 24:44-49, HCSB).

Millions of people take huge risks every day in an attempt to get rich—entering sweepstakes, investing money in the stock market, playing the lottery, and so forth. The odds of winning big in a single state lottery, for example, are 18 million to 1. If you play a multi-state lottery, odds potentially increase to 120 million to 1. Long odds; hardly worth it.

The odds of every biblical prophecy about the Messiah being fulfilled in Jesus are even more astronomical. The Old Testament contains 300 prophecies regarding the birth, life, death, and resurrection of the Messiah. All of them were fulfilled to the letter by Jesus. Mathematician Peter Ruckman claims the odds of any one person fulfilling just 60 of those prophecies would be one out of ten to the 895th power. Imagine a one followed by 895 zeroes! The fact that Jesus Christ fulfilled all 300 prophecies is no accident.

Modern mathematicians confirm what followers of Jesus already know. Jesus is the unique, one and only, Son of God. His claims of Lordship, His authority, His unmatched power…all qualities of the One True God, unlike any other competitors both then and now.