Yeshua: The Fulfillment of All the Prophets
Shabbat Intro
As we come into Shabbat and set aside the noise of the week, it’s a perfect time to remember something simple and powerful:
Yehovah keeps His promises.
From Genesis to Revelation, from Moshe to the last prophet, there is one unbroken thread—a coming Messiah. Not a new religion. Not a change of Elohim. A faithful fulfillment of every word He has spoken.
This Shabbat, instead of getting lost in arguments about doctrine, let’s look straight at Yeshua and how all the prophets find their fulfillment in Him.
1. The First Promise: The Seed Who Crushes the Serpent
The first hint of the Good News isn’t in what people call the “New Testament.” It’s right at the beginning, in Genesis.
After Adam and Havah fall, Yehovah speaks to the serpent:
“And I put enmity between you and the woman, and between your seed and her Seed. He shall crush your head, and you shall crush His heel.”
— Genesis 3:15
From that moment on, the story of Scripture follows this promise:
- A coming Seed
- A final victory over the serpent
- A restored relationship between Yehovah and His people
Yeshua is that promised Seed—His heel crushed at the stake, but through His death and resurrection, He crushes the power of sin and death.
2. The Prophet Like Moshe
Moshe himself prophesied about Someone greater who would come after him:
“Yehovah your Elohim shall raise up for you a Prophet like me from your midst, from your brothers. Listen to Him.”
— Deuteronomy 18:15
Moshe was:
- A deliverer from slavery
- A mediator of the covenant
- A shepherd of Israel
- A teacher of Torah
Yeshua is the greater Moshe:
- He delivers us from slavery to sin and death
- He mediates the Renewed Covenant (Jeremiah 31:31–34)
- He shepherds the lost sheep of the house of Israel
- He doesn’t replace Torah—He teaches it in its fullness, exposing the heart behind every command
When the voice from heaven says, “This is My Son… hear Him!” (Matthew 17:5), it echoes Deuteronomy 18: “Listen to Him.” The Prophet like Moshe has come.
3. The Promised Son of David: King and Shepherd
Yehovah made a covenant with David:
“I raise up your seed after you… and I shall establish the throne of his reign forever.”
— 2 Samuel 7:12–13
The prophets build on this:
- Isaiah 9:6–7 – A Child born, a Son given, ruling on the throne of David
- Jeremiah 23:5–6 – A righteous Branch from David, reigning as King and bringing justice
Yeshua is:
- Born in Bethlehem, the city of David (Micah 5:2; Matthew 2:1)
- Called “Son of David” by those who cry out to Him in faith (Matthew 9:27; 20:30)
- The Shepherd-King who lays down His life for the sheep (John 10:11)
Right now, many nations still ignore His rule, but the prophets are clear:
The same Yeshua will return to physically reign from Jerusalem over all the earth (see Zechariah 14; Isaiah 2:2–4).
4. The Suffering Servant: Isaiah’s Messiah
In Isaiah, we see a mysterious “Servant” who suffers, not for His own sins, but for others:
“He was despised and rejected by men, a Man of sorrows and acquainted with grief…
He was pierced for our transgressions, crushed for our crookedness… and by His stripes we are healed.”
— Isaiah 53 (selected)
This Servant is:
- Rejected by His own
- Wounded and pierced
- Silent before His accusers
- Counted with the transgressors
- Yet bearing the sin of many and interceding for them
Yeshua fulfills this perfectly:
- Rejected by the leaders of His own people
- Pierced in hands and feet (Psalm 22 also mirrors this suffering)
- Silent before His accusers (Isaiah 53:7; Matthew 27:12–14)
- Crucified between criminals (Luke 23:32–33)
- Praying, “Father, forgive them” (Luke 23:34)
The prophets saw a suffering Messiah before a reigning Messiah.
Both are fulfilled in Yeshua—first as the Lamb, soon as the Lion of Judah.
5. The New Covenant: Torah Written on the Heart
Many people hear “New Covenant” and think, “No more Torah.”
But that is not what Yehovah said through Jeremiah.
“See, the days are coming,” declares Yehovah, “when I shall make a new covenant with the house of Israel and with the house of Judah…
I shall put My Torah in their inward parts, and write it on their hearts…”
— Jeremiah 31:31–33
Notice:
- The covenant is made with Israel and Judah – not a separate, man-made entity
- The Torah is not thrown away—it is moved from stone to heart
- The result is deeper obedience and intimate knowledge of Yehovah
Yeshua lifts the cup at His last supper and says:
“This cup is the renewed covenant in My blood, which is shed for you.”
— Luke 22:20 (compare 1 Corinthians 11:25)
In Yeshua:
- The Renewed Covenant is inaugurated
- Forgiveness of sins is provided
- The Spirit is given to write Yehovah’s ways on our hearts (Ezekiel 36:26–27)
The prophets looked forward to this; Yeshua activates it.
6. The Son of Man and the Kingdom That Never Ends
Daniel sees an incredible vision:
“…One like the Son of Man, coming with the clouds of heaven…
To Him was given dominion and esteem and a reign, that all peoples, nations, and languages should serve Him.
His dominion is an everlasting dominion which shall not pass away…”
— Daniel 7:13–14
Yeshua:
- Uses the title “Son of Man” for Himself more than any other
- Tells the high priest, “From now on you shall see the Son of Man sitting at the right hand of the Power, and coming on the clouds of heaven” (Matthew 26:64)
- After His resurrection, declares, “All authority has been given to Me in heaven and on earth.” (Matthew 28:18)
The King Daniel saw is Yeshua.
The unshakable kingdom Daniel described is the same kingdom Yeshua proclaimed.
7. Zechariah’s Pierced One and Coming King
Zechariah gives two powerful pictures that meet in Yeshua:
“They shall look on Me whom they pierced, and they shall mourn for Him as one mourns for his only son…”
— Zechariah 12:10
And:
“And Yehovah shall be King over all the earth. In that day it shall be—Yehovah is one, and His Name one.”
— Zechariah 14:9
In Yeshua:
- He is physically pierced (John 19:34–37 points directly back to Zechariah)
- He will one day be recognized by the house of David and the inhabitants of Jerusalem in deep repentance
- He will stand on the Mount of Olives (Zechariah 14:4), the same mountain from which He ascended (Acts 1:9–12)
The prophets saw both the wounding and the reigning.
Yeshua fulfills both.
8. No Word of Yehovah Falls to the Ground
The fulfillment of the prophets in Yeshua is not about replacing Israel with something else or erasing the Torah.
It’s about Yehovah keeping His promises exactly as He spoke them:
- The Seed has come
- The Prophet like Moshe has spoken
- The Son of David has been revealed
- The Suffering Servant has borne our sins
- The Renewed Covenant has been sealed in blood
- The Son of Man has been exalted at the right hand
- The Pierced One will return as King
Many things are already fulfilled, and many are not yet fully complete.
But every promise is anchored in one Person: Yeshua the Messiah.
Shabbat Closing: Our Response
As we rest this Shabbat and think about the words of the Torah and the prophets, we can respond in a few simple ways:
- Read the prophets again with Yeshua in view – not to erase them, but to see how alive they are
- Thank Yehovah that He did not abandon His promises to Israel, but fulfilled them in His Son
- Ask the Spirit to write His Torah deeper on our hearts
- Align our lives with the King who has already come once as the Lamb and is coming again as the reigning Son of David
Our faith is not built on church traditions or human systems.
It is built on the living Word of Yehovah, spoken through the Torah, the prophets, the writings—and revealed fully in Yeshua.
May this Shabbat draw us closer to Him, the One in whom all the promises of Elohim are “Yes” and “Amen.”
