Apologetics Bible - Who Is This?

For Christmas this year I received the new Apologetics Study Bible. I have found some interesting articles in it already. Some are very  good and some that I do not agree with completely (of course not the scripture but commentaries and articles in it). But there is a fantastic article by the late D. James Kennedy titled Christ: The Fulfillment of Prophecy. Read through these scriptures and at the end he asks a skeptic a very good question.

• More in number than the hairs of my head are those who hate me without cause; mighty are those who would destroy me, those who attack me with lies. (Psalm 69:4)
• The kings of the earth set themselves, and the rulers take counsel together, against the Lord and against his Anointed (Psalm 2:2)
• Even my close friend in whom I trusted, who ate my bread, has lifted his heel against me. (Psalm 41:9)
• ... “Strike the shepherd, and the sheep will be scattered; I will turn my hand against the little ones. (Zechariah 13:7)
• 12 Then I said to them, “If it seems good to you, give me my wages; but if not, keep them.” And they weighed out as my wages thirty pieces of silver. 13 Then the Lord said to me, “Throw it to the potter”—the lordly price at which I was priced by them. So I took the thirty pieces of silver and threw them into the house of the Lord, to the potter. (Zech 11:12-13)
• Now muster your troops, O daughter [2] of troops; siege is laid against us; with a rod they strike the judge of Israel on the cheek. (Micah 5:1)
• I gave my back to those who strike, and my cheeks to those who pull out the beard; I hid not my face from disgrace and spitting. (Isaiah 50:6)
• For dogs encompass me; a company of evildoers encircles me; they have pierced my hands and feet (Psalm 22:16)
• My God, my God, why have you forsaken me? Why are you so far from saving me, from the words of my groaning? (Psalm 22:1)
• 7 All who see me mock me; they make mouths at me; they wag their heads; 8 “He trusts in the Lord; let him deliver him; let him rescue him, for he delights in him!”
• They gave me poison for food, and for my thirst they gave me sour wine to drink. (Psalm 22:7-8)
• I am poured out like water, and all my bones are out of joint; my heart is like wax; it is melted within my breast; (Psalm 22:14)
• Surely he has borne our griefs and carried our sorrows; yet we esteemed him stricken, smitten by God, and afflicted. (Isaiah 53:4)
• He was oppressed, and he was afflicted, yet he opened not his mouth; like a lamb that is led to the slaughter, and like a sheep that before its shearers is silent, so he opened not his mouth. (Isaiah 53:7)
• they divide my garments among them, and for my clothing they cast lots. (Psalm 22:18)
• Therefore I will divide him a portion with the many, and he shall divide the spoil with the strong, because he poured out his soul to death and was numbered with the transgressors; yet he bore the sin of many, and makes intercession for the transgressors. (Isaiah 53:12)
• ...you shall not break any of its bones. (Exodus 12:46)
• He keeps all his bones; not one of them is broken. (Psalm 34:20)
• “And I will pour out on the house of David and the inhabitants of Jerusalem a spirit of grace and pleas for mercy, so that, when they look on me, on him whom they have pierced, they shall mourn for him, as one mourns for an only child, and weep bitterly over him, as one weeps over a firstborn. (Zechariah 12:10)
• And they made his grave with the wicked and with a rich man in his death, although he had done no violence, and there was no deceit in his mouth. (Isaiah 53:9)
• For you will not abandon my soul to Sheol, or let your holy One see corruption. (Psalm 16:10)
• You ascended on high, leading a host of captives in your train and receiving gifts among men, even among the rebellious, that the Lord God may dwell there. (Psalm 68:18)
• The Lord says to my Lord: “Sit at my right hand, until I make your enemies your footstool.” (Psalm 110:1

D. James Kennedy writes: (talking to a skeptic)


I said to him, "About whom did I read?"
He replied, "Well, you obviously read of the life and ministry and suffering and death and resurrection of Jesus of Nazareth."
I said, "Is there any question in your mind about that?"
He answered, "No that could refer to no one else."
I replied, "Well then, I would want you to understand that all of the Scriptures I just read to you are taken from the Old Testament, which was completed some four hundred years before Jesus was born. No critic, no atheist, no agnostic has ever claimed that any one of those writings was written after His birth. In fact, they were translated from Hebrew into Greek in Alexandria some 150 years before He was born. If this is merely a book written by men, would you please explain to me how these words were written?"


I would love to hear a response from someone who has an answer besides divinely inspired.