- What many prophets and righteous people want to see and hear? Christ (Mt 13:16-17)
Heb 11:1-2, 35-39, 1 Jn 1:1-2
Many prophets and the righteous waited so long for Christ. They wanted to see Christ and to hear the word of Christ. (Mt 13:16-17)
Mt 13:16 But blessed are your eyes, for they see: and your ears, for they hear.
17 For verily I say unto you, That many prophets and righteous men have desired to see those things which ye see, and have not seen them; and to hear those things which ye hear, and have not heard them.
But they did not see Christ. But they were approved of God by faith in the coming of Christ. (Heb 11:1-2)
Heb 11:1 Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen.
2 For by it the elders obtained a good report.
The forefathers of the Old Testament waited for Christ at their necks out. They did not see Christ, but they were saved by believing in the coming of Christ. (Heb 11:35-39)
Heb 11:35 Women received their dead raised to life again: and others were tortured, not accepting deliverance; that they might obtain a better resurrection:
36 And others had trial of cruel mockings and scourgings, yea, moreover of bonds and imprisonment:
37 They were stoned, they were sawn asunder, were tempted, were slain with the sword: they wandered about in sheepskins and goatskins; being destitute, afflicted, tormented;
38 (Of whom the world was not worthy:) they wandered in deserts, and in mountains, and in dens and caves of the earth.
39 And these all, having obtained a good report through faith, received not the promise:
The Christ has come. The apostles saw and touched the Christ. Jesus is the Christ. (1 Jn 1:1-2)
1 Jn 1:1 That which was from the beginning, which we have heard, which we have seen with our eyes, which we have looked upon, and our hands have handled, of the Word of life;
2 (For the life was manifested, and we have seen it, and bear witness, and shew unto you that eternal life, which was with the Father, and was manifested unto us;)