Jesus talked with two people as they walked to Emmaus from Jerusalem, on the first day of the week, the day some women said that Jesus was raised from the tomb.

(NASB) Luke 24:25-26 “And He (Jesus) said to them, “O foolish men and slow of heart to believe in all that the prophets have spoken!
26 “Was it not necessary for the Christ to suffer these things and to enter into His glory?”

  How foolish to not believe God’s words through the prophets in the Old Testament. They prophesied the very events surrounding the death of Jesus, Messiah. Jesus declared this to foolish men at the time these events had taken place, and how foolish people are today for not believing God’s words…for we can know the events surrounding Jesus’ crucifixion in the New Testament. They are the fulfilled prophecies of Messiah in the Old Testament.
How slow of heart people were in AD 30 and how slow of heart people are today in 2010.

  What did Jesus say concerning the prophecies of the Old Testament?
26 “Was it not necessary for the Christ to suffer these things and to enter into His glory?”

  Jesus’ death was not an accident, nor unexpected from God’s viewpoint. It was necessary! It was needed for Christ (Messiah) to suffer what He suffered before and during His crucifixion. Only in this way was He able to enter into His glory…the glory of being the Lamb of God Who takes away the sins of the world. (This is why everyone needs Him to be their Savior, there is no other sacrifice which God accepts for our sins.)

  How do you think of the Old Testament? Perhaps your thinking goes something like this: it has a lot of stories that are somewhat familiar…it doesn’t have anything to do with the New Testament…the Old Testament is, well, OLD!
  To grow in our understanding of the New Testament and the life Jesus lived…we need to be familiar with the Old Testament and what it foretells of Messiah. Jesus, Messiah, Son of God, He is foretold in the Old Testament.
  What a rich tapestry is interwoven for us when we understand the Old and the New together. What books have you studied/read in the Old Testament?

Old Testament Prophecies ~ New Testament Fulfillments
God’s words are intricately interwoven…
forming a tapestry of unsurpassing magnificence.