Top 10 Reasons to Believe that Jesus is the Messiah
By Ray Konig
Published: October 19, 2025
- Jesus accurately predicted that he would have a worldwide spiritual impact. Today there are more than 2 billion Christians throughout the world.
- Jesus is the first religious figure in history to have ever established a following with each of the world’s continents. There are even churches in Antarctica.
- Jesus remains the only religious figure in history whose followers have a majority presence within one or more countries on each of the world’s inhabitable continents.
- Jesus achieved a worldwide following many centuries before the rise of mass communications tools, such as radio, television and the internet.
- Jesus accurately predicted the worldwide scattering of the people of Israel, who later became the first and only group of people to be forcibly scattered to each of the world’s inhabitable continents.
- Jesus accurately predicted that Jerusalem would be trampled upon by Gentiles until the age of Gentiles comes to an end. Jerusalem has been under Gentile control since the time of Jesus.
- Jesus is far and away the most famous miracle worker who have ever lived. The New Testament record at least 50 occasions during which Jesus healed people or showed a divine command over the forces of nature.
- Jesus is the fulfillment of more than 300 predictive prophecies in the Old Testament, which was written and completed long before he was born. No other religious figure has ever done anything like this.
- The prophets of the Old Testament accurately predicted the lineage, birth, life, ministry, mission, death, resurrection and impact of Jesus as the Messiah.
- Jesus accurately predicted his own death and resurrection. His followers willingly risked their own lives to evangelize about him. Their work put Christianity on a trajectory to become the first religion to spread worldwide.
© 2025 Ray Konig.
Ray Konig is the author of Jesus the Messiah, Jesus the Prophet, Jesus the Miracle Worker, and 100 Fulfilled Bible Prophecies.