One of the most remarkable things in all of the world is the huge number of Old Testament prophecies that describe a person who is to come some time in the future and who is to be the Messiah—the Messiah of the Jews and of the whole world. There is nothing in any other sacred writing or any secular writing that even faintly resembles this. The Old Testament contains 333 prophecies concerning the coming of Christ, which include 456 specific facts or details concerning the Messiah that is to come. All of these prophecies were written between 1400 B.C. and 400 B.C.