Foretold: How Old Testament Prophecies Prepared the Way for the Messiah

by Matt Fradd

This book is about making Advent real. It’s about doing what Christians have done for centuries to prepare themselves for the birth of taking Advent seriously. Because yes, Advent is more than candles, wreaths, and decorating the house.

In Foretold, we’ll explore, for example, how one passage from Genesis can be considered the first “Gospel,” how to read the Bible through the six covenants God has made with his people, why Advent is more about Christ’s second coming than about his birth in Bethlehem, and much will be said about Old Testament prophecies such as Micah’s Bethlehem promise and Isaiah’s revelations about the coming Emmanuel, and about why Jesus is the New Moses and the New Hanukkah.

161 pages, Paperback

Published October 16, 2026

About the author

Matthew Fradd is Australian by birth and Catholic by choice. After experiencing a profound conversion at World Youth Day in Rome in 2000, Matthew committed himself to inviting others to know Jesus Christ and the Church He founded. As a missionary in Canada and Ireland, Matthew proclaimed the Gospel to over ten thousand teens and young adults. Matthew has also served the Church through full-time lay ministry in Australia,Ireland, Canada, and Texas. Matthew has been seen or heard on the BBC, EWTN, The Irish Morning Show, and Catholic Answers Live, where he has shared his personal story of sin, redemption, and healing to people all over the world.

Recently, Matthew, his fearless Texan wife, and their three beautiful children (Liam, Avila, and baby on the way) moved to sunny San Diego where Matthew now works as an Apologist and Speaker with Catholic Answers. Matthew best demonstrates his infectious passion for the faith when he speaks about the many wounds that pornography inflicts, the healing that Christ offers in the Sacraments, and the freedom that the Church proposes in Her teachings on the virtue of chastity.

In recent years, Matthew has confronted our pornographic culture and has launched the website www.theporneffect.com. With patient understanding and yet with firm resolve, Matthew has pointed those who are addicted to or who have been wounded by pornography to the only source of true freedom and lasting healing: Jesus Christ and the Sacraments.

Matthew Fradd has been heard or seen on the BBC, EWTN, The Irish Morning Show, and Catholic Answers Live, and he continues to share his personal story of addiction, redemption, and healing to people all over the world.