Isaiah 7:14
...The Lord Himself shall give you a sign; Behold, a virgin shall
conceive, and bear a Son, and shall call His name Immanuel.
The prophet Isaiah is prophesying about the coming Messiah, Jesus Christ
many generations before God the Father fulfilled His promise of sending a
Savior to reconcile mankind back to Himself. Isaiah even gave the name of the
Messiah, Immanuel which means God with us and rightly so because Jesus Christ
was in the beginning with God and was the Word of God who became flesh as He
was in the beginning with God (John 1:1-2, 14).
Therefore, Christ existed long before His virgin birth. It was in Christ
that humanity and deity met, which means Christ was fully God and human at the
same time. It is in Christ that all who believes have salvation and will spend
eternity with God. It is in Christ all of God the Father's requirements for sin
atonement was met.
Christ's virgin birth holds significance in that being a virgin
represents purity in that His mother Mary had not known her husband before
marriage, and remained so until after the birth of her Son Jesus.
It is noteworthy to say that every aspect of Isaiah's prophecy was
fulfilled at Christ's birth. The prophet Isaiah spoke just as God told him as
he was hope to God's people of a brighter day ahead. All before Christ's birth
look forward to the cross and all after His birth look back on the cross and
thank God for sending His only begotten Son into the world to be the Savior of
the world.
As we celebrate this Christmas let us remember that Christ is the reason
for the season. He is Christmas and without His birth there would be nothing to
celebrate.
Christ is the prophesied Christ.
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