Christmas is a yearly celebration with gifts, cakes and vacationing with family and friends. It’s a time of relaxation from the busy life we endure the entire year. It helps us enter the new year rejuvenated and replenished, ready to take on new commitments. This celebration is of global significance uniting people from all religion, race and language. Unfortunately, the key figure Jesus Christ is totally missed out in all this festivity and forget why we celebrate it in the first place. Jesus’ birth was the greatest miracle of all time. His birth was the fulfilment of prophecies written 700 years ago on the birth of Messiah, virgin birth, place of birth, etc. His birth alone in history records all the prophecy about His birth, His lifestyle, His nature of death and resurrection. King David who lived 1000 years prior to Jesus states, “My faithful God will come to meet me…” in the psalms recorded in the Bible.
Human race has invented it own gods, idolized people, things, natures, and stars to worship. Jesus Christ is the only God who took the form of human, the one He created, and lived among us. The creation story describes that God created the entire world, the heavens and the earth, and all the that is existing by His word. After 4,000 years, John one of Jesus’ disciples witnessing the miraculous birth of Jesus writes in His book, “In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. 2 He was in the beginning with God. 3 All things were made through Him, and without Him nothing was made that was made.” and continues to say, “And the Word became flesh and dwelt among us, and we beheld His glory, the glory as of the only begotten of the Father, full of grace and truth.”.
The Bible is the only book with no contradictions and maintains cohesiveness from the first book of Genesis to the last book of Revelation. It talks about the truth, the truth which is claimed by Jesus when He said, “I am the way truth, and the life.”. Allow me to showcase some of the prophecies foretold 700 years ago:
About His birth:
Isaiah 9:6:“For unto us a Child is born, Unto us a Son is given; And the government will be upon His shoulder. And His name will be called Wonderful, Counselor, Mighty God, Everlasting Father, Prince of Peace.”
Isaiah 7:14:"Behold, a virgin will be with child and bear a son, and she will call His name Immanuel".
Matthew 1:22-23:"Behold, a virgin shall be with child, and shall bring forth a son, And they shall call his name Emmanuel, which being interpreted is, God with us"
Matthew 1:24: "Joseph kept her a virgin until she gave birth to a son"
About the His birthplace - That Jesus will be born in Bethlehem
Micah 5:2: "But you, O Bethlehem Ephrathah, who are too little to be among the clans of Judah, from you shall come forth for me one who is to be ruler in Israel, whose coming forth is from of old, from ancient days".
About the His name
Matthew 1:22-23: 23 “Behold, the virgin shall be with child, and bear a Son, and they shall call His name Immanuel,” which is translated, “God with us.”
Jesus is not the God of the Christians alone. He is the Savior who came to forgive the sins of the world and save us from our guilt, wretchedness and failures and connect to God for abundant life and eternity with Him.
Would you take time to read the Gospel of John this December to know the truth?
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