Isaiah 7:14 “Therefore the Lord himself shall give you a sign; Behold, a virgin shall conceive, and bear a son, and shall call his name Immanuel.”
Yesterday, we looked at how the Christmas story actually began in the Garden of Eden. This promise was never forgotten and was protected by God Himself to be perpetuated through the ages. Moses – the human writer of Genesis, recorded it.
About 700 years before Jesus was born, God gave the prophet Isaiah more information about the coming Savior. This time, God would reveal that the Savior would not come in the usual way, but the mother would become pregnant miraculously. God said that the unusual pregnancy would be proof – a sign from Heaven that the Child would be the One promised at the beginning of the world.
In the text verse, God promised to reveal His Son by making an unmarried lady have a child without the help of a man. This had never happened since time began! It was something that only God could do!
Because the One that would be born would be the Son of God, He would have a Name that only God could have. He would be called “Immanuel,” which means “God with us.” This does not merely mean that God has blessed us, but it means much more. It actually means that Jesus Christ is God and God Himself is with us!
Since the birth of Christ – the Promised One – must be the One that would deliver from the curse and the work of Satan, He must be much more than just a human. Because all humans are under the curse that God passed upon all people, no ordinary human could ever pay for the sins of someone else. Sin meant death to every human because “For all have sinned, and come short of the glory of God” (Ro. 3:23). Our sins will be punished by God in Hell because “the wages of sin is death” (Ro. 6:23).
Jesus, being the Son of God and without sin (II Corinthians 5:21), could die for us so that we do not need to go to Hell. He came into this world through the virgin Mary – like God promised – to pay the debt we owed.
After He suffered and paid what we owed on the Cross and rose again, anyone can be redeemed by Christ and set free from eternal death in Hell. Once we turn from sin in our hearts and receive Christ as our only Savior, God forgives us and we become God’s children.
Have you met the One sent from Heaven to die for your sins? He wants to save you today. If you have not yet been saved, He only waits for you to ask Him to forgive you of your sin and trust Him today.
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