Christmas 2020 - 15. Prophecies Fulfilled Part 1

15. Prophecies Fulfilled Part 1

That first Christmas, almost 2,000 years ago, is the time when the invisible becomes visible. When God who is outside of time and space, entered time and space. This Almighty God becomes a weakened baby, in what we call the incarnation. Almighty God has become one of his created beings – a helpless human.

Over the next few days, as we conclude our Christmas series, we are looking at some of the words given as prophecy in what we call the Old Testament and how they were fulfilled in the New Testament. Some of those things could have been fulfilled by deliberate human intervention (or even Jesus Himself). But certainly not all of them We will look at how the birth, life, death, resurrection and ascension of Jesus Christ was fulfilment of words and promises spoken about down through the ages – through countless years as people looked to God to rescue them.

John 3:16 sums this up well “For this is how God loved the world: He sent his one and only Son, so that everyone who believes in him will not perish but have eternal life. God sent his Son into the world not to judge the world, but to save the world through him.”

The Apostle Paul said something similar in Romans 8:3 “So God did what the law could not do. He sent his own Son in a body like the bodies we sinners have. And in that body God declared an end to sin’s control over us by giving his Son as a sacrifice for our sins.”

1. Prophecies concerning Jesus’ parents.

a. Prediction: Messiah would be born of a woman
Predicted: Genesis 3:15
Fulfilled: Matthew 1:20 & Galatians 4:4-5

b. Prediction: Messiah would be born of a virgin
Predicted: Isaiah 7:14
Fulfilled: Matthew 1:22-23 & Luke 1:30-31

c. Prediction: Messiah would be born in Bethlehem
Predicted: Micah 5:2
Fulfilled: Matthew 2:1 & Luke 2:4-7

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