The wistful words “O come, O come, Emmanuel, and ransom captive Israel that mourns in lonely exile here until the Son of God appear” have welcomed the Christmas season for hundreds of years.
They remind us of an age long before Christ’s first coming, when God’s people yearned for the fulfillment of prophetic promises regarding the coming Messiah.
Today we celebrate Christmas as a past event and a present reality. When Jesus Christ stepped into our world, he fulfilled more than 200 old testament prophecies and forever freed us from the bondage of sin.
He said, “All things must be fulfilled which were written in the law of Moses and the Prophets and the Psalms concerning Me” ( Luke 24:44).
There is no doubt that Jesus is the prophet Messiah.
Because we live two thousand years after the fulfillment of these prophecies, it’s easy to overlook the wonder of it all.
Just think, Isaiah prophesied the virgin birth more than 700 years before it occurred (Isaiah 7:14) around the same time, Micah predicted the King would be born in an obscure Judean town called Bethleham Ephrathan (Micah 5:2)
And around 600 B.C., Jeremiah predicted Herod’s Massacre of infants. (Jeremiah 31:15)
We are privileged to live at a point in history when we can look back on the Messiah’s arrival and understand it through the lens of scripture.
Spend some time thanking God that Emmanuel has come.
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