The Messiah Foretold Series

Luke 1:31 ESV

And behold, you will conceive in your womb and bear a son, and you shall call his name Jesus.

There is something critical Christians must understand about the birth of Jesus. The conception was supernatural, the rest of her pregnancy followed the normal course. Some have tried to biologically explain this, but they’re fooling themselves. Just as God made the world and fish and animals and Adam from nothing, so it was with the conception of Jesus.

John 1:14 ESV

And the Word became flesh and dwelt among us, and we have seen his glory, glory as of the only Son from the Father, full of grace and truth.

Luke 2:7 ESV

And she gave birth to her firstborn son and wrapped him in swaddling cloths and laid him in a manger because there was no place for them in the inn.

He had to be God he had to be a man in or that he might be a substitute for us for the propitiation for our sins.

Hebrews 2:17–18 ESV

Therefore he had to be made like his brothers in every respect so that he might become a merciful and faithful high priest in the service of God, to make propitiation for the sins of the people. For because he himself has suffered when tempted, he is able to help those who are being tempted.

He was hungry, thirsty, tired. He slept, he grew, he loved. He laughed, he cried, he became angry. He was sarcastic, told jokes, and read Scripture. He felt pain, he suffered, he died. He experienced life on every aspect as we do, but without sin. He felt the same temptation to every degree that we experience temptation, but in every way perfectly overcame the temptation. This makes him our sympathizer and great high priest.

Hebrews 4:16 ESV

Let us then with confidence draw near to the throne of grace, that we may receive mercy and find grace to help in time of need.

2 Corinthians 5:21 ESV

For our sake he made him to be sin who knew no sin, so that in him we might become the righteousness of God.

The prophetic writings of his first coming underscore his divine origin along with his human existence. He was not an apparition. He was not fully God and partially man or fully man and partially God. He was fully man and fully God.

So every aspect of his life is prophetically shared in Scripture. Literally hundreds of them. His names: Son of God (Ps 2:7) Son of Man (Dan 7:13) Immanuel. The fact that he would be born of a virgin (Psalm 40:68). The location of his birth (Mic 5:2). His linage of David (Ps 110:1, Isaiah 11:1) His flight to Egypt (Hos 11:1). The slaughtering of the innocents (Jer 35:15) His baptism (Isa 11:1-4) His miracles (Isa 32:3-4; 35:5-6; 42:7) The cleansing of the Temple (Ps 69:9) His triumphal entry (Zech 9:9)

His arrest (Zech 13:7); Scourging (Isa 53:5); Casting lots for his cloths (Ps 22:18); That his bones were not broken (Ps 34:20); His pierced side (Isa 53:5); His burial (Isa 53:9); His resurrection (Ps 16:8-11; 30:3; 41:10; Hos 6:2; Isa 57:1); his ascension (Ps 2:7; 16:10-11; 24:7-10; 68:18; 110:1) and hundreds of others all perfectly align with his life. Jesus truly was the greatest life ever lived. This probability is nearly zero.