God with us

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PROPHESIES AND FULFILLMENT'S CONCERNING CHRIST

GOD WITH US

Isa 7:13-14

13 Then Isaiah said, "Hear now, you house of David! Is it not enough to try the patience of men? Will you try the patience of my God also? 14 Therefore the Lord himself will give you a sign: The virgin will be with child and will give birth to a son, and will call him Immanuel.

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If there is every any doubt that Jesus is divine, this prophecy should put it to rest. Here we have Isaiah living hundreds of years prior to the birth of Jesus and he speaks about the mother who would birthed him being a virgin. In the natural realm this would be an impossibility. Without going into the physiology and anatomy of a virgin, the fact remains in the physical realm of humankind it requires the man and the female to bring new life into the world. As we know from Matthew 1:18 and Luke 1:26 and the following verses,

Luke 1:26-38

26 In the sixth month, God sent the angel Gabriel to Nazareth, a town in Galilee, 27 to a virgin pledged to be married to a man named Joseph, a descendant of David. The virgin's name was Mary. 28 The angel went to her and said, "Greetings, you who are highly favored! The Lord is with you." 29 Mary was greatly troubled at his words and wondered what kind of greeting this might be. 30 But the angel said to her, "Do not be afraid, Mary, you have found favor with God. 31 You will be with child and give birth to a son, and you are to give him the name Jesus. 32 He will be great and will be called the Son of the Most High. The Lord God will give him the throne of his father David, 33 and he will reign over the house of Jacob forever; his kingdom will never end." 34 "How will this be," Mary asked the angel, "since I am a virgin?" 35 The angel answered, "The Holy Spirit will come upon you, and the power of the Most High will overshadow you. So the holy one to be born will be called the Son of God. 36 Even Elizabeth your relative is going to have a child in her old age, and she who was said to be barren is in her sixth month. 37 For nothing is impossible with God." 38 "I am the Lord's servant," Mary answered. "May it be to me as you have said." Then the angel left her.

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Matt 1:18-19

18 This is how the birth of Jesus Christ came about: His mother Mary was pledged to be married to Joseph, but before they came together, she was found to be with child through the Holy Spirit. 19 Because Joseph her husband was a righteous man and did not want to expose her to public disgrace, he had in mind to divorce her quietly.

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There has never been any time before or after that a virgin gave birth to a child. Of course with our modern science some might say that it is possible to artificially inseminate a woman who has never been with a man, thus being a virgin. But we would have to discuss her physiology and anatomy to determine if she actually qualifies for that distinction. Yet it still requires the donation of the male to make this child. This was not the case with Jesus, as no man donated any portion in the conception and birth of Jesus, who is call Emmanuel, which means God with us. This simply is the divine using the woman to come into the world to be its salvation. Women have been after their rights for so long it seems strange since God choose a woman to come into the world. He could have entered the world so many different ways, after all he is God, who simply spoke the world and all that is in it into being. He is the one who formed us from the clay with his own hands and then breathed his very breathe into our lungs giving us life. He could have shown up in any manner of ways. He could have miraculously appeared in the temple courts as the Messiah. Then perhaps all would have accepted him. But God chose another way. Throughout the Old Testament he used special women for divine purposes and here he partnered with Mary to bring his Son into the world. What greater honor could a woman have? It amazes us how women of today want to be equal with men when it was a woman who God designed and chose to bring himself into the world. How absolutely unique a woman is. Should we not see women as God designed them? Should they not see themselves as God designed them and how special they are in his sight? God has come into the world as an infant to be held in the arms of a virgin, to be cuddled, loved and nurtured by a woman. Even at his death on the cross, he spoke of his mother and John, so in both he gave her a son to care for and a son to care for her. How special is the love of God for women, equal to the love he has for men. He does not show favoritism. Pure equality exists in the kingdom of God. But here we are at the moment he enters the world, Emmanuel has come to his people. God is with us. What better life can we have?