My Christmas post

The birth of Christ. That is what Christmas is about. CHRISTmas = Christ, My Almighty Savior.

What is most amazing about the birth of Christ, is not just that He is God incarnate, that He chose to be borne in a manger because there was no room for a bed, not as a king as He ought to rightfully be, that He was borne of a virgin, that a star hovered where Christ was borne, but what I found most amazing is the way His birth fulfilled all the prophecies in the Old Testament.

The Old Testament, written over a period of 1000 years and written several hundred years before the time of Christ, contains some three hundred prophecies of the coming Messiah. The fact these prophecies were written at least two hundred years before Christ is proven by the Septuagint [LXX], the Greek translation of the Old Testament written in 200 B.C., and by the Dead Sea Scrolls, some of which are dated over 200 years before Christ as well. All of these ancient prophecies were fulfilled in the one person of Jesus Christ, and they provide solid confirmation:

for His credentials as Messiah,

for His claims as the Son of God and Savior,

for His unique life in comparison to all the other religious leaders of the world, and

for our hope and confidence that truly He and He alone is the one to whom we (and the world) must look for salvation and meaning in life.

The probability of all these being fulfilled in one person as merely coincidence is beyond comprehension and, for all practical purposes, mathematically impossible. The entire Old Testament, though dealing with the history of the nations and of Israel, ultimately spoke of the Messiah, the Redeemer who would come.
(adapted from http://www.bible.org)

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Matthew 1:23 : "Behold, the virgin shall be with child, and shall bear a Son, and they shall call His name Immanuel," which translated means, "God with us."

Indeed, Jesus Christ came on earth to dwell amongst us. And now, even as He has died, resurrection and risen into Heaven, He is still with us.

He was, He is, and He is to come.

Wishing all my family, friends, colleagues, brothers and sisters in Christ, friends from the net and all my silent readers a very blessed Christmas filled with the love of God. A love that surpasses all understanding, a love from a Father eternally.

Blessings.