Inspired by the Holy Spirit, the prophet Isaiah foretold
the birth of the Messiah, Jesus Christ, about 700 years (give or take) before
it happened. I hope it will bless the
start of your Christmas Season to read these prophesies:
Therefore the Lord
Himself shall give you a sign:
Behold, the virgin
shall conceive and bear a Son,
and shall call His
name Immanuel.
(Isaiah 7:14 NKJV)
For unto us a Child
is born,
Unto us a Son is
given;
And the government
will be upon
His shoulder.
And his name will
be called
Wonderful, Counselor,
Mighty God,
Everlasting Father,
Prince of Peace.
(Isaiah 9:6 NKJV)
The Holy Spirit, through Isaiah, tells us why Jesus came
down from heaven to live with us. He
also describes the kind of death our Lord would die for us.
I gave My back to
those who struck Me,
And My cheeks to
those who plucked out the beard;
I hid not my face
from shame and spitting.
(Isaiah 50:6 NKJV)
… many were
astonished at you,
So His visage was
marred more than any man,
and His form more
than the sons of men …
(Isaiah 52:14 NKJV)
Who has believed our
report?
And to whom has the arm of the Lord been
revealed?
For He shall grow
up before Him as a tender plant,
And as a root out
of dry ground.
He has no form or comeliness;
And when we see Him,
There is no beauty
that we should desire Him.
He is despised and
rejected by men,
A Man of sorrows
and acquainted with grief.
And we hid, as it
were, our faces from Him;
He was despised,
and we did not esteem Him.
Surely He has
borne our griefs
And carried our
sorrows;
Yet we esteemed
Him stricken,
Smitten by God,
and afflicted.
But He was wounded
for our transgressions,
He was bruised for
our iniquities;
The chastisement
of our peace was upon Him,
And by His stripes
we are healed.
All we like sheep
have gone astray;
We have turned,
every one, to his own way;
And the Lord has
laid on Him
The iniquity of us
all.
He was oppressed
and He was afflicted,
Yet he opened not His
mouth;
He was led as a
lamb to the slaughter,
And as a sheep
before its shearers is silent,
So He opened not
His mouth;
He was taken from
prison and from judgement,
And who will
declare His generation?
For He was cut off
from the land of the living;
For the
transgressions of My people He was stricken.
(Isaiah 53:1-8
NKJV)
Jesus left the glory of heaven to live a sinless life at
a primitive and cruel time in history.
Then He took the punishment we deserved for our sins, died, and rose from
the dead to give us eternal life. What a
Christmas gift! Please give Him
something back this Christmas. Accept
the salvation He has given you; then
follow in His steps.
