“Now all this was done, that it might be fulfilled which was spoken of the Lord by the prophet saying, Behold a virgin shall be with child, and shall bring forth a son, and they shall call His name Emmanuel, which being interpreted is God with Us” (Matthew 1:22-23)
This is the first of five fulfilled prophecies concerning the birth of Jesus recorded in Matthew’s Gospel. We go back to the days of Ahaz, king of Judah about 742 BC for this prophecy. Isaiah gives this prophecy that a virgin, (not just a young woman) would conceive and bear a Son. (Isaiah 7:14) Not only was the prophecy about the virgin birth, Isaiah also said that the child’s name would be “Immanuel.” Matthew gives the meaning of the name as, “God with us.”
Jesus is the unique Son of God, not the son of Joseph, not the son of an unknown Roman soldier, as some have slanderously stated, but the miraculously conceived and virgin born, Son of God. He is qualified to be your Savior and Lord. Believe on Him for salvation.
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