Written approximately 700 years before Jesus was born in Bethlehem (~4BC), Isaiah prophesied of the promised Messiah, God incarnate.
‘Unto us a child is born, unto us a Son is given.’
As Jesus Christ is a child in his human nature,
he is born, begotten of the Holy Spirit, born of
the Virgin Mary. He is as truly-born, as certainly
a child, as any other man that ever lived upon
the face of the earth. He is thus in his humanity
a child born. But as Jesus Christ is God’s Son,
he is not born; but given, begotten of his Father
from before all worlds, begotten— not made,
being of the same substance with the Father.
And while God had visited men numerous times
before in redemptive history, the incarnation was ‘the most wonderful visit of all…when He came to tarry here…to work out our salvation.’”
-Charles Haddon Spurgeon
December 25, 1859; Scripture: Isaiah 9:6
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