THE AMAZING BIRTH OF OUR LORD JESUS CHRIST MATTHEW 1:17 – 2:23

There have been described in the Old Testament 300 prophecies of the first coming of the Messiah and 500 of the second coming, all of then made hundreds of years before the birth of Jesus and fulfilled to the letter in Jesus Christ, the Messiah.

George Heron, a French mathematician, calculated that the odds of one man fulfilling only 40 of those prophecies are 1 in 10 to the power of 157. That is a 1 followed by 157 zeros. Compare it to this; Another mathematician, Dr. Peter S. Ruckman, claims the odds of being fulfilled only 60 of them by the only person who claimed to be the Son of God, and who died on a "tree" on Calvary, and who rose the 3rd day are astronomical!... not just one in one trillion, but one out of ten to the 895th power. That is a one over a one followed by 895 zeros.

To put it in simple terms one man said the chances of this happening is like filling Texas up 3 feet deep in silver dollars and throwing one out of an airplane somewhere over Texas, then you are expected to find and pick up that silver dollar on the first try.

5 Miracles of timing or being a certain place

1:18 Mary with Child of the Holy Spirit

2:2, 9 The Star guided them

2:9 the star which they had seen in the East went before them, till it came and stood over where the young Child was.

2:6 Born in Bethlehem because Caesar and Quirinius wanted a Census

Luke 2:1-7

2:13 Told to flee Herod would kill the children

Went to live in Nazareth

Mt 2:22 But when he heard that Archelaus was reigning over Judea instead of his father Herod, he was afraid to go there. And being warned by God in a dream, he turned aside into the region of Galilee. 23 And he came and dwelt in a city called Nazareth

  5 Dreams

1:20, 2:12, 2:13, 2:19, 2:22

3 Angels, plus one in Luke makes 4

1:20, 2:13, and 2:19, Luke 1:28-38 angel appears to Mary telling her she will bear a son

9 Prophecies

1:23

Isa 7:14 "Therefore the Lord Himself will give you a sign: Behold, the virgin shall conceive and bear a Son, and shall call His name Immanuel.

1:21 a near prophecy of Jesus saving us from our sins

2:1

Isa 60:3 The Gentiles shall come to your light, And kings to the brightness of your rising.

2:2

Nu 24:17 "I see Him, but not now; I behold Him, but not near; A Star shall come out of Jacob; A Scepter shall rise out of Israel, And batter the brow of Moab, And destroy all the sons of tumult.

2:6

Mic 5:2 "But you, Bethlehem Ephrathah, Though you are little among the thousands of Judah, Yet out of you shall come forth to Me The One to be Ruler in Israel, Whose goings forth are from of old, From everlasting."

The Messiah would be born in a village called Bethlehem," originally in Genesis 35 called Ephratah (?) but came to be known as Bethlehem which means "house of bread."  The Bread of life just happened to be born in a city called that. The Jews all knew that the Messiah would be born in Bethlehem. 

2:11

Isa 60:6 The multitude of camels shall cover your land, The dromedaries of Midian and Ephah; All those from Sheba shall come; They shall bring gold and incense, And they shall proclaim the praises of the LORD.

2:15

Ho 11:1 "When Israel was a child, I loved him, And out of Egypt I called My son.

2:18

Jer 31:15 Thus says the LORD: "A voice was heard in Ramah, Lamentation and bitter weeping, Rachel weeping for her children, Refusing to be comforted for her children, Because they are no more."

V23 A Nazarene

"The prophets" is plural there, we don't know the specific prophecy...in fact it may not even be recorded.  But the prophets said He would be a Nazarene and that's exactly where He went to live.

 As you come to verse 11 it says, "And to Josiah were born Jeconiah and his brothers at the time of the deportation to Babylon," and it goes on from there.  Now here in the middle of this lineage, this kingly line, this royal right to the throne is a king born by the name of Jeconiah.  Jeconiah was an evil man, also called Coniah, he was an evil man.  And in Jeremiah's prophecy chapter 22 and verse 30, the Word of the Lord says this about Jeconiah, "Write this man childless," in what sense?  "A man who will not prosper in his days for no man of his descendants will prosper sitting on the throne of David or ruling again in Judah."

Now God said no son of Jeconiah will ever reign in Palestine in Israel.  No son will ever bear the throne of David.  And yet, Jeconiah is in the Messianic line.  How then can Jesus be the King if He does not come through the royal line of Jeconiah?  And how can He be the King if the line of Jeconiah is cursed?  That seemingly hopeless dilemma is resolved in the virgin birth.  Through that line Jesus received the legal right to the throne, but He was no blood child of Jeconiah for that line was cursed and there could never be a child of Jeconiah on the throne of David. 

From Mary's own lips in Luke 1:46, from her own lips in what is commonly known as her Magnificat, her song of praise, she speaks to God and this is what she says, "My soul exalts the Lord," then verse 47, "And my spirit has rejoiced in God my Savior."  Mary is the savior of nobody.  Mary needs a savior and she says God is my Savior.  He is the one who delivers me from sin.  Mary while being the best of sinners, if there is such a thing, the noblest among young maidens, the most beautiful of virgins, Mary must have been the finest of young girls in every way, but Mary needed a savior.  And Mary by virtue of being the physical earthly mother of Jesus could claim no spiritual privilege and make no claim on the time, attention and life of Christ.  She was a sinner in need of a savior.

John 14:6 Jesus said to him, “I am the way, the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through Me. Have you trusted Him as your Savior? He can Save you if You ask Him based on His death, burial, and resurrection for your sins. Believe in Him for forgiveness of your sins today.

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