All the Evidence

December 20

“The Lord has heard my cry for mercy; the Lord accepts my prayer” Psalm 6:9. Here we are, mere days away from the holiday we celebrate as the birthday of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. Of course, we don’t know the actual date of His birth, but some who study times and seasons speculate that it occurred in the autumn.

If it were important that we know, the day wouldn’t be veiled in obscurity. What is important and what the prophets and priests of old have made clear through the types and shadows of Christ about whom they wrote in the Old Testament and what we have seen fulfilled in the New Testament is that a Savior was promised and a Savior came.

Were we to do a thorough study of all the prophecies concerning the Messiah, we would see that Christ fulfilled them all to the letter. Some may consider this to be a mere coincidence, but when we realize how many hundreds of them there are, we must acknowledge that such a quirk of events—or a manipulation of them by devious schemers who contorted the facts to produce a Messiah—would be impossible!

Indeed, we are left with two conclusions—the prophets through generations of writing the messages that were veiled to them were errant scribes who didn’t get the communication recorded accurately, or Jesus is indeed, “…the Christ, the Son of the Living God,” as Peter proclaimed in Matthew 16:16. All evidence points to the latter and behooves us to believe—and to receive His mercy and His great gift of salvation.