Around Christmas, it is easy for us to spend time talking about the traditional stories many of us heard as children—Mary and Joseph in Bethlehem, No Room in the Inn, Shepherds and Angels, Wise Men and a Star.
However, each of those stories loses power if we don’t understand the words of the prophets leading up to them, and each of those stories lose power unless we understand the rest of the story of Jesus.
In this brief series, we will consider three kinds of prophecies from hundreds of years before Jesus was born that tell us the deeper meaning of Christmas and the fact that God became a man.