Day 17: Born of a virgin
Read Isaiah 7:14
Isaiah 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.
Why was it important that the Messiah, Jesus, was to be born of a virgin? We
must understand two very important things.
First, the Messiah, being God, must become human. This was for two important
reasons: God as an eternal Spirit could not die. So for Him to be able to die
for us He must become human. Also, God as Spirit could not be seen or heard or
touched by humans; He needed to become like us so we could understand Him.
Therefore, being born of a human woman was the way for Him to become a human
being who could be touched and heard and seen, and could die.
Second, it was important He be born of a virgin because of God’s condemnation
of sin for Adam and Eve. He had told them sin would result in death. Even
though they did not immediately die physically when they sinned, they died
spiritually. This spiritual death was passed on to every child through the seed
of the man, and without a man’s seed no woman could bear a child. That is, no
woman could bear a child without God’s direct miracle. His prophecy, as we saw
in our first lesson, was that the Messiah would be born of the woman, a virgin.
*What does Jesus’ virgin birth tell you about God?