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At the coming of Jesus, the Messiah, the Prophet's announcement that had been silent in the past was heard as loud as thunder. The Prophet Isaiah said the Lord Himself would give Israel a sign, a virgin would conceive and bear a son and His name would be called Emmanuel, meaning God with us. Little could anyone on earth have known that the child in the manger was the King of Glory. King David, long before the birth of Jesus, wrote in a psalm in which he said that God was his

As the Hebrew people were traveling through the wilderness after being set free from the bondage of Egyptian slavery by God's miraculous intervention, many began to grumble and complain that they had little to eat. Moses prayed and God sent them Manna, which in Hebrew means "What is it". The bread which came down from heaven was miraculously given. They were to grind up the manna and make bread from it. Manna was their staple food in their journey to the Promised Land and it

The prophet Isaiah, approximately seven hundred and fifty years before the birth of our Savior Jesus Christ, spoke to those in darkness concerning their situation in the world in which they lived. The Hebrew people had seen so much turmoil and corruption in their "world" that darkness had folded around them like a dense cloud "a shadow of death". Then Isaiah spoke these words, "The people have seen a great light." The dawn of day was coming in this manner, "A child is bor

What was the star in the night which the wise men had seen in the east? It occurs to many that the wise men were perhaps astrologers who studied the heavens in search of knowledge and guidance. If that Star was a common and familiar heavenly body, why would the wise men follow across the desert sands of the eastern terrain to follow such a common object of the night sky? Such a long journey upon their beasts of burden in the heat of the noonday sun and the cold of the night