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Therefore the Lord Himself will give you a sign: Behold, a virgin will be with child and bear a son, and she will call His name Immanuel.
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At that time the Arameans and the son of Remaliah, king of Israel in the north planned a war in order to overthrow and replace Ahaz as king in Judah. {Is.7:5-6} The Lord promised to deliver His people from that evil and then continued on declaring that there would be a sign to assure him and His people of the promise! It would be a sign so impossible, so incredible it would be indisputable—a virgin birth!

And yet, it is constantly disputed in these last days for sure. The Hebrew word translated in today’s verse as ‘virgin’ is ‛almâh and means ‘a young girl’ but of course the very fact of sexual intercourse would then indicate that she was now a woman. A birth to an unmarried young female, a virgin, is indeed a miracle—one that only the Lord could make possible. However, an unmarried young lady becoming pregnant is not only NOT a miracle, it has become unfortunately commonplace in today’s culture. Not a miracle, but still sin!

The Lord sent an angel to Joseph, a godly man, to comfort him, telling him to not be afraid to wed Mary. She had been chosen to be the mother of Jesus conceived by the Holy Spirit. {Mat.1:21-24} Please take note of the fact that she was the mother of Jesus, not the Mother of God! The Lord Jesus, maker of heaven and earth, had been there from the beginning, {Jn.1:1-5}

There are a couple of things (probably more) to take away from today’s verse: Nothing is impossible with God. {Lk.1:37} He sent His Beloved Son into the world to defeat the enemy just as He was doing for His people in the time of Isaiah and Ahaz, only now totally, completely and forever! Sin and death have now been conquered. Jesus said ‘take courage, I have overcome the world.’ {Jn.16:33} The Lord paid the price with His blood, with His death on the cross of Calvary and His declaration—“It is finished!” That has to become our joyful testimony! It will be said of us with all of the saints who have gone on before us as the enemy continues his attack on the righteous:

“And they overcame him because of the blood of the Lamb and because of the word of their testimony, and they did not love their life even to death.” (Revelation 12:11)

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