The Timing Of The Birth Of Jesus

The timing of the birth of Jesus was the right time because it was the appointed time of God. God knew, before the earth was created, what He wanted to do and how life and history would unfold. This may sound odd, but I visualize the beginning of the world up until the birth of Jesus as a pregnancy. Just like time that goes by in a pregnancy, there are trimesters, or periods of time that are marked by specific events culminating in the birth of a child. Jesus, is that child and the different eras of history mark the “trimesters.” I see this birthing process of Jesus taking place in 3 trimesters; first and second trimester takes place within two sections in the Old Testament and then the Intertestamental Period is the third trimester.
The Old Testament is God’s story of mankind and of Israel, the nation. The story of mankind can be found in the Bible in Genesis …show more content…
Man was ready to be released from the bondage of the law. As I said up above, God had appointed the time before the earth was formed as there is no “time” with God. He can go in and out of time. So Jesus really came when He was supposed to. The world was ripe and ready for a Messiah. Jesus was born to bring salvation to man. He had all the qualifications and was prophesied about in the Old Testament. He was human, born from a virgin woman and he faced every and all the same temptations and problems that every person faces in their lives. He was also born “under the law”, so all the same expectations applied to Him as well. What this means to me and what I am most thankful for is that Jesus perfectly fulfilled God 's law, being without sin, and he did this as a mortal man. Without Jesus, I would be dead. He is my Passover lamb. He came to save all of us, just in the nick of time. He gave us life. John 10:10 puts it perfectly when he writes, “The thief comes only to steal and kill and destroy. I came that they may have life and have it