What are the most important prophecies concerning the birth of the Lord Christ?

First : His birth from a Virgin and that He will be called “Emmanuel.” “Therefore the Lord Himself will give you a sign: behold, the virgin shall conceive and bear a Son, and shall call His name Emmanuel” (Isa. 7:14). God does not only give us a sign or a miracle, but He Himself becomes the sign or the miracle through His birth from a virgin, and His name is “ Emmanuel ” which means “God with us.”

Second : His birth in Bethlehem. “But you, Bethlehem Ephrathah, though you are little among the thousands of Judah, yet out of you shall come forth to Me the One to be Ruler in Israel, whose goings forth are from of old, from everlasting” (Mic. 5:2). This Ruler is eternal; the everlasting One who is born in time is our Savior who was born in Bethlehem.

Third : His flight to Egypt. “When Israel was a child, I loved him, and out of Egypt I called My son” (Hos. 11:1).

“The burden against Egypt. Behold, the Lord rides on a swift cloud, and will come into Egypt; the idols of Egypt will totter at His presence, and the heart of Egypt will melt in its midst” (Isa. 19:1).

Fourth : The anointment of Christ with the Holy Spirit. “The Spirit of the Lord God is upon Me, because the Lord has anointed Me to preach good tidings to the poor; He has sent Me to heal the broken-hearted, to proclaim liberty to the captives, and the opening of the prison to those who are bound; to proclaim the acceptable year of the Lord, and the day of vengeance of our God; to comfort all who mourn” (Isa. 61:1–2). The Lord Christ was anointed through His incarnation, or was consecrated by the Father for the work of salvation, through which He gives hope to the poor, the broken-hearted, the captives, the prisoners, and those who mourn because of sin, death, and Satan’s reign.