The skies display His awesome craftsmanship.

In creating the heavens, God also created the earth

and formed man from the dust of the ground,

and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life.

The God of love created man and woman in His own image

And so in the beginning, they revered and honored God

This continued until one day Satan tempted the woman

In so doing, mankind rebelled against God

As a result of this sin, mankind was separated from God

and was thrown out of the Garden of Eden.

It was never His desire to be separate from those He created,

yet how could God be holy and the source of perfect justice

if He did not judge mankind for their sin?

One of the first to see this plan unfold was Abraham.

Abraham was a righteous man whom God promised to bless

as the sand of the sea and the stars of the sky.

to sacrifice his son as an offering to Him.

Abraham trusted God and sought to obey Him.

But as he raised his knife to kill his son,

He saw that Abraham feared God and was willing to obey Him.

Then Abraham saw a ram caught by its horns in a thicket,

and he sacrificed the ram instead of his son

And so God showed Abraham that a lamb or a similar animal

was to be slain as a temporary covering for sin

until God would provide His ultimate sacrifice

the sacrifice would restore their relationship.

The Holy Scriptures speak of One who was to come

and be the ultimate sacrifice for the sins of the world.

As the ram took the place of Abraham's son,

so this One who would come would take man's place

Some refer to this person as the Messiah,

the One who would come and reconcile the world

The prophets predicted many things in detail about

the Messiah hundreds of years before He appeared.

The prophet Isaiah foretold that His birth

A virgin would conceive a child who was to be called,

The prophet Micah predicted that the Messiah

and His betrayal by Judas, one of His followers.

Isaiah prophesied what the Messiah would do when He came.

The Lord's anointed will preach the Good News to the poor,

bind up the brokenhearted, proclaim freedom

for the captives and proclaim that the time

has come when the Lord will save His people.

In the first century, a prophet came called Jesus.

Some thought He was the one the prophet spoke about.

Did His life fulfill what was predicted of Him?

What follows is His story, based on eyewitness accounts

and though no actor is worthy of such a role,

it has been done so that we may understand

an orderly account of the things that have taken place among us,

so that you may know the absolute truth about everything.

In the days when Caesar Augustus was emperor of Rome

and when Herod the great was king of Judea,

God sent the angel Gabriel to visit a virgin girl in the city of Nazareth.

You will conceive and give birth to a Son

For this reason the Holy Child will be called

the Son of the Most High God. His kingdom will never end.

to visit her cousin Elizabeth who was also miraculously with child.

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