Jesus: Born in God’s Time

As God’s people waited prayerfully for the promised Messiah, the world seemed to charge ahead with an agenda of its own. Before plunging into a long dark period of some 400 years, God had revealed to His prophets the coming rise and fall of great kingdoms. These kingdoms, however, did not simply exist to pass the time; they were used by God to prepare not just the Jews, but the whole world for the promised Savior. Three hundred years before the Savior was born, we find a young man, filled with...