Welcome to the Prophecy Prose Podcast, Jeff Killing along with Todd Hampson, and we're excited to bring to you this special episode on the amazing prophecies of Christmas, because there are some incredible scriptures that speak into the Christmas season.

And, you know, you don't get away from Bible prophecy, Todd.

No matter what time of the year, there's always a prophecy that kind of relates to a time of the life of Christ or, you know, something is going on in the world today.

So we're going to dive into these prophecies today regarding Christmas

specifically. So Todd, let's just jump in if that's all right and get into it. And I think the one

for me that I think not only is mind-blowing, but also is essential, is the virgin birth of Jesus Christ.

And, you know, it's very interesting because when

this prophecy was made to Isaiah, back in Isaiah 714, you kind of put it in perspective.

This prophecy was as bizarre and unbelievable, if you will, as the prophecies of Revelation are to our day.

That's a good point.

So when people try to symbolize or spiritualize or, you know, make metaphors of all of

revelation, hey, Isaiah could have done that too, but he didn't.

He believed in this literal birth.

So, Todd, let's just begin with the actual

scripture here and then just to throw some comments in there and then we'll just jump in and have

a little dialogue on this thing. Isaiah 714 says, Behold, a virgin will conceive and bring forth

a son. And you will call his name Emmanuel. So what is the, what is the,

the essential point of the version of birth? And let's just talk about what the word

virgin even means in that context in Isaiah 714. Yeah, if I remember calling you, the context there was, it was almost an immediate context,

and then you almost didn't know was a fulfilled prophecy until you get later, and you can couple

it with some other verses.

But I think it just meant an unmarried woman or someone who hadn't had a baby yet,

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