```DAILY ⓂANNA* SUNDAY 25TH DECEMBER, 2022*CHRIST, THE SIGN*

🗣️CHRIST, THE SIGN💫

📜📜TEXT:ISAIAH 7:10-25📜📜

🔑📖KEY VERSE: "Therefore the Lord himself shall give you a sign; Behold, a virgin shall conceive, and bear a son, and shall call his name Immanuel" (ISAIAH 7:14).

About 734 years before the coming of Jesus Christ, the Messiah, Israel formed an alliance with Syria against Assyria. The coalition sought to attack Judah. Instead of going to God for help, Ahaz, the king of Judah, relied on Assyria.

The Lord was angry with Ahaz for seeking help from a heathen power, instead of from Him. So He sent Prophet Isaiah to him to express divine displeasure with his move and to give a sign of the prophecies of immediate and long-term impact. When a timid and faithless Ahaz refused to give his own sign as requested by the prophet, God offered His own. A Messiah is on the way. He will be of virgin birth, bearing the name Immanuel or God with us. His era will bring peace and put a halt to all the wars among men.

God proves in Isaiah's message to a backslidden king that in times of apostasy, turmoil and confusion, He is still within reach. He is never hidden from those who make themselves available to His messengers. He can still show mercy by dispatching His faithful and willing servants to deliver His never-changing words of comfort. His "still small voice" can come up louder than the uproar of hostilities. It can rise to swallow the noise of man's unbelief, philosophy and doctrine.

The prophesied Messiah came nearly 800 years after the Lord revealed Him through Isaiah. He brought God's calm into man's troubled sea. Once you believe and accept Him as the only begotten Son of God, you become connected to His peace that sets free from the anxieties of sinful man.*

✍🏽THOUGHT FOR THE DAY: _Christ, the Sign is already here.

📜📜THE BIBLE IN ONE YEAR: EZEKIEL 29-31📜📜

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