It always seems that Christmas adverts start so early — with supermarkets advertising their Christmas food in October this year! It builds anticipation and excitement – and sells products of course – but that’s nothing in comparison to that first Christmas.  You see, the arrival of a Messiah was anticipated by Israel for many more than just a few months.

In fact, the birth of Jesus had been prophesied way before it took place, in amazing detail, with the location and other details of it recorded hundreds of years in advance. In fact, so many details of Jesus birth, life, death and resurrection were recorded in advance, that we can have absolute confidence that what the Bible says about Him (and us) is true. This Christmas, I encourage you to find out what that means for you.