马太福音-Matthew 1章22节
| 1:22 |
这一切成就了，为要应验主藉着申言者所说的，说， Now all this has happened so that what was spoken by the Lord through the prophet might be fulfilled, saying, |
Enlightenment:
The birth of Christ was a great fulfillment of prophecies in the Old Testament. The first prophecy in the Old Testament is Genesis 3:15. There are no prophecies in chapters one and two of Genesis, but in chapter three, after the fall of man, after the serpent had worked himself into man through the woman, God gave a promise. In giving this promise, God seemed to say, “Serpent, you came in through the woman. Now I shall deal with you by the seed of this woman.” Thus, the promise concerning the seed of the woman was the first prophecy in the Bible.
In 1:22 and 23 this promise is fulfilled by a virgin conceiving a child. This child came to be the seed of the woman. In Galatians 4:4 Paul says that Christ was born under the law and also was born of the woman. Christ came not only to fulfill the law, but also to fulfill the promise that the seed of the woman would bruise the head of the serpent.
From Genesis we proceed to Isaiah 7:14, where there is another prophecy concerning Christ. “Behold, a virgin shall conceive, and bear a son.” The fulfillment of this promise brought God into man. Hallelujah, God became man!
亮光
基督的出生乃是旧约预言极大的应验。旧约第一个预言是创世记三章十五节。创世记一、二章没有预言，但在三章，在人堕落，蛇藉着女人把自己作到人里面之后，神给人应许。神给人这应许时似乎说，『蛇阿，你藉着女人进来，现在我要藉着这女人的后裔对付你。』因此，关于女人后裔的应许，乃是圣经的头一个预言。
在马太一章二十二节、二十三节，这预言由童女怀孕所应验。这孩子来了，成为女人的后裔。在加拉太四章四节，保罗说基督生在律法以下，且由女子所生。基督不仅来满足律法，也来应验女人后裔要伤蛇头的应许。
我们从创世记往前到以赛亚七章十四节，那里有另一个关于基督的预言：『看哪，必有童女怀孕生子。』（另译。）这应许的应验把神带到人里面。阿利路亚，神成了人！