Good Shepherd Lutheran Church

Jesus' birth is foretold in Isaiah 7:13-17, but it is difficult to understand how this "sign" would have meant much in the eighth century before Christ. The Apostle Matthew understood this and used this text to help us understand the birth of Jesus in Matthew 1:22-23: “All this took place to fulfill what the Lord had said through the prophet: ‘The virgin will conceive and give birth to a son, and they will call him Immanuel’ (which means ‘God with us).” The point for us, as it was for Mary, is that the time of waiting is over!