Merry Christmas from Answers in Genesis

Along the side of the lake, near the gazebo, we added signs (leading up to the live nativity on our new outdoor stage) with Scriptures beginning in Genesis with God’s promise that a scepter would rise from Judah and then continuing through several of the promises that God made about his Son: that Jesus would be born in Bethlehem and that he would be born of a virgin. Then the verses shift into the New Testament and the fulfillment of those prophecies, culminating in Galatians 4:4,

But when the fullness of time had come, God sent forth his Son, born of woman, born under the law.

Yes, when the time was ready—4,000 years after sin had first broken God’s creation and he’d made his first promise that a Savior would come, and after 400 years of silence from God with no prophetic word or further promise—“God sent forth his Son, born of woman” in fulfillment of that first promise,

I will put enmity between you and the woman,     and between your offspring and her offspring; he shall bruise your head,     and you shall bruise his heel. (Genesis 3:15)

The offspring of the woman was finally here to once and for all bruise, or crush, the head of that serpent. What a marvelous truth!

The offspring of the woman was finally here to once and for all bruise, or crush, the head of that serpent. What a marvelous truth!

And this plan of redemption, planned from before the foundations of the earth were laid, and brought to fulfillment with such precision that every single promise God made was fully kept, can be summed up in this one verse,

For God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life. (John 3:16)

That’s what we’re celebrating today. May the Lord bless you as you reflect on this truth today, and may you be reminded anew of his great love for you—that he did not spare his only Son but gave him up for us all.

Merry Christmas from myself and Mally and all of us at Answers in Genesis.

As you enjoy spending time with family and friends, please enjoy this video from our Creation Choir and Orchestra’s first-ever True Christmas concert at the Ark Encounter. It was a phenomenal concert featuring a full orchestra, a beautiful choir, and gifted vocalists performing Christmas classics.

Thanks for stopping by and thanks for praying,Ken

This item was written with the assistance of AiG’s research team.