Pastor Ken continues the Advent Conspiracy series with What’s in a Name?
20But after he had considered this, an angel of the Lord appeared to him in a dream and said, “Joseph son of David, do not be afraid to take Mary home as your wife, because what is conceived in her is from the Holy Spirit. 21 She will give birth to a son, and you are to give him the name Jesus, because he will save his people from their sins.”
22 All this took place to fulfill what the Lord had said through the prophet: 23 “The virgin will be with child and will
give birth to a son, and they will call him Immanuel”—which means, “God with us.”
—Matthew 1:20-23, NIV84
In verse 21 Joseph is told by the angel to “give him the name Jesus, because he will save his people from their sins.” which fulfills what the Lord prophesied through Isaiah in Isaiah 7:14: “The virgin will be with child and will give birth to a son, and they will call him Immanuel“.
At the end of Matthew’s gospel, we are reminded by Jesus that he is Immanuel, God with us, “And surely I am with you always, to the very end of the age.”
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