Seventh Day Baptist
Christian Education Council
PO BOX 1678
Janesville, WI 53547
—Micah 5:1-5
by: Stephanie Sholtz.
God promised David in 2 Samuel 7 that Jesus, the King who reigns eternally, would come from David’s house. Micah stated that out of seemingly insignificant Bethlehem would come the Ruler who is from everlasting. Throughout the Old Testament, God promised that One was coming who would bring hope, justice, peace, and order to our world. Although we have not seen the final fulfillment of these promises that will occur with Christ’s second coming, it is the fulfillment of the promise to send Messiah, Immanuel—the God who walks among us—that we celebrate when we focus on the birth of Christ.