Jonathan Cahn and the Mystery of Christmas
Is there a prophetic message behind Christmas?
In a special Christmas message to his Beth-Israel congregation, Jonathan Cahn discusses the prophetic mystery surrounding Christmas and the “fullness of time.”
“Paul said, ‘In the fullness of time, God sent His Son,'” Cahn states.
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During the time of Christ’s birth, the Roman Empire reigned, the poets were quite active, pagan priests, also known as the magi, were studying the stars, Herod’s tyranny was felt by many and the Saducees and Pharisees ruled Judaism without a true heart for the Lord. When all these cultural, political and religious events converged, the fullness of time for Christ to enter our world had finally arrived.
“In a little town,” Cahn says, “A little province of a little country in the backwater of the Roman Empire, a child is born, and the entire age is going to hang on that moment. The whole age is going to change. Soon, every person, virtually every person born on this planet will mark every event of their life by that event in Bethlehem.”
It is this moment that the whole world would live by moving forward as time itself would now be known as before and after Christ. The birth of a baby in a manger, at the right moment, during the fullness of time, was the most unexpected but necessary miracle for our world. Like this miracle, God is working out everything for our best, all with His perfect timing.
“The most important things in your life happen in the quiet with God,” says Cahn. “The greatest things come often in the smallest, unlikely ways. What appears to be the greatest things are often little things in the sight of heaven.”
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Cahn says it is the things first recognized in the heart, much like our relationship with Jesus, that end up becoming the driving force for where we are going. These are the events the world offers no room for, yet they often are of the greatest importance. This was true for Mary and Joseph when none of the inns in Bethlehem had a vacancy which led to Jesus’ birth in a stable. The greatest event in human history took place in a quiet, insignificant location.
“Just like Bethlehem, it starts out small…but then it changed your whole life,” he says. “So often [with] the most important events, there’s no room in this world for the most important things in your life.
“It was in the quiet, in the fullness of time, God sent forth His Word.”
This Christmas is the perfect time to reflect on the ways God has moved in our lives, especially in those quiet moments.
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Abby Trivett is content development editor for Charisma Media.
