In the fulness of time, the Bible says, God sent forth His Son.
Solomon says there is a season and a time for everything. We can rejoice, as we look another “Christmas” in the face, that there was a perfect time for the sending of His only begotten Son, a unique birthing by His Holy Spirit through a young Judean virgin named Mary!
The time then was surely “full.” Humanity was engulfed in spiritual darkness. Sin had wrought its painful effects universally on Adam’s descendants. Never, since the original first couple were banished from Eden’s garden, had there been a time in history that was more ready than that night of nights when angels heralded His marvelous, miraculous birth in Bethlehem. It was ripe for the coming of God’s solution for man’s sin.
Hopelessness ruled. Tyrants made helplessness seem inevitable. Religion wore the face of hypocrisy. The dark world of demonic activity had never enjoyed such ubiquitous renown. But then, in the “fulness” of time, God moved, Heaven opened up, and Hell screamed in horror—when God sent forth His Son.
Oh, glorious revelation! John, in his eye-witness gospel account, simply said, “Behold, the Lamb of God that taketh away the sin of the world!”
He came in the fulness of time, and in the only right way He could have come—that is, made of a woman. Not made of a man, for that would not have sufficed for sin; and, not made of a man and a woman, for that would have qualified Him as one of us, a sinner. But, made of a woman, with blood untainted, spotless and pure, with no curse of sin upon it through the virgin birth; thus, He alone qualified to be the substitutionary sacrificial Lamb of God offered on Calvary for the atonement of the sins of the world!
It was indeed the turning point of all history. He came. He died. He rose again and ascended back to Heaven from whence He came; but, before He returned to Heaven, He promised that He would come back again!
And, we who believe Him are excited about another Christmas and the prospect of the 2nd Advent of Jesus to this earth! His first Advent was the turning point of all history; His 2nd Advent will mark the climax of all history. Coming then at Bethlehem, He was humiliated; coming again to Jerusalem, He will be exalted. And every knee shall bow and every tongue shall confess that Jesus Christ is Lord!
And, it will not be too late. The world is once again “ripe” for His coming. There is indeed a time and there is a season for everything under the sun. May this Christmas be a season for each of us to remember that Holy night when shepherds saw His star. But may it also be a season when we continue to keep an eye on the clouds, as it were, and an ear for the Trumpet and for the voice heard universally—inviting us to “Come Up Hither!”
“Some day the silver cord will break, and I no more as now shall sing; But, O, the joy when I shall wake, within the palace of the King! And I shall see Him face to face, and tell the story—saved by grace; And I shall see Him face to face, and tell the story saved by grace.” (Fanny Crosby)
“He which testifieth these things saith, “Surely, I come quickly.” Amen. Even so, come, Lord Jesus. The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with you all. Amen.” (Rev. 22:20,21)
YOU and GOD 