For many people around the world, Christmas is their favorite holiday. Special decorations are put up both inside and outside of the house. Special foods are eaten and traditions are kept. Christmas carols are sung and families gather. But Christmas is much more than just a fun holiday. Christmas is the celebration of Isa Al-Masih (Jesus the Messiah) coming to earth.
Just as many people wait for Christmas all year, the birth of Jesus was long awaited by those who had studied the Taurat and the Prophets. From the very beginning, Allah promised One who would come to save us from our sins and bring us back into a relationship with God.
Prophecies About Isa Al-Masih – Made and Fulfilled
We know that Jesus was the Promised One because every prophecy given about His birth was fulfilled. We will consider just a few of the prophecies given about Isa Al-Masih.
Both the Injil and the Quran tell us that Mary, the mother of Jesus, was a virgin. Qs. 19:20 says, “How can I have a boy while no man has touched me and I have not been unchaste?” Matthew 1:23 also says, “Behold, the virgin shall conceive and bear a son, and they shall call his name Immanuel.”
The prophet Isaiah foretold this. Isaiah 7:14 says, “Therefore the Lord himself will give you a sign. Behold, the virgin shall conceive and bear a son, and shall call his name Immanuel.”
The prophet Micah foretold that Jesus would be born in Bethlehem (Micah 5:1-2). Luke gives the account of this fulfillment, as well as the fulfillment that Jesus would be from the House of David (Jeremiah 23:5; 2 Samuel 7:13). “In those days Caesar Augustus issued a decree that a census should be taken of the entire Roman world… And everyone went to their own town to register. So Joseph also went up from the town of Nazareth in Galilee to Judea, to Bethlehem the town of David, because he belonged to the house and line of David. He went there to register with Mary, who was pledged to be married to him and was expecting a child. While they were there, the time came for the baby (Isa Al-Masih) to be born” (Injil, Luke 2:1-6).
God’s Perfect Plan of Salvation
You may be asking, why were all of these prophecies made about Isa? And why did He fulfill all of them?
The reason is because man is separated from God because of his sin (Isaiah 59:2). God wants mankind to walk in close communion with him just as Adam and Eve did before they sinned.
God requires payment for sin. Romans 6:23 says, “The wages of sin is death.” Because of our sin, we deserve death! So, God sent Jesus into the world as a baby. For His first 30 years, Jesus’ life wasn’t much different from the rest of the people around Him, except that He was sinless. Qs. 19:19 says, “He said: I am only a messenger of your Lord: That I will give you a pure boy.” Isa Al-Masih was “tempted in every way, just as we are – yet was without sin” (Hebrews 4:15).
Around age 30, though, Jesus began performing amazing acts: giving sight to the blind, making the lame walk and bringing the dead back to life.
Christ Was Born to Die!
Isa Al-Masih’s greatest act was His death, becoming the payment for our sin so that we can walk again with God. Three days later, Isa Al-Masih came back to life. He is now in heaven at the “right hand of the Father” (Acts 2:33).
Isa Al-Masih was born to die! “She will bear a son, and you shall call his name Jesus, for he will save his people from their sins” (Injil, Matthew 1:21). This is why Christmas is so important, and why it is celebrated all over the world!
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Hi Dear,
I believe that Isa is the prophet from Allah. He is the same as Ibrahim and Muhammad. They have one message from Allah.
1. Why did Isa come to the world? Isa came to the world like other prophets. They have a message from Allah but they came in different times. Isa taught to worship only one God, and to follow His orders.
2. How do we know that Isa was the Promised One? Every prophet promised the next coming of prophet. So Isa also promised the coming of Muhammad.
3. Why were there so many prophecies given about Isa?
Isa has special prophecies from Allah. But He is not the Son of God, or partly God. He is only human, Allah’s creation like Adam. Allah said be and He became. Allah is one. We believe in all prophets’ messages including the Taurat and Injil. But the Quran is the latest updates than the previous messages.
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Dear Aabi,
Thank you for your comment.
1. You are right that the prophets ordered people to worship one God only. Yet, the main purpose of Isa’s coming is to become sin’s redemption to all mankinds. Only through this redemption, we could get forgiven from Allah. Learn more about this through: https://www.isaandislam.com/muslim-beliefs/hidden-meaning-in-the-eid-al-adha-sacrifice.html.
2. We know that He’s the Promised One, because He was long before prophesied through God’s prophets that He would come and set away for God’s forgiveness. The article above explained more about it.
Regarding Muhammad, unfortunately Isa didn’t foretell about him. I understand that many of Muslims brothers believe that it was written about in the Taurat and Injil. It’s not. The Taurat and Injil don’t mention about Muhammad.
3. Prophecies were given about Isa so that we would acknowledge that His death is God’s plan for our eternal life. If you learn more about Isa through the Bible, you’ll find that Isa is Son of God. Learn more about this through: https://www.isaandislam.com/Isa-Al-Masih/what-is-meant-by-the-term-qson-of-godq.html.
Thank you.
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I’m confused, how can you call this website Isa and Islam but claim that Jesus (pbuh) died for our sins? This is not Islam?
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Humza,
This website is intended as a media to help other people of faith discover and understand Isa Al-Masih (Jesus the Messiah) from the perspective of both the Quran and the Bible. So that’s why you have found such claims that Isa died for the sins of all mankinds. This is taught in the Bible.
Thank you.
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The nature of Allah is spirit and is beyond human’s knowledge. This spirit rules all and wants to reveal Himself to humanity through different prophets, including Muhammad. But what is different is that Jesus of Nazareth is not the man from earth like any other prophets. He is the one who represents Allah in Heaven who is on the Throne. He is also the one that became flesh and revealed Himself to humanity to subdue for our sins. He has the form of humanity and is forever representing Allah, the Spirit. Yet since then, He no longer comes alone in the Spirit but through Isa Al-Masih. Therefore, the whole action of Allah the Spirit was, is, and will be done through His Body, or is active through Isa.
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Fikru Kinfu,
Thank you for giving your comment toward the article. You are right that God who is Spirit, wanted to reveal Himself to humanity. Since He was a Spirit, He sent His Word to incarnate into a human being.
Moreover, in order to get closer with humanity, a great sacrifice must have been done. This required His Word to sacrifice Himself to redeem the humans from their sins.
Since then, a man can freely comes to God, through Isa Al-Masih as God’s representation. And the whole action of Allah who is the Spirit was, is, and will be done through Isa Al-Masih. Isa Al-Masih has become the agent/ representation of God.
Blessings.
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