1. Luke 2.25-38 A:Consolation, v25 Comfort, comfort my people, says your God. Speak tenderly to Jerusalem, and proclaim to her that her hard service has been completed, that her sin has been paid for, that she has received from the LORD'S hand double for all her sins. (Isaiah 40.1-2) : the Hope (Prophecies of Christ’s birth #5)

2. Luke 2.25-38 A:Consolation, v25 B:Salvation, v30 “...it is too small a thing for you to be my servant to restore the tribes of Jacob and bring back those of Israel I have kept. I will also make you a light for the Gentiles, that you may bring my salvation to the ends of the earth.” (Isaiah 49.6) "I, the L ORD, L ORD, have called you in righteousness; I will take hold of your hand. I will keep you and will make you to be a covenant for the people and a light for the Gentiles...” (Isaiah 42.6) : the Hope (Prophecies of Christ’s birth #5)

3. Luke 2.25-38 A:Consolation, v25 B:Salvation, v30 “... Nations will come to your light, and kings to the brightness of your dawn.” (Isaiah 60.3) “Salvation is found in no-one else, for there is no other name under heaven given to men by which we must be saved.” (Acts 4.12)

4. Luke 2.25-38 A:Consolation, v25 B:Salvation, v30 C:Redemption, v38 : the Hope (Prophecies of Christ’s birth #5) “...we had hoped that he was the one who was going to redeem Israel. And what is more, it is the third day since all this took place.” (Luke 24.21) ‘The idea that God, if there is a force of Love and Logic in the universe, that it would seek to explain itself is amazing enough. That it would seek to explain itself by becoming a child born in poverty... and straw, a child, I just thought, "Wow!" Just the poetry… I saw the genius of picking a particular point in time and deciding to turn on this… Love needs to find a form...love has to become an action or something concrete. It would have to happen. There must be an incarnation. Love must be made flesh.’