IN THE DARK STREETS SHINETH
Isaiah 9:2, NKJV
The people who walked in darkness have seen a great light; those who dwelt in the land of the shadow of death, upon them a light has shined.
1. THE WORD OF GOD HAD NOT BEEN HEARD FOR FOUR CENTURIES
2. THE PEOPLE OF GOD WERE UNDER THE OPPRESSIVE RULE OF ROME
3. THE NATION OF ISRAEL WAS FRACTURING
Pharisees
Sadducees
Essenes
Zealots
4. THE BIRTH OF JESUS CAME THROUGH A VIRGIN
5. THE CENSUS WAS A CONSIDERABLE IMPOSITION
Luke 2:1-7, NKJV
6. THROUGH THE HOSTILE FORCES OF HEROD, SATAN TRIED TO KILL JESUS
Matthew 2:13-18, NKJV
Genesis 3:15, TNIV
And I will put enmity between thee and the woman, and between thy seed and her seed; he shall crush thy head, and thou shalt crush his heel.
Revelation 12:3-4, NKJV
3 And another sign appeared in heaven: behold, a great, fiery red dragon having seven heads and ten horns, and seven diadems on his heads.
4 His tail drew a third of the stars of heaven and threw them to the earth. And the dragon stood before the woman who was ready to give birth, to devour her Child as soon as it was born.
Matthew 2:19-20, NKJV
19 Now when Herod was dead, behold, an angel of the Lord appeared in a dream to Joseph in Egypt,
20 saying, “Arise, take the young Child and His mother, and go to the land of Israel, for those who sought the young Child’s life are dead.”
Isaiah 9:2, NKJV
The people who walked in darkness have seen a great light; those who dwelt in the land of the shadow of death, upon them a light has shined.
John 1:4-5, NIV
4 In him was life, and that life was the light of all mankind. 5 The light shines in the darkness, and the darkness has not overcome it.
John 8:12, NIV
When Jesus spoke again to the people, he said, “I am the light of the world. Whoever follows me will never walk in darkness, but will have the light of life.”
