Job Opening: Messiah. Who qualifies to apply?
Therefore the Lord Himself will give you a sign: Behold, the virgin shall conceive and bear a Son, and shall call His name Immanuel.
Isaiah 7:14 NKJV
This was a special sign of the coming Messiah: His mother would be a virgin. No other person in history was born in such a unique way.
Only Jesus fulfilled this prophecy.
And although Jesus was born by God’s power, He was also born from a human woman, which made Jesus human, too. Jesus was both God and man. Why was it important that God became a human, too?
Two reasons: Jesus knew what it was like to be human: to suffer pain and rejection, to be hungry and tired and lonely. Since He knew what it was like to be human, He could sympathize with us and help us when we are weak.
The second reason is this: only a human can die. Jesus came to pay for our sins with His life, and to give up that life He had to be human. To live on earth so He could die, to die so we could live, and to live again so we could live forever with Him.