Twas the Night Before Christmas

On the night before that first Christmas more than two thousand years ago, God’s people were praying those same prayers, and they were on their knees, hoping and waiting for the Messiah to come. For thousands of years they had heard these three hundred plus prophecies and promises from the Old Testament, where Jesus was foretold where a Messiah would come. They had kept hope alive for year after year, decade after decade, generation after generation; but a lot of time had come and gone, and Jesus still hadn’t come. And so on that…the night before that first Christmas most of the people were not prepared. They were not aware of what was about to happen.