01KJNM80JECYC9NHXQPKGA4QNS

Properties

char_end

948

char_start

0

chunk_index

0

chunk_total

1

estimated_tokens

237

text

125 what. The idea had become a pretty general one that some one was going to appear in the world that would be a friend to men and their Redeemer, but nobody knew who or when it was to be, or exactly what he was going to do. We can all tell what has happened when it is past, but not many people can tell what is going to happen; but there are a few that can. We call such people prophets. You find a good deal said about them in the Old Testament. These Old Testament prophets knew beforehand that a Saviour was going to appear. Isaiah was such a prophet, and if you will read the fourteenth verse of the seventh chapter of Isaiah, you will see that he was expecting something that was certainly very much like what happened that night in Bethlehem; and as you read further on in the Old Testament, you will discover that this expectation was continually increasing. It was something as it would be if you had never seen the sun, and on a clear