Jesus is God's Greatest Sign

In these days we are hearing much about signs and wonders. Many of these, of course, are spurious and false…tricks of the enemy to deceive and mislead God’ people, to magnify the flesh and glorify man, and to sidetrack us from the main purpose of God in the earth today. Not all signs are of the devil. The very fact that there is a counterfeit proves that there is a real, for no one counterfeits that which does not exist.

In Isaiah 7:14 the prophet cried out “Therefore the Lord himself shall give you a sign: Behold, a virgin shall conceive, and bear a son, and shall call his name Immanuel.” The sign was not the virgin who brought forth. It was not the swaddling clothes that He was wrapped in, nor was the miraculous birth itself the promised Sign, but rather it was the One who still is God’s greatest sign.

Now a sign is that which points to something, and this man Jesus, His birth, life, death, and resurrection point unerringly to that great thing which God is doing in the earth, the eternal Purpose in Christ Jesus. Matthew 1:18-25 states clearly that the Sign was not fulfilled when Jesus was born. It said that a sign was given. The prophet has promised that God would give them a sign. God gave them this sign when He gave them Jesus there in Bethlehem ’s stable.

Now a sign is not fulfilled when it is given. It is fulfilled when that which it points to comes to pass. That baby lying there in Mary’s arms is the greatest sign God ever gave to the earth, and it shall not fail. That which it points to shall most surely come to pass. The angels spoke to the shepherds in the field on that glorious night: “Fear not, for behold, I bring you good tiding of great joy, which shall be to all people. For unto you is born this day in the city of David a Savior which is Christ the Lord. And this shall be a sign unto you” (Luke 2:10-12). They went on to tell them where to find the child.

Simeon the prophet came by the Spirit into the temple, and there he found Mary and Joseph with the baby Jesus. Holding the baby he prophesied saying, “Behold this child is set for the fall and rising again of many in Israel and for a sign which shall be spoken against” (Luke 2:25-34). Jesus Himself said “…this is an evil generation, they seek a sign, and there shall no sign be given it, but the sign of Jonah the prophet. For as Jonah was a sign unto the Ninevites, so shall also the Son of Man be (a sign) unto this generation” (Luke 11:29-30).

Jonah was a sign pointing to the resurrection of our Lord Jesus Christ. This sign was given to the Ninevites when Jonah came forth after 3 days in the belly of the whale. The sign of Jonah was fulfilled when Jesus czme forth from the tomb. Jonah’s sign pointed unerringly to the Truth; it did not fail, and now a greater sign than Jonah is given. In Isaiah 8:18 the Scripture says: “Behold, I and the children whom the Lord hath given me are for signs and wonders.” Hebrews 2:13 makes us to understand that the One who spoke these words was actually our Lord Jesus. He says that He is for a sign, and so are the children (sons) that God hath given Him, those who are being conformed to His image, the Body of Christ. Thank God for His eternal plan and purpose.