What Kind of Saviour?
"For there is born to you this day in the
city of David a Savior, who is Christ the
Lord."
Luke 2: 11
For five hundred years before the advent of Christ,
Jews lived under the heel of foreign governments.
Following Jewish captivity in Babylon, Persians
controlled Judah, followed by the Greeks.
After the death of Alexander the Great, his generals
divided up the Middle East
leading to rule by (Greek)
Ptolemies, then the Seleucids. Beginning in 166 B.C.,
Jewish revolt against Greek rule resulted in a Jewish
(Hasmonean) state crushed by Rome in 63 B.C.
Given this history, it is no wonder Jews were looking for a
deliverer—a
savior—by the time Christ began His ministry.
When the angels announced to the Bethlehem shepherds
that “a Savior” had been born, they could have wondered,
“What kind of savior?”
An angel of the Lord clarified meaning of “Savior” to Joseph:
“He will save His
people from their sins” (Matthew 1:21). Not
save them from the Romans or others but from their sins.
The most important salvation every human needs
is salvation
from sin. Make sure you have received
the salvation Christ offers.
"Oh, happy day, that fixed my choice
on Thee, my Savior and my
God!"
Philip Doddridge
