Merry Christmas from Ukraine!! The Christmas tradition so enjoyed by so many throughout the world is rooted in the gracious prophecies and history of the Jewish people. The apostle John opens up his entire gospel with the singularity of Jesus Christ as the true and only Messianic revelation of God to men attested by the last prophet of the Hebrew tradition, "There came a man sent from God, whose name was John. He came as a witness, to testify about the Light, so that all might believe through him. He was not the Light, but He came to testify about the Light (John 1:6-8).” The apostle John thus considers Jesus not only to be the "Light of men (John 1:4),” or the "Light of the world (John 8:12),” but also the "true Light which, coming into the world enlightens every man (John 1:9).”

With such designations, John is most certainly designating Jesus as the Messianic Light prophesied by Isaiah the prophet who wrote so long ago, "But there will be no more gloom for her who was in anguish; in earlier times He treated the land of Zebulun and the land of Naphtali with contempt, but later on He shall make it glorious, by the way of the sea, on the other side of Jordan, Galilee of the Gentiles. The people who walk in darkness Will see a great light; Those who live in a dark land, the light will shine on them (Isa. 9:1-3).” Isaiah then goes on to connect this Messianic Light who shines in Galilee with the virgin birth (Isa. 7:10-14) and the Christmas story, "For a child will be born to us, a son will be given to us; And the government will rest on His shoulders; And His name will be called Wonderful Counselor, Mighty God, Eternal Father, Prince of Peace. There will be no end to the increase of His government or of peace, on the throne of David and over his kingdom, to establish it and to uphold it with justice and righteousness from then on and forevermore. The zeal of the Lord of hosts will accomplish this (Isa. 9:6-7).”

In short, the prologue of the Gospel of John (1:1-18) is the apostle John’s more theological version of the Christmas story which is historically enshrined in both gospels of Matthew and Luke (Matt. 1-2; Luke 1-2). Yet such transcendent theologizing from John is not divorced from the historicity of the birth of Messiah related to the Christmas story. The apostle John simply summarizes the Christmas story by presenting its greater theological meaning as the presentation of the Incarnate Son of God (John 1:1-18, 34, 49; 3:18; 5:25; 11:4, 27; 19:7; 20:31) to the world as a testimony to believe in.

As such, the transcendent meaning that John uses to describe the coming and incarnation of Christ is never divorced from the historical object of faith. They are inextricably tied together so that the historical reality of the Christmas story is one in the same with its transcendent meaning. Christmas was prophesied in the past as God Himself promised the nation of Israel to become a man to save the world from its many, many sins where the whole meaning of salvation by grace through faith is an incredible undeserved gift that literally and spiritually keeps on giving in spite of so much opposition against it, "Now all this took place that what was spoken by the Lord through the prophet might be fulfilled, saying, 'Behold, the virgin shall be with child, and shall bear a Son, and they shall call His name Immanuel,' which translated means, "God with us (Matthew 1:22-23)."

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