By: Zach Collins I want to engage your imagination for a moment. Imagine with me that you have been tasked with picking up a person from the train station. Her name is Maggie Smith. It is a seemingly simple task, but there is a small issue that complicates this task: You have never met Maggie Smith. If you are going to pick up the right person from the train station, what would you need? A description. You would need to know pertinent details of this person’s physical appearance, and details about their life, to identify the right person to pick up from the train station.    In the Old Testament, God told the descendants of Abraham of a special person that was coming to bring them salvation and reconciliation. He was called the Christ, or the Messiah. Their hope hung upon His cross, as the righteous of the past, present, and future would enter Heaven’s gates by His blood (c.f., Hebrews 9:15). He was the most important person in their life, but they had never met Him! So, God provided them, through the writings of the prophets, the information they needed to identify the Christ, or the Messiah. These writings are called messianic prophecies. Throughout the pages of the Old Testament, these prophecies provide us with many important details about the life of Jesus. For a moment, contemplate the prophecies of His birth. The Jews were told that Jesus would be born of a virgin (Isaiah 7:14). In fact, they were …