From the earliest days of the church, we look forward to the coming of Jesus (Isaiah 61:10-62:3, Luke 2:22-40). From Jesus’ birth and infancy, people understood there was something incredibly special about Jesus. Though there is sorrowful pain, suffering, evil, sin, and death in the coming of Jesus, these things do not have the last word. God, in Jesus Christ, comes with a message of reconciliation and healing for the world!