Jesus Christ is God's only son. He was with Him before creation and is with Him now, at His right hand. But for a short time Jesus Christ walked the earth in human form. Col. 1:15 says "and He is the image of the invisible God, the first born of all creation." And in John 1:1-2 it says, "In the beginning was the Word and the Word was with God and the Word was God. He was in the beginning with God." But in Col. 1:18 it says "He is also the head of the body, the church; and He is the beginning, the first born from the dead; so that He himself might come to have first place in everything."

  These passages seem to contradict each other. The first saying He was first born of creation and the last one saying He is first born of the dead. From the first one we see that He is God's first and only Son but in the last we see that He died. We see also that He didn't remain dead. He was born from the dead, that is, He rose again. He conquered death for us being the first to permanently rise from the dead. Sin and death no longer has the sting that it had before Christ.

    He didn't have to do that for us. He loves us so much and He loves God the Father so much that He laid down His life here on earth for us. He obeyed the Father in Heaven. John 3:16 "For God so loved the world, that He gave His only begotten Son, that whoever believes in Him should not perish but have eternal life." Jesus knew that He was to die on the cross for us and conquer death. In obedience He went to the cross. Every detail of His life was done in obedience, right down to the fulfillment of the prophecies.
    The Old Testament is filled with prophecies of the birth, life, death and resurrection of Jesus Christ. Some of these prophecies are as old as the Bible itself.
    We don't have time to recount them all but here are a few to remind us about Him.
    In Gen. 3:15 the Bible says "And I will put enmity between you and the woman, and between your seed and her seed; He shall bruise you on the head and you shall bruise Him on the heal."  This prophecy indicates that Satan and the seed, or descendent, of the woman would somehow fight. Jesus is the seed and conquered Satan with rising from the dead.  The fulfillment of the seed is recorded in Gal. 4:4 which says, "But when the fullness of time came, God sent forth His Son born of a woman, born under the law."  
  Micah 5:2 says about His birthplace, "But for you, Bethlehem Ephrathah, too little to be among the clans of Judah, from you One will go forth for Me to be ruler in Israel. His days are from long ago, from days of eternity."  The fulfillment was recorded in
Matt. 2:1-2,  it says, "Now after Jesus was born in Bethlehem of Judea in the days of Herod the king, Behold, Magi from the east arrived in Jerusalem saying, Where is He