Sometimes we look at prophecies  and promises that are yet to be fulfilled with some doubt.  How will God do this?  How do these two thing line up with each other?  Will God fulfill these literally or spiritually or symbolically?  Well we can get an answer to some of these questions by looking at how God has already fulfilled some of his prophecies in the person of Jesus.  And one of the best is to look at the prophecies about Jesus’ birth and his hometown that we looked at Sunday.  Who would have thought that any one of the three prophecies we looked at would have been fulfilled?  None of them made sense when these prophets wrote them down.  Bethlehem not Jerusalem? A foreign country (Egypt) from which Jews were forbidden to enter, let alone come out of?  A land (Galilee) that God had forsaken due to their wickedness and sin and left to the Gentiles?  And how can all three be true all at once.  Yet God fulfilled each of these literally and to the letter and all three came to past just as it was written.  It may seem crazy, but God knows what is going to happen, when and then he tells us about it in his word.  So we should take him at his word, even if that word seems as crazy and weird as the Messiah coming from three unique and crazy places.  Trust him.