All the prophecies relating to Christ were accurate, and their performance exact. Forecast and fulfillment are in perfect agreement. All specifications as to His ancestry and the manner and time of His birth came to pass as predicted. What Jesus said as He entered His public ministry, can be equally applied to the hour of His birth. “The time is fulfilled and the kingdom of God is at hand” (Mark 1:15). Paul reminds us that “when the fulness of the time was come, God sent forth his Son, made of a woman” (Gal. 4:4)—not a day before the time, not a day after, but precisely in the hour striking on God’s prophetic clock.