The second chapter of Matthew is a wonderful record of fulfillment of prophecies concerning Jesus Christ.  In His birth, life, death and resurrection Jesus fulfilled each of the prophecies foretelling of the Messiah perfectly.  In this text geography is used to prove the Christ.

THE CITY OF BIRTH

Now when Jesus was born in Bethlehem of Judaea in the days of Herod the king, behold, there came wise men from the east to Jerusalem (Matthew 2:1).  It was no accident or happenstance that Jesus was born in Bethlehem.  The place of His birth was in fulfillment to the prophecy given by Micah some 700 years earlier.  And they said unto him, In Bethlehem of Judaea: for thus it is written by the prophet, 6 And thou Bethlehem, in the land of Juda, art not the least among the princes of Juda: for out of thee shall come a Governor, that shall rule my people Israel (Matthew 2:5-6; Micah 5:2).