verview : The earliest prediction of Jesus Christ's birth occurred about 4000 B.C. and is recorded in Gen. 3:15. The most significant prediction is found in Daniel 9:25-26. It was written somewhere around 538 B.C. and gives the exact week in which Jesus Christ would die in A.D. 33. From that prophecy one can estimate the earliest year in which Jesus could have been born. That prophecy is included here as are six other key prophecies about His birth.