There’s an incredible part of the Christmas story that most have never heard.
We’re all of course familiar with the passage from the second chapter of the New Testament book of Luke wherein shepherds living out in the fields, keeping watch over their flock by night are encountered by an angel of the Lord who says, “For there is born to you this day in the city of David a Savior, who is Christ the Lord. And this will be the sign to you: You will find a Babe wrapped in swaddling cloths, lying in a manger.”
This baby is later described by John the Baptist, in the first chapter of the gospel of John, as Jesus, “the lamb of God who would take away the sins of the world.”
What if I told you that the manger in which Jesus was born was located in the same place where the lambs were raised to be used as sacrifices for the Jewish people in the mighty Temple in Jerusalem?
In other words, Jesus was born amongst the sacrificial lambs!
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Brian
Next week, on December 25th, billions of people will celebrate Christmas and in doing so will acknowledge the birth of Jesus Christ, the promised Messiah of the God of Israel. In the process, many will attend midnight church services, some will light religious candles, and countless will worship in song, Gifts will be given, food will be consumed, and beverages will flow. Some family gatherings will be awesome, some intolerable. All of these activities will top off a shopping spree wherein gifts will be given to friends and loved one on Christmas Day.