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--Just
as the angels appeared to the shepherds on the even of Christ's birth and said,
"I bring you good tidings of great joy, which shall be to all
people," and angel told a king in the Americas 124 years before Christ was
born, "I am come to declare unto you the glad tidings of great
joy...though mayest declare unto they people, that they may also be filled with
joy."
--The shepherds did not see the star.
--The shepherds did not see the star.
--We need to remember that once the
shepherds saw the Christ child, they "made known abroad the sayings which
was told them concerning this child." "And all they that heard it wondered at those things which were told them by the shepherds." So they listened to the heavenly
messengers, did as they were directed with haste, and then went out and told
others. Men of action!
--Scriptorian's believe that Elizabeth hid the baby John from Herod's horrific slaughter of babies younger than 2 1/2. Zacharias would not tell where John was. That is why Zacharias was killed 'between the temple and the alter.' (Matthew 23:35)
--Scriptorian's believe that Elizabeth hid the baby John from Herod's horrific slaughter of babies younger than 2 1/2. Zacharias would not tell where John was. That is why Zacharias was killed 'between the temple and the alter.' (Matthew 23:35)
