Wow! Angels Everywhere! And, Oh Yeah, There Was This Baby
Today is October 12, 2014 and we are in the middle of the Biblical Feast of Tabernacles we are to observe according to Leviticus 23. If we truly wanted to be accurate in our religious holidays we would be celebrating Jesus’ birth during this Feast every year because that is when He was actually born (And that can be proven using the scriptural account of when Zacharias and Elizabeth gave birth to John, but that’s another subject). I do celebrate The Light of the World coming during December because that is when Mary was conceived of the Holy Spirit, and we believe that life begins at conception. With that being said, look at Luke 2 which is the account of Jesus’ birth beginning with the angelic proclamation to a group of shepherds. Verse 20 says, “The shepherds returned, glorifying and praising God for all the things they had heard and seen .” What had the shepherds heard and seen? The immediate response from most of us is that the shepherds heard and saw an angel telli