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1 | Where in Daniel that supports this? | Daniel | kyd37 | 103745 | ||
Where in Daniel that supports this? | ||||||
2 | Where in Daniel that supports this? | Daniel | Makarios | 103746 | ||
Greetings Kyd37, Please complete your question to help us answer your question. Blessings to you, Makarios |
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3 | Where in Daniel that supports this? | Daniel | khuck | 103748 | ||
Hi Makarios, The question was a part of a different thread. I was interested also, therefore I hope you can be of assistance here. The original post and answer that Kyd37 is: Question: What month was Jesus born in? Answer: kyd37 Since the exact date is not stated in the Bible everthing is conjecture. However secular history and to fulfill prophecy in Daniel suggests a Sept birth. His conception could very well have been in the later part of Dec. |
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4 | Where in Daniel that supports this? | Daniel | Makarios | 103751 | ||
Greetings Kathy, To echo what C.S. Lewis said, there is no doubt that many of our present-day Christmas/New Year customs have little relevance to Biblical Christianity. Such things as the commercialism, the drunkenness, the highway deaths, and the general letdown in morals that have come to be associated with the so-called "Holiday Season" obviously have no basis in New Testament Christianity. The same is true of the Christmas tree, the holly and mistletoe, the Santa Claus myth, and similar more pleasant Christmas traditions. As Radioman2 has alluded to, there is no indication in the New Testament that the early Christians observed Christmas at all. Furthermore, many authorities believe now that Jesus was born, not in the winter, but more probably in the early fall. It is not surprising, therefore, that there have been various groups of Christians, both in the past and in the present, who have reacted against Christmas and New Year celebrations so vigorously as to reject them altogether and to prohibit their members from taking any part in them. On the other hand, there is much in our Christmas observances which, even though not explicitly found in the Bible, makes it a legitimate and wholesome application of the significance of the incarnation to the world. In a society which is becoming increasingly secularized and fragmented, it is surely good to have an annual and universal remembrance of the great historical fact that "in this was manifested the love of God toward us, because that God sent His only begotten Son into the world, that we might live through Him" (1 John 4:9). Even rank unbelievers and hardened cynics somehow seem to sense, at Christmastime, that "Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners" (1 Timothy 1:5, KJV), and this makes it a good time for evangelism. As far as the date of Christmas is concerned, this is unimportant in comparison with its message, as Hank has already pointed out. It is singularly appropriate to observe the entrance of God into man's life at the time of the winter solstice, when the sun is at its farthest retreat and the nights are longest, for "the appearing of our Saviour Jesus Christ hath abolished death and hath brought life and immortality to light through the gospel" (2 Timothy 1:10). As noted above, it is unlikely that December 25 is the actual birth date of Christ. Perhaps the most probable date, though no one really knows, is about September 29. This was the first day of the great Jewish Feast of Tabernacles, when thousands of pilgrims from all over Israel went up to Jerusalem to dwell in small "tabernacles" or booths, commemorating their wilderness wanderings and anticipating the coming kingdom, when God Himself would "tabernacle" with them (see Revelation 21:3). This would have been a good time for the Roman census, with the weather still warm and most of the harvest in, and with people traveling anyway. Shepherds would still have their flocks in the field, whereas none of these seems at all likely in the winter time. If one counts back 280 days (the normal peroid of human gestation), he arrives at the previous December 25. And then he realizes that the great miracle of the incarnation was not the birth of Christ, which was a fully normal human birth in every respect, but rather the miraculous conception, when the Holy Spirit placed the "holy thing" in the womb of the virgin Mary (Luke 1:35)! It was on that great day that the eternal Son, the second person of the divine Trinity, left the courts of heaven and "took upon Him the form of a servant and was made in the likeness of men" (Philippians 2:7), knowing that this eventually would take Him to the "death of the cross." Blessings to you, Makarios |
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5 | Where in Daniel that supports this? | Daniel | Makarios | 103753 | ||
I apologize, That Scripture reference in the 3rd paragraph was to 1 Timothy 1:15, not 1 Tim. 1:5. Blessings to you, Makarios |
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