When is Jesus real birthday: the date and its miraculous meaning to our lives
Do you know when Jesus
actual birthday really is? The date has been a subject of much concern to
Christians as the birthplace of Christ has also been of much controversy. The bible
tells us that Christ was born in Bethlehem of Judah
Scriptures supporting Jesus actual birthplace
Mathew 2
After Jesus was born in
Bethlehem in Judea, during the time of King Herod, Magi[a] from the east came
to Jerusalem 2 and asked, “Where is the one who has been born king of the Jews?
We saw his star when it rose and have come to worship him.”
3 When King Herod heard
this he was disturbed, and all Jerusalem with him. 4 When he had called
together all the people’s chief priests and teachers of the law, he asked them
where the Messiah was to be born. 5 “In Bethlehem in Judea,” they replied, “for
this is what the prophet has written:
6
“‘But you, Bethlehem,
in the land of Judah,
are by no means least among the rulers of
Judah;
for out of you will
come a ruler
who will shepherd my people Israel.’[b]”
7 Then Herod called the
Magi secretly and found out from them the exact time the star had appeared. 8
He sent them to Bethlehem and said, “Go and search carefully for the child. As
soon as you find him, report to me, so that I too may go and worship him.”
9 After they had heard
the king, they went on their way, and the star they had seen when it rose went
ahead of them until it stopped over the place where the child was. 10 When they
saw the star, they were overjoyed. 11 On coming to the house, they saw the
child with his mother Mary, and they bowed down and worshiped him. Then they
opened their treasures and presented him with gifts of gold, frankincense and
myrrh. 12 And having been warned in a dream not to go back to Herod, they
returned to their country by another route.
The Escape to Egypt
13 When they had gone,
an angel of the Lord appeared to Joseph in a dream. “Get up,” he said, “take
the child and his mother and escape to Egypt. Stay there until I tell you, for
Herod is going to search for the child to kill him.”
14 So he got up, took
the child and his mother during the night and left for Egypt, 15 where he
stayed until the death of Herod. And so was fulfilled what the Lord had said
through the prophet: “Out of Egypt I called my son.”[c]
16 When Herod realized
that he had been outwitted by the Magi, he was furious, and he gave orders to
kill all the boys in Bethlehem and its vicinity who were two years old and
under, in accordance with the time he had learned from the Magi. 17 Then what
was said through the prophet Jeremiah was fulfilled:
18
“A voice is heard in
Ramah,
weeping and great mourning,
Rachel weeping for her
children
and refusing to be comforted,
because they are no more.”[d]
19 After Herod died, an
angel of the Lord appeared in a dream to Joseph in Egypt 20 and said, “Get up,
take the child and his mother and go to the land of Israel, for those who were
trying to take the child’s life are dead.”
21 So he got up, took
the child and his mother and went to the land of Israel. 22 But when he heard
that Archelaus was reigning in Judea in place of his father Herod, he was
afraid to go there. Having been warned in a dream, he withdrew to the district
of Galilee, 23 and he went and lived in a town called Nazareth. So was
fulfilled what was said through the prophets, that he would be called a
Nazarene
According to the book
of Isaiah, unto us a child is born, unto us a son is given. And the government
shall be upon its shoulder. And his name shall be called wonderful, councilor,
the mighty God, the everlasting father and the prince of peace.
There was a lot of
prophecy concerning the actual birthday and period when Jesus was really born.
Right from the time Adam and eve sinned against the Most high God, a lamb was
offered to cover their sins.
Just like any other date, his
birthday brought the following to our lives
1.
We obtained
peace since he was the prince of peace
2.
The disobedience
of the past, present and future was atoned for by his blood
3.
This date of Jesus
birth gave us live and hope to live for God without having fear of death
4.
We victory over
the work of our arc enemy which is Satan
5.
Love and
holiness from above