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In the time of the Lord Jesus Christ, the land of Israel was named Palestine and was dominated by the Roman Empire.
The man who was the King of Palestine when Jesus was born was commonly called Herod the Great. He wasn’t Roman, but an Idumean (from Esau) governor appointed by the Romans. Herod the Great wasn’t Roman, neither was he purely Jewish. Of Abraham’s two grandsons, he was not a descendant of Jacob (Israel) from whom David was descended, but of Esau.
The hands of Herod the Great dripped with the blood of many murders. He even killed members of his own family, including his wife and several of his sons. Matthew 2:16, “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.”
Luke tells us that all the countries throughout the entire Roman world, including Palestine, were to take a census ( an official count of the population) So Joseph and Mary had to leave their home in Nazareth in the province of Galilee to journey to the town of Bethlehem in the province of Judea which was the birthplace of King David.
Unconditional promise of God will always come to pass. God is Sovereign at all times and in all countries of the world. He is King of Kings and Lord of Lords. So the proud ruler of the Roman Empire became an instrument in God’s hands, without realizing it, he caused the fulfillment of God’s plan stated with absolute clarity centuries before by Micah, that Christ was to be born in Bethlehem. Micah 5 : 2, “But you, Bethlehem Ephrathah, though you are small among the clans of Judah, out of you will come for me one who will be ruler over Israel, whose origins are from of old, from ancient times.”
Spend time thinking of ways in which you have seen God’s Sovereignty in the events of your life. There may be times when He has brought something good out of that which looked bad at first. God did this in the events surrounding Jesus’ birth. Again spend a moment in prayer worshipping and praising God for the way His immeasurable greatness, wisdom and power worked in your life.
In the time of the Lord Jesus Christ, the land of Israel was named Palestine and was dominated by the Roman Empire.
The man who was the King of Palestine when Jesus was born was commonly called Herod the Great. He wasn’t Roman, but an Idumean (from Esau) governor appointed by the Romans. Herod the Great wasn’t Roman, neither was he purely Jewish. Of Abraham’s two grandsons, he was not a descendant of Jacob (Israel) from whom David was descended, but of Esau.
The hands of Herod the Great dripped with the blood of many murders. He even killed members of his own family, including his wife and several of his sons. Matthew 2:16, “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.”
Luke tells us that all the countries throughout the entire Roman world, including Palestine, were to take a census ( an official count of the population) So Joseph and Mary had to leave their home in Nazareth in the province of Galilee to journey to the town of Bethlehem in the province of Judea which was the birthplace of King David.
Unconditional promise of God will always come to pass. God is Sovereign at all times and in all countries of the world. He is King of Kings and Lord of Lords. So the proud ruler of the Roman Empire became an instrument in God’s hands, without realizing it, he caused the fulfillment of God’s plan stated with absolute clarity centuries before by Micah, that Christ was to be born in Bethlehem. Micah 5 : 2, “But you, Bethlehem Ephrathah, though you are small among the clans of Judah, out of you will come for me one who will be ruler over Israel, whose origins are from of old, from ancient times.”
Spend time thinking of ways in which you have seen God’s Sovereignty in the events of your life. There may be times when He has brought something good out of that which looked bad at first. God did this in the events surrounding Jesus’ birth. Again spend a moment in prayer worshipping and praising God for the way His immeasurable greatness, wisdom and power worked in your life.