Things are not always as they may seem. Perception is very rarely reality. On the first Christmas Eve as Joseph and Mary made there way into Bethlehem they would have appeared to be nothing more than an insignificant couple from an insignificant town about to give birth to an insignificant baby whose future was as bleak as theirs, but nothing could be further from the truth. In our second message of our Christmas series we look at Luke 2:1-7 and the backdrop of history that was the world Christ was born in to, who exactly the betrothed, Joseph and Mary, were and the birthplace of Christ. This text gives us four truths to apply to our lives that can bring things into focus and show us that many things in our lives are not as they may seem.