Herod tries everything in his power to extinguish the Christ in Christmas. In Matthew 2, we read that he orders the massacre of all the little boys less than two years old living in Bethlehem and the surrounding areas. The Christmas story is not about a peaceful birth of baby resting quietly in the manger. It’s a tense and stressful situation, involving danger for each individual connected to the story, because this birth would forever impact the world, and Herod was out to stop it.