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Matthew 2 Luke 2 – Come Follow Me
Luke 2 is probably one of the most famous
in the Bible because it tells the “Christmas Story.”
Joseph took
his espoused pregnant wife from Nazareth in Galilee to the city of David, which
was called Bethlehem to be taxed. Luke 2:5 Mary “being great with
Child.” It would have taken them 4 to 5 days walking and riding a
donkey over the rocky hilly Judean desert.
Luke 2:7 “And she brought forth her first-born son, and wrapped him in
swaddling clothes, and laid him in a manger.”
Luke doesn’t say the birth of Jesus occurred on the very
night of their arrival in Bethlehem, though it seems to have been soon after
that. The setting was probably in a
limestone cave used for a stable. Here
the Greatest of all would enter mortality in the humblest of circumstances.
We’ve been trained to think of the manger as wooden. But, in Palestine animals were fed from stone
troughs. It was symbolic of Jesus’ final
resting place at the end of His life, being placed in a stone sepulcher.
The birth of Christ is announced to the Shepherds in
their fields. There was a Heavenly Choir
singing and praising God. Then the
Shepherds find Mary, and Joseph and the babe lying in a manger. Afterwards the Shepherds spread the word
abroad to many. But Mary kept all these
things in her heart realizing that this tiny, helpless infant was the Son of
God, the Promised Messiah, the Savior of the world.
The Scriptures are clear that Jesus was born during the
reign of King Herod the Great. The best
historical evidence dictates that the birth of Jesus occurred about the year 4
B.C.
For Latter-day Saints, the challenge comes in attempting
to reconcile this historical evidence with Doctrine and Covenants 20:1,
which refers to the organization of the LDS Church on April 6, 1830, as being “one thousand eight hundred and thirty years since the coming
of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ in the flesh.” Church leader’s interpretations
of this verse as they relate to the Savior’s birth vary from being taken
literally on April 6, 1 A.D. to not proposing any date as, the true date.
Matthew 2:1 “Now when Jesus was born in Bethlehem of Judaea in the days of
Herod the king, behold there came wise men from the east to Jerusalem.”
The LDS Bible Dictionary suggest “that they were actually prophets on a divine errand.”
Why in the
Book of Mormon, does Alma 7:10 say that Jesus will be born at Jerusalem when Micah 5:2 and Matthew 2:1-7 speak of Christ being born in
Bethlehem? In that same Alma 7:10 verse
it says, speaking of Mary “who shall be overshadowed and conceive by the power the Holy
Ghost.” Alma supposedly writing in 83 B.C.
uses the word “Ghost.” That word was not
even formed until the 15th Century A.D. which proves that the entire
passage is anachronistic and plagiarized from the King James Bible.
Matthew 2:9 “When they heard the king, they departed: and, lo, the star,
which they saw in the east, went before them, till it came and stood over where
the young child was.” By the time the wisemen arrived in
Jerusalem, Jesus was already a young child.
Joseph and Mary had apparently decided to stay in Bethlehem for a while
after the Savior’s birth and had settled in a house there. Thus, the pictures we see of the wise men and
the shepherds visiting the baby Jesus in a stable were a composite of two
separate events.
After the
wise men worshipped Jesus a
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Luke 2 is probably one of the most famous
in the Bible because it tells the “Christmas Story.”
Joseph took
his espoused pregnant wife from Nazareth in Galilee to the city of David, which
was called Bethlehem to be taxed. Luke 2:5 Mary “being great with
Child.” It would have taken them 4 to 5 days walking and riding a
donkey over the rocky hilly Judean desert.
Luke 2:7 “And she brought forth her first-born son, and wrapped him in
swaddling clothes, and laid him in a manger.”
Luke doesn’t say the birth of Jesus occurred on the very
night of their arrival in Bethlehem, though it seems to have been soon after
that. The setting was probably in a
limestone cave used for a stable. Here
the Greatest of all would enter mortality in the humblest of circumstances.
We’ve been trained to think of the manger as wooden. But, in Palestine animals were fed from stone
troughs. It was symbolic of Jesus’ final
resting place at the end of His life, being placed in a stone sepulcher.
The birth of Christ is announced to the Shepherds in
their fields. There was a Heavenly Choir
singing and praising God. Then the
Shepherds find Mary, and Joseph and the babe lying in a manger. Afterwards the Shepherds spread the word
abroad to many. But Mary kept all these
things in her heart realizing that this tiny, helpless infant was the Son of
God, the Promised Messiah, the Savior of the world.
The Scriptures are clear that Jesus was born during the
reign of King Herod the Great. The best
historical evidence dictates that the birth of Jesus occurred about the year 4
B.C.
For Latter-day Saints, the challenge comes in attempting
to reconcile this historical evidence with Doctrine and Covenants 20:1,
which refers to the organization of the LDS Church on April 6, 1830, as being “one thousand eight hundred and thirty years since the coming
of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ in the flesh.” Church leader’s interpretations
of this verse as they relate to the Savior’s birth vary from being taken
literally on April 6, 1 A.D. to not proposing any date as, the true date.
Matthew 2:1 “Now when Jesus was born in Bethlehem of Judaea in the days of
Herod the king, behold there came wise men from the east to Jerusalem.”
The LDS Bible Dictionary suggest “that they were actually prophets on a divine errand.”
Why in the
Book of Mormon, does Alma 7:10 say that Jesus will be born at Jerusalem when Micah 5:2 and Matthew 2:1-7 speak of Christ being born in
Bethlehem? In that same Alma 7:10 verse
it says, speaking of Mary “who shall be overshadowed and conceive by the power the Holy
Ghost.” Alma supposedly writing in 83 B.C.
uses the word “Ghost.” That word was not
even formed until the 15th Century A.D. which proves that the entire
passage is anachronistic and plagiarized from the King James Bible.
Matthew 2:9 “When they heard the king, they departed: and, lo, the star,
which they saw in the east, went before them, till it came and stood over where
the young child was.” By the time the wisemen arrived in
Jerusalem, Jesus was already a young child.
Joseph and Mary had apparently decided to stay in Bethlehem for a while
after the Savior’s birth and had settled in a house there. Thus, the pictures we see of the wise men and
the shepherds visiting the baby Jesus in a stable were a composite of two
separate events.
After the
wise men worshipped Jesus a
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