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Honey From The Rock
Psalm 81:16

"Sweet Stuff From God's Word"

A daily Bible study with Victor Knowles
Copyright 2007

'TWAS THE NIGHT BEFORE CHRIST'S BIRTH

This entry was posted on 12-24-2007 and is filed under uncategorized.

'Twas the night before Christ's birth and all through the town of Bethlehem people were going about just like they always did. Shopkeepers shut up their shops and went home. Lamps were lit and supper was cooked. Little children played before they went to bed. Out on the hills surrounding Bethlehem, shepherds watched over their flocks of sheep. It was just another ordinary night in Bethlehem.

Would could have predicted what would happen in just a few short hours? Well, a prophet named Micah, that's who? Hundreds of years before The Birth That Changed The World he declared, "But you, Bethlehem Ephrathah, Though you are little among thousands in Judah, Yet out of you shall come forth to Me The One to be Ruler in Israel, Whose goings forth are from of old, From everlasting" (Micah 5:2 NKJV). But Micah was no longer on the scene. He had died hundreds of years before. But his word lived on in the sacred scrolls.

King Herod got wind of these prophetic utterances when the Wise Men from the East came to Jerusalem seeing the Messiah. Herod gathered the learned scribes and priests and made inquiry. They knew the Book. They replied, "In Bethlehem of Judea, for thus it is written by the prophet..." (Matt 2:5). The Holy Scriptures live on today and contains rich blessings for those who will seek their true meaning - and the true meaning of Christmas.

Hymn: O little town of Bethlehem, How still we see thee lie! Above thy deep and dreamless sleep the silent stars go by. Yet in thy dark streets shineth The Everlasting Light; the hopes and fears of all the years are met in thee tonight. (Phillips Brooks)