There are many who don’t believe that December 25 is the day on which Christ Jesus was born more than 2,000 years ago in Bethlehem, Israel.
They are not wrong.
For even many discerning Christians recognize this, and know that Christmas was birthed out of a pagan winter observance.
So when was Christ Jesus’ birth?
Today, with the help of modern technology like computers and mathematics and a greater understanding of much as the prophet Daniel wrote (Daniel 12:4) under inspiration of God hundreds of years ago, we are able to arrive at a rather good confirmation of when our Lord Jesus Christ was born.
I won’t attempt to explain it all because there’s a lot of astronomical science involved, but this article gives us a good idea.
Though today is not an anniversary of the actual birth of our Lord Jesus Christ, it is nevertheless a good day to reflect on why He came. More importantly, it is important to remember that Christ Jesus is risen and now sits at the right hand of God the Father, and soon He shall return.
I personally look very much forward to His return!
He who testifies to these things says, “Surely I am coming soon.†Amen. Come, Lord Jesus!
The grace of the Lord Jesus be with all. Amen.
Revelation 22:20-21
The LORD bless thee, and keep thee: The LORD make his face shine upon thee, and be gracious unto thee: The LORD lift up his countenance upon thee, and give thee peace.
Have a blessed holiday!
Tags: Astronomy, Bethlehem, Bible, Birth, Blessings, Christmas, Israel, Salvation
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Merry Christmas Isaiah! Check this out! It’s a site that explains where the date Dec 25th may have come from, besides being a pagan observance, and actually makes some sense. bethlehemstar.net Just a thought: Here’s a copied bit from the site:
Perhaps you have already anticipated the key to this final mystery: retrograde motion. An astronomer tracking the movement of planets through the star field watches not so much on the scale of minutes, but on the longer scale of days, weeks and months. On this scale of time, Jupiter did stop. On December 25 of 2 BC as it entered retrograde, Jupiter reached full stop in its travel through the fixed stars. Magi viewing from Jerusalem would have seen it stopped in the sky above the little town of Bethlehem. -
Isaiah,
Thank you for sharing the article! My nearest guess was the Feast of Tabernacles, but I did not know that all men were required to be in Jerusalem for the entire event. I will definitely be putting more research into this issue, but, really, it is a small fact to recover compared to the greatness of God’s love in sending us His Son… regardless of the exact day!Merry Christmas to you and your wife! God bless you both!
Shalom,
Deborah -
Good Christmas to you and yours Isaiah!
Interesting stuff! I will peruse all that in between stuffing my fat face!
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It’s good to know the truth about the date Yeshua was born, but I don’t consider it important . I use Christmas as a time to share His Gospel to people. As believers our highest priority must be to get the Gospel to all the world. So many Christians are deceived, they spend hours and hours on debates, controversies, false doctrines, genealogies, and heresies that they have forgotten to fulfill the Great Commission to “go and preach the Gospel to all creature” . If you look into the last words of Yeshua on earth before He ascended- He said two things :
(1) To preach the Gospel
(2) To receive power through the Spirit baptism to preach that GospelThe latter again is a topic of great controversy. Instead of being humble and receiving this experience and acknowledging the lack of power in their lives, people deny this and label it as history. If this is history then the former has to be history too.
Thanks for the post =)
Sidharth
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Ah not again! =) Nice template again, it’s loading faster than the previous ones.
Love
Sidharth -
it matters less whether he was born on 25th or not, what matters a lot is that he accomplished his mission on earth, and for those who wait for him faithfully, they will see him including my self, and would you pliz?
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Honestly, I don’t think it is crucial to know the birthdate of Jesus when he came into his flesh incarnation, because it wasn’t birth as we understand it; it was a trancendence or perhaps a decendence into the realm of humanity. He has always lived–before time, before space, before anything that limits our mind and our ability to fully enter into the mystery of God’s choice to save us. This is my belief.
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Shalene: Thank you for sharing that. It’s quite good. I’ve read another post on an Israeli blog I frequent often about the pagan origins of Christmas as well. You might be interested to also read it: Christmas and Paganism.
Deborah: Merry Christmas to you and all your loved ones too! Shalom Aleichem.
Sidharth: Totally agree with what you said. To many of us Christians it’s not really important, but I’ve got some non-Christian friends who ask about when the actual birth of Christ might be in relation to Dec 25, I thought it’s good information to share with fellow Christians, so that we might have a proper reply.
Mic: Thank you, sister! May you and your family have a blessed one too! And from the pictures on your blog, it looked like a great day! Shalom Aleichem.eve: Welcome, and thank you for sharing your thoughts on this. You’re right in what you pointed out. Amen to that!
EotR: Wow, amen to that! I couldn’t have put it better myself. You’ve hit it right on the nail!
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Interesting Observation…The writers of the Sacred Scriptures never mentioned the date of the birth of Jesus, though they obviously could have known it. What they do state is the date of Jesus’ death - Nisan 14 on the Jewish Calender. Jesus commanded his disciples to celebrate that date, but neither Jesus nor his apostles nor his disciples ever mention celebrating the date of his birth. Auguste Hollard truthfully says in Les Origines des Fêtes Chrétiennes: “The first Christians did not even have the idea of celebrating the anniversary of the birth of Jesus: the anniversary of his death interested them much more, as well as that of his resurrection, that is to say of his victory over death.
Constantine, Roman emperor gifted with a strong political sense, wanted unity within his empire, not division. Thus he wanted practices that bore Christian names, not to compete with pagan ones, but to unite with them. Therefore Dec 25, the worship of the sun was made to be the birth of Jesus. This action would unite the Roman world. So people inadvertently began celebrating it on dec 25 which does not have any scriptural basis.
Interestingly, Deuteronomy 17:3-5 says that the person who worships “the sun or the moon or all the army of the heavens” is said to have practiced such a “detestable thing” that he is worthy of death!
Yes it is not important when he was born otherwise the Bible writers would have mentioned it clearly for all of us. More important though is the date of his death….that was when the ransom was paid for all mankind. That is the only event Jesus personally told his followers to commemorate (Luke 22:19).
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