At
Christmas time it often seems those who do not understand or believe in Christ
seem to be have the biggest voice in the Christmas season about the purpose of
Christmas (The Incarnation) and the purpose or mission of Christ.
Wading
through Hallmark Channel Christmas movies, TV specials and commercials Christmas
must be here to celebrate each other like Rare Earth in the 1970’s http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eLwkT5vAzCE
or praise
each other like that groovy Fat Boy Slim video from the 1990’s http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ruAi4VBoBSM
Scripture
reads that Christmastime was purely an air assault against an evil controlled
Earth to destroy sin, death hell and the grave while liberating and saving the captives (Us).
Earth to destroy sin, death hell and the grave while liberating and saving the captives (Us).
Sin
held humanity hostage.
The
Father ordered the first assault foretold long ago.
The
Scriptures predicted the air strike.
Christ
confirmed this in His teaching.
Luke 24:27New
King James Version (NKJV)
27 And
beginning at Moses and all the Prophets, He expounded to them in all the
Scriptures the things concerning Himself.
Even
the Magi knew from studying Scripture the King was coming.
Like
Army Ranger paratroopers the angels “hit the beach” in the fields of Bethlehem.
Luke 2
8 Now
there were in the same country shepherds living out in the fields, keeping
watch over their flock by night. 9 And behold, an angel of the Lord stood
before them, and the glory of the Lord shone around them, and they were greatly
afraid. 10 Then the angel said to them, “Do not be afraid, for behold, I bring
you good tidings of great joy which will be to all people. 11 For there is born
to you this day in the city of David a Savior, who is Christ the Lord. 12 And
this will be the sign to you: You will find a Babe wrapped in swaddling cloths,
lying in a manger.”
13 And
suddenly there was with the angel a multitude of the heavenly host praising God
and saying:
14 “Glory
to God in the highest,
And on
earth peace, goodwill toward men!”
Should
the shepherds have been afraid? YES!!!
They
saw not a bunch of flying baby cherubs in dresses with cute wings like in our
commercials (and unfortunately in our church art) - they saw biblical angels.
They glimpsed
the deadliest fighting force ever seen by men then or now.
Protectors
of Christ.
These
shepherd boys saw thousands of flying life takers.
These
Jewish shepherds had heard the Old Testament Scriptures and accounts of angels
slaying tens of thousands at one time.
Should
they have been afraid? Yes, very afraid.
No
Hallmark and American TV they were not even singing.
They
were protecting the now coming King against death, and all forces against God –
literally anti-Christ forces. Forces so
evil that Herod, a Jew with a mind captured by evil, slaughtered thousands of Jewish
boys two years and younger to wipe what he saw as a threat-a baby!
The shepherds
were informed of the completed mission by the angels.
Luke 2:11
For there is born to you this day in the city of David a Savior, who is Christ
the Lord.
This
was only the start of the mission.
No
singing angels here.
Just
a military operation completed by warrior angels.
The baby King
would later complete the mission.
Approximately
33 years later the complete liberation operation was completed and victory was declared
by Christ on the cross when He said “It is finished.”
The
sinless Christ, The grown up man/God naked as when He was born, defeated death,
hell and the grave by His saving work on the cross. This baby King paid our sin debt
for those who would repent of their sins and confess Him as Lord and Savior.
for those who would repent of their sins and confess Him as Lord and Savior.
He
walked out of His tomb three days after tasting death for us and showing all
His victory.
I
pray you stayed around to read the rest of the story.
This
is not the ramblings of a fundamentalist graceless preacher.
This
is the truest love that can be understood.
This is the reason we celebrate in Christ.
John 3:16
16 For God
so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son, that whoever believes in
Him should not perish but have everlasting life.
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