If you're like most Christians you've celebrated the birth of Jesus (Yeshua is his REAL name) on Dec. 25...but...did you know that he WASN'T born on Dec. 25?!?! It was a pagan holiday that the new church changed.
The Feast of Tabernacles (Sukkot) is actually when he was born and if you'd like to read more...here's a scholarly read for ya!
SO ...Happy Birthday LORD!
Around this time, Emperor Augustus issued an order for a census to be taken throughout the Empire. 2 This registration, the first of its kind, took place when Quirinius was governing in Syria. 3 Everyone went to be registered, each to his own town. 4 So Yosef (Joseph), because he was a descendant of David, went up from the town of Natzeret (Nazereth) in the Galil (Galilee) to the town of David, called Beit-Lechem (Bethlehem), in Y’hudah (Judea), 5 to be registered, with Miryam (Mary), to whom he was engaged, and who was pregnant. 6 While they were there, the time came for her to give birth; 7 and she gave birth to her first child, a son. She wrapped him in cloth and laid him down in a feeding trough, because there was no space for them in the living-quarters.
8 In the countryside nearby were some shepherds spending the night in the fields, guarding their flocks,9 when an angel of Adonai appeared to them, and theSh’khinah of Adonai shone around them. They were terrified; 10 but the angel said to them, “Don’t be afraid, because I am here announcing to you Good News that will bring great joy to all the people. 11 This very day, in the town of David, there was born for you a Deliverer who is the Messiah, the Lord. 12 Here is how you will know: you will find a baby wrapped in cloth and lying in a feeding trough.” 13 Suddenly, along with the angel was a vast army from heaven praising God:
“In the highest heaven, glory to God!
And on earth, peace among people of good will!”
15 No sooner had the angels left them and gone back into heaven than the shepherds said to one another, “Let’s go over to Beit-Lechem (Bethlehem) and see this thing that has happened, that Adonai (The LORD) has told us about.”
LUKE 2:1-15 CJB Complete Jewish Bible
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