When you are king it is never good when folks show up looking for the king and insist you are not him.  Wise men from the east, astrologers (probably not claiming to be psychics but definitely claiming the ability to predict the future) arrive at king Herod's court looking for a baby crown prince and find no one fitting at description.  If the one born king is not of Herod's line that means someone else gets to be king.  No king wants to hear that.  The time in relation to the prophecies of the Old Testament has any one who knows anything about Judaism looking under every rock for the Messiah.  So when he sends for the priests they pinpoint Bethlehem.  What I wonder is why none of the priests tagged along or why Herod didn't just send a spy to track the wise men.  It is obvious form the text and following section that Herod had no good plans for the child in question.  And it seems silly the priests were not underfoot everywhere in Bethlehem checking out every baby boy as he was being born, looking for the Messiah.  God does not tell us what they were thinking here, just what happened.  Te men found Jesus, gave Him expensive gifts, and left.  Right after which God gave Joseph another dream and they Hijra led it out of Herod's jurisdiction.

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God did not send His son into a marriage relationship.  Mary was engaged, but not married when Jesus is miraculously conceived.  Everyone then thought what everyone would think now.  Obviously she had been having sex.  Obviously her explanation that God did it was either a lie or she needed serious mental help.  No one believed her and no one would.  We know, because of the person Jesus was and the things He did and said that she was telling the truth.  During her pregnancy only two people believed her that we know of.  One was her cousin Elizabeth when John the baptist,still in her womb, recognized Jesus, still only a month in existence in Mary's womb.  The other was Joseph and he needed some extra convincing...

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There is a constant pull against God in our lives.  On the one hand there is that traitor self that wants to disobey the rule just because it is there, to thumb our nose at authority.  On another hand there a the temptations of what we want in this world.  The more, the tastier, the distractions that masquerade as meaningful that pull us away from those we love and away from God.  Finally there is the active work of the Devil, a spiritual being determined to drag us down with him, depriving God of a child He loves.  The only defense against all this drag is a settled decision to stay close to Jesus.  How?  Te answers are so well known they seem trite.  Go to church and really get to know folks, read your Bible and ask questions about anything you don't understand, pray every day in conversation with Jesus, practice the life God shows us in the Bible.  It's simple, not easy.  But it is life worth the effort.

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God will destroy the world.  This only makes sense if it is actually broken.  According to the Bible, God made the world perfect and we broke it.  This should come as no surprise to any environmentalist in the group.  Or anyone working with poverty for that matter.  The underlying causes of the problems are human in the making whatever angle you look.  So God promises that one day he will wad up and destroy the world we have, then make it again, as it was meant to be.  No one will die in the destruction because it occurs at the end of time, after all of us have lived our lives and made our decisions.  We are either with God and able to survive the destruction and recreation of the world, or apart from God forever and too occupied with Hell to care.

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I am sure that no one has forgotten the idiot who said Jesus was taking his church away with the rapture May 21.  On the one hand I feel like shouting, "Shut up! You are making me look stupid!". On the other I am just relieved that it wasn't just some Jehovahs Witness twist on some bizarre suicide cult.  Anyone with a rudimentary exposure to the Bible knows Jesus himself said no one could know when He was coming back.  Silly crud like this, however, sometimes makes it seem stupid to believe He is coming back at all.  He Peter assures us that this same Jesus whom he saw float up into the sky will be back and that His return will necessarily result in a sorting out process for the whole world.  It is not that Christians a eager to see people judged, it's that we are eager for a world where no one is abused, or raped, or murdered.  When Jesus comes He will put an end to that and it will be perfection (without boredom) forever.  I know because this guy who rose from the dead said so...

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