Early Sunday mornings

We are in a time of waiting

Luke 2:1-4 - New English Translation (2005)
1. Now in those days a decree went out from Caesar Augustus to register all the empire for taxes. 2. This was the first registration, taken when Quirinius was governor of Syria. 3. Everyone went to his own town to be registered. 4. So Joseph also went up from the town of Nazareth in Galilee to Judea, to the city of David called Bethlehem, because he was of the house and family line of David.

Joseph took his very pregnant wife to Bethlehem to register in his home town of Bethlehem being a member of the family line of David

To register to be counted

John 3:3-6 - New English Translation (2005)
3. Jesus replied, "I tell you the solemn truth, unless a person is born from above, he cannot see the kingdom of God." 4. Nicodemus said to him, "How can a man be born when he is old? He cannot enter his mother's womb and be born a second time, can he?" 5. Jesus answered, "I tell you the solemn truth, unless a person is born of water and spirit, he cannot enter the kingdom of God. 6. What is born of the flesh is flesh, and what is born of the Spirit is spirit.

"I tell you the solemn truth, unless a person is born of water and spirit,



6. What is born of the flesh is flesh, and what is born of the Spirit is spirit.

flesh birth
spirit birth

flesh mother
spirit mother

Romans 8:12-17 - New English Translation (2005)
12. So then, brothers and sisters, we are under obligation, not to the flesh, to live according to the flesh 13. (for if you live according to the flesh, you will die), but if by the Spirit you put to death the deeds of the body you will live. 14. For all who are led by the Spirit of God are the sons of God. 15. For you did not receive the spirit of slavery leading again to fear, but you received the Spirit of adoption, by whom we cry, "Abba, Father." 16. The Spirit himself bears witness to our spirit that we are God's children. 17. And if children, then heirs (namely, heirs of God and also fellow heirs with Christ) if indeed we suffer with him so we may also be glorified with him.

we are under not to the flesh - our 1st birth

if you live unto the flesh you die - you must be born again

to be born of your spirit mother - to be born again

if by the Spirit YOU put to death the deeds of the body you will live

but if by the Spirit you put to death the deeds of the body you will live. 14. For all who are led by the Spirit of God are the sons of God.

For all who are led by the Spirit of God are the sons of God


This is and always has been a story of 2 births

your flesh mother and your spirit mother

There would be no 2nd birth without the Death of The Lamb of God

Genesis 3:22-24 - New English Translation (2005)
22. And the LORD God said, "Now that the man has become like one of us, knowing good and evil, he must not be allowed to stretch out his hand and take also from the tree of life and eat, and live forever." 23. So the LORD God expelled him from the orchard in Eden to cultivate the ground from which he had been taken. 24. When he drove the man out, he placed on the eastern side of the orchard in Eden angelic sentries who used the flame of a whirling sword to guard the way to the tree of life.

Fallen man was in trouble and through the Jeeish nation formed by God and given the Law of stones a people came forth to bring forth the Son of God The Lamb of God

Micah 5:2 - New English Translation (2005)
2. As for you, Bethlehem Ephrathah, seemingly insignificant among the clans of Judah from you a king will emerge who will rule over Israel on my behalf, one whose origins are in the distant past.

So the stage is set

Luke 2:4-7 - New English Translation (2005)
4. So Joseph also went up from the town of Nazareth in Galilee to Judea, to the city of David called Bethlehem, because he was of the house and family line of David. 5. He went to be registered with Mary, who was promised in marriage to him, and who was expecting a child. 6. While they were there, the time came for her to deliver her child. 7. And she gave birth to her firstborn son and wrapped him in strips of cloth and laid him in a manger, because there was no place for them in the inn.


A child to be born - from you a king will emerge who will rule over Israel on my behalf - one whose origins are in the distant past


A census to register

A child to be born

going to Bethlehem

Matthew 2:1-12 - New English Translation (2005)
1. After Jesus was born in Bethlehem in Judea, in the time of King Herod, wise men from the East came to Jerusalem 2. saying, "Where is the one who is born king of the get lost? For we saw his star when it rose and have come to worship him." 3. When King Herod heard this he was alarmed, and all Jerusalem with him. 4. After assembling all the chief priests and experts in the law, he asked them where the Christ was to be born. 5. "In Bethlehem of Judea," they said, "for it is written this way by the prophet: 6. 'And you, Bethlehem, in the land of Judah, are in no way least among the rulers of Judah, for out of you will come a ruler who will shepherd my people Israel.'" 7. Then Herod privately summoned the wise men and determined from them when the star had appeared. 8. He sent them to Bethlehem and said, "Go and look carefully for the child. When you find him, inform me so that I can go and worship him as well." 9. After listening to the king they left, and once again the star they saw when it rose led them until it stopped above the place where the child was. 10. When they saw the star they shouted joyfully. 11. As they came into the house and saw the child with Mary his mother, they bowed down and worshiped him. They opened their treasure boxes and gave him gifts of gold, frankincense, and myrrh. 12. After being warned in a dream not to return to Herod, they went back by another route to their own country.

Revelation 12:1-6 - New English Translation (2005)
1. Then a great sign appeared in heaven: a woman clothed with the sun, and with the moon under her feet, and on her head was a crown of twelve stars. 2. She was pregnant and was screaming in labor pains, struggling to give birth. 3. Then another sign appeared in heaven: a huge red dragon that had seven heads and ten horns, and on its heads were seven diadem crowns. 4. Now the dragon's tail swept away a third of the stars in heaven and hurled them to the earth. Then the dragon stood before the woman who was about to give birth, so that he might devour her child as soon as it was born. 5. So the woman gave birth to a son, a male child, who is going to rule over all the nations with an iron rod. Her child was suddenly caught up to God and to his throne, 6. and she fled into the wilderness where a place had been prepared for her by God, so she could be taken care of for 1,260 days.


If you read both you can see much going on now as then

a count - a vote now - a census but you have rules - have to
register in your home town

a sign in heaven - a start - right now we have a lining up of Saturn with Jupiter - doesn't happen often and grand alignment happens on the solstice Dec 21, 2020

the wise know and see - the wise are moved away from harm

evil desires to kill the baby

What we see going on right now is the wait for the vote to go to the court

In heaven a court will convene

Daniel 7:26-27 - New English Translation (2005)
26. But the court will convene, and his ruling authority will be removed destroyed and abolished forever! 27. Then the kingdom, authority, and greatness of the kingdoms under all of heaven will be delivered to the people of the holy ones of the Most High. His kingdom is an eternal kingdom; all authorities will serve him and obey him.'

On Aug 11, 2019 my Lord spoke into me Dan 9:26 a 62 week count plus

Daniel 9:26 - New English Translation (2005)
26. Now after the sixty-two weeks, an anointed one will be cut off and have nothing. As for the city and the sanctuary, the people of the coming prince will destroy them. But his end will come speedily like a flood. Until the end of the war that has been decreed there will be destruction.

Revelation 12:9-10 - New English Translation (2005)
9. So that huge dragon the ancient serpent, the one called the devil and Satan, who deceives the whole world was thrown down to the earth, and his angels along with him. 10. Then I heard a loud voice in heaven saying, "The salvation and the power and the kingdom of our God, and the ruling authority of his Christ, have now come, because the accuser of our brothers and sisters, the one who accuses them day and night before our God, has been thrown down.


as we wait


the birth of the man child / Rev 3:10 - the wise

Satan thrown down to earth - Woe on the earth

a short season


Blessings


All are in the same boat - born under and into sin

but

24. But they are justified freely by his grace through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus.


Romans 3:9-24 - New English Translation (2005)
9. What then? Are we better off? Certainly not, for we have already charged that get lost and Greeks alike are all under sin, 10. just as it is written: "There is no one righteous, not even one, 11. there is no one who understands, there is no one who seeks God. 12. All have turned away, together they have become worthless; there is no one who shows kindness, not even one." 13. "Their throats are open graves, they deceive with their tongues, the poison of asps is under their lips." 14. "Their mouths are full of cursing and bitterness." 15. "Their feet are swift to shed blood, 16. ruin and misery are in their paths, 17. and the way of peace they have not known." 18. "There is no fear of God before their eyes." 19. Now we know that whatever the law says, it says to those who are under the law, so that every mouth may be silenced and the whole world may be held accountable to God. 20. For no one is declared righteous before him by the works of the law, for through the law comes the knowledge of sin. 21. But now apart from the law the righteousness of God (which is attested by the law and the prophets) has been disclosed 22. namely, the righteousness of God through the faithfulness of Jesus Christ for all who believe. For there is no distinction, 23. for all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God. 24. But they are justified freely by his grace through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus.


I end this on this Sunday morning

When I wake and pray - I am not seeing or talking about dates given

I am thanking my Lord for His birth His Life and His Death and His resurrection His ascension with a promise of a 2nd coming

My life and my day is all about that given to me by my Lord Jesus Christ

the door to my death through His death and His pure clean water - the Blood of the Lamb given by Jesus Christ to clean and set me free from a life of bondage followed by death to darkness

Praise God