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The Sign for the Shepherds

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Luke 2 8 And in the same region there were shepherds out in the field, keeping watch over their flock by night.  9 And an angel of the Lord appeared to them, and the glory of the Lord shone around them, and they were filled with great fear.  10 And the angel said to them, “Fear not, for behold, I bring you good news of great joy that will be for all the people.  11 For unto you is born this day in the city of David a Savior, who is Christ the Lord. 12 And this will be a sign for you: you will find a baby wrapped in swaddling cloths and lying in a manger.” Mangers - or feeding troughs in those days were made of stone; and around the time of Spring, would be widely used by shepherds on the hills around Bethlehem. Why? because this was the time that the Passover lambs for temple sacrifices would be born:  5 “Your lamb shall be without blemish, a male a year old.” Read Exodus 12 So the shepherds would be looking for such lambs as these (without blemishes or defects of an...
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John Ch.6

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1  After this Jesus went away to the other side of the Sea of Galilee, which is the Sea of Tiberias.  2  And a large crowd was following him, because they saw the signs that he was doing on the sick . It is inevitable that people on mass were following Jesus, because of the signs and wonders he was working: Nothing has really changed between then and now; and the Bible makes it clear that it will be this way at the end - see Matthew 24:24-25 and Revelation 13:13-14 (It is worth noting that in Revelation 13, it appears that the one performing these signs, is the same one who sets up what Jesus called “the abomination of desolation” in the Holy Place) We must be so careful about pursuing signs, wonders and miracles… 3  Jesus went up on the mountain, and there he sat down with his disciples.  4  Now the Passover, the feast of the Jews, was at hand. 5  Lifting up his eyes, then, and seeing that a large crowd was coming toward him, Jesus said to Philip, “Wh...
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John 5

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  After this there was a feast of the Jews, and Jesus went up to Jerusalem. 2  Now there is in Jerusalem by the Sheep Gate a pool, in Aramaic  called Bethesda,  which has five roofed colonnades.  3  In these lay a multitude of invalids—blind, lame, and paralyzed.   5  One man was there who had been an invalid for thirty-eight years.  6  When Jesus saw him lying there and knew that he had already been there a long time, he said to him, “Do you want to be healed?”  7  The sick man answered him, “Sir, I have no one to put me into the pool when the water is stirred up, and while I am going another steps down before me.” 8  Jesus said to him, “Get up, take up your bed, and walk.”  9  And at once the man was healed, and he took up his bed and walked. The Bethesda Pool was a pagan (Godless) ‘healing center’ or ‘askelepion’ erected by a Grecian cult in honor of their god Asclepius - the god of healing. The fact that this...
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