NATIVITYOFCHRIST

NATIVITY OF CHRIST The birth of our Lord took place at the time and place predicted by the prophets (Genesis 49=>10; Isaiah 7=>14; Jeremiah 31=>15; Micah 5=>2; Hag. 2=>6-9; Daniel 9=>24, 25). Joseph and Mary were providentially led to go up to Bethlehem at this period, and there Christ was bom (Matthew 2=>1,6; Luke 2=>1, 7). The exact year or month or day of his birth cannot, however, now be exactly ascertained. We know, however, that it took place in the “fulness of the time” (Galatians 4=>4), i.e., at the fittest time in the world’s history. Chronologists are now generally agreed that the year 4 before the Christian era was the year of Christ’s nativity, and consequently that he was about four years old in the year 1 A.D.