First, if you can change the minds of children, you can change the course of a nation in two to three generations. As the older citizens pass away, the fundamentals of their beliefs pass away, too.
In slow and subtle ways, our nation has undergone a transformation, beginning in the minds of children. Here in the United States, we are on the edge of a major shift: instead of having a government by the people, we will, in time, have a people by the government; and we, therefore, will become subjects of the state and our civil liberties will vanish.
Toddlers and young children do not know the difference between truth and lies. All they know are words they hear; and words, like seeds, root and grow. Therefore, if their little minds are told lies, they will live those words as if they are truth.
Furthermore, if you can change the minds of children around the world, you can change the course of the entire population of the earth. Just like the United States, the entire world is on the edge of a global government, at which time no nation will have civil liberties.
Instruments of change are these: television, radio, records, CDs, DVDs, movies, books, magazines, writers, photographs, music and musicians, actors and actresses, lawyers and politicians, family and friends, animation, and the internet. In droplets of lies, in slow and subtle ways, childrens minds have learned how to live and what to believe according to the words they have heard and read.
Secondly, if you can change the minds of children about God, you can produce a Godless nation in two to three generations. And if you can change the minds of children about God around the world, you will have global Godlessness.
The instruments of this change are the same as listed above with one exception: the teachings of multiple religions with multiple false prophets. Instead of leading people to God, they are and have been leading people away from God. This is a work of deception: in slow and subtle ways, by people that people trust, in droplets of lies that sound like truth.
One religion is Paganism: the belief that idols and relics and people are holy and with supernatural powers. Thus, in slow and subtle ways, they changed the minds of children about the Christ of Christmas with Santa Claus, and they changed the minds of children about the resurrection of the Lord with a bunny rabbit, which are two methods out of Paganism. Holy days became holidays, the Sabbath Day became Sunday, Christmas became Xmas, Easter break became spring break, the Holy Bible became a Good Book, God became the man upstairs, the Son of God became a prophet, and little children became adults.
And no marvel; for Satan himself is transformed into an angel of light. Therefore it is no great thing if his ministers also be transformed as the ministers of righteousness; (2 Corinthians 11:14,15).
All that I am presenting today is nothing new under the sun. It has been done before, and it shall so happen again: change is not good when God is not wanted.
Daughters of Jerusalem, weep not for me, but weep for yourselves, and for your children. (Gospel of Luke 23:28).
Tuesday, December 6, 2011
Monday, December 5, 2011
THE CHURCH OF JESUS
To me, Jesus never came to earth to launch or begin a new or different religion. He came to restore man's relationship with God: one on one and face to face.
To begin, the word "religion" is used 5 times in the New Testament, the word "Christian" is used 3 times, and the word "church" appears 114 times in the New Testament.
For the record, Jesus never used the word "religion" nor the word "Christian" throughout his ministry.
The word "church" is the Greek word "ekklesia". To the Greeks, ekklesia means "an assembly of citizens summoned by the crier, the legislative assembly".
The New Testament writers understood this Greek word "ekklesia"; therefore, the "church" to them was the word "ekklesia", an assembly or congregation of believers in Christ Jesus. As the apostles built churches, this was the establishment of congregations of people. Believers met in church-houses, for under the Roman Empire they had no rights such as "religious liberty" and they certainly did not attempt to construct church buildings.
Today, it is difficult for people to think about God without thinking about religion; nor to think of Jesus outside the context of religion: because our minds have been saturated with religious ideas that we can easily think---in order to get Jesus---we must become a member of a religious organization with all of its dogmas and doctrines, as well as laws, rules, and regulations, and in addition to religious atmospheres and symbols, rites, rituals, and traditions, which have been created out of the minds of religious people, in to our minds, and not from the mind of Jesus.
Therefore, if we submit ourselves to a religious institution, we can become institutionalized---unable to think for ourselves because we have submitted ourselves to the thinking of others, and, consequently, we are under their control. Our behavior is thus modified to conform to religious principles and teachings, written by people, and we, then, will think of Jesus only as our religion allows us to think of Him, becoming slaves to a spiritual system, which is a system of deception. And with the words of religion written in our minds, we live these words and not by the words of Jesus. Religion, therefore, is a system of spiritual slavery.
Furthermore, because of man's religions and religious people, Jesus can also become an idol---shaped as an image in the minds of people, and, as an idol, he is therefore dead and not living, but simply a symbol.
Religion, obviously, is a system designed for performance: based on the false premise that it is what we do that matters, not because of what Jesus did.
Whenever Jesus spoke of the church, he was speaking about people. Whenever he spoke about his return to earth for the church (or his Second Coming) he is speaking about the church, which is people. He will not return for a religion, nor for people of a certain religious persuasion.
Belief in Jesus Christ, therefore, is not a religious experience. It is a personal relationship with Him, a relationship that is internal in the minds and hearts of believers. It is not an external experience as in a relationship with religion. Religion is something we do, but knowing Jesus is recognizing what he did and who he is. As Jesus said in the Book of John 21:21, my Father hath sent me. God did not, therefore, send religion.
As a personal note, however, I will tell you that the best thing that ever happened in my life was the day I lost my religion. That was the day I met Jesus for the first time and I was unshackled from the ball and chain of religion that I had been dragging for a long, long time. In short, that was the day of my release from a spiritual prison. This does not mean that I am perfect, or know everything. God forbid!
You are invited to read and research the New Testament for yourself and arrive at your own conclusion of this matter, which is the separation of Christ from religion and to understand the true meaning of the word "church".
To begin, the word "religion" is used 5 times in the New Testament, the word "Christian" is used 3 times, and the word "church" appears 114 times in the New Testament.
For the record, Jesus never used the word "religion" nor the word "Christian" throughout his ministry.
The word "church" is the Greek word "ekklesia". To the Greeks, ekklesia means "an assembly of citizens summoned by the crier, the legislative assembly".
The New Testament writers understood this Greek word "ekklesia"; therefore, the "church" to them was the word "ekklesia", an assembly or congregation of believers in Christ Jesus. As the apostles built churches, this was the establishment of congregations of people. Believers met in church-houses, for under the Roman Empire they had no rights such as "religious liberty" and they certainly did not attempt to construct church buildings.
Today, it is difficult for people to think about God without thinking about religion; nor to think of Jesus outside the context of religion: because our minds have been saturated with religious ideas that we can easily think---in order to get Jesus---we must become a member of a religious organization with all of its dogmas and doctrines, as well as laws, rules, and regulations, and in addition to religious atmospheres and symbols, rites, rituals, and traditions, which have been created out of the minds of religious people, in to our minds, and not from the mind of Jesus.
Therefore, if we submit ourselves to a religious institution, we can become institutionalized---unable to think for ourselves because we have submitted ourselves to the thinking of others, and, consequently, we are under their control. Our behavior is thus modified to conform to religious principles and teachings, written by people, and we, then, will think of Jesus only as our religion allows us to think of Him, becoming slaves to a spiritual system, which is a system of deception. And with the words of religion written in our minds, we live these words and not by the words of Jesus. Religion, therefore, is a system of spiritual slavery.
Furthermore, because of man's religions and religious people, Jesus can also become an idol---shaped as an image in the minds of people, and, as an idol, he is therefore dead and not living, but simply a symbol.
Religion, obviously, is a system designed for performance: based on the false premise that it is what we do that matters, not because of what Jesus did.
Whenever Jesus spoke of the church, he was speaking about people. Whenever he spoke about his return to earth for the church (or his Second Coming) he is speaking about the church, which is people. He will not return for a religion, nor for people of a certain religious persuasion.
Belief in Jesus Christ, therefore, is not a religious experience. It is a personal relationship with Him, a relationship that is internal in the minds and hearts of believers. It is not an external experience as in a relationship with religion. Religion is something we do, but knowing Jesus is recognizing what he did and who he is. As Jesus said in the Book of John 21:21, my Father hath sent me. God did not, therefore, send religion.
As a personal note, however, I will tell you that the best thing that ever happened in my life was the day I lost my religion. That was the day I met Jesus for the first time and I was unshackled from the ball and chain of religion that I had been dragging for a long, long time. In short, that was the day of my release from a spiritual prison. This does not mean that I am perfect, or know everything. God forbid!
You are invited to read and research the New Testament for yourself and arrive at your own conclusion of this matter, which is the separation of Christ from religion and to understand the true meaning of the word "church".
Sunday, December 4, 2011
SILENCE OF THE LAMB
It was a silent night when Jesus was born in Bethlehem. The city was busy with people as they arrived to pay their tax to Caesar, the inn had no vacancies, and suddenly Joseph and Mary arrived, which certainly raised no eyebrows. No one knew that Joseph was of royal blood, a son of King David no less! And Joseph's concern was not about himself, but rather for his young wife to deliver a child, who was also a son of King David.
Even after the birth of Jesus, the only witnesses to this event were Joseph, Mary and a few shepherds; therefore, if they had proclaimed that the Savior had been born, who would have believed their report? That Messiah would be a baby?
For the next two years, Joseph, Mary, and Jesus lived a rather silent life, going about their daily affairs as any normal family in all of Israel.
Suddenly and unexpectedly, however, an entourage of wise men from the east arrived in Jerusalem, and they stopped at the headquarters of Herod and posed a question: "Where is he that is born King of the Jews?" If you listen to their words carefully, their question sounds more like a statement, rather than a request, as we might say, "Can you give us directions to the house of Jesus?" Perhaps the wise men believed that everybody knew where Jesus lived. Everybody did not. Herod didn't know, the priests didn't know, and neither did any of the king's men, nor any others in all of Jerusalem.
After the departure of the wise men, Herod's rage insued: he issued an order to slaughter all males, two years old and younger, with his desire to kill Jesus. Joseph, however, being warned of God in a dream of the impending danger, arose from sleeping and took Mary and Jesus out of town, under the cover of darkness, and took refuge in Egypt until the death of Herod; after which the family returned to dwell in Nazareth where Jesus worked as a carpenter and thereby lived in obscurity of his messianic mission.
When Jesus stood up at age thirty to begin his ministry, one person immediately knew who Jesus was the moment he fixed his eyes upon him. That was John the Baptist, who declared: Behold the Lamb of God, which taketh away the sin of the world. Later, John would be decapitated for his belief in Jesus.
For the next three and half years, Jesus taught and preached with a calm voice. He never ranted or raved, ran or screamed, never needed a microphone, and always at peace as he spoke words that people had never heard before. Along the way, he also turned water into wine, healed the sick, gave hearing to the deaf, sight to the blind, released 2,000 demons from a man named Legion, fed 5,000 people with a boy's lunch, walked on water, and raised the dead. When his friend Lazurus died, the Lord did something few people knew about either: Jesus wept.
On the cross, however, the silence of the Lamb was broken when he cried with a loud voice: Eloi, Eloi, lama sabachthani? Which is: My God, my God, why has thou forsaken me?
Nailed to a cross, Jesus was suspended between heaven and earth, and, for the next three hours, darkness covered the earth as the Lamb of God took on the sin of the world.
But after his resurrection, the silence of the Lamb was spoken. More people have believed in Jesus than any person who has ever lived. More books, poetry, music and songs have been written about Jesus than any person in human history. And at this time of the year, more lights are aglow around the world to celebrate the birth of the Lamb of God, even in Bethlehem!
Even after the birth of Jesus, the only witnesses to this event were Joseph, Mary and a few shepherds; therefore, if they had proclaimed that the Savior had been born, who would have believed their report? That Messiah would be a baby?
For the next two years, Joseph, Mary, and Jesus lived a rather silent life, going about their daily affairs as any normal family in all of Israel.
Suddenly and unexpectedly, however, an entourage of wise men from the east arrived in Jerusalem, and they stopped at the headquarters of Herod and posed a question: "Where is he that is born King of the Jews?" If you listen to their words carefully, their question sounds more like a statement, rather than a request, as we might say, "Can you give us directions to the house of Jesus?" Perhaps the wise men believed that everybody knew where Jesus lived. Everybody did not. Herod didn't know, the priests didn't know, and neither did any of the king's men, nor any others in all of Jerusalem.
After the departure of the wise men, Herod's rage insued: he issued an order to slaughter all males, two years old and younger, with his desire to kill Jesus. Joseph, however, being warned of God in a dream of the impending danger, arose from sleeping and took Mary and Jesus out of town, under the cover of darkness, and took refuge in Egypt until the death of Herod; after which the family returned to dwell in Nazareth where Jesus worked as a carpenter and thereby lived in obscurity of his messianic mission.
When Jesus stood up at age thirty to begin his ministry, one person immediately knew who Jesus was the moment he fixed his eyes upon him. That was John the Baptist, who declared: Behold the Lamb of God, which taketh away the sin of the world. Later, John would be decapitated for his belief in Jesus.
For the next three and half years, Jesus taught and preached with a calm voice. He never ranted or raved, ran or screamed, never needed a microphone, and always at peace as he spoke words that people had never heard before. Along the way, he also turned water into wine, healed the sick, gave hearing to the deaf, sight to the blind, released 2,000 demons from a man named Legion, fed 5,000 people with a boy's lunch, walked on water, and raised the dead. When his friend Lazurus died, the Lord did something few people knew about either: Jesus wept.
On the cross, however, the silence of the Lamb was broken when he cried with a loud voice: Eloi, Eloi, lama sabachthani? Which is: My God, my God, why has thou forsaken me?
Nailed to a cross, Jesus was suspended between heaven and earth, and, for the next three hours, darkness covered the earth as the Lamb of God took on the sin of the world.
But after his resurrection, the silence of the Lamb was spoken. More people have believed in Jesus than any person who has ever lived. More books, poetry, music and songs have been written about Jesus than any person in human history. And at this time of the year, more lights are aglow around the world to celebrate the birth of the Lamb of God, even in Bethlehem!
Saturday, December 3, 2011
THE MAGI
The Parthian Empire of Persia ruled from 247 B.C. to A.D. 228. They defeated Alexander the Great's successors and conquered most of the Middle East and southwest Asia. The Parthians had the only empire the Roman Empire could not defeat. Their Parthian dress included belted tunics, full sleeves, Parthian caps, and trousers. Traveling many miles and across enemy territories, it is also likely that they were escorted by a military patrol. Eastern traditions say that twelve Magi went to Judea to worship the Messiah. These wise men out of Persia were educated individuals and familiar with the Biblical prophesy of Numbers 24:17: I shall see him, but not now: I shall behold him, but not nigh: there shall come a Star out of Jacob, and a Sceptre shall rise out of Israel. In the book of Matthew, chapter 2, we are told, in verses 1,2,11: Now when Jesus was born in Bethlehem of Judaea in the days of Herod the king, behold, there came wise men from the east to Jerusalem, saying, Where is he that is born King of the Jews? for we have seen his star in the east, and are come to worship him. And when they were come into the house, they saw the young child with Mary his mother, and fell down, and worshipped him: and when they had opened their treasures, they presented unto him gifts: gold, and frakincense, and myrrh. Gold, frankincense, and myrrh represent the three offices of Jesus as king, priest, and savior.
Gold for his kingship; frankincense was a spice for his priestly duties; and myrrh was an embalming ointment for his death.
When the Maji arrived in Jerusalem, king Herod and all of Jerusalem did not know that the Messiah had been born in Bethlehem---two years earlier.
Friday, December 2, 2011
SUFFER THE LITTLE CHILDREN
A subject that is dear to my heart is missing children.
From statistics available online, the number of missing children worldwide is staggering, a number that is in the millions each year. They are abducted, kidnapped, and even stolen against their will.
Only a small percentage of these children return to their homes, unharmed. Some are found alive, but beaten and sexually abused. Many are found dead, having been beaten and also sexually abused. The vast majority of missing children, however, simply vanish---never to be heard from again.
Then there is the part of this story that is dreadful: trafficking of children for prostitution, even children as young as three years of age, in the United States and around the world.
On a darker side of this story, countless children are used as human sacrifices on the altars of Satanic rituals by evil people of secret societies, even today.
In the United States, there are more than 450,000 churches and religious institutions, more than 600,000 members of the clergy, and Americans possess more Bibles than any nation in human history. There are also more than 2,000 Bible colleges worldwide, in addition to Christian colleges and Christian universities.
Yet, with all of these numerical facts, a war of terrorism against innocent children goes on unhindered every day. The news media is silent about it, governments are silent about it, and so are our ministers, preachers, and priests. We, the people, are also silent about this war on children. We wear our Sunday best, march into our pristine churches, go through our systems of worship, then trot along home to watch television, watch another movie or baseball game, entertain ourselves, and about the only time we pray is to ask God to do something for us.
Why and where did we, as a nation, go wrong, and how have we gone so wrong throughout the world?
Only God has the answer:
My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge; because you have rejected knowledge, I reject you from being a priest to me. And since you have forgotten the law of your God, I also will forget your children. (Book of Hosea 4:6)
God also has the solution:
If my people, which are called by my name, shall humble themselves, and pray, and seek my face, and turn from their wicked ways; then will I hear from heaven, and will forgive their sin, and will heal their land. (Book of II Chronicles 7:14)
Unless we, who say be believe in God, start praying for children, nothing will change. If not, then the evil arms of terrorism against kids will reach out and snatch one of our own children or grandchildren---never to be seen nor heard from again.
From statistics available online, the number of missing children worldwide is staggering, a number that is in the millions each year. They are abducted, kidnapped, and even stolen against their will.
Only a small percentage of these children return to their homes, unharmed. Some are found alive, but beaten and sexually abused. Many are found dead, having been beaten and also sexually abused. The vast majority of missing children, however, simply vanish---never to be heard from again.
Then there is the part of this story that is dreadful: trafficking of children for prostitution, even children as young as three years of age, in the United States and around the world.
On a darker side of this story, countless children are used as human sacrifices on the altars of Satanic rituals by evil people of secret societies, even today.
In the United States, there are more than 450,000 churches and religious institutions, more than 600,000 members of the clergy, and Americans possess more Bibles than any nation in human history. There are also more than 2,000 Bible colleges worldwide, in addition to Christian colleges and Christian universities.
Yet, with all of these numerical facts, a war of terrorism against innocent children goes on unhindered every day. The news media is silent about it, governments are silent about it, and so are our ministers, preachers, and priests. We, the people, are also silent about this war on children. We wear our Sunday best, march into our pristine churches, go through our systems of worship, then trot along home to watch television, watch another movie or baseball game, entertain ourselves, and about the only time we pray is to ask God to do something for us.
Why and where did we, as a nation, go wrong, and how have we gone so wrong throughout the world?
Only God has the answer:
My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge; because you have rejected knowledge, I reject you from being a priest to me. And since you have forgotten the law of your God, I also will forget your children. (Book of Hosea 4:6)
God also has the solution:
If my people, which are called by my name, shall humble themselves, and pray, and seek my face, and turn from their wicked ways; then will I hear from heaven, and will forgive their sin, and will heal their land. (Book of II Chronicles 7:14)
Unless we, who say be believe in God, start praying for children, nothing will change. If not, then the evil arms of terrorism against kids will reach out and snatch one of our own children or grandchildren---never to be seen nor heard from again.
A NIGHT TO REMEMBER
On the eve before the crucifixion of Jesus, the Lord met with his disciples in a place we call the Upper Room and for an event we call the Last Supper.
The Upper Room was not a plush suite in Hotel Jerusalem, with servants dashing to and fro with beverages and hors d'oeuvres, and no chamber music. Instead, the evening was a quiet time for Jesus to be alone with his disciples and to introduce a final instruction. Everything was simple, including the supper. It was not a full course meal, nor a lavish feast.
Everything about Jesus, in fact, was simple. He lived a simple life, his words were simple, but the events on the day to follow would not be a simple matter. The Son of God would do something that no other person could ever do.
He began by washing the feet of the disciples, which reveals the servant attitude of the Lord---leadership by example: that the disciples were to follow his lead and become servants, instead of being served.
Jesus had some bread, symbolic of his sacrificial body, and some wine, symbolic of the blood he would shed for the sins of the world. Jesus understood the magnitude of his death and he wanted his disciples to remember that event as well as for future believers throughout their generations to also remember. As he said, "this do in remembrance of me" (Luke 22:19).
The Passover Feast, of course, had its beginning in Egypt where the nation of Israel had been slaves to Pharoah for over four hundred years. On the eve of Israel's departure from Egypt, God instructed Moses in the way of the Passover, and the next day Israel headed for the land of milk and honey. The Passover became an annual event, for God wanted Israel, throughout their generations, to remember the day of their deliverance from the bondage of slavery.
When we, therefore, participate in communion services, we should remember that this memorial is not about us, but it is about him; not about what we do, but about what he did. As the Lord said, "this do in remembrance of me", for Jesus came to deliver us from the bondage of sin.
The night was not over, however, and Jesus led his disciples to the garden of Gethsemane, a place where he frequently went to in order to be alone with the Father and pray. The night, moreover, was a time of agony for Jesus and he was awake all night. In the early morning, before daylight, they came and arrested the Lord, led there by the traitor, Judas Iscariot.
On Wednesday morning, on the fourteenth day of the first Hebrew month, Jesus Christ was crucified in Jerusalem. The Bible number 14 means "salvation". And Christ, the Passover Lamb, died for our salvation.
His death was merely the beginning of something truly wonderful, but for now, too, the little lambs at the tower of Edar would no longer be necessary for temple sacrifices.
In a simple way, what Jesus did on the cross was to restore our relationship with God; and all we have to do is simply believe. It is, therefore, not what we do, but about what he did.
Three days later, the Son of God did something that no person could ever do: he arose from the dead.
On the eve before the crucifixion of Jesus, the Lord met with his disciples in a place we call the Upper Room and for an event we call the Last Supper.
The Upper Room was not a plush suite in Hotel Jerusalem, with servants dashing to and fro with beverages and hors d'oeuvres, and no chamber music. Instead, the evening was a quiet time for Jesus to be alone with his disciples and to introduce a final instruction. Everything was simple, including the supper. It was not a full course meal, nor a lavish feast.
Everything about Jesus, in fact, was simple. He lived a simple life, his words were simple, but the events on the day to follow would not be a simple matter. The Son of God would do something that no other person could ever do.
He began by washing the feet of the disciples, which reveals the servant attitude of the Lord---leadership by example: that the disciples were to follow his lead and become servants, instead of being served.
Jesus had some bread, symbolic of his sacrificial body, and some wine, symbolic of the blood he would shed for the sins of the world. Jesus understood the magnitude of his death and he wanted his disciples to remember that event as well as for future believers throughout their generations to also remember. As he said, "this do in remembrance of me" (Luke 22:19).
The Passover Feast, of course, had its beginning in Egypt where the nation of Israel had been slaves to Pharoah for over four hundred years. On the eve of Israel's departure from Egypt, God instructed Moses in the way of the Passover, and the next day Israel headed for the land of milk and honey. The Passover became an annual event, for God wanted Israel, throughout their generations, to remember the day of their deliverance from the bondage of slavery.
When we, therefore, participate in communion services, we should remember that this memorial is not about us, but it is about him; not about what we do, but about what he did. As the Lord said, "this do in remembrance of me", for Jesus came to deliver us from the bondage of sin.
The night was not over, however, and Jesus led his disciples to the garden of Gethsemane, a place where he frequently went to in order to be alone with the Father and pray. The night, moreover, was a time of agony for Jesus and he was awake all night. In the early morning, before daylight, they came and arrested the Lord, led there by the traitor, Judas Iscariot.
On Wednesday morning, on the fourteenth day of the first Hebrew month, Jesus Christ was crucified in Jerusalem. The Bible number 14 means "salvation". And Christ, the Passover Lamb, died for our salvation.
His death was merely the beginning of something truly wonderful, but for now, too, the little lambs at the tower of Edar would no longer be necessary for temple sacrifices.
In a simple way, what Jesus did on the cross was to restore our relationship with God; and all we have to do is simply believe. It is, therefore, not what we do, but about what he did.
Three days later, the Son of God did something that no person could ever do: he arose from the dead.
Thursday, December 1, 2011
THE TOWER OF EDAR
According to the second chapter of the Gospel according to Luke, Christ was born in Bethlehem. On the outskirts of the city was the tower of Edar. It was at this location where sheep were kept and protected by shepherds until they were sacrificed in the temple. Under the tower was a cave-like portion where ewes were taken when it was time to birth baby lambs.Joseph and Mary had gone to Bethlehem to pay taxes, and, while they were there, the time came for Mary to be delivered.
"And she brought forth her firstborn son and wrapped him in swaddling clothes, and laid him in a manger; because there was no room for them in the inn." (Luke 2:7).
Meanwhile, the shepherds were "abiding in the field, keeping watch over their flock by night."
The angel of the Lord appeared to them and said:
"You shall find the babe wrapped in swaddling clothes, lying in a manger."
When the shepherds heard "swaddling clothes" and "manger", they knew exactly where to go: not to Bethlehem, but to the tower! And there they found Mary and Joseph, and the babe lying in a manger.
In the tower of Edar, new-born lambs were wrapped in swaddling by the shepherds, which helped to keep the sheep from hurting themselves, or from getting bruised. The manger was hewn limestone, which was used to lay the new baby lambs.
The tower of Edar was thus the perfect birthplace for the Lamb of God, who was sacrificed for the sin of the world.
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