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167For as often as you eat this loafand drink this cup, you keep proclaimingthe death of the Lord,until he arrives ."Jesus' birth not in coldDecemberLuke 2 :8, 12 "There were alsoin that same country shepherdsliving out of doors and keepingwatches in the night over theirflocks . 'And this is a sign for you :you will find an infant bound incloth bands and lying in amanger.'"Luke 2 :1-7 "Now in those daysa decree went forth from CaesarAugustus for all the inhabitedearth to be registered ; . . . and allpeople went traveling to be registered,each one to his owncity. Of course, Joseph also wentup from Galilee, out of the cityof Nazareth, into Judea, to David'scity which is called Bethlehem,because of his being amember of the house and familyof David, to get registered withMary, who had been given himin marriage as promised, at presentheavy with child ."Jesus' birth in the fall (aboutOct. 1, 2 B . C.); John the Baptist'sfather serving as priest in earlypart of July, 3 B . C., when Johnwas conceived (hence born inApril, 2 B.C .)Luke 1 :5, 8-24 "In the days ofHerod, king of Judea, there happenedto be a certain priestnamed echariah of the divisionof Abijah, and he had a wifefrom the daughters of Aaron,and her name was Elizabeth . Nowas he was acting as priest in theassignment of his division beforeGod . . . . To him Jehovah's angelappeared, . . . the angel said tohim : ' . . . your wife Elizabeth willbe the mother of a son to you,and you are to call his nameJohn .' . . . after these days Elizabethhis wife became pregnant ."1 Chron. 24 :10, 18 [Regardingthe courses of the priests] : "Theseventh to Hakkoz, the eighthHolidaysto Abijah ." [Of the 24 coursesthe second week of the eighthwould fall in the latter part ofthe fourth Jewish month, or earlypart of July, our calendar.]Jesus was conceived in the earlypart of January (hence bornearly October)Luke 1:26-39 "In her [Elizabeth's]sixth month the angelGabriel was sent forth from Godto a city of Galilee named Nazareth,to a virgin promised inmarriage to a man named Josephof David's house ; and the nameof the virgin was Mary . . . . theangel said to her : 'Holy spiritwill come upon you, and powerof the Most High will overshadowyou . For that reason also what isborn will be called holy, God'sSon . And, look! Elizabeth yourrelative has also herself conceiveda son, in her old age, and thisis the sixth month for her .'"John came baptizing in thespring of A .D . 29Luke 3 :1-3 "In the fifteenthyear [A .D . 29] of the reign ofTiberius Caesar [who began toreign August 19, A .D . 14, afterAugustus' death], . . God's declarationcame to John the son ofechariah in the wilderness . Sohe came into all the countryaround the Jordan, preachingbaptism of those repenting forforgiveness of sins ." [John wouldstart priestly preaching duties atthe age of 30 . See Numbers, chapter4 .]Jesus was baptized at the age of30, 6 months laterLuke 3:23 "Furthermore, Jesushimself, when he commenced hiswork was about thirty years old ."[Hence his birth was 30 yearsearlier, about October 1, 2 B .C.]The " star" was a light Satan usedto guide astrologers (demon worshipers)in his scheme to locateJesus for destruction by HerodMatt . 2 :1-16 "After Jesus hadbeen born in Bethlehem of Judea