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WHEN WAS JESUS BORN?: M. M. NINAN<br />
However we are given more details to fix the date more exactly:<br />
Luke 1:8-11 Once when Zechariah’s division <strong>was</strong> on duty and he <strong>was</strong><br />
serving as priest before God, he <strong>was</strong> chosen by lot, according to the<br />
custom of the priesthood, to go into the temple of the Lord and burn<br />
incense. And when the time for the burning of incense came, all the<br />
assembled worshipers were praying outside. Then an angel of the Lord<br />
appeared to him, standing at the right side of the altar of incense<br />
This indicates that people could not see him as people gathered together<br />
in the Holies for worship. This <strong>was</strong> possible only if he had gone behind<br />
the curtain , into the Holy of Holies<br />
Lev. 16: 34 “This is to be a lasting ordinance for you: Atonement is to<br />
be made once a year for all the sins of the Israelites.”<br />
Heb.9:7 But only the high priest entered the inner room, and that only<br />
once a year, and never without blood, which he offered for himself and<br />
for the sins the people had committed in ignorance<br />
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