Thoughts: * Joseph showed considerable faith to choose to continue with the engagement. He also was a man of faith. 1: An alternative possibility: In mid-July of 6 BC, Joseph, a skilled worker in Nazareth, learned that his “wife-to-be” was pregnant. How dare she? She...
Isaiah 7:14 “Therefore the Lord Himself will give you a sign: Behold, a virgin will be with child and bear a son, and she will call His name Immanuel. NASB Deuteronomy 22:22 “If a man is found lying with a married woman, then both of them shall die, the man who lay...
* A virgin was a young woman (girl by modern standards) and, of course, had not had sex. Girls could marry beginning around 12 years of age. Daniel 8:15-16 When I, Daniel, had seen the vision, I sought to understand it; and behold, standing before me was one who...
Thoughts: Download class on Biblical Geography (warning: large file – 226MB) It is not possible for me to sort through all the contradictory theories that would date the birth of Jesus, and come to a firm conclusion. There is NO uncontested moment in history to...
* We know that this 7 BC triple conjunction was important to Babylonian astronomers since a clay tablet, the Star Almanac of Sippar, has been found about 30 miles north of Babylon, which refers in detail to this triple conjunction, and the tablet has been positively...
