On a hot afternoon on 22nd July 2013
Westminster Abbey bells pealed, there was a 41 gun salute and
he was headline news the world over.
Photos of this 8lb 6oz baby were on the front
pages of thousands of
different Magazines and newspapers.
Baby George’s birth could not have been more different to the
birth of Jesus, the King of kings.
Both
come from a royal line.
Imaging having
among your ancestors Henry VIII or Queen
As we know, the royal couple William and Kate are married.
Jesus’ mother, Mary, was not yet married to Joseph. She was a
virgin. But
God Himself, the Creator of the world was
coming into the world.
Jesus was born of
God and of humanity, for He was fully God and fully
human.
THE
BABY’S
NAME
The prince’s parents, with advice and approval from the Queen,
chose his name, whereas Joseph was told by an angel of
the Lord “you shall
call His name Jesus, for
He will save His people
from their sins.” Jesus’
destiny was also to
reign upon this earth,* but
as Lord and
Saviour.
[* When will
this be?
At the time of His Return: “For,”
it is
written: “in the
latter days it shall come to pass, that the
mountain of the Lord’s house shall be established in
the top of the mountains,
and it shall be exalted above
the hills; and
peoples shall flow into it.
And many nations
shall go and say, Come
ye, and let us go up
to the mountain of the Lord, and
to the house of the God of Jacob; and
he will teach us his ways, and we shall walk in his paths: for out
of Zion shall go forth the law,
and the
word of
the LORD from Jerusalem.
And he shall judge
between many peoples, and
shall reprove strong nations afar off; and they shall beat their swords into
plowshares and their spears
into pruninghooks: nation shall not lift up sword
against nation,
neither
shall they
learn war any more.
But they shall sit
every man under his vine and under his fig
tree; and none shall
make them afraid: for
the mouth of
the LORD
of hosts hath spoken it:” (Micha
4:
1-4,
R.V.). See
also Isa.
40:
10; Rev.
11: 15;
20: 4,
6.]
There was no private hospital for Jesus.
Compelled by a census called by Caesar
Augustus,
Mary and Joseph went to their place of origin.
But there was no room for them in the inn in
ANNOUNCING THE
BIRTH
News of the royal baby’s birth was posted outside
Whatever the celebrations, there was no way that a special
star would be over St. Mary’s Hospital, Paddington! But for
Jesus, a star led wise from the east
to the place where Jesus was born
Who knows how
Laid in a
cradle, Jesus was destined
to die on a cross.
His suffering was
horrific. But
He paid the penalty for
our sins. Jesus
was born to do
that. We
have all broken God’s
commandments … and our sin is deadly.
Jesus came to die, taking on himself the sin of
the world. He
did it because, despite everything, God
loves us. Jesus
then did what no
ordinary monarch could ever do - He
rose from the dead.*
[* That is, He left
“Hades,” - a
place in the Underworld where the souls of the dead
are presently waiting for
their Resurrection.
Matt.
40;
Acts 2: 31,
34; Rev.
6: 9-11; John
3: 13.]
ENTHRONEMENT
We don’t
actually know when, or even
if,
Shortly after
Jesus’ birth, the king
of the day, King Herod jealously ordered that babies
in
What we think
of baby George Alexander
Louis actually has little significance.
What
we think of Jesus Christ has eternal
consequences.
Before anyone can come
to know God and be certain of heaven rather than hell,* individual wrong deeds need to be
forgiven. Only
Jesus can do that.
[* Presumably,
the
author of this tract, understands “hell”
to
be synonymous with “the lake
of fire” - the
eternal place of the lost after their resurrection;
but this cannot be correct
for “death and Hades (‘Hell’
A.V.) were cast into the lake
of fire” (Rev.
20: 15,
R.V.)]
Throughout
the centuries people have
said, ‘God save the king’. More
importantly
you need to ask the King to save you - that is to
forgive you and
become Lord and Saviour.
Will you
now call out to God, thanking Him for the life, death
and resurrection of
Jesus? Will
you ask Him to become your
Lord and Saviour?
Jesus is not just a
figure of history, like so many of the kings and
queens we read about, but He
is the way to God the Father.
We can
know Him and find in Him a constant companion and
loving Saviour.
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FOOTNOTE
It
is
impossible to stress, to the degree it needs to be
stressed, the
studied deceit and camouflage which is
taking place in the
No
Spirit-filled
believer needs to be told that the person who denies,
deliberately and publically, (1)
that God rewards His redeemed people according to
their works; or, (2)
that Christ’s millennial kingdom is
that time when faithful servants of Christ will be
rewarded, (Rev.
3: 21;
22: 12)
– has allowed him/herself to be deceived; and
are deceivers of others because: “The
god of this age
hath blinded the minds of the unbelieving, that
the light of the gospel [good news] of the GLORY
of Christ, who
is the image of God, should
not dawn upon them:” (2
Cor. 4: 4b, R.V.).
The
moment
we take these two deceptions - which ought never to be
allowed to
deceive; and a summary of the controlled
propaganda of multitudes of
prominent officers within the Church of God -
(who can only be described
as enormous instruments in the service of Satan in the
production of the ‘evil that
deceives’) - we then realize that we are
now living in a time of mass apostasy.
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THE MILLENNIAL KINGDOM
And is there none before? No perfect
Peace
Unbroken by the storms and
cares of life,
Until the time of waiting for
Him cease
By His appearing to destroy
the strife?
No, none before.
Do we not hear that through
the flag of Grace
By faithful messengers of God
unfurl’d,
All men will be converted,
and the place
Of man’s rebellion be a holy
world?
Yes, we so hear.
Is it not true that to the
Church is given
The holy honour of dispelling
night,
And bringing back the human
race to heaven
By kindling everywhere the
Gospel light?
It os NOT
true.
Is this the Hope? That Christ
the Lord will come,
In all the glory of His royal
right,
Redeemer and Avenger, taking
home His saints,
And crushing the Usurper’s
might?
This is the Hope.
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