Number 7 Flashcards
What is the significance of the swaddling clothes?
The babe was wrapped in swaddling clothes which were strips of cloth often use for burial purposes, picturing how Christ was born to die
The babe was laid in a lowly manger. He was made poor that we might be made rich.
True
What is a manger??
A feed trough
The shepherds were probably no ordinary shepherds. The sheep kept closest to Bethlehem were destined for temple.__________
Sacrifice
Who better to understand the birth of God’s great sacrificial lamb, than __________ who daily raise lambs for sacrifice
Shepherds
These sheep were kept at a place called Migdal Eder- the tower of the flock - on the road to Jerusalem. The Jews believed that it was at this place that the Messiah would be.________
Revealed
What Old Testament prophet predicted that the Messiah would be born in Bethlehem
(Micah) 5:2
Jesus is mentioned by the first century historians_______(the greatest Jewish historian) and _________(greatest Roman historian) and by the Jewish _______
Josephus, Tacitus, Talmud
Who were the Wise Men? In the days of _______in the Babylonian and Persian Empires, the king surrounded themselves with _____ or wise men of which Daniel became the head.
Daniel- magi
Who were the wise men? After the fall of these empires, the wise men continued their prominent role as they spread throughout the ancient world becoming the_______and cabinets of kings.
Advisors
One of the duties of the wise men was that of appointing _____. This explains one motivation of their visit. This further explains _______ rage
Kings - Herod’s
The wise men were not ______(as they are often pictured)
Kings
When did the wise men arrive to Jesus’ birth? The exact time is unknown, however, it was _____the night of the ______
Not - birth
How many wise men came? There is absolutely no evidence that there were_____-as in the popular tradition
3
The tradition of three wise men, being at Jesus’s birth, is simply based on the fact that there were three types of_____
Gifts
