Cosmic Christmas

As Christmas rolls around, every year someone is going to say “I don’t believe Christmas,” and they even get upset when church puts on a Christmas dinner, or kids produce a pageant, or the Sabbath before a message and a song is on the theme of Christmas. Regardless how many sermons were preached correcting this wrong attitude, or editorials written about the Spirit of Prophecy endorsement of utilizing Christmas season for witnessing, regardless how loud the corporate guidance is given about our Church’s stand on this – there still will be some who would “grinch” about the season.

It is true we do not know when Jesus was born, we do not know exactly when he was baptized, all look tells us that he was about thirty (Luke 3:23). God knows, for when the time was due (Galatians 4:4), when the Divine Schedule was right Jesus came. All we know is that this event of Christ’s birth was attacked always. The story of Cosmic Christmas, the Big Picture of Christ’s birth is well described in Revelation 12. John witnessed an event of great significance: a woman clothed with the sun, with the moon beneath her feet, and a crown of twelve stars on her head, pregnant, delivering the Baby right in front of the dragon, who had one thing on his mind – to devour the baby as soon as it was born. But thanks God, a baby boy was born who was to rule all nations and later he was caught up to God and to his throne. Through these symbols you can see Herod’s army killing all boys in Bethlehem, you can see devil tempting Jesus in the wilderness, causing all kinds of people to trouble Jesus, and then the cross and the grave. Yet after Christ’s ascension to heaven the dragon did not stop. Now the attack is on the His Remnant.

Christmas is not only about Jesus’ birth, it is also about our new birth, it is about every believer being the remnant of Jesus, of the Seed. It is shocking to read in the London Free Press about a youth killing a 74-year old men delivering Christmas cards in the neighbourhood, just because of hate toward God. It is awful to think that some who say they believe have curiosity to watch movies produced to incite hate to God. Yet in the midst of this adversity we are to remain the Remnant. This season is about us too, remaining the world that the reason there will be a New Year is because of Christmas more than 2000 years ago.

This season you are invited to be His Feet, His Arms, His Hands, His Heart, His Words, His Smile – reaching, healing, teaching, going, loving, caring – for we are the Body of Christ, we are the Remnant of the Baby.

Be merry this Christmas, be remnant this Christmas, be the Christ for each other this season.