Dear Father in Heaven: Thanks for another day here on earth. I love You very much. Dolores loves You, and I pray all of our readers truly love You. Lord, please keep Your healing hand on the Emig family. Each member of the family needs a healing touch. Also please be with Barbie and heal her breasts. Also be with Gina and heal her from cancer. Thanks for Your touch so far as she is coming back after treatment. Please, Lord, help me with the message and help me to dispatch that message. In Jesus' Name, I pray. Amen.
Brothers and sisters, Dolores is still very tired. We are so blessed by the fact that she is home and that God turned her around, but she still needs to get rest and plenty of it.
Some people have offered to drop off food; thanks for the offers, but we are fine, we really are. I have cooked over the years and have things frozen. Dolores will be placed on a special diet, I am sure. Please pray today for the Emig family, all are in need of prayers. Barbie also needs prayers, as does Gina. We need also to be praying for peace, world-wide peace.
I heard on the news that President Obama met with Pope Francis for a day and a half at the Vatican. Now for what I think happened. President Obama met with the Pope and that meeting lasted for just an hour, then he stepped into a confession booth and he sat there for the rest of the time with a few priests rotating their time. It was still going on when Air Force One needed to leave. Okay, I made that up, but would it not be nice if on a trip like that he would fall in love with Jesus? Okay, I am not really judging, just inspecting the fruit, so to speak. With that said, please everyone, pray for President Obama and also Pope Francis regardless of your religion. Let's get moving.
Thursday: December 18, 2014: The Big Trip (Day Nine)
Remember I took the bus home last night to catch up on some sleep, so let's get loaded and move out. Wow, that did not take long to get back here.
Luke 2:1 - In those days Caesar Augustus issued a decree that a census should be taken of the entire Roman world. 2 (This was the first census that took place while Quirinius was governor of Syria.) (NIV)
So we drive today to hear the announcement made by Caesar Augustus. This is called a decree. Okay, a man is coming out with a scroll and is going to read it. "Hear ye, hear ye, hear ye (or something like that), Caesar Augustus has just issued a decree that a census should be taken of the entire Roman World." So what does it mean? Well, it means that everyone must go and register and do it in the city where they are from, their hometown. Do these things happen today? Well, yes, or they should, we all should be registered. But what about all those who are sneaking in? Could you hear it today in our country, in the good old USA? It might go something like this.
The press is summoned to the White House, for President Obama is going to issue a decree. Teleprompters are set in place and after a bit our President comes to the podium. I am here today to issue a decree that all peoples must go to their hometown to register. Mr. President, I have a question. I am sorry, no questions today, thanks for coming.
So let me point this out, if our hometown is Harrisburg, PA, I would need to drive from Mechanicsburg, PA, to the city, about 30 minutes, to register. My friend and classmate on this line from Florida, Barbara, would need to come to Harrisburg to register. And the same with my friend Tom Sansoni, now living in the mid-west (Missouri). I want to bring this out as a point just to give you something to think about as we start heading across the desert with Joseph and his family. From any one point in the United States you can get to another point in the United States faster than Joseph and his family went about 70 miles (as the crow flies) back in the day. Tom could fly home, Bobbie could fly home and do it in the comfort of a big airliner or a bus or a car, whatever, if you would take the fastest method you could make it home. In fact you could get by plane anyplace in the world faster back then.
So we have heard the decree by Caesar Augustus and I did an example about today. Now your question, what would be your best guess about how long it took Joseph and family back then? Remember, it was about 70 miles as the crow flies.
Tomorrow we will look in as Mary and Joseph get ready to take THE BIG TRIP.
Now go forth and share your blessings. I love all of you, and Dolores does also. Please share our love and thanks to everyone.
Pastor Dan
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