Mary agreed to become pregnant in the sixth month.
Are you claiming he was born a month later?
There is various information in the Bible to show that He really was born on this exact day. For example a rough way of working out when Jesus was born is by using the priestly division recorded in the Gospel of Luke:
Luke 1:5 & 8-9
In the time of Herod king of Judea there was a priest named Zechariah, who belonged to the priestly division of Abijah; his wife Elizabeth was also a descendant of Aaron.
8 Once when Zechariah’s division was on duty and he was serving as priest before God, 9 he was chosen by lot, according to the custom of the priesthood, to go into the temple of the Lord and burn incense.
These priestly divisions are listed in Chronicles. Each division would serve for one week in the temple starting from day 1 month 1, and after all 24 divisions of priests had served, they began again from day 1 month 7. The festival weeks of Passover, Shavuot, Atonement and Tabernacles were served by all 24 divisions of priests. Abijah was the eighth division:
1 Chronicles 24:10
the seventh to Hakkoz, the eighth to Abijah.
From this list, it can be calculated that John the Baptist’s father, Zachariah, severed in the temple on both the first week of month three and the second week of month nine. Therefore, Zachariah received the message from the angel Gabriel, about his son’s birth, in either one of these two weeks in the spring or autumn. After which he went home and his wife Elizabeth conceived. About six months later Gabriel visited Mary:
Luke 1:35-36
35 The angel answered, “The Holy Spirit will come on you, and the power of the Most High will overshadow you. So the holy one to be born will be called the Son of God. 36 Even Elizabeth your relative is going to have a child in her old age, and she who was said to be unable to conceive is in her sixth month.
Therefore, Jesus was born in the spring or autumn. However, for a precise time of Jesus’ birth, God gave many signs and prophesies for us to recognise, here is how God gives us His signs:
Genesis 1:14
And God said, Let there be lights in the firmament of the Heaven to divide the day from the night; and let them be for signs, and for seasons, and for days, and years.
The signs were the sun, moon, stars, planets, and constellations. When God made all these heavenly bodies, it was not just some random act, the stars and constellations He made were a purposeful and deliberate heavenly pictograph displaying and foretelling what would happen to mankind, from Adam to Jesus, and until the end of the age:
Psalm 19:1-4
1 The Heavens proclaim the Glory of God. The skies display His Craftsmanship. 2 Day after day they continue to speak; night after night they make Him known. 3 They speak without a sound or word; their voice is never heard. 4 Yet their message has gone throughout the earth, and their words to all the world.
Adam had perfect intelligence and was in full communication with God before the fall. He knew just about everything about the created order around him, including the prophetic story of mankind in the heavens. This story was passed down through the generations till the tower of Babel, where the names of all the stars and constellation changed into seventy different languages. However, the story and the meanings of the names remained the same, which is why today every ancient culture around the world has virtually the same story and meaning behind the names of the stars and constellations. But Satan has tried to deceive the world with astrology and has twisted the truth of what the stars are really telling us.
Virgo, or Bethulah in Hebrew, both mean virgin and represents Jesus’ mother Mary. Virgo appears in the night sky lying on her left side, with her legs in the air as if in the birthing position. With modern technology, we can now look back in time and know the position of every star and planet, at any given point in time as viewed from anywhere on Earth. On day 1 month 7, Tishri (11th September 3BC) God used Virgo to give us a sign in the heavens. That evening, from Bethlehem, as the constellation of Virgo became visible just above the horizon towards the west, it appeared as if sun set had ‘cloaked’ Virgo’s body. The crescent moon was positioned right under her feet, whereas the day before, and after, the moon was not under her feet. Also, above Virgo’s head are nine stars that form the constellation of Leo, which represents the Lion of the tribe of Judah, who is Jesus. That night however Mercury, Venus, and Jupiter were also in Leo, making a total of twelve stars above Virgo’s head. Planets were considered as stars in ancient days and the word planet literally means ‘wondering star’. The book of Revelation describes a great sign in the Heavens with the sun, moon and stars, and describes that the child being born was Jesus:
Revelation 12:1-2
1 And a great sign was seen in heaven, a woman clothed with the sun, with the moon under her feet, 2 and upon her head a crown of twelve stars, and she being with child screamed, travailing in birth, and agonised to be delivered.
Revelation 12:5
She gave birth to a son, a male child, who “will rule all the nations with an iron sceptre.” And her child was snatched up to God, and to his throne.
The prophet Isaiah also made a prophetic allusion to this sign over 700 years before.
Isaiah 7:14
Therefore the LORD Himself will give you a sign: The virgin will conceive, and give birth to a son, and will call him Emmanuel.
The best time to have witnessed this momentary display was between 5:53 p.m. and 6:35 p.m. that evening and Jesus was born at about 6:12 p.m. It’s possible to be confident that this was the time of Jesus’ birth because it was also at this precise time that the brightest star in Virgo, called Spica, which represents an ear of corn being held in Virgo’s left hand, appeared to ‘touch’ the horizon, or ‘alight to the earth.’ The name of this star in Hebrew is Tsemech which means ‘branch,’ and is the subject of prophecy by Isaiah, Jeremiah, and Zechariah. Spica is actually Latin for ‘ear of corn’ or ‘a kernel of wheat’, and Jesus Himself alluded to this sign:
John 12:23-24
23 And Jesus responded to them, “The hour is come that the Son of Man should be magnified. 24 Truly, truly I say to you, unless a kernel of wheat alights to the earth and dies, it remains a single seed. But if it dies, it bears fruit.”
There are twenty different Hebrew words for the word branch, but only one of them, Tsemech, is used exclusively in the Old Testament four times, and each time it is in reference to the coming Messiah:
Isaiah 4:2
In that day the Branch of God will be beautiful, and resplendent, and the fruit of the land will be the pride, and splendour of the survivors in Israel.
Jeremiah 23:5
Behold, the days are coming,” says the LORD. “When I will raise up to David a righteous Branch, a King who will reign wisely, and do what is just and right in the land.
Zechariah 3:8
Hear O High Priest and your associates seated before you, who are men symbolic of things to come: I am going to bring My Servant, the Branch.”
Zechariah 6:12-13
12 And speak to him saying, this is what of Hosts says: ‘Here is the Man whose name is the Branch, and He will branch out from His place and build the Temple of God, 13 He will be clothed with majesty, and will sit, and rule on His throne. And He will be a Priest on His throne. And there will be prosperity between the two.’
In studying these prophesies, several things can be learned about the identity of the Branch. He is a King, a Servant, a Man, and a Priest. His name is God, Our Righteousness, and is Jesus Himself. These themes about the Messiah were divinely developed in the Gospels. He is presented as the King in Matthew, a Servant in Mark, a Man in Luke, a Priest in John, and as Himself in John’s Revelation. This Branch prophecy is also eluded to else where:
Matthew 2:23
and he went and lived in a town called Nazareth. So was fulfilled what was said through the prophets, that he would be called a Nazarene.
The name Nazareth means ‘Branch-town,’ as the root word for Nazareth is Netzer which means branch or shoot. A Nazarene from Nazareth is like saying an Israeli from Israel. A Netzer is actually a particular kind of branch that grows from a stump of a plant that’s been cut down and has spouted up some distance from the stump, this is what happened with Jesus:
Isaiah 11:1
A shoot will come up from the stump of Jesse; from his roots a Branch will bear fruit.
The stump of Jesse relates to what happened to the Davinic line of descendants. David had taken Israel to the height of its greatest achievements, which his son Solomon maintained until his death, but then the kingdom divided due to civil war, and continued to decline till the southern kingdom of Judah was taken into captivity in Babylon. This was the stump. The Davinic descendants continued on into virtual obscurity until Jesus was born, and this is the Shoot, the Netzer that ‘came up’ in Nazareth far from the original stump in Bethlehem where David had been born.
However, the heavens declare even more than this as around this time there were also a number of other astronomical alignments beginning to take place involving Venus, the brightest planet, known as the mother planet, and Jupiter, the second brightest planet, known as the king planet. Jupiter in ancient Hebrew is called Zedek and forms part of the word Melchizedek, which means means king of righteousness and represents the Messiah. This all took place in the constellation of Leo which also represents Jesus; The Lion of the tribe of Judah. These conjunctions helped signal the birth of the Messiah and were clearly seen in the east by the Magi.
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