Dear Family and Friends,
I haven't much time this week, but I wanted to highlight a really cool principle from a devotional this week. The speaker was talking about how everything testifies of Christ and he was talking about how sacrifices made in the temples before the birth of Christ had to be the sacrifice of a first born animal.
The speaker mentioned that there were shepherds who's job it was to watch sheep being born so they would know which was the first born and eligible for sacrifice. With this background, he then told us that it made perfect sense that Shepherds would be visited by an angel and told to go visit Christ and witness his having been born. Christ is the Only Begotten and first born of our Father. So it made sense to have shepherds witness his birth, because shepherds witnessed the birth of first born's all the time. And we know Christ is often called the Lamb of God. We also know that he was sacrificed. So it makes perfect sense that shepherds were there. THAT'S WHAT THEY DID! That was their job.
I hope this made sense. It's kind of hard to explain, but it really impacted me, and I wanted to share it.
The talk mostly deals with Scripture study, but if anyone would like to listen to or watch it, they can do so at: http://speeches.byu.edu/?act=viewitem&id=2221
Have a great week!
Con amor,
S. Olsen
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