Caesar Augustus ordered a census of the entire Roman Empire with everyone going to their hometown to register. It tells us in Luke 2:4 that, ” Joseph went up from the town of Nazareth in Galilee to Judea, to Bethlehem the town of David, because he belonged to the house and line of David.” It was custom to travel to your ancestral home so that families could be counted together…and since Joseph was of the lineage & descendance of King David, off he went dutifully, with Mary his betrothed in tow. But why the undistinguished & insignificant little town of Bethlehem (located about 5 miles Southwest of Jerusalem)? It was commonly known among the people that the Messiah would come from that unimportant tiny town…first prophesied in Micah 5:2, that God would raise up a Ruler from David’s lineage…a King that would rule & reign forever…Jesus Christ Himself. So in the eyes of most, Bethlehem wasn’t a prominent town…but to God it was of the upmost importance to His plan of Salvation.
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