One of the most powerful statements in the New Testament concerning the divinity of Yeshua is found in Luke 2:11.

The angel who appeared to the shepherds in the fields around Bethlehem announced to them the good news that a human being had been born who is the Saviour (Moshia), the Anointed Priest and King (Mashiach), who is God (YHWH is his proper name, which some pronounce Yahuah, others Yahweh and still others Yahovah)! He was born into the world as any other child, a man like them. They would find him in a manger. This was the sign for them.

The good news from the angels was that FINALLY the promised Saviour had been born. He was the King and the Priest consecrated and ‘anointed’ by God for this office. He was Yahuah himself. God became man to save mankind without ceasing to be God. True man and true God. He was YAHUAH, yet at the same time a child, born IN THE FULLNESS OF TIME; in Bethlehem, according to the promise. Bethlehem, which in Hebrew means ‘the house of bread’, is where the ‘Bread that came down from Heaven’ was born. Bethlehem, the place where the sacrificial lambs for the temple in Jerusalem were reared, is where the ‘Lamb of God’ was born.

This good news had consequences, which were announced by the choir of angels who appeared to the shepherds themselves shortly afterwards: the event brought glory to Yahuah in the heavenly realm, in the eternal heavenly realm; and brought peace on earth to men of good will. It is the glory of YHWH—which, according to a reliable Hebrew translation, means “the Eternal One who gives life by breathing”—to come and bring about the promised eternal salvation in the space-time dimension. The saving action of Yah (a contracted form of YHWH, that is, the proper name of God) is also peace for those who choose to welcome him just as he has come, for they do not resist his will, but align their own with it.

The shepherds hurried to find confirmation of the angels’ words. And they found what had happened and what the Lord had made known to them: Mary, Joseph and the child lying in the manger, and they recounted what the angels had told them about that child. Whilst everyone marvelled, they, filled with joy at the historical confirmation of the angelic vision they had had, glorified and praised Yahuah for his faithfulness; Miriam, however, was struck by their words and she too found further historical confirmation of what Gabriel had told her in secret and what Elizabeth had sensed; and she treasured the memory of all the words spoken by the shepherds, whilst she tried to make sense of them.

A COSMIC WHIRLWIND IN A HISTORICAL FUNNEL

: angels and flashes of light, announcements never before heard and wonder never before felt. Men and God together! The time was ripe for God to take on a human body, similar to that of sin, and, by dying as the Son of Man, to bring the Adamic race to an end, freeing mankind from sin; and by rising again as the Son of God, to grant eternal life to those who placed their trust in him.

The child promised in Isaiah 7:14 had been born: Yahuah was now with mankind, IM ANU EL! The child promised in Isaiah 9:5–6 was now on earth, in the space-time continuum: he is the King who has come with the power to rule; he, the Wonderful Counsellor, the Mighty God, the Everlasting Father, the Prince of Peace, the eternal King who establishes his kingdom through justice and righteousness! The child born and laid in a manger in Bethlehem. In the fullness of Yahuah’s time

, most likely Sukkot, which falls around the end of September, one of God’s holy feasts, the one which symbolically speaks to us of the Messiah’s millennial kingdom… or, as some maintain, Pesach, which falls around the beginning of April, God’s feast commemorating the sacrifice of the Passover lamb in Egypt and prophetically announcing that of the Lamb of God … A cry of joy and victory resounds in the tents of the righteous: the right hand of Yahuah works wonders, the right hand of Yahuah has been raised. The stone which the builders rejected has become the cornerstone. Blessed is he who comes in the name of Yahuah … for he WILL RETURN … no longer as a scapegoat, but as a glorious King and Judge of all … He will return … in the fullness of Yahuah’s time

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Luke 2:2-20