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We're on top of Mount precipice.

In fact, I'm sitting right next to that cliff next to the city of Nazareth.

We're about 1,300 foot above sea level and this is the only steep cliff around the city of Nazareth.

That brings us, of course, to the story from Luke chapter 4,

when Jesus spoke at the synagogue in Nazareth and of course the people were not too happy

with some of the things he had to say to the point that they brought him all the way to this

very place in order to push him off that cliff. But in order to understand what really happened

here, we must understand why Nazareth of all places. This place would not have been important

if it was not the only cliff near the city of Nazareth.

Jesus wasn't born in Nazareth. He was born in Bethlehem.

The Bible said that he had to be born in the city of David. He had to be born in Bethlehem,

Ephrata. So the words of the prophet Micah in chapter 5 would be fulfilled.

Jesus himself said that I came to fulfill all that was written about me in the law of Moses,

in the prophets and in the Psalms. So he had to be born in Bethlehem, yet the prophet Isaiah speaks

of something completely different when it comes to how Jesus had to grow up and what turned

out of Jesus eventually from the baby to the man that will eventually start an amazing ministry.

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