How firm a foundation, ye saints of the Lord is laid for your faith in his excellent word.

When Mary and Joseph arrived in Bethlehem, it was in the exact time and space prophesied by Micah some 700 years before.

Welcome to Through the Bible. I'm your host Steve Schwartz, and our teacher, Dr. J. Vernon McGee, shares that Mary's arrival in Bethlehem was actually more punctual and precise than any jetplane arrival could be.

But before we get to this interesting story, let's continue Dr. McGee's introduction on prophecy in the United States.

We're afraid to walk on our streets at night. The White House has become an armed arsenal,

and there is corruption. There is corruption everywhere today in high places. It's almost a joke

about politics. And there's bribery today that takes place. Judges are being bought.

Politicians are being bought. The moral corruption of our nation has reached a new

low at this time. May I say to you, men are beginning actually to live like animals, or they live

in luxury, but they live in luxury like the animals of the woods, sleeping together.

In Hollywood, they asked a movie star the other day.

Who are you sleeping with now?

What a breakdown there has been.

May I say to you, we're going to bring down the judgment of God upon our nation.

Pride today.

Pride is seeped into the church. I suppose the greatest sin of the church is ignorance of the word of God. And the second is pride. They're so proud of

themselves. And we're told by psychology to think well of ourselves. However, I think some psychologists are getting away from that

foolish approach. May I say to you, Paul didn't go down that way. Paul says, I'm the chief of

sinners. And he says, and I am what I am by the grace of God. What we need today is a humiliation

that is certainly today, not to be seen in the church.

That's the great sin of the ministry, not sex, however, that's running at a close second now,

but pride today.

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