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And now, here's Gary.

Well, we're going to complete Christmas.

The interesting thing about Christmas, from my perspective,

is the way that Jesus fulfilled the Jewish feast days.

When you study the Christmas story, you study the genealogies of Christ,

the regal genealogy that's given in Matthew,

the legal genealogy that's given in Matthew, the legal genealogy that's given in Luke,

and of course we looked at that. Of course, you can't leave out politics. Herod, the Roman emperors,

the registration in the city of David, all of the problems caused by the Herodian pretenders to the throne

of Israel. So you've got politics, you've got genealogy, you've got Jewish feast days,

you've got all kinds of dramatic events. And we studied in Hagueh, the fact that Hanukkah

is called the festival of laying the foundation.

In it, Haga was given a prophetic, and I think a very unique prophetic look at the beginning

of the messianic ministry. And it was the laying of the foundation on the 24th of Kislev,

which we then traced forward to the conception of Christ.

And I believe that to be on the 24th of Kislev in the wintertime.

Christ was born nine months later on Rosh Hashanah, Tishri I.

In his life, Christ fulfilled the feasts of Israel. He fulfilled Passover, unleavened bread, first fruits, Pentecost. He was born on Tishri I, Rosh Hashanah,

and the two final feasts he fulfilled in type.

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