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Isaiah 9:6
For Unto Us A Child Is Born
I was intrigued by a picture of a Christian Iraqi shop keeper arranging Christmas decorations inside his shop in Baghdad Thursday Dec. 16, 2004.
Today, only 800,000 Christians live in Iraq.
(AP Photo~/Karim Kadim)
 
I can’t imagine what it must be like to be a Christian trying to celebrate Christmas in Iraq!
The vast majority of the population is Moslem.
The Koran teaches in the 19th Sura that Jesus was born of the virgin Mary in Saudi Arabia under a Palm Tree.
Of course, there’s almost as much confusion about the meaning of Christmas in American society today.
At a Christmas light parade in Denver last year, a Church was forbidden to participate with their float, because they planned on singing Christmas Carols about Christ and His birth.
And when Salvation Army bell ringers are not allowed to ring their bells outside of major department stores, you wonder if people in America even know why we celebrate Christmas.
Politically Correct “Night Before Christmas”
 
‘Twas the night before Christmas and Santa’s a wreck …
How to live in a world that’s politically correct?
His workers no longer would answer to “Elves.”
“Vertically Challenged” they were calling themselves.
And labor conditions at the North Pole
Were alleged by the union to stifle the soul.
Four reindeer had vanished, without much propriety,
Released to the wilds by the Humane Society,
And equal employment had made it quite clear
That Santa had better not use just reindeer.
So Dancer and Donner, Comet and Cupid,
Were replaced with four pigs, and you know that looked stupid!
The runners had been removed from his sleigh;
The ruts were termed dangerous by the E.P.A.
And people had started to call for the cops
When they heard sled noises on their roof-tops,
Second-hand smoke from his pipe had workers frightened.
His fur trimmed red suit was called “Unenlightened.”
And to show you the strangeness of life’s ebbs and flows,
Rudolph was suing over unauthorized use of his nose.
He had gone on Larry King, in front of the nation,
Demanding millions in over-due compensation.
So, half of the reindeer were gone; and his wife,
Who suddenly said she’d enough of this life,
Joined a self-help group, packed, and left in a whiz,
Demanding from now on that her title was “Ms.”
And as for the gifts, why he’d never had a notion
That making a choice could cause so much commotion.
Nothing of leather, nothing of fur,
Which meant nothing for him, and nothing for her.
Nothing that might be construed to pollute.
Nothing to aim, nothing to shoot.
Nothing that clamored or made lots of noise.
Nothing for just girls, or just for the boys.
Nothing that claimed to be gender specific.
Nothing that’s warlike or non-pacific.
No candy or sweets … they were bad for the tooth.
Nothing that seemed to embellish a truth.
And fairy tales, while not yet forbidden,
Were like Ken and Barbie, better off hidden.
For they raised the hackles of those psychological
Who claimed the only good gift was one ecological.
No baseball, no football … someone could get hurt;
Besides, playing sports exposed kids to dirt.
Dolls were said to be sexist, and should be passe;
And X-Box would rot your whole brain away.
So Santa just stood there, disheveled, perplexed;
He just could not figure out what to do next.
He tried to be merry, tried to be gay,
(But you’ve got to be careful with that word today!)
His sack was quite empty, limp to the ground;
No fully acceptable gift to be found.
Something special was needed, a gift that he might
Give to all without angering the left or the right.
A gift that would satisfy, with no indecision,
Each group of people, every religion;
Every ethnicity, every hue,
Everyone, everywhere … even you.
So here is that gift, it will never depart …
May you and your loved ones have Christ in your heart.
\\ \\ \\ Isaiah 9:1 (KJV)
1 Nevertheless the dimness shall not be such as was in her vexation, when at the first he lightly afflicted the land of Zebulun and the land of Naphtali, and afterward did more grievously afflict her by the way of the sea, beyond Jordan, in Galilee of the nations.
Matthew 4:12-16  applies this passage to Jesus at His first coming.
12 Now when Jesus had heard that John was cast into prison, he departed into Galilee; 13 And leaving Nazareth, he came and dwelt in Capernaum, which is upon the sea coast, in the borders of Zabulon and Nephthalim: 14 That it might be fulfilled which was spoken by Esaias the prophet, saying, 15 The land of Zabulon, and the land of Nephthalim, by the way of the sea, beyond Jordan, Galilee of the Gentiles; 16 The people which sat in darkness saw great light;
 
Zebulun ?
Region containing Nazareth
Naphtali ?
Region containing N & W shores of the Sea of Galilee, including Capernaum
 
“Her vexation” ?
732 BC, Tiglath Pileser III of Assyria took the N. Kingdom of Israel into captivity.
But Isaiah was prophesying to the S. Kingdom of Judah.
Dark days lay ahead for Judah (destruction by Nebuchadnezzar in 586 BC), but not as dark as they had been for Israel.
2 Kings 15:29 (NASB95) In the days of Pekah king of Israel, Tiglath-pileser king of Assyria came and captured Ijon and Abel-beth-maacah and Janoah and Kedesh and Hazor and Gilead and Galilee, all the land of Naphtali; and he carried them captive to Assyria.
Isaiah 9:2 (KJV)
2 The people that walked in darkness have seen a great light: they that dwell in the land of the shadow of death, upon them hath the light shined.
Ashurna?irpal II (883-859) boasted, “I stormed the mountain peaks and took them.
In the midst of the mighty mountain I slaughtered them; with their blood I dyed the mountain red like wool. . . .
The heads of their warriors I cut off, and I formed them into a pillar over against their city; their young men and their maidens I burned in the fire.”
“I flayed [him], his skin I spread upon the wall of the city . .
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Shalmaneser II (859-824) boasted of his cruelties after one of his campaigns: “A pyramid of heads I reared in front of his city.
Their youths and their maidens I burnt up in the flames.”
Sennacherib (705-681) wrote of his enemies, “I cut their throats like lambs.
I cut off their precious lives [as one cuts] a string.
Like the many waters of a storm I made [the contents of] their gullets and entrails run down upon the wide earth. . . .
Their hands I cut off.”
Ashurbanipal (669-626) described his treatment of a captured leader in these words: “I pierced his chin with my keen hand dagger.
Through his jaw . . .
I passed a rope, put a dog chain upon him and made him occupy . . .
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