Oops of the Day  

Zebedee, the father of James and John was betrayed by Jesus when he recruited his sons and also Peter, Andrew, his fishing partners so that his fishing business would fail.

Luke 5:4-11

Fact of the Day

No!  Just before recruiting them, Jesus performed a miracle.   They caught so many fish when fish weren’t supposed to be feeding that their nets were about to break.  Was that a message to Zebedee, the owner, that his fishing business will do fine?

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Oops of the Day  

Joseph, Jesus’ step-father, died after Jesus was 12 but while Jesus was still a child.

Luke 4:14-22  –   John 6:42  –  John 19:25-27

Fact of the Day

No! When he returned to Nazareth and preached there, the people said, “IS (present tense) this not Joseph’s son?”.  (Joseph must have died some time during the end of Jesus’ ministry because he made arrangements for his mother to live with John.) 

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Oops of the Day  

Jesus first went to the temple when he was 12 and had celebrated his bar-mitzva.

Luke 2:31-42  –  Matthew 2:19-23

Fact of the Day

No!  ! Bar-Mitzva was first recorded in history in the 13th century in France. Jesus’ parents went to the temple every year. The Bible says so.  The reason they took Jesus at age twelve more likely was that cruel King Archaelaeus was so mean (he had killed 3000 in the temple when Jesus was 11), he was banished to Gaul by Caesar. THEN, it was safe to take Jesus to Jerusalem.

MATTHEW 2:19-23 –  “After Herod died, an angel of the Lord appeared in a dream to Joseph in Egypt and said, “Get up, take the child and his mother and go to the land of Israel, for those who were trying to take the child’s life are dead.”
“So Joseph took the child [Jesus] and his mother and went to the land of Israel.  But when he heard that ARCHAELAEUS was reigning in Judea in place of his father Herod, he was AFRAID to go there. Having been WARNED in a dream, he withdrew to the district far-north[province] of Galilee, and he went and lived in a town called Nazareth.”

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Surprise of the Day  

When baby Jesus was presented at the temple by his parents,  Prophetess Anna was AGE 84 or more and had lived at the temple all but 7 of her adult years. 

Luke 2:36-37

Fact of the Day

Anna lived through these attacks on the temple and Jerusalem while living there in one of its apartments:

• BC 63 – Pompey besieged Jerusalem and entered the temple.
• BC 54 – Crassus looted the temple of all its gold.
• BC 40 – When Herod was made King, Jerusalem closed its gates, so he attacked through the temple.

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Oops of the Day  

The angel chorus sang about Jesus’ birth to the shepherds.

Luke 3:13  –  Revelation 5:9-12  –  Revelation 14:3  –  Revelation 15:3  –  Revelation 16:5

Fact of the Day

No!  Angels do not sing.  A multitude of the heavenly host (angels) praised God “saying” glory to God. Later seven angels “said” the song of Moses and the Lamb. The third angel “said “the Lamb was righteous.   People get to sing.

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Oops of the Day  

King David was a shepherd, Jesus called himself the Good Shepherd. Therefore, the shepherds the angels appeared to were respectable men.

Luke 2:8-20  –  Genesis 46:33-34

Fact of the Day

No!  Shepherds were despised in many places, including in Egypt where Joseph warned his father not to tell Pharaoh he was a shepherd.  The Jewish Talmud forbade shepherds from being witnesses.  Further, no help was to be given to heathens or shepherds.

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Oops of the Day  

All the inns in Bethlehem were full, so Mary had to have her baby in a barn and lay him in a manger.

Luke 2:7

Fact of the Day

Partly true.  But there were not a multitude of inns in Bethlehem.  Actually, there was only one inn.  Check it out! Read it for yourself.

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Surprise of the Day  

What did the Holy Spirit do when it “overshadowed” Mary?  What does that mean?

Luke 1:35  –  Genesis 1:2

Fact of the Day

The term Gabriel used to explain how Mary would become pregnant was “the Holy Spirit will overshadow you.” The word “overshadow” was also used when the Holy Spirit “hovered” over the universe at the creation and gave birth to the world.

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Oops of the Day  

The moment Gabriel told Mary she would become pregnant with the Son of God, she agreed.

Luke 1:26-38 & 56

Fact of the Day

No! First, she “kept pondering” why he greeted her in the way he did – “favored one”.

Then she became afraid.

Then she questioned the logic of what he told her:  She was unmarried.

Oddly, she did not question the baby being the Son of the Most High, so he repeated himself saying he will be the Son of God.

She must have pondered again.

So the angel added some reassurance; her elderly cousin, Elizabeth was pregnant too, and that should be proof to her that God can do the impossible. After accepting the “holy challenge” Mary rushed to see Elizabeth. If Elizabeth really was pregnant, then Mary knew she was too.

Mary stayed three months, long enough to hold Elizabeth’s miracle baby in her arms.

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Oops of the Day  

The moment Gabriel told Mary she would become pregnant with the Son of God, she agreed.

Luke 1:26-38 & 56

Fact of the Day

No! First, she “kept pondering” why he greeted her in the way he did – “favored one”.

Then she became afraid.

Then she questioned the logic of what he told her:  She was unmarried.

Oddly, she did not question the baby being the Son of the Most High, so he repeated himself saying he will be the Son of God.

She must have pondered again.

So the angel added some reassurance; her elderly cousin, Elizabeth was pregnant too, and that should be proof to her that God can do the impossible. After accepting the “holy challenge” Mary rushed to see Elizabeth. If Elizabeth really was pregnant, then Mary knew she was too.

Mary stayed three months, long enough to hold Elizabeth’s miracle baby in her arms.

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