The Sovereignty of God in the details of the Witnesses to Christ's birth defies the wisdom of Man's inferior sovereignty!
Hence, the foolishness of God defies the wisdom of man, indeed, “…Because the foolishness of God is wiser than men, and the weakness of God is stronger than men." 1 Corinthians 1:25
The wisdom of mankind to man's inferior sovereignty would be to view the revealing of the Messiah, chosen by the God of the Universe to be witnessed by high people of importance, holding dignitary offices, having their opinions valued by kings and popular celebrities and the populace of their time; witnessed by the Chief Priest, Scribes and Pharisees, witnessed by Ceasar himself and king Herod, who was appointed king of the Jews during his time—Such witnesses were indeed passed over by God.
But God chose Shepherds to witness the Sight of Jesus’ Birth! And Why not to the Chief Priest, Scribes and Pharisees to witness the Messiah’s birth? God chose the ordinary common shepherd to be witness to Jesus’ birth.
Jesus’ Life would reveal that the Temple services, the Chief priest , Scribes and Pharisees services were no longer needed and the temple services and the Levitical sacrificial system was obsolete and out lived its usefulness and would be rendered complete and fulfilled in Christ’s life and Sacrifice on the cross—Jesus who is the Substance of the shadow of what the temple and Levitcal Sacrificial system, the Levitical Priesthood and the Levitical Law pointed to.
In the ushering of the Covenant of Grace through Jesus’ birth, God Chose Shepherds to be witnesses to the Messiah’s birth. God was making all things New in Christ and there was no turning back to the shadow of what was to come, when the substance was found in the manifestation of Christ’s birth.
Hence, God chose Shepherds to be witnesses to the Messiah’s birth. Consider the timing and place; the shepherds were in the field watching their flock by night. It was dark; yet, you would think there would be a place of light by the wisdom of man’s standards. God chose shepherds who were deemed insignificant ordinary people deemed unimportant by the standard of man’s wisdom found in the Temple by the Chief priest, Scribes and Pharisees. But God Chose His foolishness to bear witness to the birth of His Son, by those deemed foolish by the wisdom of man, with a foolish occupation of insignificant occupation to watch their flocks by night, indeed the shepherds may have been viewed even as being lazy, watching their flocks by night with a lazy going nowhere occupation, while watching their flocks by night.
But God chose to reveal His glory and brought in the light of His glory by the Angel of the Lord to Shepherds who were watching their flocks by night“9 And angel of the Lord appeared to them, and the glory of the Lord shone around them, and they were terrified. “Luke 2:9.
Such insignificant ordinary time of night darkness to insignificant witnesses, the Shepherds; Yet God’s foolishness revealed His great glory and light to insignificant shepherds who would bear witness to the Light of God’s glory in the birth of His only Begotten Son! And such insignificant witnesses would be used by God to magnify the light of the Glory of the Lord’s direct Revelation to them as they went to see the things the Lord told them what would take place, 15When the angels had left them and gone into heaven, the shepherds said to one another, Let's go to Bethlehem and see this thing that has happened, which the Lord has told us about. Luke 2: 15
According to the good pleasure of God’s Eternal, Sovereign and free will did He choose the Shepherds to bear witness to the birth of His only begotten Son! Nothing in the Shepherds, nothing in the dark fields by night, but everything found in the glory of God’s Sovereign and free will and choice to whom He chose would be witnesses to the birth of His only begotten Son. And Such insignificant witnesses became witness to the Joyful announcement, the Grand and Great Noel, the announcement of Jesus’ birth throughout every age and generation henceforth, and forevermore, God made it become an Eternal proclamation to the birth of His Son, by the witnesses heralded by the lips of insignificant Shepherds. Thus, the Foolishness of God, indeed, made the wisdom of Mankind that would never think to choose to reveal the Messiah to foolish shepherds. Yet God Did, and God’s Wisdom turned the wisdom of the wise of this earth to be ever so foolish by God choosing of insignificant Shepherds to declare His praise of the glory of the witness to Jesus’ birth for “Glory to God in the highest,
And on earth peace among men with whom He is pleased” Luke 2:14. And notice, peace among men, according to the Sovereign will of God whomever God chooses to reveal His peace to. And He chose the witnesses of insignificant Shepherds to bear witness to the birth of Jesus.
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