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I sometimes wonder why Christ wasn’t born before the flood of Noah. I’m sure God wasn’t willing that any of them should perish; but He destroyed them all. Apparently, there was no way to bring about the birth of Christ. The seed of man was contaminated except for Noah. Before the flood, there was no redemption, no name by which the old world could be saved. We know little about that world, but we do know something about the world after the flood. God is the same yesterday, today, and forever. The same applies to man. Men are slaves to sin.
Reading the books of Leviticus and Deuteronomy we realize that men were wicked and in need of basic instruction on what constitutes a decent human being. The world once again had decayed and headed in the direction of a judgment akin to the flood. It was through divine intervention that the Jews were made separate from the rest of the world. They were the chosen of God, not because they were good, but because of His grace. It was through Israel that the contamination of the world could be filtered out enough so that Messiah could become flesh. It is Christ and the Holy Spirit that keeps the world from escalating into total chaos. Jesus came that we might have life. It is now possible to have peace with God. In goodwill God sent Jesus Christ into the world so we can have peace with God. Without Jesus, we are the enemies of God.
It’s Christmas time again. And again it is time to remember not only that Christ was born, but born for a reason, that being to bring peace to men. Merry Christmas!