December 9 Advent Study These daily Advent studies are provided for your personal devotionals or for your daily family Advent devotionals during the evening meal. They are an excellent way to introduce daily Bible readings and discussions at the evening meal. Once begun during the Advent season the tradition can become a lifelong practice of your family. They seek to challenge both you and your children beyond the simplicity and often erroneous information provided in so called Advent calendars and children’s Christmas books. May you find it a blessing and may they be a starting point for your family in daily readings, discussions and meditations on the holy, eternal, inerrant written Word of God.
(T = True; F = False)
According to the Bible... 13)_____ The angels who appeared to the shepherds were led by Gabriel
14)_____ The angels told the shepherd where to find the baby Jesus
15)_____ The birth, although prophesied in scripture, was hidden from all except those to whom God chose to reveal it through His angels.
16)_____ The Christmas Revelation relates the birth of two babies.
Answer Key 1. F – Luke 2:8 – 15 (The angels who appeared to the shepherds were led by Gabriel.) The only Angel referred to is “an Angel of the Lord” (Luke 2:9) who was accompanied by a “multitude of heavenly host”. (Authors Note: Some scholars universally attribute the appearance in the Old Testament of “the angel of the Lord” with Jesus, the second person of the Trinity. The fact the “angel of the Lord” is appearing to the shepherds while Jesus is in the manger should give us pause for reflection on this tendency.)
2. T – Luke 2:11 & 15; Micah 5:2 (The angels told the shepherd where to find the baby Jesus.) The angels indicated the baby would be found in Luke 2:11 “the city of David” which the shepherd took to be Bethlehem. Also Micah 5:2 clearly places the birth of Jesus in Bethlehem. If you were a shepherd versed in Holy Scriptures this would immediately come to mind. The angels then went on to be even more specific in Luke 2:12 by describing His exact location, “... you will find a baby wrapped in cloths, and lying in a manger." The shepherds then had two aids, prophecy and the angels testimony. However, to find the exact location of a baby in a town, you would need more than this to go on. Bethlehem was a starting point but you still needed to find the exact location. There is at this point no star and the angles did not lead the shepherds. Rather they were left to their own initiative.
3. F - Luke 2:21- 35 & 36 - 38; Matthew 2:1 – 6; Mark 15:43 (The birth, although prophesied in scripture, was hidden from all except those to whom God chose to reveal it through His angels.) Evidently there were people looking for the Messiah at or around the time of Christ’s birth. Mentioned in Scripture are, among others, Zacharias, Elizabeth, Simeon and Anna
4. T - Luke 1:5 - 17, 26 -38 (The Christmas Revelation relates the birth of two babies.) The birth of John the Baptist and the birth of Jesus Christ.
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