These nativity musings have to do specifically with the Birth of the Jesus Child, who eventually was to become the Christ – the One sent and anointed to become a Messiah.
Jewish prophecy predicted that this Jesus Child was to be an earthly Divine Ruler, a Messianic Saviour and Deliverer.
No wonder the Birth of such a Child has attracted numerous, lasting, even inconclusive studies, analyses, even controversies. Because the Baby, the child, the Adult, who became many people’s Christ, inspired a religion. Even though He couldn’t have known what He started. Even when He told the