Everyone To Your City

And it came to pass in those days that a decree went out from Caesar Augustus that all the world should be registered. This census first took place while Quirinius was governing Syria. So all went to be registered, everyone to his own city.  Luke 2:1-3

Everyone to your own city, get back there, let's go! For a Friday, imagine a world ruler sending out the decree today, that everyone must go back to their own city to be registered. Try to imagine billions of people griping about doing it online instead. The next verse would throw even more confusion into the works, as Joseph went up to the city of his lineage. City of my lineage? According to the powers that be, a whole lot of us over here, come from this place over there, and we're pretty sure they don't want us back there, so...help! Even comparing it to our time, we can see that this decree would cause a huge inconvenience to everyone. As our Lord's time to be born arrived, even the Son of God had to be born in a stable because of that decree from far away in Rome. 

A world ruler, Ha! Try to imagine that happening anytime soon. Like a great many Bible prophecies though, it will take dern near forever to arrive and yet arrive faster than anyone thinks possible. How does He do it?

Merry Christmas!

Bucky