[Just mythoughts]

Have you never read Luke? Zacharias, of the course of Abia: gives the reader a time of the year... 6 months later was the conception of Christ. Since you and your cohorts have need to be snarly without having read I am not going to do your homework.

And as I already informed your cohort, my screen name came from when Bobby Woodward was reading the mind of Condi Rice, nothing more or nothing less.

[CynicalBear]

OF course! Everyone in the world has scenes depicting the conception of Christ set up all over. They sing songs about the conception of Jesus. That’s what everyone celebrates this time of year right? Oi Vey.

That was the most feeble attempt to try to justify Christmas I have ever seen.

[Elsie]

Have you never read Luke? Zacharias, of the course of Abia: gives the reader a time of the year... 6 months later was the conception of Christ.

Actually; it doesn't.  It does NOT say whether it was the DAILY insense or the YEARLY insense.

 

 

 

 

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There was in the days of Herod, the king of Judaea, a certain priest named Zacharias, of the course of Abia: and his wife was of the daughters of Aaron, and her name was Elisabeth.

⁶ And they were both righteous before God, walking in all the commandments and ordinances of the Lord blameless.

⁷ And they had no child, because that Elisabeth was barren, and they both were now well stricken in years.

⁸ And it came to pass, that while he executed the priest's office before God in the order of his course,

⁹ According to the custom of the priest's office, his lot was to burn incense when he went into the temple of the Lord.

¹⁰ And the whole multitude of the people were praying without at the time of incense.

¹¹ And there appeared unto him an angel of the Lord standing on the right side of the altar of incense.

 

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The altar of incense was made of acacia wood with a veneer of gold. Acacia is a beautiful hardwood that is almost indestructible by insects. The altar was thirty-six inches high and eighteen inches in both length and breadth (Exodus 37:25ff). It served as a place for the daily burning of incense, both morning and evening.

The daily exercise consisted of a priest (selected by the casting of “lots”) taking burning coals from the brazen altar of sacrifice out in the temple court, taking the coals to the altar of incense, and depositing the incense upon coals (Exodus 30:7-8). This was a one-time event in the life of the priest who was selected.

  Incense was also utilized on the Day of Atonement     Lev 16:29 

And this shall be a statute for ever unto you: that in the seventh month, on the tenth day of the month, ye shall afflict your souls, and do no work at all, whether it be one of your own country, or a stranger that sojourneth among you:

 

Have you never read Luke? Zacharias, of the course of Abia: gives the reader a time of the year... 6 months later was the conception of Christ.

Actually; it doesn't.  It does NOT say whether it was the DAILY insense or the YEARLY insense.

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