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The Real Bethlehem by Steve Ray
The donkey tried to bite me as I climbed on his back. Flies were buzzing incessantly around my head and my clothes were drenched with perspiration.
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The smelly donkey belonged to a young Palestinian boy in the Jordan Valley, the lowest place on the face of the earth. An ancient document says that Mary rode such a boney-backed creature from Nazareth to Bethlehem which was over 90 miles as a crow flies.
The word Bethlehem is made up of two Hebrew words meaning “house of bread.” Mary was on a journey to Bethlehem while nine months pregnant. In her womb she was carrying the Bread of Life (John 6:35).
Isn’t it interesting that Mary was going to the House of Bread to deliver the bread. And when Jesus was born, where did his mother place him? In a manger! The first thing Mary did was place her newborn baby in a food dish for sheep. Was she implying that some day her Son would become our food?
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