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<div class="SSN_rnum">I. EARTHLY CONDITIONS "AND IT CAME TO PASS IN THOSE DAYS, THERE WENT OUT A DECREE FROM CEASAR AUGUSTUS.</div>
<div class="SSN_level2">A. Ceasar Augustus.</div>
<div class="SSN_level3">1. First Roman Emperor.</div>
<div class="SSN_level3">2. Real name Caius Octavius.</div>
<div class="SSN_level3">3. Roman Senate chose his title.</div>
<div class="SSN_level4">a. Refused dictator (temporary).</div>
<div class="SSN_level4">b. Refused king (didn't signify enough...)</div>
<div class="SSN_level4">c. Augustus (signifying divine sanction).</div>
<div class="SSN_level2">B. "In Those days."</div>
<div class="SSN_level3">1. Roman republic passed away and there emerged the Roman Empire.</div>
<div class="SSN_level3">2. Gates of temple of Janus were closed.</div>
<div class="SSN_level3">3. Roman people passed under despotism of Autocratic ruler.</div>
<div class="SSN_level3">4. That empire had bludgeoned world into submission whole world crushed under heel of despot.</div>
<div class="SSN_level3">5. The one period of history when one man attained world mastery.</div>
<div class="SSN_level3">6. "Jesus was born."</div>
<div class="SSN_level4">Let the significance fall on us.</div>
<div class="SSN_level3">7. Ceasar issued a decree world should be enrolled and it was done.</div>
<div class="SSN_level4">a. There was no appeal.</div>
<div class="SSN_level4">b. They came! Because Ceasar said to.</div>
<div class="SSN_level3">8. No war.</div>
<div class="SSN_level4">a. Beautiful, think again.</div>
<div class="SSN_level4">b. Most damnable condition world ever knew.</div>
<div class="SSN_level5">1. Not glorifying war.</div>
<div class="SSN_level5">2. People bludgeoned into submission.</div>
<div class="SSN_level5">3. Darkest hour of world history.</div>
<div class="SSN_level2">C. Small Roman outpost, Palestine.</div>
<div class="SSN_level3">1. Young couple of Nazareth, only two people.</div>
<div class="SSN_level3">2. No more effect on Ceasar that you have on President.</div>
<div class="SSN_level3">3. They must go to Bethlehem, Ceasar ordered.</div>
<div class="SSN_level3">4. Look again, two people going to Bethlehem. Look at the woman.</div>
<div class="SSN_level4">a. Her womb is the tabernacle of the Son of God.</div>
<div class="SSN_level3">5. Climb high and look down upon this scene.</div>
<div class="SSN_level4">a. They are going to Bethlehem, because at this psychic moment of History Ceasar decided to enroll the world.</div>
<div class="SSN_level3">6. My Bible 650 yrs. previously had declared, "And thou Bethlehem, Ephrathah, which art little, shall One come forth unto Me that is to be ruler in Israel, whose going forth is from old, from everlasting."</div>
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