Over the centuries Christmas Eve has become encrusted with sentimental images and our own ideas about what was all going on, that mish-mash performed annually in nativity plays. So a gentle but necessary caveat:
"Yes, plenty of angelic fireworks supercharge Luke's Birth Narrative, but these are more background special effects than bedrock significant events. The sign of God's salvation , the main event to see and know, is that of a flesh-and-blood infant boy swathed in cloth strips made from plant fibres and lying in a wooden feed-box for working animals. We cannot know God fully unless we know God there."1
1. Luke. Two Horizons Commentary F Scott Spencer, (Eerdmans: 2019) page 69-70, emphasis original.
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