Timely Birth of Jesus Christ !

When the fullness of the time came, God Sent forth His Son. born of a woman (Galatians 4:4)

When Jesus was born, Israel was a subject nation. The greatness of the kingdom was but a memory and the people of God paid tribute to Caesar. These were the days of Augustus and the Rome ruled the world.Yet in spite of apprehensions He was born in the fullness of time. Everything was prepared. The Gospel of Christ was for all men; it could not be confined to one tiny nation. So God permitted Rome absorb the world, and Jesus was crucified in the Roman Empire upon a Roman Cross.

Rome's communications were good. Her roads and her ships went everywhere. Jews could come to Jerusalem at Pentecost, hear the Gospel, and carry it back home without crossing hostile national boundaries. Because Rome ruled , the apostles might travel freely from city to city within the Empire, speaking to men of the Saviour. The Book
of the Acts demonstrates the neutrality and the fairness of the secular authorities. Rome is likened in Scripture as a wild beast, God who shuts lions' mouths had tamed her for His instrument. He shuts and no man opens; He opens and no man can shut.