The majority of Christians today celebrate Christmas - the Lord's birth - His Coming. We can read in the Word of the birth of Christ Jesus in the New Testament and of it being prophesized in the Old Testament. Although, there is nothing said about celebrating it, one can understand why Christian Churches do so. After all, it is the custom to celebrate our own birth, giving thanks to God for giving us life; so, why not celebrate the Lord the Savior's birth. True, over the years the development of the celebration of Christmas has been intermixed with other pagan or non-Christian customs and beliefs. Even with those nations that are mainly Christian their celebration has taken on a secular and commercial atmosphere to where Christ's birth is almost forgotten.

Nonetheless, these things should not prevent or stop the Christian Churches from celebrating the Lord's birth, for it was His Coming, after all, that the prior Churches - the Israelitish and the Ancient - had waited for. If, for nothing else, its celebration brings before the Church's members the wonderful story of the Lord Himself coming to earth in order that man can be redeemed and saved.  Even all those who had lived before the Messiah's coming who have waited and looked foreword to His salvation so that they would be set free and live in everlasting peace; though, of course, their faith and life was lived for the Lord from the Lord. So, even on a natural understanding, celebrating the Lord's birth is something the Christian Churches should and can do, and so that they, at least, should add to their worship and teach the lessons for one's own life and charity.

However, if we look at the birth of Jesus Christ, our Lord, from an internal or spiritual sense, we begin to see a different truth revealed. Basically, it is that the Lord or Jehovah Himself coming to mankind, and who then lived in the natural state of mankind where direct communication and conjunction with Him had been shut off because of sin. It is the Lord's putting on the natural human of mankind. Man had separated himself from Jehovah God, however, because of God's eternal love for mankind, He had promised to one day come and redeem him from eternal damnation. That coming was effected through the natural order of things, thus through natural birth. So, it is that, we see in the birth of Jesus what the Word calls is the 'Son of God' coming through a virgin, Mary, a human of man's fallen natural state. Unless we know the internal sense, the spiritual sense of the Word, we cannot understand what is truly meant by the Lord's First Advent. We will begin by asking a question: Do you agree that man is in need of redemption and salvation and thus, needs to be regenerated or born again? Do you believe that this can only be possible through the Lord God Himself? And isn't this why all the prior Churches on earth had waited for His coming? I would think that you believe that there is communication and conjunction in Heaven between angels and God, yet, you know that God is above or is Divine. You can then understand that the Lord or Jehovah God is among the angels, even as He was with those in the Garden of Eden or Paradise. The question, then, comes: How is Jehovah present with the angels? How is He manifested to them?

God has created man and angels in His image and likeness, thus angels and men are made in the human form in which is God, who is the only true Human. Since, that is true, then the Lord has a Celestial and Spiritual Human form that He can be present with the angels, even as His was with those in Paradise. And, since, the Most Ancient Church men - what the Word in Genesis calls Adam and Eve - has fallen from their state in Paradise from where they were in communication with Jehovah or in the presence the Lord's Celestial or Spiritual Human and from where communicated with Jehovah has since ceased and mankind was damned. What life they had was called 'death'. That is the reason that Jehovah said that He would one day come on earth, and 'crush the serpent's head', for unless He became as one of us and defeated the evils that hold us captive and become the natural Divine Human, the future of mankind would forever be damned.

So, it is that the birth of Jesus, the Son of God, is mankind's redemption; it is man's regeneration and salvation, if he accepts and lives according to His Commandments. Spiritually understood, 'birth' is regeneration or, as Jesus told Nicodemus, it is being 'born-again' spiritually. Since, no man could live according to the commandments and since, all have sinned, then the only way for a man's salvation was through Jehovah in becoming one with mankind by putting on the natural human of man where the same evils that tempt man tempt Him, so that the Lord could overcome or defeat the evils and, in that defeat, He becomes glorified and man is again conjoined with Him in following Him. In that glorification the Human of the Lord was united with the Divine which He called Father, and so, Jesus became the Divine Human. Thus, the Lord in His Divine Human can, since He Has all power, defeat the evils that tempt each of us when we believe and live from Him within us in His good and truth.

Now, because the Word speaks of the 'Son of God' we naturally think of another person than God the Father, and thus, think of God as One and the Lord the Son as another. But, if birth spiritually means regeneration or being born again spiritually, then, by a Son of God there means something other than a natural son, born of God the Father. Think, what is it that the Lord has tried to give mankind since his fall? What has He given us that we live from and are to prepare for before our natural death and His coming judgment? One thing that we do is to learn His Truths - the Word. And, it is His Word wherein are found the truth that is to lead us to accept Him and live a life of goodness. And, isn't it to do good; to love one another and to love God that the Word teaches? And hasn't the Lord taught us to love one another and so to love Him?  Now, of course, Christians believe that the Lord Jesus Christ also taught other truths when He was on earth, and, in fact, He said that he was the Truth and the Way. Thus, it is as the Son of God, that the Lord in the Human of man on earth was one with the Father and not separate. We can see this in His divine power wherein He lived and gave life and wherein man is to have saving faith. Anyone, can understand that God or the Divine Itself cannot suffer death, for evil is unable to even approach God. Since that is true, the question is, how then can God overcome the evils with man? Thus, the Lord on earth was also the 'Son of Man'. In this, a part of Him - the natural of man - the evil spirits could approach and attack and He could become victorious. The Lord was both in humiliation and glorification while He was on earth. In fact, we read that Jesus called Himself the 'Son of Man' at times and, at other times the 'Son of God'. Therefore, the Lord as the Son of Man suffered as any person because of sin (though the Lord had no sin of His own there was still the potential sin, as an infant is innocent has the potential and does sin when he no longer is innocent) and, so it is His judgment, His redemption and salvation that is also meant in His coming.

It was said that the Lord came as the Truth - the Word - but, we can see that in His coming, as the Son of God, He was also the Good; wherein, we come to understand that God's attributes that flow or proceed to man are both Good and Truth, both Love and Wisdom. In this we understand the Lord was the Son of God and the Son of Man, and thus He became God-Man and Man-God. Thus, it is that in the Lord's coming and in His defeating evils, in the uniting His Human with the Divine, that the truth and good or faith and charity comes to make its dwelling in man and is from where the Lord can regenerate man.