Isaiah 7:14 English Standard Version (ESV) Therefore the Lord himself will give you a sign. Behold, the virgin shall conceive and bear a son, and shall call his name Immanuel.[a]

Footnotes: a Immanuel means God is with us

Matthew 1:21 English Standard Version (ESV) “She will bear a son, and you shall call his name Jesus, for he will save his people from their sins.”

Before we begin with assigned discredited accounts let us explain who would have been discredited. Mary, a virgin, is pregnant. No woman up until this time was able to get pregnant as a virgin. Even Joseph did not believe it until the angel told him to not set Mary aside in shame. It was the angel that told Joseph to name Him Jesus, A common name among the Jews.

Jesus is a transliteration of the Heb. “Joshua,” meaning “Jehovah is salvation,” i.e., “is the Savior,” “a common name among the Jews.

Immanuel is Who He is to use and a Savior is what he does. If you want to get down to the issue of name calling then we must accept that Isaiah is speaking to us and we call Him God with us. The virgin was the sign but no instruction was given to her to name the child in that word.

This is yet just one more attack by the enemy of Christ to discredit the Word. There is no contradiction once you have the right understanding.

Saturnalia, the most popular holiday on the ancient Roman calendar, derived from older farming-related rituals of midwinter and the winter solstice, especially the practice of offering gifts or sacrifices to the gods during the winter sowing season. Source History.com

That festival did not celebrate birth, it celebrated the sowing of the seed. Animals that conceived during this period would give birth in the spring. Where the church went wrong in adopting that holiday for their own purposes was in celebrating Christ birth rather than His conception.

We can agree that conception is not a proper discussion for little children. Let us not discredit the decision by the church to celebrate His birth.

Ephesians 3:10 English Standard Version (ESV) so that through the church the manifold wisdom of God might now be made known to the rulers and authorities in the heavenly places.

We have often wondered just who about these rulers and authorities in heavenly places. That is ambiguous. We will answer those questions for ourselves to seek peace of mind. What if that is the wrong question?

Why is it that these rulers and authorities do not know the manifold wisdom of God?

That brings into question the ability of those rulers and authorities to interfere with the actions of the church in this present age. Think of that lack of knowledge as a hedge of protection as we, the church, enact God’s will.

Satan and his minions only know history that has already occurred. The do not know the future. They can only hound us with what we were but not who we are or those things that will occur. This is the primary reason that forgiveness of sin is vital in the performance of the church serving God.

Looking back to the sacrifices, it was the daily sacrifices, enacted by the individual that cleansed the individual’s conscience which allowed them to move forward in serve rather than being hung up on the past. Our daily confession and repentance serves that same purpose. It keeps us walking in God’s will.

God knows all things and in order to share with us instructions to enact His will, we must be focused on Him and not ourselves. Rulers and authorities can see what the church has done in past ages and by history know the only way to influence the church is by bring up our past.

“I am not that person any more. I am a new creation in Christ.”

Their only answer to that comment is; “Who do you think you are?”

Luckily we do not have to think. We need only believe what we are told by the Holy Spirit thru revelation.