And every spirit that confesseth not that Jesus Christ is come in the flesh is not of God: and this is that spirit of antichrist..

And MARY brought forth her firstborn JESUS, and wrapped JESUS in swaddling clothes, and laid JESUS in a manger; ((( because there was no room for them in the inn.))) The MANGER was in no way a mistake. Located in a Stable of all places THE BIRTH OF CHRIST. JESUS the ultimate SACRIFICE wrapped in SWADDLING CLOTHES which represented HIS DEATH OR SACIFICE.. The only place that JESUS could have been born is IN A STABLE WITH THE REST OF THE SHEEP OR SACRIFICES. The FATHER is not just a GOD OF THE HILLS BUT JESUS CAME ALL THE WAY DOWN TO THE VALLEYS TO A STABLE. THAT'S GOOD NEWS MARRY CHRISTMAS     " I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, that ye present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable unto God, which is your reasonable service.   Romans 12:1    
Sacrifice : The offering up of sacrifices is to be regarded as a divine institution. It did not originate with man. God himself appointed it as the mode in which acceptable worship was to be offered to him by guilty man. The language and the idea of sacrifice pervade the whole Bible. Sacrifices were offered in the ante-diluvian age. The Lord clothed Adam and Eve with the skin of animals, which in all probability had been offered in sacrifice (Gen. 3:21). Abel offered a sacrifice "of the firstlings of his flock" (4:4; Heb. 11:4). A distinction also was made between clean and unclean animals, which there is every reason to believe had reference to the offering up of sacrifices (Gen. 7:2, 8), because animals were not given to man as food till after the Flood. The same practice is continued down through the patriarchal age (Gen. 8:20; 12:7; 13:4, 18; 15:9-11; 22:1-18, etc.). In the Mosaic period of Old Testament history definite laws were prescribed by God regarding the different kinds of sacrifices that were to be offered and the manner in which the offering was to be made. The offering of stated sacrifices became indeed a prominent and distinctive feature of the whole period (Ex. 12:3-27; Lev. 23:5-8; Num. 9:2-14).We learn from the Epistle to the Hebrews that sacrifices had in themselves no value or efficacy. They were only the "shadow of good things to come," and pointed the worshippers forward to the coming of the great High Priest, who, in the fullness of the time, "was offered once for all to bear the sin of many." Sacrifices belonged to a temporary economy, to a system of types and emblems which served their purposes and have now passed away. The "one sacrifice for sins" hath "perfected for ever them that are sanctified."