Christmas Part 1 • Dr. Jeffrey Chadwick • Dec. 19 - Dec 25
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The Roman Empire Tradition of Registration
Census taking didn't really happen among the Judean people in the sense that we think of a census where you're actually counting up people. Caesar had decreed that everyone in the empire should be registered and this registration in verse 3 was registration in your city. We don't register people in the United States. So that's why we have to have a census. And even as a foreigner, I had to register in every city in Germany that I lived in. If I moved from Berlin to Hamburg,. I had to unregister in Berlin and re-register in Hamburg. This is an old Roman Empire tradition that prevails through Europe. That way the government doesn't have to take a
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