December 21, 2010 journal, a dangerous baby Jesus in a manger by Larry Steve Crane. For those thinking Christ is soft & forgiving this is the perfect article with my comments. "The "sweet little Jesus Boy" who lay wrapped in swaddling clothes in a manger was no milk-toast crybaby. Sure, Jesus Christ probably wailed when he was delivered. He no doubt fretted, wanting to be fed. He must have craved his mother's soothing touch. Leaving a womb can be a shock to anyone. But Jesus was no harmless bambino. He was a "dangerous baby." "For this purpose the Son of God was manifested, that he might destroy the works of the devil" (1 John 3:8). St. Paul says about Christ: "In Him dwells all the fullness of the Godhead bodily." The Bible records, "Behold, a virgin shall be with child, and shall bring forth a son, and they shall call his name 'Emmanuel,' which being interpreted is, 'God with us'" (Matthew 1:23). "And the Word was made flesh, and dwelt among us, (and we beheld his glory, the glory as of the only begotten of the Father,) full of grace and truth" (John 1:14). Pastor Charles Swindoll notes, "Joseph cleaned up from the birth and put that little tiny life into a rough feeding trough. Mary looked down and saw God by her side." Swindoll adds, "While Rome was busy making history, God arrived. He pitched His fleshly tent in silence on straw - in a stable - under a star. The world didn't even notice." But Baby Jesus had arrived as God's most dangerous threat to the Devil and his devices. As I began writing this article, I tried to think of a creative title and decided to call this column "Danger in the Manger." But when I checked that phrase on the Internet, I found someone had already used it. A rock band had created a crazy song and made a video depicting the manger scene using cartoon-type figures. Toward the end of that video, machinegun fire erupted across the nativity scene. The rockers called that song and video "Danger in the Manger." I then decided to use the title "Manger Danger." I surfed the Internet. One entry listed this title for an article: "Manger Danger: Let's keep Uncle Sam out of church affairs." Another site let me know that "manger danger" is a term listed in the Urban Dictionary, which defines slang and "street talk." That posting informed that "manger danger" refers to "a nativity set in which several heroic action figures, such as GI Joe or Transformers, have been arranged and posed in humorous ways among the traditional Christian figures - usually perpetrated by a mischievous child on Christmas morning, after having opened his presents, to 'try out his new toys.'" Disappointed that "the world" had confiscated two good titles, I decided to call this article, "A Dangerous Baby in a Manger." King Herod sensed some of the danger a certain Jewish baby might bring to his world. In Matthew 2, we read about wise men from the East who searched for a newborn "king of the Jews." They trekked to Bethlehem and consulted with Herod, who asked them to let him know when they found the new "king." Herod said he wanted to worship the potential king, but the Bible lets us know Herod was evil. The paranoid Herod spoken of in Matthew 2 was, according to Wikipedia, an "Idumean" (or Edomite, a descendent of Esau) whom the Romans established as the king of Idumea, Judea, Samaria and Galilee. He didn't want to lose his kingdom and was reportedly ruthless and brutal. The Bible tells us the wise men found the Christ child: "...They saw the young child with Mary his mother, and fell down, and worshipped him: and when they had opened their treasures, they presented unto him gifts; gold, and frankin-cense and myrrh. And being warned of God in a dream that they should not return to Herod, they departed into their own country another way. And...the angel of the Lord appeared to Joseph in a dream, saying, 'Arise, and take the young child and his mother, and flee into Egypt, and be thou there until I bring thee word: for Herod will seek the young child to destroy him'" (Matthew 2:9-13). Herod sent soldiers to kill babies (children under two years of age at that time) in the Bethlehem area. I doubt that Herod had much of an idea as to how dangerous Jesus really was. The Bethlehem Baby who eluded Herod came to pay the penalty for our sins, transform lives and "take out" Satan, the Prince of Darkness. Jesus came as a "dangerous baby," a dangerous baby, indeed!" I believe the correct name translated into English is Yesu for Christ being changed over the years. Yahweh is for God. Until the 17th century there was no J in any language in the world. What has changed today with Herod being Edomite from the House of Esau? Herod was Antichrist trying to kill Christ feeling threatened even a baby, what a coward.