"What is 'Maxaira'?"

On the night that the Lord Jesus Christ was born, angels appeared to a group of shepherds to make an announcement, the likes of which this world had never heard. When this was concluded, a great heavenly host appeared and sang these words:

"Glory to God in the highest, and on earth peace among those with whom he is pleased!"

Every year over the past several hundred years, this coming "peace" is and has been celebrated by the world to which it apparently had been given. The irony is, "peace" is the one thing this world does not have. Perhaps we need to examine the text a little more closely for there we note that this elusive peace is not for all men. In fact it is for those only "...with whom he is pleased"

Some years later during His earthly ministry the Lord Jesus on one occasion made this very startling statement:

"Do not think that I have come to bring peace to the earth. I have not come to bring peace, but a sword. "

The word that the Lord used here was the name of this blog, "Maxaira".

Over the centuries since His coming Christianity has separated more people; it has come between more members of more families; it has scattered more groups of people for the very simple reason that men who are not in accord with one another in the very vital truths of the Word of God will separate from one another just as the Master has stated they would, and they do.

"For I have come to set a man against his father, and a daughter against her mother, and a daughter-in-law against her mother-in-law. And a person's enemies will be those of his own household. "

Today around the world this reality stands out as a clear cut example of the truth that the Bible and the words of the Lord Jesus are as clear and relevant today as they have been, and always will be.

"Jesus Christ is the same yesterday and today and forever"