LUKE BEGINS AND ENDS WITH THE ROMANS DOING TWO THINGS MOST HATED BY THEIR SUBJECTS: TAXATION AND CRUCIFIXION.
“The government is just a business with no incentive to deliver agreed upon services because their customers pay them under the threat of incarceration.”
Murray Rothbard – “There can be no such thing as ‘Fairness in Taxation.’ Taxation is nothing but organized theft, and the concept of a ‘Fair Tax’ is therefore every bit as absurd as that of ‘Fair Theft.’”
First, Caesar has worldwide authority.
The second thing we understand is how God uses an oblivious Caesar to accomplish his divine purpose so that a child will be born in Bethlehem.
Micah 5:2
GOD CHOOSES TO VISIT HIS PEOPLE IN THE MIDST OF POVERTY AND POWERLESSNESS, IN A MANGER AND AMONG SHEPHERDS.
“The child born in Bethlehem to parents subjected to Roman tyranny will ultimately challenge the existing political order and create an astonishing reversal of authority and power, not through violence, but through obedience to God and the giving of his life.” | David E. Garland
God holds all things in His hands for His own purposes.