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Why was there No room at the Inn?
By Five-Fold
Jan 18, 2007 - 11:48:32 PM

I ran a poll on our website, on this important question at this time of the year.

I invite all my brothers and sisters after checking their swords (bibles), to respond and let us know what they think was the reason, WHY Mary and Joseph were turned away.

A random selection of answers received have been published here. The ONE true answer is revealed below.


Terry : Now, my brother I always thought that the INN was booked. I also thought that the people were just mean and maybe did not want to help Mary and Joseph. Get back to me and let me know the real reason as to why there was no room at the INN. Meanwhile, I am going to get my bible.

DaQotah: from what I remember from Sunday school....it was a busy time in that city many people on the move, no one stayed at home, so that the count was correct to the family /clan home towns or was it just that there was a AmWay convention that weekend, and all the rooms were booked?

Glad4JC: Five-fold, I heard some years back a magnificent sermon using this very scenario as but one example to whit: "They did not know who Jesus is. Do you?" It has stayed with me many a year

His Girl: It was tax season, wasn't it? That's why the town was so busy.

Mathaytace_christou: It was because (I believe it was Herod i may be wrong) called a census of the whole civilized world.

Zenya: Ever tried turning up to a motel at Christmas and asking for a room....without booking

Cathy: According to scripture, at the time Jesus was born, there was a census called for so that all the citizens could be taxed. The inn was full because of all the people who had to travel to their towns of birth for the census.

My Pastor had a unique perspective on this topic. At that time, many inns were just a large room, and people carried their bed (mat) with them. The mat is mentioned in many scriptures, as being a sleeping mat that a person carried with them.
This being the case, if there had been some room at the inn, Mary would have given birth on the floor in the middle of a room full of all kinds of unsavoury individuals, many of them probably men. This partly reiterates your reply but it is a slightly different perspective. That stable in the manger with warm hay to lay on was a blessing considering the possible alternative circumstances, Jesus could have been born in. The wise men and shepherds also would have had a problem getting into the inn. I think God knew what he was doing, choosing a stable.

Curt: Volumes could be written on this question, but let us cut to the most important reason. There was no room because it was prophesied, and written in The Scriptures, and Christ fulfilled all that was ever prophesied, and written about Him. This I believe is the most important thing we should remember, because it relates directly to the fact that we too are going to fulfill The Scriptures in our lives. It is also meant for a very explicit lesson for us. When we are so bound up in the matters of the flesh our blessed Savior might come knocking on our door, and be refused entrance.

Another very emphatic lessen to learn from this event is the fact the man's religious concepts fail when the rubber meets the road. The religious leaders had all the information relating to all these events written down in The Scriptures. Every detail was recorded, and they reacted totally from pride, and ego, leaned to their own understanding, and we never read anything about them going to the source, God's Scriptures to verify anything about Him. Let this suffice for the time. There is so much that could be written about every thing in God's Word. Oh! the riches of God's Blessed Scriptures.

D.H.: Wow! A Pop Quiz, or at least that's what we called it in school here in the States! Why was there no room at the Inn? Why were Joseph and Mary turned away?
Answer: To fulfill the prophecies of Isaiah (sp?) and other prophets so that we would know when the Savior had come! Did I get it right? :-)

RIC:
From what I remember, Ceaser called a Cencus of the entire Roman world (dont forget that there were other civilizations as well at the time), which called for each MAN to go to his place of Birth and be counted, this is why Mary (Joseph's wife) went with him. This ment that every man who was born in Bethlehem (weather or not he moved out when he was young) had to go there to be counted, this often included his whole family. Can you imagine what it would be like in this day and age if the same command was recieved? Everyone has to go to the place where you were born to be counted? Madness, all the Hotels, Inn's, B&B's and everything would have been booked up. This is why there was no room at ANY inn.

Is that as clear as mud? or do you want me to muddy it up more?

Dawnlee: Ummm Im gonna guess and say they were turned away from the inn because God wanted Jesus to come into this world on the lowest of terms so that it'll show people that it's not all about WHAT we have--- it's not about WHERE we come from... it's not about COMFORT, RICHES, or NOTERIETY etc. It's about a humble heart, and humble beginnings. Because with a humble heart and a humble beginning God can work in our lives.

Here's something I just stumbled upon that kinda goes along with this subject...
Through the manger,
God draws us back
to the lowly
place of worship,
to the peace of His presence,
to the simplicity of the cross
to the quiet water of salvation,
to the beauty if His face,
and to the only gift
that Love could ever give...
God's
only begotten Son.
Roy Lessin

JPT: Good answer ! I think, not knowing the outcome of the answer fivefoldfriend has, but I think that was a very good answer.
Our Lord is about charity, love, and kindness. not about pride !
Praise Jesus

Matt: because of God's perfect timing...blessings

Barbara@ There was no room in the inn for Joseph and Mary because it was the way that God the Father wanted it to be. The Son of God could have been born in a Palace but it was for Him to be born in a humble manner in a stable. [It is said that the reason Baby Jesus was wrapped in swaddling clothes was this; Swaddling clothes were bandage-like strips of clothe wrapped around an infant to ensure that the limbs would grow straight. This wrapping would also aid the shepherds in identifying Jesus.] Strips of swaddling clothe was also used to wrap the dead. So this was a sign that Baby Jesus was born to die. This is why the lowly shepherds were the first to be told about the Saviours birth.
Humble setting representing Peace on Earth Good Will Toward Men.
Lk:2:7: And she brought forth her first-born son, and wrapped him in swaddling
clothes, and laid him in a manger; because there was no room for them in the
inn.
Lk:2:11: For unto you is born this day in the city of David a Saviour, which is
Christ the Lord.

Thank you for all your participation.

The reason why there was no room at the Inn is, God did not want room at the Inn. God did not want His Holy Son born there amid drunkenness, sexual immorality, impurity and debauchery, idol worshippers, evil thoughts, etc. In short there was SIN in the INNS and so it was not a fitting place for the birth of a Holy God.

It would have been nothing for the creator of all things seen and unseen to provide the grandest palace adorned with Gold and Silver but it was not with gold and silver we were to be saved nor would the Lord condone mammon and greed. The humble stable with the animals that bore no sin was the cleanest place for our Saviour to be born.

Yes and although the many answers of our brothers and sisters were honest, logical, and obvious, the answers tended to focus on either the Inn it was full; or the time, a busy time; people on the move; the tax season; the town was busy; all hotels, b&bs were full; or the event, the census, the tax season etc.

However had our Living God wanted, I don't think there would have been any major problem on His part to provide a room at any inn of His choosing, at any time regardless of how many people were or were not coming for any census or event at that time.

It was God's wisdom and predestination alone that His Son Jesus Christ be born on ground that was holy and without sin in the camp At that time this was that stable.

We have an all powerful God where ALL things are possible and who knows ALL things past, present and future, and He had already made up His mind to have His Son born on ground made Holy by His presence.

I hope this revelation has been a blessing to you and an encouragement to your faith.

We pray God's blessings on you all, your families and ministries. Wishing you a very Happy, Holy and Peaceful Christmas.

Your brother in Christ,
Paul.

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