There Was No Room At The Inn ? Was This God's Will ?

When Mary and Joseph went to Bethlehem to participate in the census Mary came to the end of her term to give Birth ---apparently there was no room for them in the lodging place and they settled for having their Son born in the stable where the animals were kept -----After Mary gave birth ----Jesus was laid in a manger ----which was a feeding trough that the animals ate from -----

Question ------Was This God's will that there be no room at the Inn or was it just a bad situation that presented itself to the couple ?----

Any Thoughts on this ----


This is the Scripture
Luke 2
J.B. Phillips New Testament
The census brings Mary and Joseph to Bethlehem
2 1-7 At that time a proclamation was made by Caesar Augustus that all the inhabited world should be registered. This was the first census, undertaken while Cyrenius was governor of Syria and everybody went to the town of his birth to be registered. Joseph went up from the town of Nazareth in Galilee to David’s town, Bethlehem, in Judea, because he was a direct descendant of David, to be registered with his future wife, Mary, now in the later stages of her pregnancy. So it happened that it was while they were there in Bethlehem that she came to the end of her time. She gave birth to her first child, a son. And as there was no place for them inside the inn, she wrapped him up and laid him in a manger.

This is a picture of what a house in Israel might have looked like in Jesus time ----

When Mary and Joseph went to Bethlehem to participate in the census Mary came to the end of her term to give Birth ---apparently there was no room for them in the lodging place and they settled for having their Son born in the stable where the animals were kept -----After Mary gave birth ----Jesus was laid in a manger ----which was a feeding trough that the animals ate from -----

Question ------Was This God's will that there be no room at the Inn or was it just a bad situation that presented itself to the couple ?----

Any Thoughts on this ----


This is the Scripture
Luke 2
J.B. Phillips New Testament
The census brings Mary and Joseph to Bethlehem
2 1-7 At that time a proclamation was made by Caesar Augustus that all the inhabited world should be registered. This was the first census, undertaken while Cyrenius was governor of Syria and everybody went to the town of his birth to be registered. Joseph went up from the town of Nazareth in Galilee to David’s town, Bethlehem, in Judea, because he was a direct descendant of David, to be registered with his future wife, Mary, now in the later stages of her pregnancy. So it happened that it was while they were there in Bethlehem that she came to the end of her time. She gave birth to her first child, a son. And as there was no place for them inside the inn, she wrapped him up and laid him in a manger.

This is a picture of what a house in Israel might have looked like in Jesus time ----

It is symbolic

Question ------Was This God's will that there be no room at the Inn

I hope you know what a silly question that is =]

OF COURSE IT IS HIS PERFECT WILL

When Mary and Joseph went to Bethlehem to participate in the census Mary came to the end of her term to give Birth ---apparently there was no room for them in the lodging place and they settled for having their Son born in the stable where the animals were kept -----After Mary gave birth ----Jesus was laid in a manger ----which was a feeding trough that the animals ate from -----

Question ------Was This God's will that there be no room at the Inn or was it just a bad situation that presented itself to the couple ?----

Any Thoughts on this ----


This is the Scripture
Luke 2
J.B. Phillips New Testament
The census brings Mary and Joseph to Bethlehem
2 1-7 At that time a proclamation was made by Caesar Augustus that all the inhabited world should be registered. This was the first census, undertaken while Cyrenius was governor of Syria and everybody went to the town of his birth to be registered. Joseph went up from the town of Nazareth in Galilee to David’s town, Bethlehem, in Judea, because he was a direct descendant of David, to be registered with his future wife, Mary, now in the later stages of her pregnancy. So it happened that it was while they were there in Bethlehem that she came to the end of her time. She gave birth to her first child, a son. And as there was no place for them inside the inn, she wrapped him up and laid him in a manger.

This is a picture of what a house in Israel might have looked like in Jesus time ----

There is a passage in pre Christian literature that has King Solomon saying that he was wrapped in swaddling clothes and laid in a manger but I'm not sure now where or when I saw it. If anyone knows where it comes from I would be interested to know.

So Folks---I think you you can click on the words in blue in the Scripture and the Greek word used in the Scripture will come up -----


The Birth of Jesus
…6 While they were there, the time came for her Child to be born. 7And she gave birth to her firstborn, a Son. She wrapped Him in swaddling cloths and laid Him in a manger, because there was no room for them in the inn. 8And there were shepherds residing in the fields nearby, keeping watch over their flocks by night.…
Berean Study Bible ·

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Inn here in this scripture is

Strong's Exhaustive Concordance

kataluma: a lodging place
Definition: a lodging place
Usage: an inn, lodging-place.
guest chamber, inn.
From kataluo; properly, a dissolution (breaking up of a journey), i.e. (by implication) a lodging-place -- guestchamber, inn.---------an inn, lodging-place: Luke 2:7


So here is my Spiritual take on why Jesus was Born in the lower part of the INN ------why He was wrapped in swaddling cloth and why He was laid in a manger ------which is the animal feeding trough --

Jesus was the Son of God ---the King of Kings ----and by Him being Born in the Lower part of the Inn He laid His Kingship down and Humbled Himself to the lowliest State to be able to walk in a fallen World and walk with His fallen Creation so as to understand and experience what we experience in this world so He could be a mediator between God and man while having full understanding of both in His human form -------

It makes perfect Spiritual Sense that Jesus was Born where the Animals were kept---- as Jesus is the Lamb of God -----and the sheep and lambs were kept in the lower part of the house in those days in what they called a stable ------

Jesus was laid in a manger ----feeding trough which held the sustaining food for the animals ------Jesus is the Lamb of God -----and He is our Sustaining Bread of life ---So Again it makes perfect Spiritual sense for Jesus to be laid in an animal feeding trough ----

Now it says He was Swaddled in cloth ----this for me was the eye opener of all Folks -----

The shepherds actually wrapped there new born Lambs who were going to be used for sacrifice in swaddling Cloth --this was done to prevent any scrapes or bruising to the Lamb as it had to be without spot or blemish to brought before God -------So it makes perfect Spiritual Sense for Jesus to be wrapped in swaddling cloth as it would have been a sign to the shepherds who came to see Jesus at His Birth that He was their Messiah ---their Sacrificial Lamb -----

From Google

Did shepherds wrap lambs in swaddling clothes?

Sheep herding was a hereditary occupation, and generations of shepherds were trained to care for these special lambs. ... The newborn lambs would be wrapped tightly… swaddled… in specially designated temple cloths, and they would be laid in a manger to keep them contained while they were being examined for blemishes

I say -------So there is a lot of spiritual meaning in this piece of Scripture I believe

Question ------Was This God's will that there be no room at the Inn or was it just a bad situation that presented itself to the couple ?----

There is a passage in pre Christian literature that has King Solomon saying that he was wrapped in swaddling clothes and laid in a manger but I'm not sure now where or when I saw it. If anyone knows where it comes from I would be interested to know.

an apocryphal book, probably written originally in Greek by a Jew in Alexandria ~ 1st century BC ((per Britannica))

A follow-up question:

Could the innkeeper have made room if he had been so inclined?

I say -----well there probably was really no room as there would have been a lot of people in the area at that time because of the census being done ------but seeing how Mary was with child you would think that someone would have given up their room and offered it to her ------but it seems no one did ------

I think because it was God's Will for Jesus to be born where He was just maybe God kept all hearts hardened to any offers of kindness to fulfil His Will --just like He did with Pharaoh in Egypt----


I say ----nothing will stand in the way of God's Will working out the way He wants -----

maybe the guests at the inn didn't even know. maybe they only talked to the innkeeper.
maybe only Joseph talked to him, and didn't try to play the 'pregnant wife card' but took what he could get

the 'pregnant wife card'