The Great Second Advent Movement: Its Rise and Progress

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The Seed Of Divine Origin

Minute instruction was given concerning Christ and his birth, for the Lord by Micah the prophet designated his divine origin, and even the little village where he was to be born: “But thou, Bethlehem Ephratah, though thou be little among the thousands of Judah, yet out of thee shall he come forth unto me that is to be ruler in Israel; whose goings forth have been from of old, from everlasting” (margin, Heb., from “the days of eternity”). 54 GSAM 50.3