Emperor Ceasar Augustus facilitates the fulfillment of Prophecy.
But you, O Bethlehem Ephrathah, who are too little to be among the clans of Judah, from you shall come forth for me one who is to be ruler in Israel, whose coming forth is from of old, from ancient days. God moved the heart of the Emperor of the Roman Empire, Ceasar Augustus to make a decree requiring that all people must return to the place of their ancestral heritage. This was how God caused the Roman emperor to expedite the trek of Mary, Joseph, and Jesus from Nazareth of Galilee to Bethlehem Ephratah to fulfill the prophecy written around 700 years prior by the hand of Micah the prophet. In those days a decree went out from Caesar Augustus that all the world should be registered. And all went to be registered, each to his own town. And Joseph also went up from Galilee, from the town of Nazareth, to Judea, to the city of David, which is called Bethlehem, because he was of the house and lineage of David, This region Bethlehem, where Jesus was born (because of the edict of Rome) was