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Conceived in Heaven, Born in Bethlehem, a Jubilee Year Awaits
• https://www.lewrockwell.com, By David TorkingtonBefore He was born as Christ the King on earth, He was "born" in the "mind" and "heart" of God as Christ the King in Heaven. He was firstly born in eternity before time began, so that the glory that reigned in Heaven could also reign on earth, in Him. However, if God's Son was truly to be made a genuine human being, made of flesh and blood, then of course He must have a genuine human mother of flesh and blood too. That is why in the very first thought of God, to embody His Love in His Son, He must of course have a human mother. Nor could that mother be besmirched in any way by the sulphurous stench of sin. That is why Mary was conceived, in that very first "thought of God" as His Immaculate Mother.
She might only have been crowned a Queen later, after her assumption into Heaven, but she was a Queen from the very beginning, as the mother of Christ the King. When the great mystical theologian Blessed John Duns Scotus first explained this, he said, "If God chooses an end, then he must choose the means." And that means was Mary, Christ's own Immaculate Mother, and our Immaculate Mother too. Only a Mother free of all the sins that are born of a fallen nature, and fallen nurturers, could give birth to the King of Kings and the Lord of Lords, the fullest possible embodiment here on earth of God's love in Heaven.
Nothing could change God's plan from the very beginning before time began, not even the sins of humankind that were yet to come. Christ would still come as King, but He would be asked to take on another role thanks to the perversity of human kind, as a Redeemer too. For God's original plan was that every man and every woman made in the image and likeness of His Son would share in His royal love to give all honor and glory to God on earth. So now He would be born as both a King and as a Redeemer, who would not only be born in a wooden crib in Bethlehem but would die on a wooden Cross in Jerusalem. He redeemed us by His Royal Love, received fully at what St. John called His Glorification on the first Easter Day and poured out on the first Pentecost day.
This love would draw all who were open to receive it into His Kingdom, set up anew on earth within His own risen and glorified body, later called His Mystical Body. Here we would be animated by the same divine love that raised Christ up on the first Easter Day, as our King and Redeemer. His royal blood, His everlasting love, was ready and waiting to transform and transfigure all who would receive it into what God had originally planned for all of us before we decided otherwise.