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The First Christmas First-Look

A first-look is an exclusive opportunity or agreement that allows a person, company, or organization the chance to view or consider something before anyone else. In the world of weddings, it’s the moment a couple sees each other for the first time in their wedding attire.  It is supposed to be a moment marked by great anticipation and excitement. As we think of Christmas and the baby Jesus, who got the first-look at the long anticipated Savior, other than his mother and father? It could be that it was a bunch of animals.  After all, Jesus was placed in a manger (feeding trough) after His birth because there was no room for them in the inn. But if we want to consider who it might have been, as in people, that got that first-look, then we should take a look at what Luke recorded in his Gospel.  And from that account, that exclusive opportunity to view the baby Jesus before anyone else was given to a bunch of shepherds.  Come see: And in the same region there were sheph...