Through the Virgin Birth, Jesus Christ became operative in human history without being subject to the evil in it. And the Word was made flesh, And came to dwell among us; And we had sight of His glory, Glory such as belongs to The Father’s only-begotten Son, Full of grace and truth. (Jn 1:14) Bethlehem became a link between heaven and earth; God and man met here and looked each other in the face. In the taking of human flesh, the Father prepared it, the Spirit formed it, and the Son assumed it. He Who had an eternal generation in the bosom of the Father now had a temporal generation in time. He Who had His birth in Bethlehem came to be born in the hearts of men.