Many Christians can get upset when we start to talk about the chosen, but here in this account of an element of the Christmas story we have such an event apart from Mary the virgin!
Shepherds out in the fields were startled by the host of angels who visited them, perhaps one could say they where terrified?
Many people today who claim to see lights in the sky or what they think are UFOs are afraid?
Abraham, Jacob and King David were all shepherds and even Jesus later said My sheep know My voice.
Luke 2:8-20, 10-15, Genesis 4:2, 30:33, 1 Samuel 16:11, 19, Isaiah 53:6-7, John 10:4.
