The time period of Luke Chapter 2 is afternoon as the intertestamental period what is between as God of the people and the birth of Jesus Christ. So during this period it's afternoon as the 400 silence years where God has not revealed much to his people. During this around this spirit of proves it has seize but the people of God are waiting eagerly for a liver of the Messiah. Though God’s people have return to the promise land after there as a period. They went through many worse and they work eventually Lord over by the Romans. The mood is down but the anxiety is high because God preach people all there heart there God send a Messiah to redeem them from the Romans.