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So we're in this Advent series thinking about good news the word in the Bible gospel means good news. It is an announcement. We've been thinking together over the last few weeks about the political nature of that announcement. The word gospel is a political term. It's only used in the Greek and political context. It has to do with an announcement. The inauguration of a king or the victory of the king or the imminent arrival of a king and so it when the gospels of Matthew Mark and Luke and John and Anne and really all of the scriptures announced the birth of Jesus that they use this word gospel to announce that a king has been born. It is a political reality. And so we've been thinking about how the the good news is political and we've Define political kind of at the macro level than most simple level. Politics has to do with the use of power. How power is Youth of the use of power that God is exercising his power in the birth of Jesus. This is a move of God by God for God's purposes that has incredible impact on our world. That's why Jesus went around announcing the good news, you go from town to town Village to Village and he would call people and invite them repent because the kingdom of God is in your midst. It's right here. What happened in the birth of Jesus? Created opportunity that hadn't been there before Jesus opens a way to relationship with the father. And so he invites us and there are ramifications to that. The birth of Jesus was politically left a couple weeks ago and how the announcement of a king being born wasn't necessarily good news to the current K. But there are political ramifications of Jesus being King in the Earthly sphere this morning. I want to continue this thing through that but I want to expand it because God is not only the god of the Earth but he is the god of the heavens as well and we've seen in our study of Genesis over the last decade only only been a year. It's only well, it's been a little more than we've seen in our study of the heavens and the Earth that there is a spiritual realm and a Physical Realm. The God is the author and creator of both Realms that God not only created both rounds. Filled both Realms with his images and we've seen in Genesis that there has been revealed Rebellion against God in the spiritual realm and there's been a rebellion against God in the Earthly Realm. What up? What I want to try to connect this morning in this Advent narrative. Is that the birth of Jesus is God's response to both Rebellion. It's not just about what's happening on the earth is also about what's happened in the spiritual realm that Jesus is the answer to everything. We say Amen this morning. Jesus is the answer to everything. So I I want us to think about how the birth of Jesus is political. It's the use of God's power. In the birth of Jesus. Let's go to Matthew chapter 2122 this morning. Let me just start by saying please forgive me. If I make you uncomfortable this morning. By destroying some of our cultural narrative about the birth of Jesus that simply isn't in the biblical text. Can we do that? Ok, as I can be. All right. I'm going to do it anyway, so you might as well get on board.

Here's the story starts out this way and and and we know it right after Jesus was born in Bethlehem of Judea in the days of Herod the king not noticed how it starts after Jesus was born. We're going to tell the story here in these couple of verses about the coming of the Magi the wise men from the East to come and acknowledge and seek the one who is born King of the Jews. That's amazing. Cuz we we all have our army rangers and our pictures and and we all create these like stable environments where Jesus is born. And so there we have the Shepherds who came the night he was born but we throw in the Magi I have yet to see a manger scene. The doesn't have the Magi and how many do we have? We have three, right?

It doesn't say that in the text anywhere doesn't say there was three of the reason why we always put three is because there were three gifts.

Might have been one less plural into there might have been 17. We don't know what we do know is they weren't at the manger cuz this takes place when after Jesus was born. So if you need to go home today and take the wise men out of your manger scene.

You already forgave me. All right. Now after Jesus was born in Bethlehem of Judea in the days of Herod the king behold wise men from the East came to Jerusalem. Sing where is he who has been born King of the Jews for we saw his star when it Rose and have come to worship Him.

This is such an integral part of all of our Christmas narrative wheel of the Star of Bethlehem greatest and most popular most well-known that we sing about the Stars. We we in the imagery. It's everywhere like we do we put lights on our trees to replicate Stars week. It's all that we

We don't even think about the reality of the star being a part of Christmas. It's just of course it is but then if we stopped and got what was it? No.

But like what was it?

I don't know if you've been out but there's a lot of stars. I don't know if you like really thought about this. I want you to really think about this because something happened this this group of of people. However many there were the 12 in a far-off land be held something in the night sky something. Let me tell you what they didn't see they didn't see the appearance of a new star that hadn't been there before. We have records from that time from astronomers from all over the world and that didn't happen. Something happen something that was red in the Star by these Magic. Let them to the conclusion that someone was born. That was the king of the Jews to the point that they make a dangerous and expensive journey to come and seek him out. We love that that happened but we don't spend a lot of time thinking about what it was and what that actually means. I'd like to do that together this morning. And to do that we've really got to think about who are these guys? What did they see? What did they think that it met? How does that work? And how does it fit in to the biblical narrative overall? The wise men or Magi came, I believe from Babylon. In the in the Greek text the word Magus it is used. So Magus is singular mag. Magi is plural. We know there was more than one they come from the East where Babylon was

In order for us to understand why they would come. Upon seeing something in the heavens. We need to get up who they were going to drive me crazy. I'm going to keep going.

Babylon is well known to anyone. That is study the Hebrew scriptures. It is a symbol throughout the Hebrew scriptures of a city that is raised in defiance of God. It becomes a symbol of human rebellion and human evil Babylon is used by God as an instrument of punishment and discipline against God's people of Israel. March of the Hebrew narrative it involves the city and the nation and the Empire of Babylon when God destroys the nation and levels the city of Jerusalem. He uses the Babylonian Empire to do it. He takes the cream of the crop the elites of the Jewish people and they are taken out of Israel and transported to Babylon. This is where we encounter Daniel Shadrach Meshach in a Bendigo. This is where we see so many of the Great stories and narratives in the Hebrew scriptures that we love. This is all Center in Babylon at the time of Jesus Babylon was insignificant to climb After Babylon destroyed and ransacked Israel. Eventually Babylon itself was destroyed and ransacked by the Persians. The Persians were then destroyed by a guy that we call Alexander the Great Alexander the Great was this small King from Grease that came and overtook the largest Empire at the time in the history of History Alexander the Great when he started winning against the Persians the Babylonians were very politically minded. They saw what was going to come. They knew that Alexander was going to defeat the Persians so they sent an Envoy to him and they surrendered Babylon to him. They had a great relationship with him actually at the beginning Alexander was going to make Babylon their new headquarter. It was going to make devil on his new capital. Started out. Well, then finished well because the Babylonians we're diviner. They studied the Stars meticulously and they believe that they could interpret events through the movements of the star. They did this with Alexander and discovered that he was going to die. They told him that the Stars said he was going to die. And then guess what he died. This was the introduction of the Magi the Babylonian Magi to the entire Greek world and they were held and Incredibly high respect because they predicted with Incredible accuracy that Alexander was going to die when he died his kingdom gets split up and staggered his political chaos. And Babylon is in the midst of it. You fast-forward to Century another Empire. The parthian Empire has come onto the scene and bake control Babylon and Babylon has been diminished and diminished and diminish. A new city was built 60 some miles to the north and it was growing and growing and growing in Babylon was diminishing of diminishing ish. But the Magi and the priests in the they still were centered in Babylon and they were still studying the star.

They studied it meticulously.

When we think about the study of the Stars. That we think of the zodiac. We think of the astrology in the papers and the and were thinking mostly of Greek and Roman astrology. The Divination of the Babylonians was much different now, they study the same Stars. They had many of the same constellations that different names and different attributes and different designations, but they looked at it differently the Romans and the Greeks practice.

They practiced the study of the Stars primarily connected to the day of a person's birth. That's that's where we get. The horoscope horoscope comes from two words or I mean time and scope. Meaning what is seen the whole concept of Roman astrology. You say? Okay? What day were you born? Okay, what was happening in the sky that's going to determine who you are what your personality is, like what's going to happen and then and you can develop this rather subjective. Description of who you are and what's going to happen to you based on when you were born and what the stars were aligned people still do this today?

That is not what the Babylonian Magi. But they weren't concerned with that affect the battle of the Magi weren't concerned with how the Stars reflected two individuals. They were concerned with how the Stars reflected two kingdoms. And if it was to an individual's it was two King. This is based off the message of the Stars through a political lens. That's that's how they interpreted it. Then care what the Stars said about some Shepherd or a carpenter a fisherman. They cared what the Stars would indicate about kingdoms and kings.

They knew the sky very very well. $0.01 we say all that they live so long ago. They didn't know what stars were right even know the difference between stars and planets planets. They describe them to track the movements. They called planets wandering Stars. That's actually what the word Planet means wandering star all the other stars twinkle. But the wandering Stars they would move.

They're different. Thanks. V's. They tracked these navigation at the time GPS wasn't available.

Just a constant blackout no connection navigation was done by observing and studying the movement of the stars and they were masters of the we have hundreds and thousands of cuneiform tablets from the Babylonian Empire detailing every precise movement of the stars and the planets. They were very well aware with how the night sky function detail precision. the tract they recorded their observation the interesting I found this ironic we know more about the Babylonian Magi from the third Century BC. Then we knew then we do from the first century BC because they were using cuneiform tablets, right? Everything was chiseled in but then Papyrus was discovered is cheaper and easier to start writing things down on Papyrus. The only thing is cuneiform tablets have a way better shelf life than the pirate. So we got more records from the 3rd Century magic than we do from the 1st Century that weird.

The mad that I kept these detailed descriptions and calculations of how the stars move and they had a comprehensive.

detailed analysis of what each one meant modern horoscopes don't do that. They're not detail. They're not precise their subjective. That's not how the Babylonians if they had. They had a book that a collection of books and books were named after the opening sentence. The Divination mule of the Babylonians was called the anuma a new and Lou.

It was very straightforward. It would describe. Something that happened in the sky and it would give a very specific meaning. Did that happen? That's how this work. We have much of this. We don't have all of them. what we have pink and sassy like they would think and see as they were interpreting the sky. Islamic Center in order to understand why the Magi would come we got to think like the magic. I thought we going to interpret it the way that they would interpret.

It's actually pretty straightforward.

in September 3 BC something that fairly common not incredibly rare Jupiter like

cast in front of regular regulus is the King stock. The king star is in what constellation?

any ideas

Leo The king star is in the king constellation. So Jupiter the king Planet passes in front of regulus the king star, which is in Leo the king constellation.

We say all of that certainly must mean the birth of the king. Not at all. No, that's not what I meant. The Babylonians not at all. If you know what I meant. I meant that the king of a Cod, which is the ancient name for Babylon would die.

That's what I meant. Are September 3 BC. They look up they see Jupiter moving and Jupiter moves because it's moving around the Sun as we are. We're not moving at the same space speed and we're not moving the same circumference. So there's times actually when Jupiter goes into retrograde. It looks like Jupiter is actually moving a different direction. That's because we passed in a way. It's moving its what happens is it moves in a different direction and then it turns back and then it's very interesting phenomena. You can watch it today.

In the Babylonian Manual of divination when that happens. It is a clear sign that the king of Babylon is going to die battle. Another time is Real by the parthian. So they interpreted this very simply that there's going to be a major regime change.

Then in June of 12 BC Jupiter went into conjunction with Venus. Actually happening right now. Every 800 years or so you get a super conjunction. At and more frequently you get a conjunction conjunction just me to the planets start to line up. Super conjunction they line up so much that it absolutely looks like one planet. Play happening right now. They saw this happen. and again doesn't mean the king is going to be born. It means again that the king of Babylon is going to die. Here's what's interesting the first conjunction the first passing of Jupiter in front of regulus, and then the conjunction take place exactly 9 months apart.

You got to put yourself in this Babylonian magi's mindset, but they look and they see this sign and I 9 months exactly later. Same size different sign same meaning. Keep going to die 9 months apart. Where did it take place? What took place in the west or in the land of amrut? Which for that which is the land of Israel?

The king is going to die the other the other thing that the Divination manual says is that an emissary needs to be sent to the enemy seeking. Peace.

The years of ancient Babylonian magic they don't worship God. They don't worship the god of Abraham Isaac and Jacob. They worship Babylonian Gods. They're not relying on what we would call Old Testament prophecy. There's no Old Testament prophecy about this conjunction. They're studying the Stars. as Gentiles and they read it and they say I know what's going to happen are Kings going to die and a new king from the West. Is going to come so we better send somebody to make peace with him before he comes. What do they think is going on big thinking new Alexander. The Great is coming.

It's a big big big things going to die. Nine months later the same thing happens. They put two and two together. They say there's certainly going to be a king born in the west. Where is West. It's that way.

Let's follow LaFollette. They follow Jupiter. They follow details if you want to if you want a nerd out. And you want to spend some money you can buy. Programs on your computer that will track the stars and you can enter in any day and it will show you from any place in the world what the sky look like. You can go back and you can check this and you can you can follow from these days. You work best. You can see where you through air vent and how would have led them from Babylon to Jerusalem to Bethlehem.

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You should wait isn't. divination forbidden didn't God say not to do that. You're right. He did. Deuteronomy chapter 18 when you come into the land the Lord your God is giving you you shall not learn to follow the Abominable practices of those Nations. There shall be not be found among you anyone who burns his son or his daughter as an offering all the children. So I was really There's not be anyone who practices divination or tells fortunes or tirpitz Omens or sorcerer or charmer are medium or Necromancer or one who inquires of the Dead. These are the religious practices of the Nations that Israel is to drive out a dispossessed as they possess the religious practices. of these other Nation

That's us. That's not how you determine and discover truth. The very clear. Doesn't want his people to do that, right? He says whoever does these things is an Abomination to the Lord because of these Abominations Lord. Your God is driving them out before you shall be blameless before the Lord your God for these nations what you are about to dispossess listen to fortune tellers and to the viners, but as for you the Lord your God has not allowed you to do that. That's about as clear as you can make it. Right like God's not left much ambiguity. They're not you're not supposed to practice divination.

That's true. That does not me. in any way shape or form the sky is not a canvas forgot to communicate with. understand understand that it's important to understand the fact that God tells them not the practice divination does not mean the Divination is always false.

You wish me here. This morning does not mean that God is not communicating through the stars because in fact God is communicating through the Stars. We saw this right in Genesis chapter 1 in that great creation poem When God creates the Stars the planets the Sun the moon listen what verse 14 says God said let there be lights in the expanse of the Heavens to separate them from the separate the day from the night and let them be for signs. Four Seasons four days and four year in the creation narrative when God creates these Heavenly Body. The ancient people didn't know that they were giant balls of gas. They didn't know that they were there were planets out there wrote in it. They didn't know that what this is what they knew God was the creator of all those things and that God had orchestrated and organized his Creation in a way that it proclaimed something and that the movement and placement of those Stars was designed by God to be signs. Are you with me? This is cool. So we get to stall 19 very well-known song. It starts out this way the heavens declare the glory of God and the skies above proclaims his handiwork. The song starts out by saying the very existence of the heavens and the way that they function it's in the way that they move has a purpose that their existence that they declare the glory of God and that they Proclaim his handiwork day today pours out speech and night to night reveals knowledge.

You're the song meant to say. There is no speech nor are there words whose voice is not her. Other words, there's no people there's no place but don't observe and hear the voice of the stars the voice of the heaven. The signs that God has placed in the heaven.

their voice Summit Summer translations may say their line. Line the elliptical line that astronomers and observers of the stars have it's that the movement of the planets in the sun with consolation their voice goes out through all the Earth and their words to the ends of the world.

You might say well, yeah, that's just general Revelation that the existence of creation speaks that there's a Creator and it come from somewhere, but it means more.

At least to the Apostle Paul. The Apostle Paul this meant something significant. Go to Romans chapter 10. in What's undoubtedly Paul's greatest? Work the letter to the church in Rome. In in in chapter 10, we find this beautiful line of logic and argumentation about how to proclaim the good news the Gospel of Jesus the king and the scripture says everyone who believes in him. Will not be put to shame There's no distinction between Jews and Greeks for the same. Lord is Lord of all this going his riches on all who call on him. So he say Amen right? This is Jesus is King evil or he's not just the king of the Jews. He's the king of kings. He's the king of all and there is no distinction between Jew and Gentile everyone who calls on the name of the Lord will be safe.

How then will they call on him? In the lab not believe and how will they believe in him of whom they have never heard and how are they to hear without someone preaching anyone who calls on the name of the Lord will be safe as well. How are they going to call on him? If they haven't believed in him now, they're going to believe in him if they hadn't heard of him and how are they made sure of him if somebody doesn't go and preach about him.

This is how are they going to preach if they're not sent? So as it is written how beautiful are the feet of those who preach the good news.

But they not obey the gospel. For Isaiah says Lord who has believed what he has heard from us. It's not as simple as what you send somebody to preach they preach everybody believes.

It's not even close to that simple. How many says faith comes from hearing and hearing through the word of Christ?

And then it gets weird. You ready? But I asked you. Have they not hurt?

Think about this. Start by saying the gospel says anyone whether Jew or Gentile if they call upon the name of the Lord, they will be safe. And then he said well, how would I call if they don't believe how they believe they haven't heard how they hear unless somebody preaches how somebody preach unless they're sent. Because Pitt have they not hurt.

We'll go. No, they haven't heard. That's what you would assume. Paul would say next isn't no they haven't heard they haven't heard the announcement.

Pulse is indeed. They have. I want to do nasty quotes from Psalm 19. He says for their voice has gone out to all the Earth and their words to the ends of the world.

Paul saying that God has been preaching. his own Gospel Not not just through human mouthpiece, but God has been preaching. the announcement of Jesus

How do we know that's true? Well won the wise men showed up.

Into at least according to John. the Apostle John the disciple whom Jesus loved

John the Revelator who wrote that weird and wacky Book of Revelation

Actually tells us exactly.

What the Babylonian magic saw? And how the voice of the Stars proclaim the birth of Jesus you want to see it.

Revelation 12 and a great sign

So we already know we're not what's what's going to come next in chapter 12 is not a it's not a narrative of things that actually happened. It's a sign of things that are happening with me and where do signs appear. And a great sign appeared in the heaven. A woman clothed with the sun with the moon under her feet and on her head a crown of twelve Stars. She was pregnant and was crying out in birth pains and the agony of giving birth. This is yours this sign in the heavens. There's a woman. pregnant what's the constellation of a of a woman associated with fertility and pregnancy constellation Virgo? Close with a son that's an astronomical language. That means that the sun is in the constellation Virgo as as the elliptic moves in the constellation rotate. The sun is in different constellation. So for the sun to be in Miss in the midst of this woman is the sun is located in the constellation Virgo that happens every year for approximately 20 days.

But it's it's a little bit more detailed with that. The sun is in the moon. The sun is in Virgo and the Moon is at her feet. 20 days out of the year. The sun is in the constellation Virgo.

And when the moon is directly at her feet that narrows down from 20 days to a 90 minute.

We look back. Say when when did that happen? Around the time of Jesus's birth.

any guesses 1 + 365 let me tell you when it wasn't. It wasn't December 25th.

September 11th

3 BC

Oh, there's more.

Now she's got a crown the crown is Leo when this happen on September 11th. You got the sun right in the middle of Virgo. The Moon is at her feet and right above her is Leo the Lion King.

as her crown

Interesting lineup on September 11th Jupiter. The king planet was passing regulus the king star in Leo. What the Babylonian divination manual interpreted as the death of a king? There's more going on. And it's the announcement of the birth of a king.

She's pregnant was trying out in birth pains in the agony of giving birth and another sign appeared in the heavens Behold a great red dragon with seven heads and ten horns on his head were seven diadem. Dragon red color located in the southern sky at this there's two maybe three possibilities about Which Constellation this refers to I think it probably refers to Hydra cuz immediately above Hydra or corax the Raven and crater which each have 7 and 10 Stars respectively, but we've got in this moment and take my word for it. You can get on these Star astronomy program. You can backtrack after that day and this is what you'll see.

You will see the sun in the midst of Virgo the moon at the feet Leo above. You'll see Hydra in the southern sky. pale sweeping into the void large area where there are no star. The factors in here above the tan on the 7th. This is amazing stuff is Taylor Swift come to the Earth in the dragon stood before the woman was about to give birth so that when she bore her child he might devour

Fascinating I hear people all the time talk about the fall in the fall of Satan in that at the fall of Satan back either before Eden or right with eating a right after eating that he fell in 1/3 of his angels went with him. And we say we are that happened in Eden to that like it happened in Genesis for the Genesis doesn't say that at all and it didn't happen then because it happened here and this is not describing eaten in the creation. This is describing what the birth of Jesus and that's at the birth of Jesus. There's not only political turmoil on the Earthly sphere. But if the birth of Jesus there's a massive conflict and warfare in the heavenly. And at the birth of Jesus was the decisive victory Of God against the spiritual rebels in the Heavenly Realm. That's good news strange news, but good news.

Waiting to Devour the child.

She gave birth to a male child one who is drool all the nations with a rod of iron? But her child was caught up to God and to his throne.

Who is this child?

John is taking us where that's a direct quote from Psalm to which I walked us through a few weeks ago. It's a Messianic Psalm what to say I will tell the decree the Lord said to me you are my son today. I have begotten you ask of me. I will make the nation's your heritage and the ends of the Earth your possession you shall break them with a rod of iron and Ashlan and pieces like a Potter's vessel.

When this sign happened in the sky in announce the birth of the one who has come to rule the nations with a rod of iron in his hand. clearly announcement of the Messiah Sam Smith the birth of Jesus

and if I if you let me I could spend another hour and a half. I spent a lot more time walking through Revelation 12 there and and and some of the details and talking with one about it the other night thinking maybe next year. I'll do maybe a little seminar like it is only like 3 hours only like 3 hours to kind of cuz I've been nerding out. The last couple weeks. I think it's been awesome.

But what is this mean? What's the meaning of this Beyond just the stuff happening in the sky?

In the Jewish context of this.

Did the Jews at the time of Jesus to the Jews at the time of John when it when they hear them describe this and and they knew the movement of the Stars way better than we do.

So when they read Revelation, they knew what he was talking about what the sign was they would easily interpret this. And they could do the math and figure out what day he was talking about. As I already mentioned the date that that this sign appears in the sky is September 11th 3bc September 11th date. That that means something different for us now than it did a couple of decades ago.

It meant something incredibly different to the Jews. Jesus is Dana Jewish Camp calendars a little different than our calendar. and it it it has I mean, it's a lunar calendar as well, but it it it it it has a different start as a different end. So what is September 11th 3bc on the Jewish calendar?

I thought maybe we'd have an expert here.

I only wondered and they're all right in the Jewish calendar. I love you Kelly. In the Jewish calendar September 11th 3bc was Rosh Hashanah. The beginning of the Jewish New Year. It was tishri 1 the day of trumpets

now do you want to go spend some time go back from Revelation 12 read the end of Revelation 11 and the blowing of the trumpet announcement that the revelation of the Altar and the and the and the Ark and that When the sign comes in the heavens God is revealing.

tishri 1 District 1 beginning of the Jewish New year was considered by the ancient Jews to be the first day of creation.

History one is associated with creation. It's the it's the it's the day of renewal. It's the day of birth all the ancient Kings. They would track their inauguration to tishri 1 then matter when they actually started the rain. Because the inauguration of a king had to happen on 231. Had to be the beginning of the year had to be the day of creation. History one for the Jewish people in the Jewish calendar is the day of creation. It's the day of the inauguration of a king. Is there any other day that Jesus should have been born on? Are the sign there is a sign up understand. This is not prophecy. Play this is not a prophecy hundreds of years in the past that then takes place in the future. This is a reading of the sign actually after the fact. John and Revelation is describing what happened when Jesus was born some almost 40 maybe 50 years ahead. Is looking bat. So if you're don't get sucked into those crazy television and Internet preachers that got take Revelation and take Revelation 12 and there's lots of these guys out there. They take Revelation 12. I got to try to track stars and they say this is going to tell us when Jesus is coming back. No, it's not. That's not what it's telling us when Jesus came the first time. Tell me about it after the fact that's not prophetic suck. Announcing. What's going to happen in the future got the sky me what's happening in the present through the start?

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Jesus being born on tissue, when is a sign that he is indeed the new Adam? Is come to redeem us from the first fall the fall of mankind.

But wait, there's more.

tishri 1 with all that also known as the birthday of Noah

And we can read through Genesis 6. 78 we can track Noah's life.

Becomes pretty clear that he was born on tishri 1 now. What's that narrative about remember Genesis 6 that weird chapter about the sons of God the Benny Hill theme to look and see that the women are beautiful and they come and take them in the produce this strange off Offspring The nephelym Genesis 6 of the story of a fall the spiritual fall the fall of the heaven. And who does God used to deliver Mankind from the fall of the Spiritual Beings? He uses Noah. Preserve them in an AR takes him through the waters of chaos and the floods and delivers him to dry and safe land Noah was born on tishri 1 in the midst of a spiritual fall. And so when Jesus is born on tishri 1 he's not only the new Adam who comes to save us from the fall of Genesis chapter 3. He's the one who comes as the new know, I will save us from the spiritual rebellion of Genesis chapter 6. Jesus is the one that saves us from it all that's cool. That's amazing because there's so much Beauty in the in the planning in the arranging in the orchestrating of God's like he could have had him be born on any dates, but he hadn't been born on that fix to communicate suspect God is working on our behalf. Waze

God put that much precision Not much planning that much orchestration into the first coming of Jesus. Can we not have incredible confidence but he will be coming again. That the gods movement God's Act of power on our behalf is not done. The birth of Jesus was awesome. Like it was awesome today by saying it was the best day ever. I think that depends on how we do find that. Cuz I think the best is yet to come. Like I loved the Jesus was born and I love that Jesus group. And I love that Jesus died. And I love the Jesus rose from the dead and I love that Jesus ascended to his throne in the heavens, but I can't wait.

true at vinyl app What happened in Earth are fully reconciled when we get to hear his voice from the throne declare behold, I have made all things new. Can't wait. The second coming of Jesus. I can't wait till the words of revelation 22 this with Bill behold. I am coming soon. I've got a little bit differently that you and I do.

Behold, I am coming soon bringing my recompense with me to repay each one for what he has done for. I am the Alpha and the Omega the first and the last the beginning. and the end that's who we celebrate at Christmas.

a pound 7 ounce baby Jesus Is the lamb from the foundation of the world? offers viroxyn and he is the lion of the tribe of Judah. Who is the king of Tanks? and the Lord of lords What he has started. He will finish. Do we celebrate Advent? With both a past orientation and future orientation. Because he came once we so celebrated December 25th. And that's alright is a day doesn't matter. What we're celebrating is that he came. And what we're celebrating is that he will come again. Even so come Lord Jesus.

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