Christmas Is Coming Soon

Well, we are just a few days away from celebrating the birth of Jesus Christ. As we mentioned before, we don't celebrate His birthday, since we don't know for sure when it was, but we celebrate His Birth. Approximately 4000 years before Jesus was born, when Adam sinned in the garden of Eden, God promised to send a Messiah who would be victorious of Satan, crushing his head. As I was thinking about this there were two thoughts that came to mind. One is that when Jesus came to this earth He fulfilled God's promise. As the years went by, after God's initial promise, He began to add some specifics about the coming Messiah and as we look back, we see that Jesus' coming fulfilled all of those specifics as well, proving without doubt that He was the Messiah. By looking at that, we have great confidence that because God did what He said He would do then, we know that He will do what He says He will do now and in the future. When Jesus left this earth, He did so in a rather unusual manner. As He met with His disciples outside of Jerusalem, He ascended up into Heaven right before their very eyes. There was an angel of God there that told them that just as He left, so would He come again. Another promise from God, that we know He will fulfill. Just as we don't know the date of His first coming, we have no idea when He will come again. What we do know is that the Jews were looking for His coming when He was born and you and I should be looking for His coming again even now. It is only a few days until we celebrate His first coming and it may very well be only a few days until we celebrate His coming again. Another great gift from our Father.