Matthew 3–4: Promises & Light
“THE PEOPLE WHO WERE SITTING IN DARKNESS SAW A GREAT LIGHT,
AND THOSE WHO WERE SITTING IN THE LAND AND SHADOW OF DEATH,
UPON THEM A LIGHT DAWNED.”
Category: Prophecy
Isaiah 7–11: Fear & Reliance
“And you are not to fear what they fear, and you shall not tremble.”
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“For we saw His star in the east
and have come to worship Him.”
“O Little Town of Bethlehem”
“But as for you, Bethlehem Ephrathah,
Too little to be among the clans of Judah,
From you One will go forth for Me
to be ruler in Israel.
His goings forth are from long ago,
From the days of eternity.”
“O Little Town of Bethlehem”
“But as for you, Bethlehem Ephrathah,
Too little to be among the clans of Judah,
From you One will go forth for Me
to be ruler in Israel.
His goings forth are from long ago,
From the days of eternity.”
Mark 13–14: Betrayal & Arrest
Every day I was with you in the temple teaching,
and you did not seize Me;
but this has taken place to fulfill the Scriptures.”
Jeremiah 22–26: Good Figs & Bad Figs
Then the Lord said to me,
“What do you see, Jeremiah?” And I said,
“Figs, the good figs, very good; and the bad figs,
very bad, which cannot be eaten due to rottenness.”
“O Little Town of Bethlehem”
All of the words Charles Jennens chose for the libretto of Handel’s Messiah are from the Bible. Tassilo Erhardt wrote, “its principal aim is not to tell the story of Jesus’ life, but to point out that the prophecies of the Old Testament concerning the Messiah are fulfilled in the person of Jesus.”1 However, those […]
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Kindling for Candles 