Look, he is coming with the clouds! Every eye will see him, including those who pierced him, and all the tribes of the earth will mourn because of him. This is so. Amen. “I am the Alpha and the Omega,” says the Lord God, “the one who is and was and is coming, the Almighty.”
Revelation 1:7-8 CEB
Before Santa and presents and tinsel and cookies, Advent was a time of preparation for new converts and the message concentrated on the return of Christ - not his first coming.
Perhaps it is okay that Christ's coming gets lost in the modern celebration of Christmas. His coming is really only the prologue to the story.
Easter isn't even the climax of the story - although the sacrifice and forgiveness of sin and the whole atonement thing is pretty awesome!
The climax of the story is the return of Christ!
That is still to come - we are still waiting.
Count the days and be ever ready for just as all the other promises were true -
this one will happen as well.
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