Dec
8
We continue our look at Christmas through Handel’s Messiah by briefly considering the Bible texts of the 5th movement of part two of the Messiah:
Haggai 2:6 For thus says the LORD of hosts: Yet once more, in a little while, I will shake the heavens and the earth and the sea and the dry land. 7 And I will shake all nations, so that the treasures of all nations shall come in, and I will fill this house with glory, says the LORD of hosts.
Malachi 3:1 Behold, I send my messenger and he will prepare the way before me. And the Lord whom you seek will suddenly come to his temple; and the messenger of the covenant in whom you delight, behold, he is coming, says the LORD of hosts.
Our post today will be brief. I simply want you to meditate on the surpassing greatness of the coming of the Messiah. Listen to the expectancy of these two minor prophets. Read the words they use to express their joy in their coming hope: treasures, delight, glory. Note also that these men did not see, this side of glory, the fruition of that which they longed after. Yet we have. We know the surpassing greatness of the gospel of Jesus Christ. We have the joy of Christ’s coming and the expectancy of his second coming. May your heart rejoice this weekend at “the messenger of the covenant in whom you delight!”
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