Tag: Advent 2022
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Advent 2022: Week Four, Monday, Titus 1:1-6
Precisely because the Advent season is a little longer than normal, we find ourselves moving from Revelation to a pastoral epistle: Titus. 1. Paul, a servant of God and an apostle of Messiah Jesus by faith, chosen of God by a knowledge of truth in godliness 2. upon the hope of eternal life which the…
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Advent 2022: Week Three, Saturday, Revelation 6:1-17
Six of the seven seals, the four horsemen, and nowhere to hide. Hard times for humanity. 1. Then I saw the lamb open one of the seven seals. I heard one of the four creatures say, like a voice of thunder, ‘Come!’ 2. Behold, I saw a white horse. The one sitting upon it had…
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Advent 2022: Week Three, Friday, Revelation 5:6-14
Today’s reading is filled with liturgical refrains that soar from our hearts, through our mouth, and into the very throne room of God. 6. A lamb that had been slaughtered stood in the midst of the throne, the creatures, and the elders. It had seven horns and seven eyes, which are the [seven] spirits of…
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Advent 2022: Week Three, Wednesday, Revelation 4:1-8
Today we see the throne of God through John’s vision. I advise reading it slowly. 1. After these, I looked and behold, a door had been opened in heaven. At first, I heard a sound like a trumpet speaking, then it said to me, ‘Come up here. I will show you what needs to happen…