Tag: Advent
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Advent 2022: Week Two, Thursday, Revelation 2:8-17
We have two of the Lord’s letters in today’s reading — Smyrna and Pergamum. 8. To the angel of the church in Smyrna write these things: The first and the last, the one who was dead and lived, says, 9. ‘I know your distress and poverty, but you are rich. I also know the blasphemy…
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Advent 2022: Week Two, Monday, Revelation 1:1-8
Jesus is coming, and John wants you to know it. 1. God gave the revelation of Messiah Jesus to his servant John to show his servants what must happen soon. He sent it by his angels. 2. This is what he testified — what he saw — the word of God and the testimony of…
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Advent 2022: Week One, Saturday, Jude 17-25
The first week of my translations for Advent 2022 finish with this beautiful doxology from Jude. 17. But you, dear ones, must remember the words already spoken by the apostles of our Lord Messiah Jesus. 18. For they kept saying to you that in the last times there will be scoffers led away by their…
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Advent 2022: Week One, Wednesday, 2 Peter 3:1-10
The Episcopalians skip over chapter 2 of 2 Peter in their schedule of readings. I don’t know why*, because the context is rich with condemnation for false prophets, the kind of people he warned about at the end of chapter 1 who take the Holy Scripture and turn it into their personal interpretation. You should…