The people walking in darkness have seen a great light;
on those living in the land of the shadow of death a
light has dawned
Isaiah 9:2
He Is Risen!
On the first day of the week, very early in the morning, the women took the
spices they had prepared and went to the tomb. They found the stone rolled
away from the tomb, but when they entered, they did not find the body of the
Lord Jesus.
While they were wondering about this, suddenly two men in clothes
that gleamed like lightning stood beside them. In their fright the women bowed
down with their faces to the ground, but the men said to them, “Why do you look
for the living among the dead? He is not here;
he has risen! Remember how he told you, while he was still with you in Galilee:
‘The Son of Man must be delivered into the hands of sinful men, be crucified and
on the third day be raised again.’ ” Then they remembered his words.
Luke 24: 1-8
The Time Will Come
For the time will come when people will not put up with sound doctrine.
Instead, to suit their own desires,
they will gather around them a great
number of teachers to say what their itching ears want to hear.
They will
turn their ears away from the truth and turn aside to myths.
But you, keep
your head in all situations, endure hardship,…
2 Timothy 4:3-5
Sons of Light
You are all sons of the light and sons of the day.
We do not belong to the night or to the darkness.
So then, let us not be like others, who are asleep,
but let us be alert and self- controlled. For those
who sleep, sleep at night, and those who get drunk,
get drunk at night. But since we belong to the day,
let us be self-controlled, putting on faith and love
as a breastplate, and the hope of salvation as a helmet.
For God did not appoint us to suffer wrath but to receive
salvation through our Lord Jesus Christ.
1 Thessalonians 5:5-9
The Brink
People will oppress each other— man against man,
neighbor against neighbor. The young will rise
up against the old, the base against the honorable.
Isaiah 3:5
According to Isaiah 3:5 a society which fails to honor
the old is on the brink of destruction.
The Book of Leviticus by Gordon J. Wenham P.273
A Polished Arrow
He made my mouth like a sharpened sword, in the shadow of his hand
he hid me; he made me into a polished arrow and concealed me in his
quiver. He said to me, “You are my servant, Israel, in whom I will
display my splendor.” But I said, “I have labored to no purpose; I
have spent my strength in vain and for nothing. Yet what is due me
is in the Lord’s hand, and my reward is with my God.”
Isaiah 49:2-4
