The FaithOfJesus2 Daily Devotional
Focus:
kjv@Revelation:14:12
( FaithOfJesus thread begun by rRandyP )
Today's Verse:
kjv@Luke:2:8 kjv@Luke:2:9 kjv@Luke:2:10 kjv@Luke:2:11 kjv@Luke:2:12 kjv@Luke:2:13 kjv@Luke:2:14 kjv@Luke:2:15 kjv@Luke:2:16 kjv@Luke:2:17 kjv@Luke:2:18 kjv@Luke:2:19 kjv@Luke:2:20 The Spirit is declaring the certainty to men/women with a gathering of angels seen by a few and those men/women are declaring the certainty to many others. Wonder is being used as a agent of broadcast; this long before the majority can confirm the certainty. The echoed certainty in fact has to be sought out by the individual in order to be confirmed. It is as a test of their wonderment. The types of people being used as these agents are not your typical leaders or priests curiously, they are people in the field daily tending that have a level of trust and similarity to the common folk who would be listening. The Spirit is drawing on a similarity between what the first witnesses do and what the Messiah will do: Shepherd flocks; connections that the priests of that era don't have. If to reveal this first to the religious establishment of that day who else would believe it at the heart felt transformative level needed to be? Who else would be told? A case is being made that it is not just all about what the evangelists and gospel writers are saying later about the event, it is also about what the common folk have been testifying of and echoing among themselves for sometime now. Because the writer includes it in his collection does not mean that the event went undisputed, it means that it's discussion (even debate/wonder) was commonly known. At the time of this gospel's disbursement the debate could not have been whether these public testimonies/rumors had been known of, the debate would be as to their meaning to the bigger picture. This along with the other commonly known event's (disturbances) the writers collected presents a sizable case for those of that time to consider. We in our time need at the very least to be mindful of that wonder even though we cannot go back ask a shepherd there to prove to us what he/she saw; they couldn't even prove it in their day just as God somehow in HIS wisdom had planned it to be. Further Resources: Comment Board:Luke:2:8-20
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kjv@Psalms:24:9
kjv@Psalms:24:10
kjv@Hebrews:1:8
kjv@Psalms:80:1
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