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Anticipating the Advent : Looking for Messiah in all the right places / by William Varner. [print]

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: Dallas, Texas : Fontes Press, (c)2020.Description: 126 pages ; 21.5 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
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  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9781948048460
  • 1948048469
Other title:
  • Anticipating the Advent
Subject(s): LOC classification:
  • BT230.V376.A384 2020
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Contents:
A Holy heartburn ; A woman's seed ; A lion or a lamb ; A star and a scepter ; A house of bread ; A King before the KING ; A not so silent night ; A Christmas for old people ; A great Herod? ; A mythology of the Magi ; A messiah for the rest of us ; A Son of God ; Epilogue: Will the real Messiah please stand up?
Abstract: Most Christmas books focus on the light and joy of the season. Anticipating the Advent, however, portrays the dark side of Christmas because only then will the light shine the brightest. On the night when the host of heaven sang "Glory to God in the highest," they were arrayed to do battle with the evil forces who wanted to kill the promised child. This seed of Eve was coming to crush the enemy's head (Gen 3:15) and destroy the Devil's power (Heb 2:14). Old Simeon would tell the young mother Mary that, because her son would be the Messiah, a sword would pierce through her soul (Luke 2:35). In so many ways it was a "Not so silent night".
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A Holy heartburn ; A woman's seed ; A lion or a lamb ; A star and a scepter ; A house of bread ; A King before the KING ; A not so silent night ; A Christmas for old people ; A great Herod? ; A mythology of the Magi ; A messiah for the rest of us ; A Son of God ; Epilogue: Will the real Messiah please stand up?

Most Christmas books focus on the light and joy of the season. Anticipating the Advent, however, portrays the dark side of Christmas because only then will the light shine the brightest. On the night when the host of heaven sang "Glory to God in the highest," they were arrayed to do battle with the evil forces who wanted to kill the promised child. This seed of Eve was coming to crush the enemy's head (Gen 3:15) and destroy the Devil's power (Heb 2:14). Old Simeon would tell the young mother Mary that, because her son would be the Messiah, a sword would pierce through her soul (Luke 2:35). In so many ways it was a "Not so silent night".

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William Varner teaches Bible exposition and Greek exegesis at the Master's University. He has led more than fifty trips throughout Israel and has written more than a dozen books.

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