Advent Meditations 2012

Whom are they seeking?

ADVENT MEDITATIONS 2012

~ ~ ~ The All-Encompassing GOD ~ ~ ~

Luke 1:26-55

Meditation 3

28 And the angel came in unto her, and said, Hail, thou that art highly favoured, the Lord is with thee: blessed art thou among women.

The Hebrew virgin Mariam ~ Bitterness and Grief ~ was visited by the Angel Gabriel, a mighty warrior angel.  Mariam was peculiarly greeted as an honored person.

Not even Daniel was greeted like this when Gabriel visited him, twice! Neither was Zachariah so greeted.

Indeed, this was VERY strange that a simple, "rustic" Galilean young virgin would be addressed so honorably.

"Hail" is used in place of an honorable greeting like, "Cheer!"  or "Health!" or "Be Well!" 

Good news it is indeed when a great and mighty warrior who stands in the Presence of GOD  ( Luke 1:19) greets a little human being like that ! 

It is the ONLY place in Scripture that an Angel so addresses a human being in those terms. The young Hebrew virgin Mariam had HIS divine approval ! 

Meditation:

O GOD Who is the LORD of the most powerful, most divine armies in the Universe, be pleased to look upon this little human being... me.

Gracious ONE Who sent forth Thy mighty Angel to little Mariam, send, I beseech THEE, Thy ministering spirit to encamp round about little me, also.

Return to me an innocent trust, a pure faith,  like Thy chosen Hebrew virgin had, which won Thy approval to bear the CHRIST CHILD...  that approval which was so strongly placed upon this young Hebrew virgin that even the Angels knew it.

Help me with purity, O LORD. Purity of thought, purity of motive, purity of love.

With thankfulness unending, for receiving me, O LORD, I pray this in the Name of JESUS, Thy HOLY SON+, Our LORD.

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ADVENT MEDITATIONS 2012

ADVENT MEDITATIONS 2012

What is in a WORD?

The LOGOS+ of GOD.

The LOGOS+ of GOD, we shall see, is sent by The GOD Who is all-encompassing. The LOGOS+  is an all-encircling GOD Who+ encircles all of mankind... man's time, place, and situation.

HE+ is the LOGOS+, the all-encircling GOD, Who+ knows the end from the beginning.  Let us take time to meet HIM+ during this Advent Season. 

[ NOTE:  We use blue during Advent, which is the liturgical color connected with the Birth of Our LORD JESUS CHRIST... not red and green. ]

~ ~ ~ The All-Encompassing GOD ~ ~ ~

12.2.2012 to 12.24.2012

Luke 1:26-55

Meditation 1

26 And in the sixth month the angel Gabriel was sent from GOD unto a city of Galilee, named Nazareth,

Precision!  Exactness!  Accuracy! 

Precisely at the time appointed, GOD sent out a special Angelic warrior, Gabriel [ Hebrew for "valiant, strong man, strong warrier of GOD ]. 

This divine, Angelic Warrior was the Same Strong Angel who visited Daniel in Babylon, to make him know prophetic things of the end time ( Daniel, chapters 8 and 9).

Gabriel was sent to Galilee... a most interesting name. The Hebrew root is G-L-L, which means to roll, especially to roll large stones. ( Ernest Klein, pg. 101) .

Galilee itself means " a Circle of Goyim" or of "nations." 

At the Appointed Time, in the Appointed Place, set within precise details, Prophetic events occur very precisely... exactly as ordained by the Hand of The LORD. 

Nothing occurs as happenstance or in a slip-shod manner when The LORD deals with mankind:  all events are planned precisely to bring about the fulfillment of GOD'S plan for planet earth and mankind. 

HE encircles all of mankind out of every kindred, tongue, people, and nation ... in time, in place, and in situation ... as HE brings forth HIS Appointed MESSIAH+ to break into the society of man. 

HE begins by rolling the stone away , the ROOT of the meaning of  Galilee.  That is why the beginning of the MESSIAH'S entrance into humanity occured in Galilee of the Nations... 

MEDITATION:

O LORD, Who+ plans the end from the beginning, I know Thy+ plans are best. Into Thy+ Hands I now place my heart. All control over my future, my security, I yield now into Thy+ Hands... because I want to be part of Thy+ Kingdom. 

Make me as Thy+ Servants, the Angels who are intent to do Thy+ will ... turning neither to the left hand nor to the right... until Thy+ Will be done. 

I thank THEE+, O HOLY ONE+ of Israel, for establishing Thy+ Great Plan, which no man nor Angel can thwart. 

What a Mighty GOD we serve!

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