Good News Is Coming  

     God's rich love we wrote of yesterday was absolutely proven by Jesus's voluntary beating followed by death on a miserable cross. 

     "As a lamb before its shearer is silent, so He opened not His mouth. His justice was taken away." Acts chapter 8. He suffered not just for the people of Israel and Judah, but for the whole world...then and now.    

     Christ arose, conquering sin and what we fear most...the grave. Jesus is said to be with the Father in heaven...and the Holy Spirit (the third in creation, Genesis 1:1-2), sent to connect us to the Lord. 

     Speaking of creation, God - on the scene - evicted the first couple from their beautiful "garden." Along the way, God appeared in human form to Abraham. Later, He gave Abraham an extreme test. Abraham obeyed, and God made him an example for us, fearing God and concerned chiefly to do God's will.  

     There were other short visits to earth, and God's communications to kings, prophets, David, Solomon and others. But Old Testament prophets wrote of someone yet to come...someone like no other.

     One night, angels surprised lowly shepherds, lighting up their sky to announce the birth of a Savior in Bethlehem. That would be Jesus, called the Son of God. He grew up in a town of no importance. At age 30 he began to interact with people, teaching, healing and speaking what his Father wanted him to reveal. A crowd turned on him when he wouldn't evict the Romans. 

     He is returning to Jerusalem and the world, and this time He will be King for one thousand years. This is the Good News.