In this Advent season, we celebrate both the first coming of Jesus and also his promise to come again. These two events are related: if we receive the Jesus of Bethlehem, then we need have no fear of Jesus the Judge. The Scots Confession begins its setion on the last judgment affirming: We do not doubt but that the selfsame body which was born of the virgin, was crucified, dead, and buried, and which did rise again, did ascend into…
Laura SmitDecember 16, 2004