Mark My Words – Advent – The Coming of Christ

In celebrating advent, we will be looking back into history some 2000 years ago to the events of the first coming of Jesus Christ to earth. The definition of advent is: “the arrival of a notable person, thing, or event”. When God the Son, the second person of the Trinity, chose to visit earth as a baby boy I would say to you that this was indeed a notable event! In this newsletter article we will see that the idea of Christ came into the collective mind of God’s Old Testament people through types and prophecies and that eventually these were fulfilled when He was born in Bethlehem. We will also see that during the church age Christ continues to come in salvation to individuals who repent and confess Him as Lord, and that the window of Christ’s saving work will remain open until He returns again to earth as King of Kings and Lord of Lords.

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