First Sunday of Advent

Legacy of God’s promises

Legacy of God’s promises

Isaiah 2:1 ESV

The word that Isaiah the son of Amoz saw concerning Judah and Jerusalem.

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Isaiah 2:2 ESV

It shall come to pass in the latter days that the mountain of the house of the Lord shall be established as the highest of the mountains, and shall be lifted up above the hills; and all the nations shall flow to it,

Isaiah 2:3 ESV

and many peoples shall come, and say: “Come, let us go up to the mountain of the Lord, to the house of the God of Jacob, that he may teach us his ways and that we may walk in his paths.” For out of Zion shall go forth the law, and the word of the Lord from Jerusalem.

Isaiah 2:4 ESV

He shall judge between the nations, and shall decide disputes for many peoples; and they shall beat their swords into plowshares, and their spears into pruning hooks; nation shall not lift up sword against nation, neither shall they learn war anymore.

Isaiah 2:5 ESV

O house of Jacob, come, let us walk in the light of the Lord.

Let us go to the House of the Lord

Psalm 122:1 ESV

I was glad when they said to me, “Let us go to the house of the Lord!”

Psalm 122:2 ESV

Our feet have been standing within your gates, O Jerusalem!

Psalm 122:3 ESV

Jerusalem—built as a city that is bound firmly together,

Psalm 122:4 ESV

to which the tribes go up, the tribes of the Lord, as was decreed for Israel, to give thanks to the name of the Lord.

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Psalm 122:5 ESV

There thrones for judgment were set, the thrones of the house of David.

Psalm 122:6 ESV

Pray for the peace of Jerusalem! “May they be secure who love you!

Psalm 122:7 ESV

Peace be within your walls and security within your towers!”

Psalm 122:8 ESV

For my brothers and companions’ sake I will say, “Peace be within you!”

Psalm 122:9 ESV

For the sake of the house of the Lord our God, I will seek your good.

“Awake, you sleeper!”

Romans 13:11 ESV

Besides this you know the time, that the hour has come for you to wake from sleep. For salvation is nearer to us now than when we first believed.

Romans 13:12 ESV

The night is far gone; the day is at hand. So then let us cast off the works of darkness and put on the armor of light.

Romans 13:13 ESV

Let us walk properly as in the daytime, not in orgies and drunkenness, not in sexual immorality and sensuality, not in quarreling and jealousy.

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Romans 13:14 ESV

But put on the Lord Jesus Christ, and make no provision for the flesh, to gratify its desires.

For we are angels of hope

Two advents

Matthew 24:36 ESV

“But concerning that day and hour no one knows, not even the angels of heaven, nor the Son, but the Father only.

Matthew 24:37 ESV

For as were the days of Noah, so will be the coming of the Son of Man.

Matthew 24:38 ESV

For as in those days before the flood they were eating and drinking, marrying and giving in marriage, until the day when Noah entered the ark,

Matthew 24:39 ESV

and they were unaware until the flood came and swept them all away, so will be the coming of the Son of Man.

Matthew 24:40 ESV

Then two men will be in the field; one will be taken and one left.

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Matthew 24:41 ESV

Two women will be grinding at the mill; one will be taken and one left.

Matthew 24:42 ESV

Therefore, stay awake, for you do not know on what day your Lord is coming.

Matthew 24:43 ESV

But know this, that if the master of the house had known in what part of the night the thief was coming, he would have stayed awake and would not have let his house be broken into.

Matthew 24:44 ESV

Therefore you also must be ready, for the Son of Man is coming at an hour you do not expect.

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For we are angels of Hope