Advent Day 23: The Once and Future King

At the Awakening the other night, a young adult ministry of my church, my friend Randy delivered a sermon reminding us that as we celebrate Christ's first coming, we would be remiss to forget to look forward to his second coming as well. It was a powerful reminder and the main thrust of his sermon was reading through Scripture about the just warrior king that will come back to complete his kingdom and bring justice to an unjust world once and for all. I wanted to just share one of the passages he read so that we can meditate and praise God that Christ is coming again!

“There shall come forth a shoot from the stump of Jesse, and a branch from his roots shall bear fruit. And the Spirit of the LORD shall rest upon him, the Spirit of wisdom and understanding, the Spirit of counsel and might, the Spirit of knowledge and the fear of the LORD. And his delight shall be in the fear of the LORD. He shall not judge by what his eyes see, or decide disputes by what his ears hear, but with righteousness he shall judge the poor, and decide with equity for the meek of the earth; and he shall strike the earth with the rod of his mouth, and with the breath of his lips he shall kill the wicked. Righteousness shall be the belt of his waist, and faithfulness the belt of his loins.

The wolf shall dwell with the lamb, and the leopard shall lie down with the young goat, and the calf and the lion and the fattened calf together; and a little child shall lead them. The cow and the bear shall graze; their young shall lie down together; and the lion shall eat straw like the ox. The nursing child shall play over the hole of the cobra, and the weaned child shall put his hand on the adder’s den. They shall not hurt or destroy in all my holy mountain; for the earth shall be full of the knowledge of the LORD as the waters cover the sea.” (Isaiah 11:1–9 ESV)