
Week 3 of Advent: Gaudete Sunday - the Sunday of JOY. For nearly 2,000 years, the Church has taught believers to anticipate Christ's return with hope, peace, joy, and love, NOT fear. Yet modern evangelicalism has turned eschatology into a source of anxiety rather than celebration.
Isaiah 35 paints a stunning picture of what's coming: the wilderness will rejoice, the desert will blossom, blind eyes will open, deaf ears will hear, the lame will leap like deer. This isn't about escaping earth, it's about Christ renewing it.
When Jesus returns, everything will be made right and made new. The joy will never end. The peace will never cease. Sorrow and sighing will flee away.
Stop fearing the Antichrist and start preparing for Christ. Stop looking for the mark of the beast and start celebrating the mark of the Lamb. The King is coming, and that's GOOD NEWS.
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