The Morning Star Rises

“The Morning Star Rises: Silent Night”

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• □  A Five Piece Puzzle
  •   Piece #1—2 Peter 1:19—Peter associates the Morning Star with the bright light of that shines into the dark night just before the dawn breaks.
     Like a halogen light, prophecy is a divine gift designed to [1] help us see what lies

    ahead , and [2] help us ward off  in that darkness.

  •   Piece #2—Ezekiel 43:1, 2—Ezekiel describes the glory of God like a that floods the earth.
  •   Piece #3—Malachi 4:2—Malachi personifies the whose light brings healing to those who fear God.
  •   Piece #4—Revelation 18:1, 2, 4—John then takes the explosion of the glory of the Sun of God—described by Ezekiel and Malachi—and places that global event at the .
     We have no reason to fear the endgame—because the last word always belongs to God—and His last word will be an explosion of the of Christ Jesus throughout the earth!
  •   Piece #5—Revelation 22:16—Jesus is the .
• □  Who’s the Star of your life, your religion?
  •   The quest of prophetic study, the purpose of apocalyptic investigation is so the Morning Star might rise in our hearts.
  •   Thus the Apocalypse opens with the stunning reminder: “The revelation of Jesus Christ [not the dragon, the beasts, the mark of the beast, or even Babylon]” (Revelation 1:1).
• □  A Four Step Solution
  •   #1—B the Morning Star.
    •   I Corinthians 2:2—“I determined to know nothing among you except and Him crucified.”
    •   Philippians 3:10—“I want to know .”
    •   The most concentrated glory of the “bright and Morning Star” is in the , so read every new dawn.
  •   #2—B over the Morning Star.
    •   The Bible refers to this as .
    •   Psalm 119:148—“My eyes are awake through the night watches, that I may on Your word.”
  •   #3—B before the Morning Star.

 Steps to Christ: “Through sincere we are brought into connection with the mind of the Infinite. We may have no remarkable evidence at the time that the face of our Redeemer is bending over us in compassion and love, but this is even so. We may not feel His visible touch, but His hand is upon us in love and pitying tenderness.” (97)

 #4—B the Morning Star.

 Oswald Chambers: “. . . Christian experience in the New Testament is that of personal passionate devotion to the Person of Jesus Christ.” (My Utmost for His Highest 334)

“Make the Morning Star your North Star”