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December 7, 2025 - For the Church at the St. John Church of Christ
Many of us are not good at waiting. We live in a culture of instant gratification, so patience is a virtue that is hard to come by. I wonder what it was like for Simeon and Anna who were waiting for the birth of Jesus, the Messiah, in the temple before they could pass on to live with God. Anna’s age equals seven twelves, signifying divine completeness. This allows us to see that something has happened (the birth of Jesus) at just the right time.
Israel had been waiting for the consolation (the coming of the Messiah) for a very long time – in fact, even back to the Garden of Eden. Think back to that first Temple in the Garden – man face to face with God, a man and a woman bore witness to a prophesy of a son that would crush a serpent’s head, and when Eve gave birth to her firstborn, Cain, she said “with the help of the Lord I have brought forth a man” (Gen. 4:1).
Eve’s exclamation proves that even in her generation they were not good at waiting. She thought Cain was the answer to God’s plan, and she had no clue that it would be millennia before the true promised child would come. In fact, instead of being a live-giver – Cain was a life taker – killing his own brother. Imagine all the Hebrew women who bore male children might have thought it this the one? Is he here? Is my son the consolation of Israel? Generation after generation went by with no Messiah in sight.
Until, at last. At just the right time. And two witnesses appear in the temple of the Lord, male and female, not to hear prophesy but to utter it. Finally, the one has come that is not a life-taker, but a life-giver. The wait is over. Jesus, the Messiah is here. Adam and Eve could not live to see the Messiah and Simeon and Anna could not die until they had. God brought consolation to them and to us. Their example exhorts us to wait in expectant hope. For Jesus is coming again and God is faithful in his promises.
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