Re: A Christmas Message

I think Rosetti was already referring to the second coming anyway...

Instead of quoting " .. when he comes to reign" out of context, as Janice
has done apparently to make a dig at someone, if you look at the previous
line:

Heaven and earth shall flee away
when He comes to reign,

it appears that the meaning is pretty clear. New heaven and new earth etc.

Mery Christmas, Janice. May the next year be one where you are less tempted
to heckle and more inclined to listen.

Iain

On 12/25/05, George Murphy <gmurphy@raex.com> wrote:
>
> Yes Janice. As my then 3 year old daughter used to say when an answer to
> a
> persistent question wasn't going fast enough, "I know dat." We know that
> Christ is seated at the right hand of the Father. We - including the late
> Ms. Rossetti - know that "When he comes to expose and separate out the
> tares
> who are growing unnoticed among the wheat in the visible church, and to
> establish the new heaven and the new earth" wouldn't fit the scansion of
> the
> verse very well. We also know that the reign of Christ hasn't been made
> fully visible throughout the world yet, & that there's such a thing as
> poetic license. &, not to be too tedious, we also know that if we were to
> ignore the requirements of poetry we might choose to say, with Acts 3:21
> in
> mind, "till he comes to complete the restoration of all things."
> (Extra credit for any poet who can condense that enough & get it to fit
> the
> rhyme scheme. "Reconcile" could be used instead of "restore" - vgl.
> Col.1:20.)
>
> Froehliche Weihnachten
> George
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Janice Matchett" <janmatch@earthlink.net>
> To: <asa@calvin.edu>
> Sent: Saturday, December 24, 2005 6:46 PM
> Subject: Re: A Christmas Message
>
>
> > At 06:12 PM 12/24/2005, you wrote:
> >
> >> ...When he comes to reign ..."
> >
> >
> > ### He's already "reigning". The next time he comes it will be to
> expose
> > and separate out the tares who are growing unnoticed among the wheat in
> > the visible church, and to establish the new heaven and the new earth.
> >
> > Merry Christmas and peace on earth ------------- to all men of good
> will.
> >
> > ~ Janice
> >
> >
> >
>
>

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