Here’s a brief blog series on each of the 12 days of Christmas, with the Christian meanings I listed previously. I can’t discern any connection between the traditional gifts and the Christian meaning, so I’m ignoring that.
On the second day of Christmas, my True Love [God] gave
to me:
Two turtledoves
Two testaments
God has revealed Himself in His Word, and we divide that
into Old and New testaments.
“The New is in the Old concealed; the Old is in the New
revealed.”
It has become politically correct to only refer to the Old Testament as the Hebrew Bible, out of sensitivity to Judaism, to not call their Scriptures “Old.” But this is a mistake. The Old Testament is Act One and Two of God’s grand play: Creation and Fall. It does NOT stand on its own, but calls for more. The New Testament gives us Acts Three and Four: Redemption and Completion. I’d encourage you to read some from each testament every day of 2021. I’m using this plan.
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