What’s God saying about 2024? Tim Sheets

Larry Randoph

Johnny Enlow & Andrew Whalen: “The Best Is Yet to Come! Thirty Is Key”

The Best Is Yet to Come because of Christmas Day!
Word by Johnny Enlow 

“‘For there is born to you this day in the city of David a Savior, who is Christ the Lord. And this will be the sign to you: You will find a Babe wrapped in swaddling cloths, lying in a manger.’

“And suddenly there was with the angel a multitude of the heavenly host praising God and saying: 

“‘Glory to God in the highest, and on earth peace, good will toward men!‘” (Luke 2:11-14)

Today, let’s agree with the angels! In Luke 2:14 we are allowed the privilege of hearing what a multitude of the heavenly hosts are saying upon seeing Jesus born in a manger. While He was yet in swaddling clothes, these angels discerned and declared the “end game” of it all. Three objectives were to now be fulfilled with God having made Himself flesh.

1. Glory to God!

A storyline that gives glory to God must be the central outcome. It must be proven to powers and principalities that His great experiment of creating man in His image did not go horribly awry. His commitment to fragile humanity was made expressly clear to the angels and demons as He became one with mankind by being born to Mary. The Godhead would yet get Their glory from Their original story. This baby Jesus would now ensure that an Ekklesia would arise that would overcome the very gates of Hell.

2. Peace on Earth!

The final objective was not war on Earth but peace on Earth. He would use redeemed humanity to accomplish this. As Paul would later say in Romans 16:20, “… the God of peace will crush satan under YOUR feet…” The glory of His story is that He takes the fragile humanity He created in His image and turns them into a satan-crushing, peace-establishing force. He doesn’t remove them from the planet first so HE can do it; He enforces the peace WITH them. Angels and demons both understood the assignment He was committing to. (Photo via Flickr)

3. Good Will Toward Men!

The birth of Jesus was “good will toward men” – not just because He was the life insurance policy once He burned up their world, removed them, and crushed satan. No, the angels didn’t praise God, saying, “… and judgment toward men.” Men and their abode, Earth, would now experience the full benefits of God’s original plan: “… on Earth AS IT IS in Heaven” (Matthew 6:10).