Advent III

We continue our look at the Advent hymn, “O Come, O Come, Emmanuel.”  This hymn has its roots in scripture.  According to the Bible scholar we saw on The 700 Club, the third stanza of the hymn is comparable to Malachi.  Let’s look closer:

For behold, the day is coming, burning like a furnace; and all the arrogant and every evildoer will be chaff; and the day that is coming will set them ablaze,” says the Lord of hosts, “so that it will leave them neither root nor branch. But for you who fear My name, the sun of righteousness will rise with healing in its wings; and you will go forth and skip about like calves from the stall.”   (Malachi 4:1-2, NASB)

The third verse of the hymn: 

” . . . O come, Thou Dayspring, from on high,

And cheer us by Thy drawing nigh;

Disperse the gloomy clouds of night,

And death’s dark shadows put to flight . . . “

Malachi 4:1 is a warning from God:  “For behold, the day is coming, burning like a furnace; and all the arrogant and every evildoer will be chaff; and the day that is coming will set them ablaze,” says the Lord of hosts, “so that it will leave them neither root nor branch.”  God warns us that a time is coming when those who don’t fear Him will burn in hell.  The remedy?  Jesus, Who is promised in the second verse:  “But for you who fear My name, the sun of righteousness will rise with healing in its wings; and you will go forth and skip about like calves from the stall.”

Now to the hymn.  According to Miriam Webster, the definition of “dayspring” is “the beginning of day,” or “he beginning of a new era or order of things.”  The hymn pleads for “Thou Dayspring” to come to the earth.  Jesus coming to the earth would indeed be the dawn of a New Day, the beginning of a New Era, or a New Order!  He IS the Promised Messiah for Whom Israel has longed for centuries!  Jesus is our Hope! 

Worship:  “O Come, O Come, Emmanuel,” by Jeremy Camp

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