This Lord’s Day begins the Advent Season!  The next four Sunday’s we will celebrate the incarnation of the Son of God, and we will give our worshipful attention to the miracle of all miracles!

What are some of the Biblical images that come to mind when you hear the word ‘Christmas’?  Well, I’m sure you’re thinking right now of manger scenes, angels, shepherds, wise men, Mary and Joseph, and “the little Lord Jesus asleep on the hay.”

But what if I told you that there is a Christmas story, found in the Bible, that involves an expectant “woman” who is “clothed with the sun, and the moon under her feet,” and a “crown of twelve stars” on her head?   And a “great red dragon” with “seven heads, and ten horns” and “seven diadems,” and a long, powerful “tail” that could reach all the way to heaven? And, also a little “male child” who will one day “rule the nations with a rod of iron”?

Sounds very strange, doesn’t it!  But all of this and more is to be found in Revelation 12.  Placed at the very center of the most misunderstood and abused book of the Bible is a Christmas story, but one unlike you’ve ever heard before!

Over the next four Sundays, we will read and listen to the Apostle John as he tells the Advent story from a much different perspective than we are accustomed to!  And I’m absolutely certain that you’ll be amazed at all there is to discover here in the chapter’s 17 verses!