PJP2 “7 PRAISES” - 161221 - JESUS (Entry 2 - E) Entry 2 - E: Everlasting; Eternal; Emmanuel (Immanuel) Isaiah 7:14 (ESV/emphasis added/jaj)...."Therefore The Lord Himself Will Give you A Sign. BEHOLD, the virgin Shall Conceive And Bear A Son, And Shall Call His Name Immanuel.".... Immanuel (Emmanuel is the Romanized version)...."God With us".....God's Most Significant GIFT to us, His One and Only Son. At least 353 times in His Holy Spirit's Inspired WORD recorded in the Old Testament, God The Father Gives us Hints/Clues/Prophecies of the Coming of His Messiah. The haunting Christmas Carol, "O Come, O Come, Immanuel" shares our Eternal Longing for the Reconciliation of our Relationship with God The Father, fractured by our failure and disobedience. God's PLAN of Redemption was Activated immediately upon our Fall from His GRACE. Hear His WORD..... Genesis 3:15 (ESV/emphasis added/jaj)...."I Will Put Enmity Between you and the woman, and between your offspring and her Offspring; HE Shall Bruise your head, and you shall bruise His Heel.”.... Yes, The Mystery of NOEL, our Lord's First Advent, is not one that stops at Christ's Manger in Bethlehem. No, His Story Begins in Genesis 1:1 and Runs Through Revelation 22:21. May we, today, Ponder and Remember our Lord Jesus' Creation to Cradle to Grave to Eternal Life as His Blueprint for our very own LIFE In Him....Remember...."O Come, O Come, Immanuel....Come to Captive Israel"..... Our PJP2 Prelude Prayer for today would be to Share His Inspired WORD as Recorded by Paul in..... .....1 Corinthians 15:51-57 (ESV)...."Behold! I tell you a mystery. We shall not all sleep, but we shall all be changed, in a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trumpet. For the trumpet will sound, and the dead will be raised imperishable, and we shall be changed. For this perishable body must put on the imperishable, and this mortal body must put on immortality. When the perishable puts on the imperishable, and the mortal puts on immortality, then shall come to pass the saying that is written: “Death is swallowed up in victory.” “O death, where is your victory? O death, where is your sting?” The sting of death is sin, and the power of sin is the law. But thanks be to God, who gives us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ."..... Lord Jesus, In Your Holy Name we Raise our Prayers and Praise....Amen and Amen....jaj