1. Part 1: The Promise of Jesus
The Second Christmas
Part 1: The Promise of Jesus

2. Part 1: The Promise of Jesus
The Second Christmas
Part 1: The Promise of Jesus

3. The Second Christmas

4. Part 1: The Promise of Jesus
The advent calendars of our thinking must not stop at 25th December.

5. Part 1: The Promise of Jesus
The advent calendars of our thinking must not stop at 25th December.
Don’t let distance and ‘impossibility’ be reason to put the promise aside
The Second Christmas must be at the forefront of our minds this season.

6. 1. The 2 Christmases can’t be separated
Consider the OT prophets
Luke 24:27 “…beginning with Moses and all the Prophets, he interpreted to them in all the Scriptures the things concerning himself ”

7. 1. The 2 Christmases can’t be separated
Consider the OT prophets
These same prophets also prophesied about the 2nd Christmas

8. 1. The 2 Christmases can’t be separated
Consider the OT prophets
These same prophets also prophesied about the 2nd Christmas
A time of Terror (Isaiah 13:9-11)

9. 1. The 2 Christmases can’t be separated
Consider the OT prophets
These same prophets also prophesied about the 2nd Christmas
A time of Terror (Isaiah 13:9-11)
A time of Resurrection (Daniel 12:1-2)

10. 1. The 2 Christmases can’t be separated
Consider the OT prophets
These same prophets also prophesied about the 2nd Christmas
A time of Terror (Isaiah 13:9-11)
A time of Resurrection (Daniel 12:1-2)
A time or Renewal (Isaiah 65:17)

11. 1. The 2 Christmases can’t be separated
Consider the OT prophets
These same prophets also prophesied about the 2nd Christmas
A time of Terror (Isaiah 13:9-11)
A time of Resurrection (Daniel 12:1-2)
A time or Renewal (Isaiah 65:17)
A time of the Coming of Messiah (Dan 7:13)

12. 1. The 2 Christmases can’t be separated
Consider the OT prophets
These same prophets also prophesied about the 2nd Christmas
A time of Terror (Isaiah 13:9-11)
A time of Resurrection (Daniel 12:1-2)
A time or Renewal (Isaiah 65:17)
A time of the Coming of Messiah (Dan 7:13)
Sometimes the 1st and 2nd comings were combined

13. 1. The 2 Christmases can’t be separated
Sometimes the 1st and 2nd comings were combined

14. 1. The 2 Christmases can’t be separated
Sometimes the 1st and 2nd comings were combined
Genesis 3:15
he will crush your head,
and you will strike his heel
Isaiah 61:1-2
To the prophets, it was all ONE STORY

15. 2. Jesus focussed on the 2nd Christmas

16. 2. Jesus focussed on the 2nd Christmas
He is the primary teacher of the 2nd coming.
His primary message is the Kingdom of God – completely fulfilled at the 2nd coming.

17. 2. Jesus focussed on the 2nd Christmas
Jesus spoke in many parables and explicit prophecy about the 2nd Christmas
Matthew 13 & 25, parables
Wheat and Tares
Dragnet
Landowner
Wedding Feast
10 Virgins
The Talents

18. 2. Jesus focussed on the 2nd Christmas
God’s angels also spoke it

19. 2. Jesus focussed on the 2nd Christmas
The apostles spoke it
Acts 3:18-21
Repent, then, and turn to God, so that your sins may be wiped out, that times of refreshing may come from the Lord, and that he may send the Christ, who has been appointed for you—even Jesus. He must remain in heaven until the time comes for God to restore everything, as he promised long ago through his holy prophets.

20. 2. Jesus focussed on the 2nd Christmas
The story of Christmas is not over at the stable, or even at the cross.

21. 3. Our hope is the 2nd Christmas
Luke 2:10-11.
I bring you good news of great joy that will be for all the people.

22. 3. Our hope is the 2nd Christmas
Luke 1:71-75
salvation from our enemies
and from the hand of all who hate us—
to show mercy to our fathers
and to remember his holy covenant,
the oath he swore to our father Abraham:
to rescue us from the hand of our enemies,
and to enable us to serve him without fear
in holiness and righteousness before him all our days.

23. 3. Our hope is the 2nd Christmas
Romans 8: Not only so, but we ourselves, who have the firstfruits of the Spirit, groan inwardly as we wait eagerly for our adoption as sons, the redemption of our bodies. For in this hope we were saved.

24. 3. Our hope is the 2nd Christmas
Philippians 3: But our citizenship is in heaven. And we eagerly await a Saviour from there, the Lord Jesus Christ, who, by the power that enables him to bring everything under his control, will transform our lowly bodies so that they will be like his glorious body.

25. 3. Our hope is the 2nd Christmas
John 19:30
“It is finished”

26. 3. Our hope is the 2nd Christmas
John 19:30
“It is finished”
Revelation 21:6
“It is done”

27. The 2nd Christmas
Hebrews 9:28
He will appear a second time, not to bear sin, but to bring salvation to those who are waiting for him