Today is forty days after
Christmas, when Jesus would have been presented in the Temple and when Miriam would have bee
purified if Jesus was born on Christmas day. It is another case showing that Jesus
completed the law, but also a link between the Old Covenant and the New
Covenant. It has been revealed to Simeon
that he will not die until he has seen the Messiah, and he is waiting in the Temple, having been sent
there by the Holy Spirit that day.
Encountering the baby Jesus, Simeon picks him up, saying, “Lord you now
have set your servant free, for I can go in peace as you have promised, for my
eyes have the Saviour, whom you have promised to set the world free,” identifying for us and for many who Jesus was,
and what he was to do. He warned Miriam
that she would suffer. Anna, too
prophesied over the life of Jesus, and
Miriam and Yosef were astounded.
For this feast, we often start
with a candlelight procession. (The
Feast is also called Candlemass). We
march throughout the town and neighbourhood, to proclaim that Jesus, the light
of the world has come to set the nations free. Let us be like Simeon and Anna,
quick to recognise the saviour, and like them proclaim him to the nations.
Exodus 13:2
Psalm 84:1-6
Luke 2:22-40
Father, as this day Yeshuah was
presented in the temple, grant that our Lord Yeshuah would present us to you
that we may serve you truly in this world and the next. This we ask through Yeshua haMoshiach who
lives and reigns with you and the Ruach haKodesh, one God in glory
everlasting. Amen.
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