How Christmas Fulfills Ancient Hopes
The hope for a deliverer begins way back in the history of ancient Israel and continued for centuries until the great moment when Jesus arrived. Sometimes we think that first-century Jews all had the same “job description” for a Messiah-figure, but that’s not really the case. Then (as now) opinions differed, and we see that diversity even reflected in the NT (Mark 8:27-30).
Join us for this brief Advent Sunday school series that traces some of the different types of hopes/expectations for an eschatological deliverer that are found in the OT as well as Jewish writings–and how Jesus fulfills them.
Schedule
11/20 – The expectation of a king
11/27 – The expectation of a prophet
12/4 – Special Sunday school session (interview with Dr. Ben Shaw)
12/11 – Congregational meeting
12/18 – The expectation of a priest
12/25 – No Sunday school (11am service only)
Header image depicts the anointing of David by Samual, dating to the 300s from the Dura Europos synagogue in modern-day Syria.
