Keeping inmind this is obviously a reference to the lords return to glory, and not a reference to his advent in physical form as the babe in Bethlehem. I say obviously because:
A. as the babe in Bethlehem, He came quietly in the night; with only a few visitors and was not widley accepted as the Savior until 32 years after his birth. And even his ministery took time to build the momentum it did.
B. Jesus at his first coming came as a teacher with love and taught patience. He was not "like a refiner's fire, and like launder's soap" Virtually everyone on earth "[endured] the day of his coming."
C. Jesus at his first coming sat as a teacher to establish his church and preach his gosple of love and faith. In those days he did not sit as a "refiners fire", and he did not "purify the sons of Levi, and refine them as gold and silver" and the sons of Levi surley did not make any offerings "offerings in riteousness."
The messanger could not have been John the Baptist. when considering ABC
2006-08-10
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