"I'm SICK of this Heat!"

Don't you just love this time of year?  Finally! we can take off our sandals, ease out of all the summertime scrambling that we do and just relax... catch our breath.  I think the word for "Autumn" in the Greek means, "I'm sick of this heat!" anyways...

The Prophet Isaiah is announcing our Lord's entrance to Earth some 700 years before it would happen - but he is describing in detail just who Christ Jesus would be - and what he would become to all Humanity...

Here are five names in Divine Order and Spiritual Sequence of Christ:

1. Wonderful (peleh) A change in climate

In Palestine, the people would endure heat waves of 100 degrees + for 5 to 6 monhs of the year.  I'm sure they, just like we do in Oklahoma (go Sooners!) are so bombarded by the heat and humidity that the sand wasn't the only thing getting overheated...
Day after day of blistering heat, sun and sand - and then... something happens.  The wind changes direction and a shift in the seasons begins.  Crisp mornings, cool afternoon breezes and folks would rise early in the morning just to inhale the Autumn air for the first time in, well... months!  I can imagine they'd say, "This is Wonderful!  A change of climate has finally come."

That's exactly how these over-heated, over-worked, over-religious Jews would describe Jesus as he walked among them with Love, Grace and Truth - "WONDERFUL!"  Christ was then and is now our "change of climate" and our spiritual breath of fresh of fresh air!

Open your windows, friends - A change in climate is come!

Pastor Jody