Christmas Truth In The Christmas Songs

A great line in the carol O Holy Night sings, “And in His name all oppression shall cease.” One day that promise will be globally fulfilled. Look at it from the perspective of history.

You Romans and your brutal power and occupation will not last. Though you rule the world your kingdom shall pass. Ho, Ottoman Empire your time of rule will end. Nazi Germany, your Third Reich will not last the 1,000 years you expect. When you think of 1,000 years think of Christ’s millennial kingdom. That Kingdom will be a 1,000 year reign and Jesus will rule the world in peace. Soviet communism you will fall no matter the number of your bombs or iron curtains. Isis, and terrorists of all sorts, one day you will be gone, and if you exist at the time of Christ’s coming He (not Christians, Hindus, or other Muslims), He, Jesus Himself, will rule you. He personally will require peaceful and decent behavior. He will make you stop killing and start helping others to better lives. He, Jesus, will do it. Any place oppression reigns: China, Iran, Kenya; anywhere oppression is strong it will one day cease in His name. The name of Jesus. “He shall reign where e're the sun doth his successive journeys run.”

Christmas is the promise that one day this earth will be set right. Whenever anyone, believer or not, sets up Christmas lights, a Christmas tree, sends a card, sings a carol, tastes a candy cane, or celebrates “Winter Holiday,” they are by that action, whether they desire to do it or not, they are noting the existence of Christmas, and, thus, recognizing the promise. The first advent heralds the second. Jesus is coming again, and He will rule and literally all oppression will cease. All!