"Come, Thou Long Expected Jesus"

Charles Wesley (1744)

When God made the sun and the moon and the stars, says the sacred author, he made them as lights in the firmament of heaven, to divide the day from the night, and to serve as signs — “for seasons, and days, and years.” It’s the same Hebrew word that the Lord uses when he offers to give the faithless double-dealing king Ahaz a sign, and the king replies…