Emphasis Preaching Journal
Can you imagine the sense...
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Can you imagine the sense of anticipation that must have energized the mind of Simeon, the aged prophet who was often in the Temple in Jerusalem. He was a good, god-fearing man who had a profoundly important secret revealed to him by the Holy Spirit. Because he devoutly believed the scriptures regarding the coming of the Messiah, it was impressed upon him that before he died, he would actually see the Messiah. Maybe this is the reason he spent so much time in the Temple and eagerly scanned the young couples who brought their babies to the Temple for the rite of purification.