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Well Done ! 
 Enter into  the Advent Horizon

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Psalm 47 says
"Clap your hands, all you nations; shout to God with cries of joy. How awesome is the LORD Most High, the great King over all the earth!"
       
which means
                God is great and God is Good - and he is the king over all the earth.  And we were created to know him and be full of joy
                        And In Narnia
                                    Aslan is the great lion  who is good and kind and king over all of  Narnia - The children are full of joy when they see him

 

 

Jeremiah 7 says
"God gave them this command: Obey me, and I will be your God and you will be my people. Walk in all the ways I command you, that it may go well with you. But they did not listen or pay attention; instead, they followed the stubborn inclinations of their evil hearts. They went backward and not forward.... they did not listen to me or pay attention. They were stiff-necked ..."
   
    which means
                Even though we should walk with God we tend to be stubborn, to be selfish, to do wrong things
                 - we drift away from him
and then we stop believing in him
                
       And in Narnia
                                    Eustace was stubborn and selfish and did wrong things.   He was cold blooded.  He became on the outside what he
                                    had become on the inside - a dragon - alone and cut off from Aslan.

 

Isaiah 9:2 says
"The people walking in darkness have seen a great light; on those living in the land of the shadow of death a light has dawned."
        
   which means
                    The prophet Isaiah in the old testament saw ahead that things were going to get better... that even though everything around
                     them looked dark and hopeless, God was going to do something to make things right.
                       
    And in Narnia

                                    Right when everything looked dark and hopeless and the sailors' lives felt like nightmares, Lucy prayed to Aslan
                                     and then saw a small white light  - that  came for  them - an Albatross that led them safely away from their hopelessness

 

Isaiah 9:6 says
"For to us a child is born, to us a son is given, and the government will be on his shoulders. And he will be called Wonderful Counselor, Mighty God, Everlasting Father, Prince of Peace."
          
 which means
                        On the first Christmas morning, Jesus was born - he was God coming into our world to love us and set us free from sin
                         and darkness and loneliness and to bring peace to our hearts.

                            
   And in Narnia
                                            Aslan came to Eustace, came into his world and set him free from his dragon skin so he would not live in darkness
                                            or be alone ever again.   Eustace began to change, to try to follow Aslan's ways and his friends noticed.
                                            In fact, guess who will become the brave hero of the  next book in the Chronicles of Narnia - Eustace !

 

       

       

 

You didn't just find 4 bible verses, you found the short version of the history of our world:  
God created it, we messed it up, Jesus came to save us and bring us back to God.   Advent means "Arrival or Coming"   - this is the season of Advent as we look forward to the coming of Christmas.   Over thousands of years in the bible verses we looked at people awaited - they were trying to look over the Horizon, to what was coming next... like waiting for the rising of the sun as you look over the ocean in the middle of the night, the prophets were waiting for the coming of the messiah, Immanuel (which means God with us).    Jesus came to us in this world as Aslan came to the children in the world of Narnia.

 

 

And so .... you have done an amazing job to get this far!    As Aslan says "Well done!!!"    as Jesus says "Well Done!"

 

And now.... here is how you get your cheesy prize:

Email the following sentence to Narnia@fpcAmbler.org:

"Aslan is on the move"

Everyone who does will receive a cheesy prize.  The person who got the most answers first (extra credit answers will be used for tiebreakers) will also receive 4 tickets to the movie !!!    You will receive an email back shortly!

 

 

And now for the last time, your humble servant Arsheesh wishes you goodbye and a most excellent Christmas... perhaps I too will try to learn more about this Aslan... to chew on these bible verses.... which reminds me... I still have this piece of meat still stuck in my teeth....  right here....  I think it is goat's meat...  oh this is going to take a while.....  do you have toothpick ?.....