As we run up to Christmas we are in the season of Advent, but do you know what advent means? Advent means ‘coming’. – Although at Christmas we celebrate Jesus’ birth, we are not really looking forward to Jesus being born, are we (because that happened 2000 years ago)? We are now looking forward to his ‘advent’, his coming again. And just as the Old Testament is packed full of hints and prophecies and promises all predicting the first coming of the Messiah, so also the New Testament is full of prophecies and promises that Jesus will return – the second coming – to bring about judgment, and to bring in God’s kingdom, the new creation.