“You were given a Life. What will you do with it?

That was the Question posed by the Elders. The meaning of the Question is the Right to Choose.

Joshua 24:15 KJV
15 And if it seem evil unto you to serve the Lord, choose you this day whom ye will serve; whether the gods which your fathers served that were on the other side of the flood, or the gods of the Amorites, in whose land ye dwell: but as for me and my house, we will serve the Lord.

The “Days of Awe” after the Jewish month of Elul follow the same order as the Celebration of Light at the Beginning. The meaning of the Advent candles represent a Divine Order of Hope, Peace, Joy and Love. As it was in the beginning, it shall be in the end.

The Gloria Patri, called the lessor doxology is a Human prayer of Joy  in response to the Choice that Jesus made for us from the beginning. The 4th candle is the Ascension of the Choices of the 1st 3.

“Glory be to the Father, and to the Son, and to the Holy Ghost; as it was in the beginning, is now, and ever shall be, world without end. Amen.”

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