This book contains daily advent devotions from Spurgeon and was edited by Geoffrey Chang published by New Growth Press in 2024.
Oh, how surprised angels were, when they were first informed that Jesus Christ, the Prince of Light and Majesty, intended to shroud himself in clay and become a babe, and live and die! We know not how it was first mentioned to the angels, but when the rumor first began to get afloat among the sacred hosts, you may imagine what strange wonderment there was. What! was it true that he whose crown was all adorned with stars, would lay that crown aside? What! was it certain that he about whose shoulders was cast the purple of the universe, would become a man dressed in a peasants garment? Coult it be true that he who was everlasting and immortal, would one day be nailed to a cross? Oh! how their wonderment increased! They desired to look into it.
And when he descended from on high, they followed him; for Jesus was “seen by angels” (1 Tim. 3:16), and seen in a special sense; for they looked upon him in rapturous amazement, wondering what it all could mean. “For your sake he became poor.” Do you see him, as on that day of heaven’s eclipse he did ungird his majesty? Oh, can you conceive the yet increasing wonder of the heavenly hosts when the deed was actually done, when they saw the tiara taken off, when they saw him unbind his girdle of stars, and cast away his sandals of gold? Can you conceive it, when he said to them, “I do not disdain the womb of the virgin; I am going down to earth to become a man?” Can you picture them as they declared they would follow him! Yes, they followed him as near as the world would permit them. And when they came to earth, they began to sing, “Glory to God in the highest, on earth peace among those with whom he is pleased!” (Lk. 2:14) Nor would they go away till they had made the shepherds wonder, and till heaven had hung out new stars in honor of the newborn King.
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Oh, Son of Man, I know not which to admire most, your height of glory, or your depths of misery! Oh, Man, slain for us, shall we not exalt you? God, over all, blessed for ever, shall we not give you the loudest song? “Though he was rich, yet for your sake he became poor.
What do the angels desire to look into? 1 Pt. 1:12; Ex. 25:20; Dan. 8:13; 12:5-6; Eph. 3:8-12; Rev. 5:11-12.
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