Art Thou He That Should Come?

The “waiting ones,” a small group of people in a tiny and oppressed nation, watched for Him. For 1,500 years, others like them had waited for a coming Deliverer; yet He had not come. One of those waiting at the Temple had been promised by God “that he should not see death, before he had seen the Lord’s Christ [Messiah]” (Lk 2:26). Taking the small infant in his arms, old Simeon prayed, �