Simeon's Encounter with Jesus
When Jesus’ parents went to Jerusalem to present him to the Lord on the eighth day of his birth, an extra ordinary event happened at the temple premise where God rewarded a man for his unflinching faith in a revelation that he received some time ago. Through the season of Christmas much has been spoken about the revelation that Mary received from Gabriel about the birth of Jesus, or Zechariah the priest received from the angel about the birth of his son John the Baptist. Little has been spoken about a revelation that an unknown person named Simeon received through Holy Spirit about him seeing Jesus during his life. Simeon appears briefly over the second chapter of Luke. Bible says that he was devout and full of Holy Spirit. He was constantly expecting the Messiah to come and he expected the Messiah to come soon (Luke 2:25) unlike many of his generations. Jews through their long history had suffered many a foreign invasions. At the time of Jesus' birth, R...