Start a Jesse Tree tradition in which ornaments representing
various biblical figures and events in the redemption story are placed on a tree, their stories unfolding one at a time each day of Advent, building up to the arrival of Jesus.
Homemade ornaments representing
various biblical figures and events in the redemption story are placed on the tree during the month — one each day.
Furthermore, by adding up the ages of
the various Biblical figures backward from Christ to Adam, and by adding that sum to the years since the birth of Christ, many Biblical scholars believed they could determine just how old the world actually was.
Not exact matches
They would have had hundreds of years to
figure it out, just like people have been working on the actual meanings of the
various biblical prophecies.