Peace: Wholeness, Completion, and Flourishing

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Christianity, Old Testament, Torah, Theology, New Testament, God, Demons, Tim Mackie, Bible Study, Angels, Bible, Jesus, Spiritual Beings, Jon Collins, Religion & Spirituality, Spirit, Satan

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🗓️ 8 December 2025

⏱️ 40 minutes

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Summary

Advent E2 — In the second week of Advent, we’re reflecting on peace. The word most often translated as “peace” in the Hebrew Bible is shalom, but its meaning goes far beyond the absence of conflict. Shalom is about wholeness, completeness, and everything being as it should be. It describes uncut stones at an altar, honest weights in the marketplace, integrity of the heart, flourishing relationships, and life lived in harmony with God’s purposes. In this episode, Jon and Tim trace the deep biblical meaning of peace and show how Advent points to the arrival of Jesus, the Prince of Peace, who reconciles divided people and makes them one.

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0:00.0	Hey Tim.
0:07.0	Hi, John.
0:08.0	Hello.
0:09.2	We're working through the four words related to Advent.
0:13.2	Yes.
0:14.2	Advent's a season of the Christian calendar.
0:17.6	Yeah.
0:18.0	Where you're anticipating the birth of Jesus.
0:19.9	Yeah.
0:20.6	It's a Christian calendar tradition that emerged anticipating the birth of Jesus. Yeah. It's a Christian calendar
0:22.4	tradition that emerged in the early centuries of the Jesus movement. It was a way of structuring
0:28.1	the arc of your year and your worship patterns, eating patterns, according to the story of Jesus.
0:36.0	And begins with these four weeks of... Yeah, begins with four weeks of Advent.
0:39.5	Oh, the word Advent means arrival, or a coming.
0:42.0	Okay.
0:42.9	And it's a period of waiting.
0:45.3	And so...
0:45.9	The story begins with waiting.
0:47.0	Story begins with waiting.
0:48.5	Yeah.
0:49.0	And the season of Advent for the four weeks leading up to the birth of Jesus,
0:52.9	it's about cultivating
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