And now we want to take your questions. So we've got a lot of questions submitted about Advent, and we have a panel, and so joining me for the panel is Dr. Jim Prothrow and Dr. Michael Barber. And I'll be correcting their answers and making sure that they give you the right ones. But it's a joy, gentlemen. Thank you for joining us for the panel discussion. Thank you. Thanks for having. Terrific. Well, let me jump in with,

there's two sets of questions as I see them. A lot of the questions came in, good theological

or historical questions that relate to Advent or Christmas, and then there's another series of

questions that are about practical application for the liturgical season. So I'm going to start

with a little bit more of the exegedical liturgical

or theological questions especially. So here's the first question. When John the Baptist is born, his father, Zachariah proclaims that the Lord has raised up a horn of salvation for the house of Israel, right, and his servant David.

It seems to be a reference to Jesus, but why is he called a horn of salvation?

And this is a good example, isn't it?

If you don't know the Old Testament, the New Testament seems awfully strange at points.

Absolutely.

Yeah.

Do you want me to speak first? Sure.

So this is one of those things both with knowing the Old Testament and also with Bible

translations.

In the Hebrew language of the Old Testament, you can read it through the Psalms a whole lot.

There's a lot of times when God is described as a horn or raising up a horn of salvation

for us.

And sometimes that gets kind of translated out depending on what version of the Bible you have.

So if you know from the liturgy the Benedictus, right, in the song about John the Baptist,

you say, oh, there's a a horn but you haven't seen that in

your Bible translation it might seem really strange but really right the horn is

a symbol of power and a victory and if you think about the horns that they

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