Ten Lords a Leaping – Where’s the Mystery?

Ten Lords a Leaping – Where’s the Mystery?

Prayer – Lord, this song “The Twelve Days of Christmas” must have seemed silly to some people when they heard it—but who would have thought that these Ten Lords a Leaping would refer to Your Ten Commandments? Mysteries hiding within a song. Show us the meaning of the mysteries that are hidden in the Bible.

 

And God spoke all these words, saying: "I am the LORD your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage.

You shall have no other gods before Me.

      You shall not make for yourself a carved image—any likeness of anything that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth; you shall not bow down to them nor serve them. For I, the LORD your God, am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children to the third and fourth generations of those who hate Me, but showing mercy to thousands, to those who love Me and keep My commandments.

     You shall not take the name of the LORD your God in vain, for the LORD will not hold him guiltless who takes His name in vain.

     Remember the Sabbath day, to keep it holy. Six days you shall labor and do all your work, but the seventh day is the Sabbath of the LORD your God. In it you shall do no work: you, nor your son, nor your daughter, nor your male servant, nor your female servant, nor your cattle, nor your stranger who is within your gates. For in six days the LORD made the heavens and the earth, the sea, and all that is in them, and rested the seventh day. Therefore the LORD blessed the Sabbath day and hallowed it.

     Honor your father and your mother, that your days may be long upon the land which the LORD your God is giving you.

You shall not murder. 

You shall not commit adultery.

You shall not steal.

You shall not bear false witness against your neighbor.

You shall not covet your neighbor's house; you shall not covet your neighbor's wife, nor his male servant, nor his female servant, nor his ox, nor his donkey, nor anything that is your neighbor's." Exodus 20:1-17 NKJV 

Meditate. Consider God’s Commandments.

 

The Tenth Day of Christmas
Ten Lords A-Leaping implies the Ten Commandments, brought down by Moses and passed down as Catholic law.

Jews and Christians around the world…since the time of Moses…have tried to follow God’s Commandments. Even non-Christians follow these directives as many of them are incorporated into laws. Everyone is born with a conscience that guides them in most of these mandates, like You shall not steal, but for some reason some people just negate those and choose to follow their own path—or to rebel against God, like Satan did. They are not leaping like the lords of the song. Are they running away from God?

 

The mysteries that were hidden in the Twelve Days of Christmas song are revealed to us and easily understood. There are mysteries hidden in the Bible that we have to dig and ask for insight to understand. Jesus explained the mystery of the parables to His disciples.

But when He was alone, those around Him with the twelve asked Him about the parable. And He said to them, "To you it has been given to know the mystery of the kingdom of God; but to those who are outside, all things come in parables, "so that 'Seeing they may see and not perceive, And hearing they may hear and not understand; Lest they should turn, And their sins be forgiven them.' (Isaiah 6:9-10)" Mark 4:10-12 NKJV

Paul wrote about mysteries in several of his letters to different churches. (Underlined in the verses below for emphasis.)

Now to Him who is able to establish you according to my gospel and the preaching of Jesus Christ, according to the revelation of the mystery kept secret since the world began but now made manifest, and by the prophetic Scriptures made known to all nations, according to the commandment of the everlasting God, for obedience to the faith-- to God, alone wise, be glory through Jesus Christ forever. Amen. Romans 16:25-27 NKJV

 

In Him (Jesus Christ) we have redemption through His blood, the forgiveness of sins, according to the riches of His grace which He made to abound toward us in all wisdom and prudence, having made known to us the mystery of His will, according to His good pleasure which He purposed in Himself, that in the dispensation of the fullness of the times He might gather together in one all things in Christ, both which are in heaven and which are on earth—in Him. Ephesians 1:7-10 NKJV

I (Paul) now rejoice in my sufferings for you, and fill up in my flesh what is lacking in the afflictions of Christ, for the sake of His body, which is the church, of which I became a minister according to the stewardship from God which was given to me for you, to fulfill the word of God, the mystery which has been hidden from ages and from generations, but now has been revealed to His saints. To them God willed to make known what are the riches of the glory of this mystery among the Gentiles: which is Christ in you, the hope of glory. Colossians 1:24-27 NKJV

Life isn’t a mystery when you know God and search His word daily.

Verse of Salvation ~ For as many as are of the works of the law are under the curse; for it is written, "Cursed is everyone who does not continue in all things which are written in the book of the law, to do them." But that no one is justified by the law in the sight of God is evident, for "the just shall live by faith." Yet the law is not of faith, but "the man who does them shall live by them." Christ has redeemed us from the curse of the law, having become a curse for us (for it is written, "Cursed is everyone who hangs on a tree", that the blessing of Abraham might come upon the Gentiles in Christ Jesus, that we might receive the promise of the Spirit through faith. Galatians 3:10-14 NKJV

 

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