The Prisoner Who Watched for the Morning Star
In 1636, Scottish minister Samuel Rutherford was banished to Aberdeen and forbidden to preach. Stripped of his pulpit and isolated from his congregation, he did...
This is stories & illustrations, drawing on Revelation 22:12-14, 16-17, 20-21.
In 1636, Scottish minister Samuel Rutherford was banished to Aberdeen and forbidden to preach. Stripped of his pulpit and isolated from his congregation, he did the only thing left to him — he wrote letters. Over two hundred of them poured from that exile, and they burned with a single, relentless longing: to see the face of Christ. Rutherford called Jesus his "Morning Star" and wrote of the coming glory with an intimacy that still startles readers four centuries later.…
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