In the Christmas story, the wise men bring gifts to the Lord: gold, frankincense and myrrh.

The gold is listed first, because it is the inmost - signifying good, e.g. the good that we do when we love the Lord and the neighbor.

The frankincense is next. It signifies rational truth, which is the set of true ideas that we know, not about external things like cars or cooking, but about what is really good, and what is really true.

These rational truths are built on earlier knowledges that we learn, before we have really made them our own. Those early knowledges about spiritual things - often learned in childhood - are represented by the myrrh.

In a way, these gifts are really a reciprocation. We can't actually give them to the Lord until the Lord has given them to us. We necessarily start out by learning and doing the Lord's law (myrrh). The Lord can then call up those memories to become rational truths (frankincense). Then, over time, and with effort, those truths can be transformed into good (gold). The wise men from the East had gone through this process of learning and becoming vessels that could receive truths and goods. They were able to perceive the Lord's birth, and find him, and bring gifts to him.

15. 13. From Daniel and the Prophets.

The Lord was represented before Daniel in a form almost like that in which He was presented before John (Revelation 1:14-15).

Before Daniel (Daniel 10:5-6), and then almost like things happened (12:6-7).

In that day, butter and honey shall everyone eat that is left in the midst of the land (Isaiah 7:21-22, 25). The Church of the Lord.

(Jehovah of hosts, Him shall ye sanctify, for let Him be your fear, and let Him be your dread. And He shall be for a sanctuary; but for a stone of stumbling and for a rock of offense, for a gin and a snare for the inhabitant of Jerusalem. (Isaiah 8:13-14; Matthew 21:42-44; Luke 20:17-18).)

(The people walking in darkness have seen a great light: they that dwell in the land of the shadow of death, upon them hath the light shined. Unto us a Boy is born, unto us a Son is given, whose name is Wonderful, Counsellor, God, Hero, the Father of Eternity, the Prince of Peace; to establish the Kingdom in judgment and justice from henceforth to eternity (Isaiah 9:1, 5-6).)

In that day the remnant of Israel shall no more stay upon him that smote them; but shall stay upon Jehovah, the Holy One of Israel, in truth (Isaiah 10:20-22). Wherefore the wolf shall dwell with the lamb, the leopard shall lie down with the kid, etc. They shall not do hurt in all the mountain of holiness, for the earth shall be full of the knowledge of Jehovah. It shall surely come to pass in that day that the Lord shall again recover the remnant of His people (Isaiah 11:6-9, 11-16).