The Twelve Days of Christmas is a traditional song for the holiday season. Each day in the song lists a different gift received over the course of the celebration. During the hundreds of years this song has been sung, the gifts have varied some, a few have changed position in the lineup, and a couple have been renamed due to the archaic terms originally used. However, none seem to have any real meaning except for joyful irreverence during the Christmas season.
The third gift we sing about is a French Hen. What spiritual meaning can we derive from the lowly fowl presented as a gift in this third stanza?
Look to Revelation 19:17. In this passage, John sees an angel, and with a loud voice, the angel cries to the heavens: Come and feast, all you birds of the air, for all I have created is yours.
We are those birds, and we are invited to feast on the victor’s spoils. God is planning a triumphant victory against the evil one, and there is no evil thing that will survive.
The Word gives us three clear benchmarks in God’s plan:
First, he sent his Son to be born in a manger.
Second, he required his Son to die on a cross.
Third, he will announce his Son victorious in that final day.
When we sing of those Three French Hens, let’s imagine them as the sign of a battle already won, that of God’s triumphant victory and the crushing defeat of our enemy. Let us be reminded of the promise given to us in that lowly manger: The Christ child is come to bring salvation unto the world.
Our victory is assured, for the Christ is already the conqueror in the fight against sin.
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