The Year of the Lord’s Favor. Isaiah 61:1-11
VII. NEW HEAVENS AND A NEW EARTH, Isaiah 58-66
1.The Dawning Light, Isaiah 58-62
69. What is to be the Messiah’s mission? His Kingdom? His joy?
THE YEAR OF THE LORD’S FAVOR
The Spirit of the Lord GOD is upon me, Because the LORD has anointed and commissioned me To bring good news to the humble and afflicted; He has sent me to bind up [the wounds of] the brokenhearted, To proclaim release [from confinement and condemnation] to the [physical and spiritual] captives And freedom to prisoners, [Rom_10:15]
To proclaim the favorable year of the LORD, And the day of vengeance and retribution of our God, To comfort all who mourn, [Mat_11:2-6; Luk_4:18-19; Luk_7:22]
To grant to those who mourn in Zion the following: To give them a turban instead of dust [on their heads, a sign of mourning], The oil of joy instead of mourning, The garment [expressive] of praise instead of a disheartened spirit. So they will be called the trees of righteousness [strong and magnificent, distinguished for integrity, justice, and right standing with God], The planting of the LORD, that He may be glorified.
Then they will rebuild the ancient ruins, They will raise up and restore the former desolations; And they will renew the ruined cities, The desolations (deserted settlements) of many generations.
Strangers will stand and feed your flocks, And foreigners will be your farmers and your vinedressers.
But you shall be called the priests of the LORD; People will speak of you as the ministers of our God. You will eat the wealth of nations, And you will boast of their riches. [Exo_19:6; 1Pe_2:5; Rev_1:6; Rev_5:10; Rev_20:6]
Instead of your [former] shame you will have a double portion; And instead of humiliation your people will shout for joy over their portion. Therefore in their land they will possess double [what they had forfeited]; Everlasting joy will be theirs.
For I, the LORD, love justice; I hate robbery with a burnt offering. And I will faithfully reward them, And make an everlasting covenant with them.
Then their offspring will be known among the nations, And their descendants among the peoples. All who see them [in their prosperity] will recognize and acknowledge them That they are the people whom the LORD has blessed.
I will rejoice greatly in the LORD, My soul will exult in my God; For He has clothed me with garments of salvation, He has covered me with a robe of righteousness, As a bridegroom puts on a turban, And as a bride adorns herself with her jewels.
For as the earth brings forth its sprouts, And as a garden causes what is sown in it to spring up, So the Lord GOD will [most certainly] cause righteousness and justice and praise To spring up before all the nations [through the power of His word].
69. What is to be the Messiah’s mission? His Kingdom? His joy?
“THE ACCEPTABLE YEAR OF THE LORD”
Messiah’s mission, Isa_61:1-3. At Nazareth our Lord applied these words to Himself. Let us care for the outcasts as He did; but to do so, we need to be anointed with the Holy Spirit, who rested so mightily on Him. The acceptable year is clearly that of Lev_25:8-13. Our Lord, when quoting this, stopped at the comma, Isa_61:2, because the day of vengeance is not yet. See Luk_4:19. Mark that it is only for a day! God not only delivers, but anoints and crowns.
Messiah’s kingdom, Isa_61:4-9. In days yet future, the ruined cities of Palestine shall be restored. In a spiritual sense, we also may appropriate this promise. When we receive the Pentecostal gift, we also witness the restoration of the wastes, which our sins have caused in our own lives and in the lives of others. Let us clasp to our hearts Isa_61:7-9.
Messiah’s joy, Isa_61:10-11. Jesus is the true bridegroom of the soul; and we may appropriate our side of these happy words. Note this combination of imputed and imparted righteousness. The one is put on as a garment, Isa_61:10; the other blossoms out from within, Isa_61:11. Oh, that from our lives God would cause righteousness and praise to spring forth!
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