CHAPTER 61 THE ANOINTED ONE. The first question to be asked as we open this chapter is as to the identity of the Anointed One. Some consider it to be the prophet who wrote these words, but the precedent of the earlier part of the book points to this being another description of a coming great figure... [ Continue Reading ]
THE ANOINTED ONE DECLARES HIS MISSION (ISAIAH 61:1). Isaiah 61:1 “The Spirit of the Lord Yahweh is upon me, Because Yahweh has anointed me, To preach good tidings to the meek (or ‘the poor'), He has sent me to bind up the broken-hearted, To proclaim liberty to the captives, And the opening to... [ Continue Reading ]
ISAIAH ADDS HIS WORDS TO THOSE OF THE ANOINTED ONE (ISAIAH 61:5 A). It is not always clear in this chapter who is speaking. In Isaiah 61:1 and probably 4 it is the Anointed One. In Isaiah 61:8 it is Yahweh. But otherwise we have to choose between the Spirit inspired Isaiah or God Himself. ‘Our God'... [ Continue Reading ]
For I, Yahweh, love judgment, I hate robbery with a burnt offering, And I will give them their recompense in truth, And I will make an everlasting covenant with them. And their seed will be known among the nations, And their offspring among the peoples, All who see them will acknowledge them,... [ Continue Reading ]
THE ANOINTED ONE IS CLOTHED SUITABLY FOR HIS TASK (ISAIAH 61:10). Isaiah 61:10 ‘I will greatly rejoice in Yahweh, My inner being will be joyful in my God, For he has clothed me with the garments of salvation, He has covered me with a robe of righteousness, As a bridegroom puts on as a priest h... [ Continue Reading ]