The land of promise will also then be transformed v.4Waiting for response for Isaiah 61:4 and God’s people exalted v.6.Waiting for response for Isaiah 61:6 Israel have been greatly shamed during the centuries but they will have double blessing when they again dwell in the land and will experience everlasting joy v.7.Waiting for response for Isaiah 61:7 The LORD who loves judgment will direct their work in truth and make an everlasting covenant with them v.8Waiting for response for Isaiah 61:8 so that they are of such a character and recipients of such great blessings that the Gentile nations will acknowledge they are the blessed of the LORD v.9.Waiting for response for Isaiah 61:9 In verse 10 the Spirit again expressed beforehand the thoughts of Christ in which he contemplates the joy set before him. He is the bridegroom and the saints his bride who, like him, will be clothed with the garments of salvation. The saints, therefore, can also look forward to the same joy with certainty for, just as he causes the plants to spring forth out of the earth, the LORD will “cause righteousness and praise to spring forth before all nations” v.11.Waiting for response for Isaiah 61:11
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Waiting for response for Isaiah 61:1-3After his baptism, Jesus returned to Nazareth, went into the synagogue on the Sabbath day, and began to read this chapter but stopped suddenly in the middle of verse 2, saying: “This day is this scripture fulfilled in your ears” Luke 4:16-21.Waiting for response for Luke 4:16-21 The first verse and the first clause of verse 2 describe his preaching the gospel by the Spirit of God. Jesus was anointed by the Spirit at his baptism and thereafter he released people from their burdens and proclaimed the acceptable year of the LORD. Now is the time when we can respond to the gospel and make ourselves acceptable to God, but when Jesus returns it will be a time of vengeance and of reward, as described in the rest of verse 2 and verse 3 which Jesus did not then read out to the people because the fulfilment was long in the future. He will come in the day of vengeance when the wicked will be punished, but he will bring joy to the faithful whose natures will be made beautiful and they will be planted permanently in the earth as trees of righteousness to the glory of the LORD v.3.Waiting for response for Isaiah 61:3