Isaiah 61
The Spirit of the
Sovereign Lord is on me,
Because the Lord has
anointed me to preach good news to the poor.
He has sent me to
bind up the brokenhearted,
To proclaim freedom
for the captives and release for the prisoners,
To
proclaim the year of the Lord's favor
And
the day of vengeance of our God.
To comfort all
who mourn and provide for those who grieve in Zion--
To bestow on them a
crown of beauty instead of ashes,
The oil of gladness
instead of mourning,
And a garment of
praise instead of a spirit of despair.
They will be called
oaks of righteousness, a planting of the Lord
For the display of
his splendor.
They will rebuild
the ancient ruins and restore the places long devastated;
They will renew the
ruined cities that have been devastated for generations.
Aliens will shepherd
your flocks;
Foreigners will work
your fields and vineyards.
And
you will be called priests of the Lord,
You
will be named ministers of our God.
You will feed on the
wealth of nations, and in their riches you will boast.
Instead
of their shame my people will receive a double portion,
And instead of
disgrace they will rejoice in their inheritance;
And so they will
inherit a double portion in their land
And
everlasting joy will be theirs.
For
I, the Lord, love justice; I hate robbery and iniquity.
In my faithfulness I
will reward them
And make an
everlasting covenant with them.
Their descendants
will be known among the nations
And their offspring
among the peoples.
All who see them
will acknowledge
That they are a people the Lord has blessed.
I delight greatly in
the Lord; my soul rejoices in my God.
For he has clothed
me with garments of salvation
And arrayed me in a
robe of righteousness,
As a bridegroom
adorns his head like a priest,
And as a bride
adorns herself with her jewels.
For as the soil
makes the sprout come up
And a garden causes
seeds to grow,
So the Sovereign
Lord
Will make
righteousness and praise spring up before all nations. (Isaiah 61)
Isaiah sees the
ministry of Christ Jesus; the year of the Lord's favor;
Two thousand years of
evangelizing the world, before The Day of Vengeance,
The Great Tribulation;
The last three and one-half years of “Time.”.
He sees the Zion, The
Bride of Christ, her ministry and her destiny.
He sees the Millennium
where Christ Jesus bestows on those who mourn
And grieve over the sin
around them,
A crown of beauty and the oil of gladness,
A garment of praise
instead of a spirit of despair.
The Bride of Christ
will be called priests of the Lord, ministers of God.
They will receive a
double portion and rejoice in their inheritance;
Everlasting joy will be
theirs.
In the Millennium,The
Bride of Christ will rebuild the ancient ruins
And restore the places
long devastated by sin. Hallelujah!
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