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And righteousness shall he the ghdle of his loins, and faithfulness the girdle ot his reins.” QUESTIONS. (1) Why was Christ anointed? (Psa. 45:7.) (2) When was Christ anointed? ,.Luke 3:22.) (3) What did He do when anointed? (Acts 10:38.) (4) For whom was the Gospel given? (Luke 4:18.) (5) To whom has been given the authority to proclaim the Gospel? ^(Mark 16:15, 16.) (6) What anointing do disciples need? (1 John 2:27.) (7) For whom will Christ come the second time? (1 Thess. 4:13-18.). (8) With whom will Christ come in judgment? (Jude 14, 15.) In most of the prophecies of Scripture there is a primary and secondary appli cation, one to a subject' that is near and within the horizon of the prophet and one that is remote DEVOTIONAL and possibly within a COMMENT future age entirely. F. W. Farr In the mind of 'Isaiah *.■■ - there might have been the thought of the deliverance of the Jews from the Babylonian captivity, but in the mind of the inspiring Spirit there was the thought of proclaiming the jubilee of Gospel liberty to a lost world in the bondage of sin. Therefore Christ appropriated this prophecy of Isaiah and applied it to His own ministry when He preached His own ordination sermon in the synagogue at Nazareth. Luke 4:17- 21. The Gospel is literally .“ good news” . It tells of a ransom paid, Gal. 2:13, a full and free pardon for sin, Acts 13: 38, 39, a glorious feast by God pre pared, Isaiah 25:6, a wonderful treasure by the sinner received, 2 Cor. 4:7, a blessed victory achieved by faith, Rev. 3:21, and a priceless reward in glory
age of grace and giving us our message and our service in this ruined ■world. It is not a message of social service, but of soul-saving service. The purpose of all our work must be the same as His own — sight for the blind, life for the dead, heaven for hell, allegiance to God in stead of to Satan. (2) CHRIST’S SECOND COMING, vs. 3-9. The rest of the prediction has prin cipally to do with Israel in the millen nial age, after the believers are caught up to be with the Lord (1 Thess. 4:13- 18), when the Holy Spirit will have withdrawn with the Church. Then will come the days of sorrow for poor, be nighted Israel. They are already gath ering in Palestine after centuries of wanderings among the nations, and prep arations are in progress for the coming of the Antichrist sand the days of Arma geddon, when poor Israel must suffer the woes predicted for their refusal to receive the Messiah. (Zech. 14:1-4) "For I will gather all nations Jerusalem to battle; and «>e city shall be taken, and the houses rifled, and the women ravished; and half of the city shall go forth Into captivity, a n d the residue of the people shall not he cut olf from the (Rev. 19:11-21; Isa. 63:1-6). Following the day of yengeance will come the days of glory— a thousand years—when Israel, God’s earthly peo ple, will inherit the promised glory so vividly pictured by the prophets, and when His bride, the Church, shall rule and reign with Him a thousand years. (Rev. 20:2-4). The character of His reign is de scribed in Isa. 11:2-5: “And the Spirit of the Lord shall rest upon him, the spirit of wisdom and « « « - standing, the spirit of counsel and might, , the spirit of knowledge and of the fear of ^And shall make him of «nick under- standine In the fear of the Lord; and he ShaU no* judge after the sight of his eyes . neither reprove after the hearing of his eaBut with righteousness »kail he Judge the poor, and remove with equity for the meek of the earth; and he shall smite the earth with the rod of his mouth, and rrtth the breath of his lips shall he slay the nicked.
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