Isaiah 61:1-2a

"The Spirit of the Lord GOD is upon me; because the LORD hath anointed me to preach good tidings to the meek; he hath sent me to bind up the brokenhearted, to proclaim liberty to the captives, and the opening of the prison to them that are bound; 2. To proclaim the acceptable year of the LORD,..." That's where he stopped in Luke chapter 4 - right in the middle of the verse. And, of course, that's why the Jews were aghast and stared Him down. Consequently, He stood up then and said, "This has been fulfilled in your ears." He knew that the rest of those statements would not happen for another 2000 years or more. That's why, with His knowledge of the Deity, He could do that.


Now, in a little bit we're going to come to Peter doing the same thing, but he doesn't have the wherewithal, the knowledge that Christ had, to stop where he should have stopped. Peter takes it all the way to the end of the prophecy, thinking, of course, that the timeline of the Old Testament prophecies was going to keep right on going. All right, so here's the whole concept of these last couple of programs, how we can take prophetic Scriptures and show, graphically, how the first part was fulfilled at His first coming. The rest has been pushed out into the future. But, these people didn't know that. They were expecting all this to happen in their lifetime.