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LESSON 2 * PART 3 * BOOK 62
ISAIAH 61:1 - 10
To proclaim the acceptable year of the LORD,…" That’s where he stopped in Luke chapter 4 - right in the middle of the verse. Of course, we pointed that out specifically when we taught the little Jewish epistles of James and Peter and John. There’s not a word in those epistles of a long 2000-year period of time until Christ would return. All right, now in our last half-hour program, we were in Joel chapter 2. Then verses 30, 31, and 32 are still future. All right, look at the graphic difference in verse 30.
30. And I will shew wonders in the heavens and in the earth, blood, and fire, and pillars of smoke." All right, now let’s jump all the way up to Zechariah, again, where we were a little bit ago, but now in chapter 9. Zechariah is a tremendous book of prophecy.
Jews. shout, O daughter of Jerusalem: behold, thy (What?) King cometh unto thee: he is just, and having salvation; lowly,…" Or humble. There weren’t any of the elite of Israel living in Nazareth. All right, read on into verse 10. Zechariah 9:10
Then the rest of the verse, what’s next?) Clearly Zechariah prophesies concerning His first advent, but he ties it right to the Tribulation and the Kingdom that would follow. All right, let’s jump into the New Testament, and let’s jump all the way up to Luke chapter 1. All right, Luke chapter 1 and we’ll drop in at verse 64. You remember the backdrop. Look in verse 63. Now, in verse 64 this priest, Zacharias, the father of John the Baptist:
67. And his father (this priest) Zacharias was (what?) filled with the Holy Spirit,…"
68. Blessed be the Lord God of Israel; for he hath visited and redeemed his people, 69. Well, who are Israel’s enemies?
"To perform the mercy promised to our fathers, and to remember his holy covenant; (What covenant?) Christ had now been crucified. Christ would return, and they could have the Kingdom.
So, in Acts chapter 2 starting in verse 16, here is where Peter reveals the Old Testament program again. But he didn’t have the wherewithal that Jesus had to stop in the right place.
What’s Peter saying? You have seen Joel’s prophecy fulfilled on this day of Pentecost.) You can tell that or Peter would have stopped after verse 18 that we just read.
I Peter is the little epistle written probably about the same time that Paul is writing his church epistles. I Peter 1:1
"Peter, an apostle of Jesus Christ, to the strangers scattered throughout Pontus, Galatia, Cappadocia, Asia, and Bithynia." All right, now verse 10, and this just says it all.
All those Old Testament prophets, trying to put this thing together.
The Holy Spirit was revealing in a veiled way all through the Old Testament.) All the Old Testament had been talking about the suffering Messiah.
God veiled it for His own purposes.
The prophecy of what will follow after the Tribulation has run its course and Christ will return and bring in this glorious earthly Kingdom, promised all the way up through the prophets. All right, back to Isaiah 61 and jump in again at verse 3.
"To appoint unto them that mourn in Zion, to give unto them beauty for ashes,…" What’s the picture? Turn to Jeremiah chapter 25 verse 30. What is the uppermost thought in the nations of the world today? Weapons of mass destruction. All the weapons of mass destruction are going to be used, but in God’s time. All right, here are the ashes.
"Therefore prophesy thou against them all these words, and say unto them, The LORD (Jehovah, Israel’s God) shall roar from on high, and utter his voice from his holy habitation; (Second Coming.
Nuclear bombs exploding completely around the planet. Now, you talk about a domino effect. As soon as somebody drops a nuclear bomb on one place, somebody else is going to retaliate. All right, but this is the Old Testament’s view.
"…for the LORD hath a controversy with the nations, (Plural) he will plead with all flesh; he will give them that are wicked to the sword, saith the LORD. Tremendous wind.
Remember when they dropped the little atomic bombs in Japan?
"And the slain of the LORD…" Why? Because He is pouring out His wrath on Christ rejecting mankind. All right, come back with me to Isaiah 61. After God’s wrath and judgment and total destruction will come His beautiful, glorious, earthly Kingdom. All right, verse 3 again:
"…to give unto them beauty for ashes, the oil of joy for mourning, the garment of praise for the spirit of heaviness; that they might be called trees of righteousness, (Now, you know Scripture refers to trees as something beautiful in God’s creation.) the planting of the LORD, that he (the Lord) might be glorified. Israel has always been the downtrodden people of human history. Israel will be the apple of God’s eye. Israel is going to be the most blessed of any of the nations on earth.
What did Moses prophesy?

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