Title: Messiah’s Own People and His Enemies

 

ཡེ་ཤ་ཡཱ 61:1-2

1  བླ་ན་མེད་པའི་གཙོ་བོ་དཀོན་མཆོག་གིས།  ང་ལ་ཁོང་གི་ཐུགས་ཉིད་ཀྱིས་བཀང་བར་མཛད།  སྐྱོ་པོ་རྣམས་ལ་འཕྲིན་བཟང་འཁྱེར་བའི་ཆེད།  ཁོང་གིས་ང་ལ་བསྔོ་འབུལ་མཛད་ནས་ནི།  སེམས་ཆག་པ་རྣམས་གསོ་བའི་ཆེད་དུ་དང་།  བཙོན་པར་གློད་བཀྲོལ་དང་ནི་བཙོན་ཡོད་རྣམས།  རང་དབང་གསལ་སྒྲགས་བྱེད་པར་ང་ལ་ཁོང་གིས་གཏོང་གནང་ངོ་།

2དཀོན་མཆོག་ཁོང་གི་རང་གི་མི་མང་ལ།  སྐྱོབ་པ་དང་ནི་དེ་ཚོའི་དགྲ་བོ་རྣམས།  ཕམ་པར་བྱེད་པའི་དུས་ལ་སླེབས་ཡོད་པའི།  གསལ་སྒྲགས་བྱེད་དུ་ང་ལ་ཁོང་གིས་གཏོང་བར་མཛད་གནང་ངོ་།

 

Isaiah 61:1-2

1 The Spirit of the Lord God is upon me, because the Lord has anointed me to bring good news to the poor; he has sent me to bind up the brokenhearted, to proclaim liberty to the captives, and the opening of the prison to those who are bound;

2 to proclaim the year of the Lord’s favor, and the day of vengeance of our God;

 

 

Yeshu would fulfil what King Messiah says

‘The Incomparable LORD has sent me’ (verse 1)

Yeshu said, ‘It is my Father who has sent me’ (John 6:37-40). 

 

‘The Spirit of the LORD fills me’ (v.1)

John the Baptist saw the Spirit fall upon Yeshu (John 1:32-34).

 

‘The LORD has dedicated me to bring good news to downtrodden believers, to declare it to those who are suffering, broken-hearted or trapped in any way by life’s circumstances’ (vv.1, 2)       

Yeshu had good news for humble believers (Matthew 5:2-12; 11:4, 5)

 

The LORD has sent me to declare help to His own people, and proclaim that a time of punishment has come for their enemies (v.2).

Yeshu will speedily avenge his own people, because he will punish their enemies; and their enemies are His enemies. After their suffering he will come again (Matthew 24:30, 31). No one knows the ‘day’ (dus la) of his coming (Mt 24:36).  

 

Explanation of ‘Time of Punishment’

In Post No. 4 we read the prophecy that all nations would want to share the blessings of Abraham’s offspring (Genesis 12:2, 3; 22:18).

Here in Isaiah 61 verses 9 and 11 we read again how the nations will see that the LORD blesses his own people.

The good news – the Gospel of Yeshu Mashiga – is that the LORD accepts believers; but He will reject those men who reject His gracious help, that is the favour (Isaiah 61:2) He offers them in his Son Yeshu.

There will be a day when Yeshu comes again and all men will rise from death. As for believers, Yeshu will take them to be with himself in heaven (John 14:2, 3). But for sinners and rebels against the LORD, and against the LORD’s people, that same day will be a Day of Vengeance (Isaiah 61:2 English translations), when they will be punished; King Yeshu will send them to a hell from which there is no return.

For his detailed description of that Day (Isaiah 61:2 -proclaimed plainly, gsal sgrags) read Matthew 25:31-46.

 

 

Footnote

Believers should enjoy Messiah’s favour, and show his righteousness by the way they live their lives (Isaiah 61:3 and 11).

 

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