Convince me you will value what I say.
Nope the speaker in 61 is a prophet. The chapter is prophecy, no one is being saved.
You are being deceptive. How serpenty. The message is NOT follow the law. That's a lie. The message is believe in Jesus, in other words, bite the poison apple live enternally in Christ.
Christ *is* the end... of the law. You've been caught lying. You've made judgements about my righteousness, yet you're not keeping your own house in order.
Regarding lsaiah 61.
You say that the speaker is a prophet; yet, the role of the prophet is to deliver a message! The subject of prophecy cannot be the prophet himself.
The evidence that lsaiah 61:1,2 are about the Messiah comes from other passages in Isaiah, and from other prophets.
Let's take a look at lsaiah 11:1,2 first. Here we read that 'there shall come a rod out of the stem of Jesse...', which is universally accepted as referring to the Messiah, son of David. Then we read that '
the spirit of the LORD shall rest upon him' and that 'with righteousness shall he judge the poor' (verse 4).
Next, we move to lsaiah 42. In verse 1 it says, 'Behold my servant, whom l uphold; mine elect,
in whom my soul delighteth;
l have put my spirit upon him: he shall bring forth judgment to the Gentiles.'
If one follows the consistency of phrase usage, then this is another reference to the anointed descendant of Jesse. In verses 6,7 lsaiah goes on to say, 'l the LORD have called thee in righteousness, and will hold thine hand, and will keep thee, and give thee for a covenant of the people, for a light of the Gentiles; To open the blind eyes, to bring out the prisoners from the prison,
and them that sit in darkness out of the prison house.'
In lsaiah 49:6, it says, 'And he said, lt is a light thing that thou shouldest be my servant to raise up the tribes of Jacob, and to restore the preserved of lsrael: l will also give thee for a light to the Gentiles, that thou mayest be my salvation unto the the end of the earth'.
To confirm the consistency of the subject, we find these things said about God's servant in chapter 49:8,9: 'ln an acceptable time have l heard thee, and in a day of salvation have l helped thee: and l will preserve thee, and give thee for a covenant of the people, to establish the earth, to cause to inherit the desolate heritages;
That thou mayest say to the prisoners, Go forth; to them that
are in darkness, Shew yourselves. They shall feed in the ways, and their pastures
shall be in all high places.'
Finally, we come to lsaiah 61:1,2, where the revelation becomes 'first person'. This is the culmination of all previous references to the Spirit of God resting upon God's chosen one. Here we have words that should sound familiar:
'The Spirit of the Lord GOD
is upon me; because the LORD hath anointed me to preach good tidings unto 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; to proclaim the acceptable year of the LORD,...'
The same themes arise in each of these passages from lsaiah. They mention the anointing, the acceptable year, righteous judgement amongst the poor, a light amongst the Gentiles, and the delivering of souls from prison.
The role of the Suffering Servant is to deliver mankind from sin, for without deliverance from sin a man cannot fulfil the law of God. This is exactly what Jesus came to do.
Those who await the coming of the Messiah now, are awaiting the vengeance and judgement of God. For, if one rejects the mercy that is presently on offer, one is left with only the words of lsaiah 61:2 '..and the day of vengeance of our God;'
To my understanding, there remains one week in the prophetic calendar, when God renews his offer of salvation to the Jewish nation. If the people do not recognise the one who was pierced, and mourn, then they will not find salvation in the coming Messiah.
