Isaías 61

Isaías 61

MacDonald - A day of visitation is any time the Lord draws near, either in grace or in judgment. The expression is used in Luke 19:41-42, 43, 44. Jesus wept over Jerusalem because it did not know the time of its visitation, that is, Jerusalem did not realize that the Messiah had come in love and mercy. (Believer's Bible Commentary) Comment on the related phrase day of visitation (1Pe 2:12-note)-- This was common phrase in the OT and the fundamental sense is visitation, especially a visitation of God or the time when God visits. In the OT God visited man in a number of ways, basically for two reasons; blessing or judgment. In Isa 10:3 there is recorded a visit of God for judgment. In Jer 27:22 where the same idea occurs also, God visits for blessing, for deliverance, for rescue, for salvation. In the OT God is said to visit His people to bring them out of Egyptian bondage. God is also said to visit His people to bring them out of Babylonian bondage. In 1 Sa 2:21 it says God visited Hannah to rescue her from barrenness ("and she conceived"), and thus it was a visit for blessing. But all of the NT usages of "divine visitation" refer to a visit for redemption. Lk 1:68 says "Blessed be the Lord God of Israel for He visited us and accomplished redemption." In Lu 7:16 regarding Christ, "God has visited His people" obviously for redemption. And as you move toward the end of Jesus' life in Lu 19:44 it talks about the time of the future when judgment will come "Because you didn't recognize the time of your visitation." That is. Israel was going to be judged because they not know when God visited them with His offer of redemption, but instead they rejected His visitation for salvation, so that He would then in judgment (as occurred in Jerusalem 70 AD and which will occur to the nation in the end times). Finally here is an excerpt from the testimony of Leopold Cohn, founder of Chosen Peoples Ministry - “Why does the Messiah tarry? When will He come?” These were questions which continually agitated the young Rabbi’s mind. One day, while poring over a volume of the Talmud, he came upon the following citation: “The world will stand six thousand years. There will be two thousand years of confusion, two thousand years under the law, and two thousand years of the time of the Messiah.” With quickened interest he turned for light on the passage to the writings of Rashi, the foremost Jewish commentator, but the explanation he found there seemed to him to be of little help. “After the second two thousand years,” it read, “the Messiah will come and the wicked kingdoms will be destroyed.” When he turned away from the ponderous volumes, the solution of his problem appeared to him to have become more difficult than ever. According to Talmudical reckoning the Messiah should long since have come; yet, there was the exile, still the bitterest fact of Jewish life, to be accounted for. “Can it be possible,” he asked himself, “that the time appointed by God for the coming of the Messiah has passed and the promise has not been fulfilled?” Sorely perplexed, Rabbi Cohn decided to begin a study of the original predictions of the Prophets, but the very contemplation of the act filled him with fear, for, according to the teaching of the Rabbis, “Cursed are the bones of him who calculates the time of the end.” And so it was that with trembling hands, expecting at any moment to be struck by a bolt from heaven, but with an eagerness irresistible, he opened the book of the prophet Daniel and began to read. When he reached the ninth chapter, light began to dawn upon him. He had struck a mine of hitherto concealed truth, covered up by the commentaries of the revered doctors of the law. From the twenty fourth verse of the chapter before him he deduced without difficulty that the coming of the Messiah should have taken place 400 years after Daniel received from the Divine messenger the prophecy of the Seventy Weeks. (Ed: Compare Jesus' words in Lk 19:44b to the Jews "you did not recognize the time of your visitation") The scholar, accustomed to the intricate and often veiled polemical treatises of the Talmud, now found himself strangely captivated by the clear and soul satisfying declarations of the Word of God, and it was not long before he began to question in his mind the reliability of the Talmud, seeing that in matters so vital it differed from the Holy Scriptures. 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Anoint The Jewish Encyclopedia Anointed of the Lord, the Anointing MESSIAH PREACHES GOOD NEWS TO THE AFFLICTED, POOR, AND MEEK To bring good news to the afflicted: "to encourage the poor" = NET, "to preach good tidings to the meek," = KJV, "to bring good news to the poor" = NLT. W E Vine comments that "The word rendered “the meek” (in KJV) primarily signifies suffering ones." The anointing with the Spirit provides the power, here the proclamation is the good news, the Gospel, and the audience are those in need, which is all mankind for all have been afflicted by the curse of sin! Bring good news (01319)(basar) to bear tidings, to preach good news, proclaim good news, in many contexts good news in terms of victory over enemies (1 Sa 4:17, 31:9, etc) and in several passages good news of salvation (Isa 52:7, Isa 61:1, etc). John Oswalt on Basar - In the historical literature, the occurrences of bāśar cluster around two events: the death of Saul (1 Samuel 31:9; 2 Samuel 1:20; 2 Samuel 4:10), and the defeat and death of Absalom (2 Samuel 18:19f.) Although David received them differently, both were felt by the messenger to be good news. This concept of the messenger fresh from the field of battle is at the heart of the more theologically pregnant usages in Isaiah and the Psalms. Here it is the Lord who is victorious over his enemies. By virtue of this success, he now comes to deliver the captives (Psalm 68:11 [H 12]; Isaiah 61:1). The watchman waits eagerly for the messenger (Isaiah 52:7; cf. 2 Samuel 18:25f.) who will bring this good news. At first, only Zion knows the truth (Isaiah 40:9; Isaiah 41:27), but eventually all nations will tell the story (Isaiah 60:6). The reality of this concept is only finally met in Christ (Luke 4:16-21; 1 Cor. 15:54-56; Col. 1:5, 6; Col. 2:13-15). (Theological Wordbook of the Old Testament online) Brown-Driver-Briggs on basar... †[‏בָּשַׂר‎] verb bear tidings (rub smooth the face; compare Arabic remove the face of surface of a thing, compare Arabic be glad, joyful; he rejoiced him with the message of the birth of a son; Ethiopic bring a joyful message, so Assyrian bussuru (Pa.) DlPr 170, Sab. ‏תבשר‎ DHMMV, also ‏בשר‎ n.pr.dei, DHMZMG 1883, 358, CISiv. 1, 41, 1. 3)— Piel Pf. ‏בִּשַּׂר‎ Je 20:15 + 2 t.; Imperfect ‏תְּבַשֵּׂר‎ 2Sa 18:20 + 4 t.; ‏אֲבַשְּׂרָה‎ 2Sa 18:19; Imperative ‏בַּשְּׂרוּ‎ 1Ch 16:23 = Psalm 96:2; Infinitive ‏לְבַשֵּׂר‎ 1Sa 31:9 + 2 t.; Pt. ‏מְבַשֵּׂר‎ Isa 41:27 + 6 t.; f. ‏מְבַשֶּׂרֶת‎ Isa 40:9; 40:9; pl. ‏מְבַשְּׂרוֹּת‎ Psalm 68:12;— 1. gladden with good tidings: birth of a son Je 20:15; victory 1Sa 31:9 2Sa 1:20 1Ch 10:9 Psalm 68:12; ‏היה כמבשׂר בעיניו‎ he was in his eyes as a bearer of good tidings 2Sa 4:10. 2. bear tidings 2Sa 18:19; 18:20; 18:20; 18:26; even of evil 1Sa 4:17, and so with accusative ‏בשׂר טוב‎ 1Ki 1:42. 3. herald as glad tidings: the salvation of God, peach (chiefly exilic usage) the advent of ‏י׳‎ in salvation Nah 2:1 Isa 40:9; 40:9 41:27 52:7; 52:7; the praises of Yahweh 60:6; His righteousness in the great congregation Psalm 40:10; His salvation daily Psalm 96:2 = 1Ch 16:23; the Messianic servant preaches good tidings to the meek Isa 61:1. Hithpael Imperfect ‏יִתְבַּשֵּׂר‎ 2Sa 18:31 receive good tidings (so Kirkp. Klo; compare Arabic IV. X; otherwise AV). (The Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew and English Lexicon) Basar - 24x in 21v - Usage: bear good news(1), bearer of good news(2), bring good news(1), bring the news(1), bring...news(1), bringing good news(2), brings good news(3), brought the news(2), carry the good news(2), carry news(1), carry...news(1), messenger of good news(1), proclaim(1), proclaim good tidings(2), proclaim the good tidings(1), proclaimed glad tidings(1), receive good news(1). 1 Samuel 4:17 Then the one who brought the news (messenger = KJV) replied, "Israel has fled before the Philistines and there has also been a great slaughter among the people, and your two sons also, Hophni and Phinehas, are dead, and the ark of God has been taken." 1 Samuel 31:9 They cut off his head and stripped off his weapons, and sent them throughout the land of the Philistines, to carry the good news (Lxx = euaggelizo) to the house of their idols and to the people. 2 Samuel 1:20 "Tell it not in Gath, Proclaim (Lxx = anaggello - announce, openly declare) it not in the streets of Ashkelon, Or the daughters of the Philistines will rejoice, The daughters of the uncircumcised will exult. 2 Samuel 4:10 when one told me, saying, 'Behold, Saul is dead,' and thought he was bringing good news (Lxx = euaggelizo), I seized him and killed him in Ziklag, which was the reward I gave him for his news. 2 Samuel 18:19 Then Ahimaaz the son of Zadok said, "Please let me run and bring the king news (Lxx = euaggelizo) that the LORD has freed him from the hand of his enemies." 2 Samuel 18:20 But Joab said to him, "You are not the man to carry news this day, but you shall carry news (Lxx = euaggelizo) another day; however, you shall carry no news (Lxx = euaggelizo) today because the king's son is dead." 2 Samuel 18:26 Then the watchman saw another man running; and the watchman called to the gatekeeper and said, "Behold, another man running by himself." And the king said, "This one also is bringing good news (Lxx = euaggelizo)." 2 Samuel 18:31 Behold, the Cushite arrived, and the Cushite said, "Let my lord the king receive good news (Lxx = euaggelizo), for the LORD has freed you this day from the hand of all those who rose up against you." 1 Kings 1:42 While he was still speaking, behold, Jonathan the son of Abiathar the priest came. Then Adonijah said, "Come in, for you are a valiant man and bring good news (Lxx = euaggelizo)." 1 Chronicles 10:9 So they stripped him and took his head and his armor and sent messengers around the land of the Philistines to carry the good news (Lxx = euaggelizo) to their idols and to the people. 1 Chronicles 16:23 Sing to the LORD, all the earth; Proclaim good tidings (Lxx = anaggello) of His salvation from day to day. Psalm 40:9 I have proclaimed glad tidings (Lxx = euaggelizo) of righteousness in the great congregation; Behold, I will not restrain my lips, O LORD, You know. NET Note - Heb “I proclaim justice in the great assembly.” Though “justice” appears without a pronoun here, the LORD’s just acts are in view (see Isa 40:10). His “justice” (צֶדֶק, tsedeq) is here the deliverance that originates in his justice; he protects and vindicates the one whose cause is just. Psalm 68:11 The Lord gives the command; The women who proclaim the good tidings (Lxx = euaggelizo) are a great host: NET Note - Heb "the ones spreading the good news [are] a large army." The participle translated "the ones spreading the good news" is a feminine plural form. Apparently the good news here is the announcement that enemy kings have been defeated (see Ps 68:12). Psalm 96:2 Sing to the LORD, bless His name; Proclaim good tidings (Lxx = euaggelizo) of His salvation from day to day.