Okay, before we begin I want to recap for you God's initial plan when He created the world.
God created Adam and Eve as the first people on earth. Adam was supposed to keep the garden by protecting it from evil. Adam failed. When the serpent came to tempt Eve, Adam should have protected her by slaying the serpent, but he did not. Therefore, sin was birthed and a promise from God was given. Genesis 3:14-15, "The Lord God said to the serpent, 'Because you have done this...I will put enmity between you and the woman, and between your offspring and her offspring; he [Jesus] shall bruise your head, and you shall bruise his heel.' " Later on, God made a covenant with Abram- "Go from your country and your kindred and your father's house to the land that I will show you. And I will make of you a great nation, and I will bless you and make your name great, so that you will be blessing. I will bless those who bless you, and him who dishonors you I will curse, and in you all the families of the earth shall by blessed." {Genesis 12:1-3} Then in Genesis 15 God tells Abram that although he is childless, he and his wife would bear a son- despite their old age, and that his offspring will be innumerable. Genesis 17:1-8~ "When Abram was ninety-nine years old the LORD appeared to Abram and said to him, 'I am God Almighty, walk before me, and be blameless, that I may make my covenant between me and you, and may multiply you greatly.' Then Abram fell on his face. And God said to him, 'Behold, my covenant is with you and you shall be the father of a multitude of nations. No longer shall your name be called Abram, but your name shall be Abraham, for I have made you the father of a multitude of nations. I will make you exceedingly fruitful, and I will make you into nations, and kings shall come from you. And I will establish my covenant between me and you and your offspring after you throughout their generations for an everlasting covenant, to be God to you and to your offspring after you...'"
We know then that someone through the line of Abraham defeat evil once and for all. Well we find out it's not Abraham or Moses, as some would have expected. We learn in Isaiah 11:1~ "There shall come forth a shoot from the stump of Jesse, and a branch from his roots shall bear fruit. And the Spirit of the Lord shall rest upon him, the Spirit of wisdom and understanding, the Spirit of counsel and might, the Spirit of knowledge and the fear of the Lord. And his delight shall be in the fear of the LORD."
This "shoot" is King David, and the branch that comes from him is Jesus.
In Luke 7, Jesus says to John's disciples,
God created Adam and Eve as the first people on earth. Adam was supposed to keep the garden by protecting it from evil. Adam failed. When the serpent came to tempt Eve, Adam should have protected her by slaying the serpent, but he did not. Therefore, sin was birthed and a promise from God was given. Genesis 3:14-15, "The Lord God said to the serpent, 'Because you have done this...I will put enmity between you and the woman, and between your offspring and her offspring; he [Jesus] shall bruise your head, and you shall bruise his heel.' " Later on, God made a covenant with Abram- "Go from your country and your kindred and your father's house to the land that I will show you. And I will make of you a great nation, and I will bless you and make your name great, so that you will be blessing. I will bless those who bless you, and him who dishonors you I will curse, and in you all the families of the earth shall by blessed." {Genesis 12:1-3} Then in Genesis 15 God tells Abram that although he is childless, he and his wife would bear a son- despite their old age, and that his offspring will be innumerable. Genesis 17:1-8~ "When Abram was ninety-nine years old the LORD appeared to Abram and said to him, 'I am God Almighty, walk before me, and be blameless, that I may make my covenant between me and you, and may multiply you greatly.' Then Abram fell on his face. And God said to him, 'Behold, my covenant is with you and you shall be the father of a multitude of nations. No longer shall your name be called Abram, but your name shall be Abraham, for I have made you the father of a multitude of nations. I will make you exceedingly fruitful, and I will make you into nations, and kings shall come from you. And I will establish my covenant between me and you and your offspring after you throughout their generations for an everlasting covenant, to be God to you and to your offspring after you...'"
We know then that someone through the line of Abraham defeat evil once and for all. Well we find out it's not Abraham or Moses, as some would have expected. We learn in Isaiah 11:1~ "There shall come forth a shoot from the stump of Jesse, and a branch from his roots shall bear fruit. And the Spirit of the Lord shall rest upon him, the Spirit of wisdom and understanding, the Spirit of counsel and might, the Spirit of knowledge and the fear of the Lord. And his delight shall be in the fear of the LORD."
This "shoot" is King David, and the branch that comes from him is Jesus.
In Luke 7, Jesus says to John's disciples,
"Go and tell John what you have seen and heard: the blind receive their sight, the lame walk, lepers are cleansed, and the deaf hear, the dead are raised up, the poor have good news preached to them. And blessed is the one who is not offended by me."
Why did I go all the way back to Genesis to relate this passage to you? Because this passage would not mean anything to you if you didn't know that throughout the entire Old Testament, the people were waiting for a Savior who would defeat evil forever. They were waiting on this king God spoke of early in Genesis. In Isaiah 35, it was prophesied that when the true One from God has come, "Then the eyes of the blind shall be opened, and the ears of the deaf unstopped; then shall the lame man leap like a deer, and the tongue of the mute sing..." Then in Isaiah 61:1-3~ "The Spirit of the Lord God is upon me, because the Lord has anointed me to preach good news to the poor; he has sent me to bind up the broken-hearted, to proclaim liberty to the captives..."
Jesus was fulfilling these two Isaiah passages and telling John, I am he. I am that one that Isaiah was prophesying about.
Jesus not only tells John this, but he is telling us it too. I am he. I am that one that Isaiah was prophesying about. I am the One God sent to defeat evil once and for all. When this world ends, it will be done.
Do you believe He is that one?
~Leanne~
Jesus was fulfilling these two Isaiah passages and telling John, I am he. I am that one that Isaiah was prophesying about.
Jesus not only tells John this, but he is telling us it too. I am he. I am that one that Isaiah was prophesying about. I am the One God sent to defeat evil once and for all. When this world ends, it will be done.
Do you believe He is that one?
~Leanne~
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