OUR LORD ASCENDS TO BE KING OF KINGS

Proceeding from the January 31st 2022 study of Isaiah 49 verses 1 - 6, we continue with Isaiah 49 verses 7 - 12.

Jesus the Lord had just revealed that God the Father had announced to Him that His sacrifice on the cross was for more than the house of Israel but for the whole world of gentiles from every tribe and tongue and race.

The conversation between God the Father and the Son of God continues. God the Father said to God the Son that kings and princes will honor Him and genuflect before Him.  The passage reads like this;

This is what the Lord says—the Redeemer and Holy One of Israel—to him who was despised and abhorred by the nation, to the servant of rulers:

“Kings will see you and stand up, princes will see and bow down, because of the Lord, who is faithful, the Holy One of Israel, who has chosen you.”

This is what the Lord says: “In the time of my favor I will answer you, and in the day of salvation I will help you; I will keep you and will make you to be a covenant for the people, to restore the land and to reassign its desolate inheritances, to say to the captives, ‘Come out,’ and to those in darkness, ‘Be free!’ “They will feed beside the roads and find pasture on every barren hill.

They will neither hunger nor thirst, nor will the desert heat or the sun beat down on them.

He who has compassion on them will guide them and lead them beside springs of water.

I will turn all my mountains into roads, and my highways will be raised up. See, they will come from afar—some from the north, some from the west, some from the region of Aswan.”

The favor of the Father is  given to the Son of God as summarized in this part of the text where Jesus is made a covenant for the people and is commissioned  to restore the land and to reassign its desolate inheritances, to release the captives  and free those in darkness and shepherd the flock. In fact, shepherding the flock, is the portfolio given to Jesus that is detailed in Psalm 23 that begins this way, "The Lord is my Shepherd". 

God the Father then assigns Himself the task of setting all the conditions required to bring all the citizens of the kingdom of God from every point on earth into the fold of God's family.

Bless the Great God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob who has brought salvation to all men.

Amen.