OUR FATHER WHO GAVE THE MESSIAH TO BE A COVENANT FOR THE PEOPLE

The book of Isaiah chapter 49 verse 9 says this;

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.

This verse, speaking of the promised Messiah, declares that He was given to be a covenant for the people whose role would include restoring the land, reassigning the desolate inheritances, releasing the captives and  liberating those in darkness.

The result of the ministry of the promised One would result in the people, likened to a flock of sheep, finding plentiful pasture along the roads on every barren hill.

They would lack nothing and be protected as verse 10 says;

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.

Psalm 23 verses 1 and 2 mirrors this scenario almost exactly but from the point of view of the sheep;

The Lord is my shepherd; I shall not want. He makes me to lie down in green pastures; He leads me beside the still waters. He restores my soul;

Amen.

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