Thursday, May 14, 2020

Luke 1:57 - 80

57 Now the time came for Elizabeth to give birth, and she bore a son. 58 And her neighbors and relatives heard that the Lord had shown great mercy to her, and they rejoiced with her. 59 And on the eighth day they came to circumcise the child. And they would have called him Zechariah after his father, 60 but his mother answered, “No; he shall be called John.” 61 And they said to her, “None of your relatives is called by this name.” 62 And they made signs to his father, inquiring what he wanted him to be called. 63 And he asked for a writing tablet and wrote, “His name is John.” And they all wondered. 64 And immediately his mouth was opened and his tongue loosed, and he spoke, blessing God. 65 And fear came on all their neighbors. And all these things were talked about through all the hill country of Judea, 66 and all who heard them laid them up in their hearts, saying, “What then will this child be?” For the hand of the Lord was with him.

67 And his father Zechariah was filled with the Holy Spirit and prophesied, saying,
68 “Blessed be the Lord God of Israel,
    for he has visited and redeemed his people
69 and has raised up a horn of salvation for us
    in the house of his servant David,
70 as he spoke by the mouth of his holy prophets from of old,
71 that we should be saved from our enemies
    and from the hand of all who hate us;
72 to show the mercy promised to our fathers
    and to remember his holy covenant,
73 the oath that he swore to our father Abraham, to grant us
74     that we, being delivered from the hand of our enemies,
might serve him without fear,
75     in holiness and righteousness before him all our days.
76 And you, child, will be called the prophet of the Most High;
    for you will go before the Lord to prepare his ways,
77 to give knowledge of salvation to his people
    in the forgiveness of their sins,
78 because of the tender mercy of our God,
    whereby the sunrise shall visit us[h] from on high
79 to give light to those who sit in darkness and in the shadow of death,
    to guide our feet into the way of peace.”

80 And the child grew and became strong in spirit, and he was in the wilderness until the day of his public appearance to Israel.

4 comments:

  1. questions:

    1. v71: When will/has this happen(ed): "that we should be saved from our enemies and from the hand of all who hate us"

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  2. https://www.studylight.org/commentary/luke/1-71.html says:

    Adam Clarke Commentary
    That we should be saved (literally, a salvation) from our enemies - As Zacharias spoke by the inspiration of the Holy Spirit, the salvation which he mentions here must necessarily be understood in a spiritual sense. Satan, death, and sin are the enemies from whom Jesus came to deliver us. Sin is the most dangerous of all, and is properly the only enemy we have to fear. Satan is without us, and can have no power over us, but what he gets through sin. Death is only in our flesh, and shall be finally destroyed (as it affects us) on the morning of the resurrection.

    Jesus redeems from sin; this is the grand, the glorious, the important victory. Let us get sin cast out, and then we need, fear neither death, nor the devil.

    Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible
    Saved from our enemies - The enemies of “man” are his sins, his carnal propensities, his lusts, and the great adversary Satan and his angels, who continually seek to destroy him. From “these” the Messiah came to save us.

    John Gill's Exposition of the Whole Bible
    namely, that they should be saved by him from their enemies: from sin, which wars against the soul, and threatens the destruction of it; from Satan, the avowed and implacable adversary of mankind; from the world, the seed of the serpent, which has always bore an enmity to the seed of the woman; from the law, the killing letter; and from death, the last enemy that is to be destroyed,

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  3. https://enemylove.com/messiah-expected-zechariah-simeon-john/ says:

    Zechariah’s Messiah—The National Liberator: Zechariah shares many of Mary’s expectations about the coming messiah. For starters, they both appear to anticipate a revolutionary messiah. A primary aspect of the messiah’s mission—in their eyes—is to liberate Israel from foreign occupation.

    The “us” to whom Zechariah refers is clearly defined as those people whose father is Abraham…namely, the Jews. In Zechariah’s mind, to aid Israel is to oppose Israel’s enemies. In the words of author and pastor John Piper, “Zechariah, no doubt, is hoping that the Israel of his day will be delivered from her oppressive Roman overlords and that the Messiah, the king of David, will reign over a liberated Israel.”

    Early on in his prophecy, Zechariah describes the messiah as “the horn of salvation” who will “redeem [us] from our enemies.” To quote John Piper again, “The kind of horn meant here is not a musical instrument but the deadly weapon of the wild ox.”

    Namely, when Zechariah refers to the promised messiah as “the horn of salvation”, he envisions the messiah as a powerful, deadly weapon who will literally destroy Israel’s enemies.

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  4. Questions and findings:

    1. v71: When will/has this happen(ed): "that we should be saved from our enemies and from the hand of all who hate us"

    There's some disagreement as to this prophecy. Some say it's fulfillment is in Jesus death and resurrection and that the enemy is satan and his minions. Other's claim that it refers to Jesus second coming in which He will conquer all and put everything under His rule.

    There's a (probably pretty common) third line of thought that it means both. Jesus did conquer satan when He died and rose, but that He is going to come back and fulfill all the Old Testament prophecies in a more literal way. Which means there will be physical war and death to the human armies that align themselves against Jesus.

    Personally, I'm sure that Jesus did conquer satan on the cross, and that at least part of this prophesy was fulfilled then. I don't have an opinion of whether the prophecy was fully fulfilled then or whether there is some part of the prophecy yet to be fulfilled. (It is my opinion that Jesus is coming back again, but I don't know exactly what that will physically look like).

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