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  COMMENTARY ON ISAIAH 61-62
  by Chuck Smith
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Shall we turn now in our Bibles to Isaiah 61.

We are told in the New Testament that the Old Testament prophets many
times wrote of things that they did not really understand. Earnestly
desiring, really, to look into these things, but they wrote as the
Spirit of God inspired them. And so we find that quite often, the Old
Testament prophets did not clearly understand the work of God in
creating the body of Christ, the church, from among the Gentiles. Paul
the apostle in talking about the church and Christ in us, the hope of
glory, said that it was a mystery that was hid from the beginning of
time but is now revealed. And so it is something that was not revealed
until the New Testament writings and the epistles. It was something that
was more or less hid from the Old Testament writers.

Now in their prophecies concerning the work and the ministry of Jesus
Christ, quite often both aspects of the coming of Christ would be more
or less mixed together in a single phrase or in a prophecy. So they
would be prophesying of aspects of the first coming of Jesus Christ and
also would go right in and prophesy of the aspects of the second coming
of Jesus Christ, right in the same sentence or paragraph. And they did
not really clearly see the distinction between... Well, they really
didn\

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