Jesus himself says that Isaiah 6:1-2 is about him. He was in the temple and was handed the scroll for that day's scripture reading, and it just so happened that what he read he attributed to himself. God has perfect timing. This was right after he came out of the wilderness during his temptation. The people were angered by what he said, and they came after him, but he slipped away unscathed. What I found most interesting was that what Luke recorded and what the scripture says differ slightly. Isaiah mentions God's vengeance. Here are the verses for comparison:
The Spirit of the Lord GOD is upon me; because the LORD hath anointed me to preach good tidings unto the meek; he hath sent me to bind up the brokenhearted, to proclaim liberty to the captives, and the opening of the prison to them that are bound; To proclaim the acceptable year of the LORD, and the day of vengeance of our God; to comfort all that mourn; Isaiah 61:1-2
The Spirit of the Lord is upon me, because he hath anointed me to preach the gospel to the poor; he hath sent me to heal the brokenhearted, to preach deliverance to the captives, and recovering of sight to the blind, to set at liberty them that are bruised, To preach the acceptable year of the Lord. Luke 4:18-19
Jesus fulfilled this scripture, and even though Jesus, according to Luke, doesn't repeat the portion that mentions vengeance, God avenged what happened to Jesus on the cross in 70AD when Jerusalem and the temple was destroyed after the Christ-followers left, and those responsible for the death of Jesus were destroyed, which was the worst tribulation than had ever been, according to Josephus' recount of history. The Roman Empire was also destroyed not long after that, though historical dates have been changed to sanitize history. We are not living in the timeline we've been told about, but we could be living in the season of deception mentioned in Revelation 20. Looking at lost technology and past buildings that could have been built during the Millennial Kingdom, we see that ever since then, the enemy has been trying to cover up the truth by searing our minds into believing his lies. Wars were strategically designed to destroy the evidence, but they were unsuccessful because those buildings are all over the world, even in small towns.
No matter what timeline we are in, Jesus is the only way to have eternal life, and that is something the enemy cannot take away from us when we accept Jesus' free gift.
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