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LORD hath anointed me to preach good tidings unto the meek; he hath sent me
to bind up the broken hearted, 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.' Even the way in which Christ, shortly before His crucifixion, entered
Jerusalem is described by the prophet Zechariah in these words: Rejoice 1
greatly, O daughter of Zion; shout, O daughter of Jerusalem: behold, thy king
cometh unto thee: he is just, and having salvation; lowly, and riding upon an
ass, even upon a colt the foal of an ass.' Isaiah the prophet prophesies of
Christ's work, and writes of Him thus: 'And 2 there shall come forth
a shoot out of the stock of Jesse, 3 and a branch out of his roots
shall bear fruit; and the spirit of the LORD shall rest upon him, the spirit of
wisdom and understanding, the spirit of counsel and might, the spirit of
knowledge and of the fear of the LORD.' The prophet goes on to speak of Christ
as Judge of all men and to predict the complete establishment of His kingdom and
the destruction of all wickedness from off the face of the earth, 'for 4
the earth shall be full of the knowledge of the LORD, as the waters cover the
sea.' The prophet Daniel speaks of the same happy time,
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and of the establishment of Christ's kingdom, when he says: 'I 1
saw in the night visions and behold there came with the clouds of heaven one
like unto a son of man, 2 and he came even to the ancient of days,
and they brought him near before him. And there was given him dominion, and
glory and a kingdom, that all the people, nations and languages should serve
him: his dominion is an everlasting dominion, which shall not pass away, and his
kingdom that which shall not be destroyed.' These last words show clearly that
there was no room for any one to come after the Lord Jesus Christ, claiming to
bring a new revelation, which would render it necessary henceforth to honour and
obey him rather than Christ, who Himself also said: 'Heaven 3 and
earth shall pass away but my words shall not pass away.'
Other prophecies in the Old Testament teach us that the Lord Jesus Christ,
besides being a Prophet and a King, is also the one true Priest, who alone can
offer to His Heavenly Father the one and only worthy and acceptable sacrifice
for men's sins, of which all the Jewish sacrifices appointed in the Law of Moses
were but shadows. He alone, it
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