¹ The Spirit of the Lord GOD is upon me because the LORD has anointed me to preach good tidings to the poor; he has sent me to heal the brokenhearted, to proclaim deliverance to the captives, and the opening of the prison to those who are bound [in slavery to sin]; to proclaim the acceptable year of the LORD, and the day of vengeance of our God; to comfort all who mourn, This is what the Lord read in the synagogue, and as he finished, he rolled up the scroll of Isaiah and sat down; and eyes of all those who were in the synagogue were fastened on him because they could hear the Spirit speaking through him; Jesus had just fulfilled the prophecy to begin the ministry that was foretold. Note! His ministry was:

1. to preach the good news to those who are poor, (those poor in spirit and still controlled by sin),
2. to heal the broken-hearted, (those who are in sorrow over their sins, whose hearts have been broken by the Spirit of God, showing them their selfishness, their evil, their beastly nature).
3. to proclaim deliverance to the captives: (those prisoners of sin, who know they are slaves to sin, who cannot control their emotions, who say: "For I didn't do what I intended to do; but what I intended not to do, that I ended up doing. O wretched man that I am! Who will deliver me from the body of this death?")
4. to open the door of the prison house to those who are bound, (for those who are sitting in the darkness of the prison, bound in slavery to sin, bound in darkness, walking in darkness, stumbling in darkness, guessing in darkness, miserable in darkness).
      From the Word of the Lord within:
   • "Life's curse: a dark house."
     (The house is your heart; darkness is the absence of the light of God to guide your words and deeds.)
   • "Religion has rejected the status of men."
     (All the world's religions ignore that man is a fallen creature. Instead the world's religions teach that we can become pleasing to God with some ritual, ceremony, prayer, meditation, reading scriptures, attending sect services, tithing, fasting, etc.; none of which changes us from being defiled in our thoughts, unacceptable to God, and banned from heaven when we die.)
   • "All sin is darkness."
   • "The whole world lies in wickedness; the wickedness knows no shame."
   • "Darkness mocks the earth; darkness covers the earth."
   • "He who seeks not to hear my voice gropes in the dark."
   • "Walking in the light is to be guided through life by God; walking in darkness is making your own decisions as to what to do and say."
   • "I am the light of the world; he who follows me shall not walk in darkness but shall have the light of life."
   • "First the light arises, then the kingdom."
   • "Light come from faith in the voice."
   • "The way is clear: listen and obey."
5. to proclaim the acceptable year of the Lord (the beginning of the Kingdom of Heaven, open to men to enter while still on earth — the end times)
6. to proclaim the day of vengeance of our God (vengeance against sin, the destruction of sin in those who seek him as their first priority in life).
7. to comfort those who mourn. (those who mourn because of their lack of purity, lack of holiness, slavery to sin, lack of the Holy Spirit).

There are other verses in Isaiah that speak similarly of bringing the prisoners (captives) out of darkness and out of the prison where they sit in darkness:

• He says, 'It is too light a thing that you should be my servant to raise up the tribes of Jacob, and to restore the preserved of Israel; I will also give you for a light to the Gentiles, that you may be my salvation to the ends of the earth.'
  Thus says the LORD, the Redeemer of Israel and its Holy One, to him whom man despises, to him whom the nations abhor, to a servant of rulers: "Kings shall see you and arise, princes also shall worship you, because of the LORD who is faithful, and the Holy One of Israel, who has choose you."
  Thus says the LORD, "In an acceptable time I have heard you, and in the day of salvation I have helped you; and I will preserve you and give you for a covenant to the people, to restore the earth, to cause them to inherit the desolate heritages;
  So that you may say to the prisoners, 'Come forth,' to those who are in darkness, 'Show yourselves.' "They shall feed in the way, and their pastures shall be on all the high places." Isa 49:6-9
  
  
• "I the LORD have called you in righteousness, and will hold your hand; I will keep you and give you for a covenant to the people, for a light to the Gentiles to open the blind eyes, to deliver the prisoners from the prison, those who sit in darkness imprisoned." Isa 42:6-7

  Look at the Net Bible's appalling footnotes to footnotes to Isa 42:7:

  • to open blind eyes: The Net Bible translators wrote in Footnote 1 to this verse: "This does not refer to literal physical healing of the blind. As the next two lines suggest, this refers metonymically to freeing captives from their dark prisons where their eyes have grown unaccustomed to light."
  • to release prisoners: The Net Bible translators wrote in Footnote 2 to this verse: "This does not refer to hardened, dangerous criminals, who would have been executed for their crimes in ancient Near Eastern society. This verse refers to political prisoners or victims of social injustice."

  YET GOD SAYS IN ISAIAH 42:6 AND 49:7, THAT HE IS GIVING CHRIST, (the New Covenant of Light), AS A COVENANT TO THE PEOPLE, (the preserved of Israel and to the Gentiles...to the ends of the earth), not "to political prisoners or victims of social injustice;" the new covenant is announced by the gospel. The translators of the Bibles and the leaders of Christianity are clueless to the gospel, clueless to sin, ignorant of darkness, ignorant of light, and ignorant of salvation; these merchants of Babylon, (those, who from their carnal minds and evil imaginations, erroneously interpret and preach the scriptures, making a living doing so), do not understand that all men are in a cursed, fallen nature — in bondage, (slaves), to sin — walking in darkness, cutoff from walking in the light of God that would guide them in words and deeds of righteousness — blind to what is righteousness, blind to what is light, blind to what is the gospel, and blind to what is the truth; they do not understand that every man has in them the spirit of Satan, a carnal mind that is enmity with God, and an evil imagination thinking evil thoughts continually, all which must be destroyed, killed, mortified, and crucified so that man can come out of darkness to walk and see by the light; and this must occur while man still lives on the earth so that when he dies, he is fit for the company of heaven.

From the Word of the Lord within:

• I further decry those who make a living preaching the scriptures.
• The leaders of Christianity are dogs — blind, dumb, ignorant dogs; professing to know everything, they know nothing; professing to know everything, they live their lives as fools.
• They want to be sons; they recognize the scripture, "he that is born of God has no sin," but they blithely go on.
• They do everything for show.
  Those who preach against perfection have a lack of earnest faith.
• These people are far from me, living in sin and teaching others the inevitability of sin until death.
• Outside the faith, they are teaching an equilibrium between good and evil.
• Those who follow the advice of these unpurified leaders, their life is like a bubble.

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