The Exodus & Return of Israel from exile in Babylon.

Two of the major themes in the Old Testament that affect the gospel, are the Exodus and the return of Israel from exile in Babylon. These are two of the major events in history of the Nation of Israel.

When Jesus announced the Gospel in Luke 4:18-19, He said the Spirit of the Lord is upon me, for he has anointed me to announce the good news, to set the captives free, to announce the acceptable year of the law, to preach the good news to the poor.

From the perspective of the nation of Israel, Jesus was clearly referring to the history (the Exodus, the deliverance from captivity, the Jubilee, and the return from exile, the return from prison in Babylon).

All of Israel thought that when the Messiah came, he would bring about an insurrection against Rome, that he would be a captain, like an army general in a way like David or Solomon that would deliver them from Rome insurrection a violent uprising.

This is how God saw us when we were suffering. He saw them as His own suffering and He came in the incarnation, He came in Christ. He came into our sufferings and took them as His own sufferings; not so that we can gloat and say ”glory to God, we have victory over our enemies” rather, it’s for us to say “let’s treat our enemies the same way God has treated us. In this way, we can build a better tomorrow and a better future. This is the answer to the situations we have in the world. This is our deliverance from sin.

Our job is not to establish God's kingdom in the world but to be faithful as He establishes it. When the elite continue to ‘pursue’ the poor, their hearts hardens and will eventually construct the circumstances that bring them down. That is the inevitable outcome just as in the case of Pharaoh.

God will continue to oversee his creation. He will make sure it's not destroyed. His will make sure His creation fulfills His purposes.

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