Call Forth your Blessing
In my King James Bible, the Heading
for Isaiah 61 reads, “Proclamations of the Messiah.”
How appropriate, since we see the
Messiah proclaiming freedom for those who are captive and in prisons of
darkness.
This
is not too surprising, considering that He “calleth those things which be not
as though they were.” (Romans 4:17 KJV)
The interesting
thing here is that the word “calleth,” in the Greek, comes from a root word
that means to “urge on, incite, order, bid, command.” (Strong 1983)
When
God proclaimed freedom for the captives, He was not just proclaiming that one
day captives would be free, He was actually calling their freedom into being. Commanding their freedom to come forth.
Isaiah
62 continues this idea, but now shifts the focus from God to people. People who will never stop proclaiming, declaring,
commanding on His behalf.
He
says:
I have set watchmen upon thy walls, O Jerusalem,
which shall never hold their peace day nor night: ye that make mention of the
Lord, keep not silence (Isaiah 62:6 KJV)
Will
you be a watchman?
Reference:
Strong, James. Strongs Exhaustive Concordance:
Showing Every Word of the Text of the Common English Version of the Canonical
Books, and Every Occurrence of Each Word in Regular Order, Together with
Dictionaries of the Hebrew and Greek Words of the Original, with References to
the English Words. Baker Book House, 1983.
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