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“In our prayers we talk to God, in our Bible study God talks to us, and we had better let God do most of the talking.”
— D.L. Moody
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Thus saith the LORD, In an acceptable time have I heard thee, and in a day of salvation have I helped thee: and I will preserve thee, and give thee for a covenant of the people, to establish the earth, to cause to inherit the desolate heritages;
Isaiah 49:8 — KJV
In an acceptable time. Literally, “in a time of [divine] favor,” here referring to the life and ministry of Christ (see Isa. 61:2; cf. Luke 4:19). Christ came into the world to mediate the new covenant between God and man (see Jer. 31:31-34; Matt. 26:28; Luke 22:20; Heb. 8:6-13).
The desolate heritages. A figurative expression. Messiah would bring to His people a realization of all the promises made to the fathers. They were to become “joint-heirs” with Him (Rom. 8:17; cf. Gal. 3:29; Eph. 3:6; Heb. 1:14). The earth had become spiritually desolate and barren as a result of sin (see DA 36, 37), but when the time came God sent His Son into the world (Gal. 4:4), and through Him poured “upon the world a flood of healing grace that was never to be obstructed or withdrawn till the plan of salvation should be fulfilled” (DA 37). The coming of the Messiah ushered in that “acceptable year of the Lord” that was destined to “raise up the former desolations” and to “repair the waste cities, the desolations of many generations” (Isa. 61:1-4; cf. Luke 4:18,19).
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