Luke 1:71

Saved from our enemies. As a result of transgression Israel had served one foreign people after another — Egypt, Assyria, Babylon, Persia, Greece, and now Rome. The galling yoke of bondage to Rome weighed heavily upon them. To be sure, deliverance from enemy nations was necessary before the establishment of the eternal Messianic kingdom (see on v. 74). In fact, the work of the Messiah would culminate in the establishment of His kingdom (see Dan. 2:44; 12:1; Matt. 25:31-34; Vol. IV, pp. 29, 30). In the meantime the “kingdom of God” was to be established within their hearts (see Luke 17:20, 21). First, there must be deliverance from the power of sin (see Matt. 1:21), and this in turn would make possible their deliverance from the wages of sin, death (see John 3:16; Rom. 6:23). Only then would human beings be able to enjoy the eternal kingdom Christ came to establish. See on Matt. 4:17; 5:2; see Vol. IV, pp. 29, 30.