Verily I say
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Verily I say
@chizzywhizzy
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Katılım Mayıs 2009
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The Prophets and the Messianic Promise: Voices in the Darkness.
The throne falls.
Jerusalem is conquered.
The king is taken captive.
The temple is destroyed.
Everything the covenant with David seemed to guarantee now appears to collapse.
The promise looks broken.
And it is into this darkness that the prophets speak.
Not with new promises, but with deeper clarity about the old ones.
Not with shallow comfort, but with divine perspective.
The throne will stand.
But the path to that throne will not be what anyone expected.
The Role of the Prophet.
A prophet is not primarily a predictor of events.
A prophet is a spokesman for God.
One who speaks into history with divine authority.
One who calls a people back to covenant faithfulness.
And when the covenant is broken, the prophet does two things:
He announces judgment.
And he reveals restoration.
The prophets arise at a moment of crisis:
The kingdom is divided.
The northern kingdom has fallen.
The southern kingdom is collapsing.
Exile is no longer a warning. It is imminent.
Into this moment, God raises voices.
Isaiah. Jeremiah. Ezekiel. Daniel. Hosea. Amos. Micah. The Twelve.
Different contexts. Different tones.
But one direction.
Judgment is coming.
But judgment is not the end.
Restoration will come.
And it will come through a King.
Isaiah: The King and the Servant
Isaiah speaks with unmatched clarity.
He sees a king from David’s line:
“A shoot will come up from the stump of Jesse… the Spirit of the Lord will rest on him.”
This is royal language.
A righteous king.
A Spirit-anointed ruler.
A king who brings justice and peace.
But Isaiah does not stop there.
He introduces something unexpected.
A servant.
“He was despised and rejected… pierced for our transgressions… by his wounds we are healed.”
This is not royal triumph.
This is suffering.
The king does not only reign.
He suffers.
He is rejected.
He is wounded.
He dies.
And through his suffering, others are healed.
This is not merely prophecy.
This is theological revelation.
The victory of the Messiah will come through substitution.
The Tension the Prophets Create
Now the problem emerges.
The prophets speak of:
A king who reigns forever.
And a servant who suffers and dies.
How do these fit together?
How can the same figure be both exalted and crushed?
How can he rule and yet be rejected?
By the time of Jesus, many resolve this tension by dividing it:
A suffering figure.
And a conquering king.
Two roles. Possibly two messiahs.
But the prophets never separate them.
They hold both together.
Even when the tension cannot yet be resolved.
Jeremiah: The New Covenant
Jeremiah speaks as Jerusalem is falling.
Everything visible is collapsing.
And yet, he speaks of something greater than restoration.
A new covenant.
“I will put my law within them… I will write it on their hearts… I will forgive their iniquity.”
This is a decisive shift.
The Law at Sinai was written on stone.
This covenant will be written within.
The problem exposed by Moses will now be addressed at the level of the heart.
Not external compliance.
Internal transformation.
This is not the abandonment of the Law.
It is its fulfillment at a deeper level.
And this covenant will be mediated by a king from David’s line.
Daniel: The Son of Man
Daniel speaks from exile.
And what he sees stretches beyond Israel.
A figure “like a son of man” comes before the Ancient of Days.
Authority is given to him.
Glory is given to him.
“All nations and peoples of every language worship him.”
This is no ordinary king.
This is a universal ruler.
An eternal dominion.
Daniel expands the vision.
The Messiah is not only Israel’s king.
He is the ruler of all creation.
The Suffering Servant: The Center of the Mystery
We must not move too quickly past Isaiah 53.
Because this is where everything converges.
The servant is:
Like a lamb led to slaughter.
Cut off from the land of the living.
Bearing the iniquity of others.
“The Lord has laid on him the iniquity of us all.”
This is substitution.
Not metaphor.
Transfer.
He bears what others deserve.
“He was pierced… crushed… punished.”
This is not symbolic suffering.
This is death.
And yet:
“By his wounds we are healed.”
Life comes through his death.
This is the logic of sacrifice.
Now applied to a person.
When the Throne Falls
Historically, the worst happens.
Jerusalem falls.
The king is removed.
No son of David sits on the throne.
Everything appears to contradict the promise.
This is the test.
Was the promise conditional?
Did it fail?
The prophets answer:
No.
The throne has not ended.
It has been delayed.
The king is still coming.
Expectation and Misunderstanding
By the time we reach the first century, expectation is high.
A Messiah is coming.
A son of David.
A restorer of Israel.
A ruler who will overthrow oppression.
But something has been lost.
The expectation has emphasized victory.
And neglected suffering.
So when the Messiah comes, and He suffers, He is rejected.
Not because He fails Scripture.
But because He fulfills the parts that were least expected.
The Prophets Speak with One Voice
Across different centuries, contexts, and personalities, the prophets converge.
A king is coming.
He will come from David’s line.
He will establish a new covenant.
He will suffer.
He will die.
He will be raised.
He will reign forever.
They do not always see how it fits.
But they speak truly.
The Minor Prophets: Judgment and Hope
The same pattern appears in the Twelve.
Hosea speaks of unfaithfulness, but also restoration.
Amos calls for justice, not empty religion.
Micah points with precision:
“From Bethlehem… one will come who will be ruler over Israel.”
The king will not arise from obvious greatness.
He will come from obscurity.
From weakness.
From unexpected places.
The Shape of the Promise
By the end of the prophetic witness, the picture is clear.
The Messiah is:
A King
A Servant
A Sacrifice
A Ruler
A Redeemer
He will not fit simple categories.
He will fulfill multiple strands at once.
And yet, at this point, He has not yet appeared.
The promise stands.
The tension remains.
The Silence Before Fulfillment
Then, silence.
Four hundred years.
No prophet speaks.
No new revelation comes.
The promise is not withdrawn.
But it is not yet fulfilled.
Israel waits.
The question deepens:
When will He come?
The Breaking of Silence
And then, suddenly, a voice.
In the wilderness.
“Prepare the way of the Lord.”
John the Baptist.
The forerunner.
And behind him, the One the prophets spoke of.
“Behold, the Lamb of God, who takes away the sin of the world.”
The categories converge.
The Lamb.
The King.
The Son of David.
The Suffering Servant.
Jesus.
And what was spoken in shadow begins to stand in the light.
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It was the airline’s fault and their responsibility to explain to the passenger. Even if you were not sitting there, same thing would have happened. however, the burden for good manners lay with the lady.
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This was the exact reason I stopped flying @AirPeace25796 to London.
The only time I flew it out of patriotism and loyalty to a Nigerian brand, the seat that was allocated to me was faulty. It was stuck in a leaned-back position.
I called one of the crew members by myself before we took off to help adjust it.
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They began to serve food.
The elderly woman woke up and unfolded her tray table behind my seat
It was uncomfortable for her to place her food on it because my seat was leaned back, and she kicked the seat in from the back.
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She didn't apologise.
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The cabin crew member apologised to me and brought me another pack of the refreshment.
PS: I stopped flying @AirPeace25796 that day because I recognized the way the woman behaved as a Nigerian thing.
Nigerian adults tend to misbehave towards people they assume are younger than them, right from the airport till you get to another country.
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Every unpleasant incident I have ever had, either on a flight or at the airport, involves a Nigerian
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