Tag: the patriarch Jacob
God will redeem Israel as a people for himself Isaiah 43:1-7
The God of Israel set Israel aside, but He will redeem them. We often read the word redeem in the scriptures. What does the word mean? Christians, in many ways, live in their own bubble. We use words and phrases that only fit into our ‘church world.’ The words redeem or redemption are a good…
The Blind servant in darkness: Isaiah 42: 14-25
Isaiah The blind servant remained sightless. The blind servant in this passage points directly to the descendants of Jacob. They failed in the mission God gave them. Here in the second half of chapter forty-two, the prophet looks at the pitiful choices of the blind servant of the Lord. In chapter forty-one, we saw that…
