Separation & Confession to God for wickedness and evil in Isaiah 59, and this, is God’s response for those who survive. Go read it all, please, it’s worth a read. But this is where we’ll do the quick study.
Let’s pray:
Lord Jesus, thank You for the multiple places where your first coming was promised. And for the chronicles of that coming and life in much of the Bible as well. But most of all for the promise that You will return. I praise and thank You for that.
Please read Isaiah 59:20-21
20 “A Redeemer (Messiah) will come to Zion,
And to those in Jacob (Israel) who turn from transgression (sin),” declares the Lord.
21“As for Me, this is My covenant with them,” says the Lord: “My Spirit which is upon you [writing the law of God on the heart], and My words which I have put in your mouth shall not depart from your mouth, nor from the mouths of your [true, spiritual] [e]children, nor from the mouth of your children’s children,” says the Lord, “from now and forever.”
Jesus will come (at this point in history He has come but will return) were before Christ in this book. So here is one of the Promises of His coming. And a foreshowing of the new covenant too. Believe. Because the Spirit comes to those who identify with Christ and accept Him as Savior. Separation is what we have without Christ. Confess your sins and believe in Him who died for us. Put all your trust in Him and He will save you.
Also a preview of the armor of God as well. Righteousness as a breastplate and Salvation as a helmet, but don’t forget the belt of truth because without truth, the rest won’t help you. Really, go read the rest of it. It’s only 21 verse long. Well worth the read.
This is Salvation: Matthew 26:28
28 “for this is My blood of the [new and better] covenant, which [ratifies the agreement and] is being poured out for many [as a [a]substitutionary atonement] for the forgiveness of sins.”
Footnotes
[a] Matthew 26:28 By laying his hands on the head of the sacrifice the one offering the sacrifice identified himself with it and through its death it became an atonement or covering for his sin. Because the unblemished sacrifice “covered” his sin, it placed the one offering the sacrifice in a right relationship with God, just as later under the new covenant the perfection and sacrifice of Christ would cover (atone for) the imperfection and sin of those who identified with Him and accepted Him as Savior.