The Rising Sun Series

The Lord will establish His Messiah as King. The Lord will defeat all of Israel’s enemies. Israel will enjoy great prosperity. Jerusalem will rise to world pre-eminence. These are from all different Old Testament passages related to the Davidic promise. The centre of the world will be the kingdom and Jerusalem. Gentiles in the kingdom will receive blessings. Worldwide peace will prevail. Moral and spiritual conditions will be on the highest plain since the fall of Adam.

This was the Jewish expectation. However, the Messiah gave redemption and inaugurated the kingdom, but the consummation of the kingdom is postponed to the second coming.

However, one can get a clear glimpse of the work of the Messiah based on this song.

A Glimpse into The Work Of The Rising Sun

1. Jesus Has Come to Redeem His People Through Forgiveness of Sins

Luke 1:68-70 68“Praise be to the Lord, the God of Israel because he has come to his people and redeemed them. 69He has raised up a horn of salvation for us in the house of his servant David 70(as he said through his holy prophets of long ago)

The coming of Christ is to redeem his people. “To redeem” means to buy at high cost, to buy back, to pay a price. Jesus has come to redeem us, to rescue us.

By what means will God redeem His people?

Luke 1:69 He has raised up a horn of salvation for us.

“Horn” is the symbol or the picture of power or victory. And so, in the Jewish mind, the horn of salvation is an all-powerful and victorious Savior. In order for God to deliver His people, there will have to be a powerful, mighty Savior.

So the Lord has come to redeem his people through Jesus, who is the horn of salvation for us.

APPLICATION

The message of the rising sun is that He has come to rescue every person of the world from death and give eternal life.

How will the Lord do that?

Jesus Has Come To Redeem His People Through Forgiveness Of Sins

Luke 1:77 “to give his people the knowledge of salvation through the forgiveness of their sins.”

Jesus gives us the covenant of forgiveness. Is there forgiveness in the Law? No, The Law says, “Do this and you live; don’t do this and you die.” According to the law, all will die, no one can fulfill the law. Through Jesus God will forgive the sins of His people. That is the new covenant in Jesus.

The essence of this new covenant in Jesus is already laid out in

Deuteronomy 30:6 The Lord your God will circumcise your hearts and the hearts of your descendants, so that you may love him with all your heart and with all your soul, and live. It is the circumcision of hearts.

Keep the Law, you cannot and you die. Love the Lord your God with all your heart you live.

How do you do that? How can anybody love God that way?

Jeremiah 31:31-34 31“The days are coming,” declares the Lord, “when I will make a new covenant with the people of Israel and with the people of Judah. 32It will not be like the covenant I made with their ancestors when I took them by the hand to lead them out of Egypt, because they broke my covenant, though I was a husband to them,” declares the Lord.