Watching Daily At My Gates

September 8 Read Isaiah 42 In the first part of this chapter we see a description of Christ. The Messiah will come and bring deliverance to his people who are often despised and downtrodden by the world. We see this in verse 3. This Messiah will be a complete deliverer. As we saw in the preceding chapter, this portion of Isaiah’s prophecy is written for the Jews in captivity. A man, Cyrus, would be raised up by God to deliver his people. However, Cyrus is not a complete deliverer; he cannot...