CMP Review 2024-11-03

Chapter 49 of the great scroll of Isaiah is dedicated to the Servant of the Lord. At the end of the chapter we read:

Can plunder be taken from warriors, or captives be rescued from the fierce? But this is what the Lord says: “Yes, captives will be taken from warriors, and plunder retrieved from the fierce; I will contend with those who contend with you, and your children I will save.”

James R. Edwards explains that “the Servant’s mission is so seamlessly harmonious with God that God claims the Servant’s mission as his own, ‘I will contend … I will save.’”

The Servant came and did exactly what Isaiah said He would. He took plunder from warriors and captives from the fierce. But His detractors saw it differently. “By Beelzebul, the prince of demons, he is driving out demons,” they said.

Of course their logic made no sense. The strong man was bound because the King had arrived. Charlotte Mason delighted to elaborate the scene in a poem filled with imagery and life. Read or hear it here.

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