anointed, the Greek translation
of the Hebrew word rendered "Messiah" (q.v.), the official title of our LORD, It denotes that he was anointed
or consecrated to his great redemptive work as Prophet,
Priest and King of his people.
He is Jesus the Christ
Acts 17:3 He was explaining
and proving the prophecies about the sufferings of the Messiah and his rising from the dead. He said, "This Jesus I'm telling you about is the Messiah."
Acts:18:5 And after Silas and Timothy came down from Macedonia,
Paul spent his full time preaching and testifying to the Jews, telling them, "The Messiah you are looking for is Jesus." the Anointed One.
He is thus spoken of by Isaiah 61:1
The Spirit of the Sovereign LORD
is upon me, because the LORD has appointed me to bring good news to the poor. He has sent me to comfort the brokenhearted
and to announce that captives will be released and prisoners will be freed and this prophecy was fulfilled in Luke:4:18
"The Spirit of the Lord is upon me,
for
he has appointed me to preach Good News to the poor.
He has sent me to proclaim that captives will be released,
that
the blind will see, that the downtrodden will be freed from their oppressors, 4:19 and that the time of the Lord's
favor has come."
and by Daniel 9:24-26 "A period of seventy sets of seven has been decreed for
your people and your holy city to put down rebellion, to bring an end to sin, to atone for guilt, to bring in everlasting
righteousness, to confirm the prophetic vision, and to anoint the Most Holy Place. 25Now listen and understand! Seven sets of seven plus sixty-two sets of seven will pass from the
time the command is given to rebuild Jerusalem until the Anointed One
comes. Jerusalem will be rebuilt with streets and strong defenses, despite the perilous times.
26"After
this period of sixty-two sets of seven, the Anointed One will be killed, appearing to have accomplished nothing,
and a ruler will arise whose armies will destroy the city and the Temple. The end will come with a flood, and war and its
miseries are decreed from that time to the very end.
The Messiah
is the same person as "the seed of the woman"
Gen. 3:15 From
now on, you and the woman will be enemies, and your offspring and her
offspring will be enemies. He
will crush your head, and you will strike his heel."
"the seed
of Abraham" (Gen. 22:18 and through your
descendants, all the nations of the earth will be blessed--all
because you have obeyed me."
the "Prophet
like unto Moses" (Deut.
18:15 "The LORD your God will raise
up for you a prophet like
me from among your fellow Israelites, and you must listen to that prophet.
"the priest
after the order of Melchizedek" Psalms:110:4 The LORD has taken an oath and will not break his vow: "You are a priest
forever in the line of Melchizedek."
"the rod out of the stem of Jesse" (Isa. 11:1 Out
of the stump of David's family will grow a shoot--yes, a new Branch
bearing fruit from the old root.
10 In
that day the heir to David's throne will be a banner of salvation to all the world. The nations
will rally to him, for the land where he lives will be a glorious place.
the "Immanuel,"
the virgin's son (Isa. 7:14 All right then,
the Lord himself will choose the sign. Look! The virgin
will conceive a child! She will give birth to a son
and will call him Immanuel--`God is with us.'
"the branch of Jehovah" Isa. 4:2 But in the future, Israel--the branch of the LORD--will be lush and beautiful, and the fruit of the
land will be the pride of its people.
and "the messenger of the
covenant" Malachi. 3:1 "Look! I am sending
my messenger, and he will prepare the way before me. Then the Lord
you are seeking will suddenly come to his Temple. The messenger
of the covenant, whom you look for so eagerly, is surely coming," says the LORD Almighty.
This is he "of whom Moses in the law and the prophets did write." The Old Testament
Scripture is full of prophetic declarations regarding the Great Deliverer and the work he was to accomplish. Jesus the Christ IS Jesus the Great Deliverer, the Anointed
One, the Saviour of men. This name denotes
that Jesus was divinely appointed, commissioned, and accredited
as the Saviour of men (Heb. 5:4 And no one can become a high priest simply because he wants such an honor. He has to be called by God for this work, just as Aaron was.
Isaiah
11:2-4 2And the
Spirit of the LORD will rest on him--the Spirit of wisdom and understanding, the Spirit of counsel and might, the Spirit of
knowledge and the fear of the LORD. 3He will delight in obeying the LORD. He will never judge by appearance, false
evidence, or hearsay. 4He will defend the poor and the exploited. He will rule against the wicked and destroy them
with the breath of his mouth.
Isaiah 49:6 He says, "You will do more than restore
the people of Israel to me. I will make you a light to the Gentiles, and you will bring my salvation to the ends of the earth."
Acts 2:22 "People of Israel, listen! God publicly endorsed Jesus of Nazareth by doing wonderful miracles, wonders, and signs through him, as you well
know.
To believe that "Jesus
is the Christ" is to believe that he is the Anointed, the \Messiah of the prophets, the Saviour sent
of God, that he was, in a word, what he claimed to be. This is
to believe the gospel, by the faith of which alone men can be brought unto God. That
Jesus is the Christ is the testimony of God, and the faith of this constitutes a Christian 1Corinthians 12:3 So I want you to know how to discern what is truly from God: No one speaking by the Spirit of God can curse Jesus, and no one is able to say, "Jesus is Lord,"
except by the Holy Spirit.
1 John 5:1 Everyone
who believes that Jesus is the Christ is a child of God. And everyone who loves the Father loves his children, too.