<TITLE>05. Par 42-49</TITLE>L-42 Now, in the early days of our Lord's ministry here, He had come into Capernaum, I think, again. And He sat down on the Sabbath, in the temple. And the minister of the temple handed Him out the scroll to read.
Did you notice, we have some of the same customs? Jesus, He'd read the Scriptures, then base His teaching on the Scripture. It was contrary sometimes to what the Jewish people thought it was, but yet, you could--who could accuse Him? He was the Lord of glory.
And He read in There where Isaiah said:
He has anointed me to preach the acceptable year of the Lord.
And then when He did that, He closed up, and rolled up the scroll, and laid it down, turned to the people, and said:
This day has this word been fulfilled before you.
Now, Isaiah, many hundreds of years, probably between five and eight hundred years before this, had prophesied under inspiration, that Christ, when He came, He would be anointed to preach the acceptable year of the Lord. Then it had to become just exactly that way, for God, though His prophet, had spoke His Word, and His Word must come to pass.

L-47 As we had this morning on Isaiah, that the people... Though Jesus done many mighty works before them, yet they could not believe, because Isaiah said, "Who has believed our report? To whom the arm of the Lord has been revealed?"
He said, "They have ears but they can't hear, and they have eyes but they can't see. And that they might be converted..." Because Isaiah said that, then the people could not understand the miracles and things that Jesus was doing before them. Do you know, that same prophecy...
Notice, prophecy repeats itself. Did you know the Words of God repeat, runs in cycles? For instance, one time in the Scripture, I read over there, was trying to run a marginal reading, all down through the Bible, where it said, "And I..." In Matthew, the 2nd chapter, where... or 1st chapter, I believe. Said, where it was fulfilled of the Lord by the prophet, "Out of Egypt I have called my Son," talking of Jesus being called out of Egypt. It was also referred to, when God called Israel out, for Israel was His Son. And the Scripture that they--Matthew was referring to, was the very Scripture that He called His son, Israel, out of Egypt. He also called His Son, Jesus, out of Egypt. See?

L-49 And these Scriptures tonight that we read in Here, are fulfilled again in the days of the Gentiles. "They have eyes but they can't see. They have ears but they can't hear." And God is doing miracles and signs and wonders, and people are just simply closing their eyes to it, because the prophecy has said it would be that way.
Now, Jesus was prophesied by the--Isaiah to preach the acceptable year. That's what we want to deal on tonight. Now, now, the acceptable year was this, that, in during the time, between so many years... "Acceptable year" is the year called, in the Old Writings, "the year of jubilee." They come every... I believe it was either... Every seven years was a jubilee year.
And every seven years they let the ground rest. They growed no fruit on it, or no... planted no crops. They let their crops, in the field, rest, every seven years, and at that time was a jubilee.


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