Stephen Jager

Understanding Revelation Stephen Jager

In the gospel of Luke chapter four it describes Jesus returning to Galilee to his home town of Nazareth. On the Sabbath day he went into the synagogue, as was his custom. There he stood up to read, and the scroll of the prophet Isaiah was handed to him. Unrolling it, he found the place where it is written: "The Spirit of the Lord is on me, because he has anointed me to proclaim good news to the poor. He has sent me to proclaim freedom for the prisoners and recovery of sight for the blind, to set the oppressed free, to proclaim the year of the Lord's favor." He then rolled up the scroll, gave it back to the attendant and sat down. The eyes of everyone in the synagogue were fastened on him. He began by saying to them, "Today this scripture is fulfilled in your hearing." It was no accident that Jesus stopped reading where he did, because had he continued his audience would have heard the very next sentence; "and the day of vengeance of our God." (Isaiah 61:1-2) The day of vengeance would have had no bearing on what Jesus was about to do in his three and half year ministry, and yet it remains in scripture as a crucible still to be fulfilled. I present to you this incredible journey of a remarkable man who himself expounds the day of God's vengeance in the last book of the Holy Bible - the Book of Revelation.