Title: Prisoners of Hope!
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“Rejoice greatly, O daughter of Zion; rejoice, daughter of Jerusalem; behold, your king comes to you, just and having salvation, lowly and riding on a donkey, the foal of a donkey, the foal of a donkey. I am Ephraim's chariot and the horse of Jerusalem. And I will cut off the bow of war, and he will bring peace to the Gentiles, and his dominion will be from sea to sea, and from the river Euphrates to the ends of the earth. And as for you, because of the blood of your covenant, I will bring your prisoners without water. I have set you out of the pit; return, you hopeful prisoners, with a guarantee; I tell you today, I will repay you double” (Zechariah 9:9-12). These words were written about his Son, whom God sent into the world to accomplish his will.
Therefore, “This was to fulfill the word spoken by the prophet, saying, ‘Say to the daughter of Zion, ‘Your king is coming to you, humble and riding on a donkey, the colt of a yoke’. They brought their young and put their cloaks on them, and Jesus sat on them. Most of the crowd spread their cloaks on the road, while others cut down branches and spread them on the road. Blessed is he who comes in the name of the Lord, he is called Hosanna in the highest” (Matthew 21:4-9).
It is clear that “the prisoners with hope” refer to those who believed in the covenant that promised liberation and release in advance and were prisoners. “Then the LORD said to Abram, ‘Know that your descendants will be strangers in a foreign land and will serve them, and they will afflict your descendants for four hundred years, and I will punish the nation they serve, and after that your descendants will come out with great wealth. ’ (Genesis 15:13-14) and “In the first year of his reign, I, Daniel, understood the number of years that the word of the LORD had come to Jeremiah the prophet through a book, and was announced, and the desolation of Jerusalem will be finished after seventy years. These are the prisoners who have hoped by believing in these two covenants.” (Daniel 9:2).
Therefore, the souls of the prisoners with hope are set free from the slavery of sin for four hundred and thirty years and become slaves to righteousness, and their physical bodies that will die again are set free from corruption through faith in the resurrection of the body that God raised from seventy years of captivity. As we become a spiritual body, we will wake up the day of God where a thousand years are like one day, that is, the dawn of five hundred years of darkness, and bring together God the Father of glory who has no shadow that rotates, and the Son who is the light of His glory, so that it will actually become a temple of God for eternity and eternity. The Bible is the book that makes it clear through the Holy Spirit what God's will is.
According to this meaning, the Bible says, “Awake, awake, O Zion, put on your strength, O holy city Jerusalem, put on your beautiful garments; Abandon it, Jerusalem, rise up and sit on the throne. Untie your neck, O daughter of captivity, Zion, thus saith the LORD, You have been sold without price, and you will be redeemed without money, thus says the Sovereign LORD, My people will come down to Egypt to come down to Egypt. They went and dwelt there, and the Assyrians openly oppressed them, says the Lord, “What shall I do here, saith the Lord? My name will be known; therefore in that day they will know that I am the one who speaks these words, that is, I am” (Isaiah 52:1-6).
God first sent them down to Egypt to nurture His people who would be with Him forever, and after training as a slave for four hundred and thirty years, He delivered them out of Egypt, but later He destroyed the unbelievers and made their descendants into Assyrian captivity again, seventy Through the years of trials, He made holy descendants and rebuilt the temple.
For this reason, those who will inherit the kingdom of God, those who are prisoners of hope, have been redeemed from sin by faith through the blood of the Son, and with a justified soul, even to faith in the power of the resurrection of God the Father, who raised the Son from the dead. They are truly blessed because their physical body also becomes a spiritual body and becomes a temple for the Father and his Son.
“Listen, daughter, listen, and give ear; forget your people and your father’s house, and the king will long for your beauty. I am your Lord, and you shall worship him” (Psalm 45:10-11) Amen, thank the Lord. do.