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II. The Messiah's expectation of divine vindication and acquittal. III. The Messiah's confidence of ultimate triumph. I. Messiah's lofty challenge to His accusers. The 'justifying' which He expects may refer either to personal character or to official functional faithfulness.
"And it says in the first chapter of Matthew, David, that the prophet said, 'they shall call his name Emmanuel, which being interpreted is, God with us." "It is true," said David. "So spoke the prophet Isaiah. But how then did he speak also of Messiah's sufferings? how could that be?" "Where, David? and how?"
From the beginning it was an electrical success, and was immediately performed everywhere. Haydn had been guaranteed 500 ducats for it, but gained very much more. In the end, in the way I have previously mentioned, it became the property of the Tonkünstler Societät of Vienna. In England it was for over half a century the "Messiah's" one great rival.
John's last contribution to our knowledge of our Lord's words on the Cross is that triumphant 'It is finished, wherein there spoke, not only the common dying consciousness of life being ended, but the certitude, which He alone of all who have died, or will die, had the right to feel and utter, that every task was completed, that all God's will was accomplished, all Messiah's work done, all prophecy fulfilled, redemption secured, God and man reconciled.
The text gives us a striking view of the purpose of Messiah's mission and of His training and preparation for it. I. The purpose of Christ's mission. There is a remarkable contrast between the stately prelude to the section of the prophecy in chapter xlix., and the ideal in this text.
A great destiny awaits thee. For lo! our long persecution draws to an end, the days of the Messiah are at hand, and thou shalt be the Messiah's bride, And the glory of a great hope came into my life, and I longed to escape from my prison into the sunlit world. I, the bride of the cloister!" she cried, and revolt flung roses into her white face.
No one answered at first. "I do," said Judy. "Just two or three." "'He that hath pity upon the poor lendeth unto the Lord; and that which he hath given will he pay him again." "You see," said David, "the Lord reckons it his own affair. These are Messiah's poor people; we are his stewards." "How much are you going to give them, on that principle?" his mother inquired. "I don't know, mamma."
Sometimes, it may be, the language of the Saviour has carried them up into a broader and more spiritual region; but then, they have subsided into their symbols and shadows; only, notwithstanding the errors that have hindered, and the hints that have awed them, they have steadily felt the inspiration of a great hope, the expectation of something glorious to be revealed in the speedy coming of the Messiah's kingdom.
The noble Chayim Penya, the one sceptic of importance left in Smyrna, was wellnigh torn to pieces in the synagogue by the angry multitude, but when his own daughters went into prophetic trances and saw the glory of the Kingdom he went over to Sabbataï's side, and reports flew everywhere that the Messiah's enemies were struck with frenzies and madness, till, restored by him to their former temper and wits, they became his friends, worshippers, and disciples.
Therefore this same morning he was buried, wrapped in canvas in a neat coffin, in the military cemetery near by. His age was fifty-six. The white head-board says simply: SITTING BULL Died December 15, 1890 That was his end, on this earth; for, as far as known, he never came back from spirit land. The pretended Messiah's promises proved false. The white men remained stronger than the ghosts.
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